Reflective Practice for Therapists: Reflection Without Self-Criticism

Does Therapist Self-Awareness Really Improve Client Outcomes?

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Workshop Summary

Does therapist self-awareness really improve client outcomes?​ Reflective practice is often talked about as a professional ideal, but what does it actually do for clinical work? In this webinar, Dr Shane Rogers and Belinda Seymour-Wright will explore the evidence and mechanisms by which reflective practice can enhance therapeutic effectiveness, professional growth, and clinician wellbeing.

🇦🇺 Monday 1 June, 7pm AEST

🇬🇧 Monday 1 June, 10am BST

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Format: 1.5 hour interactive webinar
For: Mental Health Clinicians 

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Reflective practice is often talked about as a professional ideal, but what does it actually do for clinical work? In this webinar, Dr Shane Rogers and Belinda Seymour-Wright will explore the evidence and mechanisms by which reflective practice can enhance therapeutic effectiveness, professional growth, and clinician wellbeing. We will look at how reflection can improve self-awareness, decision-making, and responsiveness in therapy, while also examining common pitfalls such as overthinking, harsh self-criticism, and unstructured rumination.

This professional development is appropriate for supervisors as well as junior practitioners.

The session will also explore the role of self-compassion, particularly for perfectionistic practitioners who may find reflection easier to turn into self-judgement than learning. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for building reflective habits into their week, using reflection not as another burden, but as a sustainable tool for better practice and better outcomes.

In preparation for the webinar, participants are encouraged to self-administer the Reflective Practice Questionnaire – Extended.

Learning Objectives

Attendees will leave with practical ideas for building reflective habits into their week.

  1. Learn how reflective practice can sharpen clinical judgement, support clinician wellbeing, and improve therapeutic effectiveness.
  2. An evidence-informed webinar on the mechanisms, pitfalls, and habits of effective reflective practice.
  3. With Dr Shane Rogers and Belinda Seymour-Wright, explore how to build reflective capacity, self-compassion, and practical habits for better clinical work.
  4. Discover how reflective practice can improve decision-making, reduce blind spots, and strengthen outcomes over time.

 

Dr Shane Rogers

Dr Shane Rogers is a psychology academic at Edith Cowan University whose research focuses on reflective practice, emotional wellbeing, and the development of brief psychological assessment tools for clinical and educational settings. His work explores how self-reflection and psychological wellbeing can be better understood, measured, and supported through psychological assessment and digital monitoring approaches.
 
Shane is the co-author of the Reflective Practice Questionnaire – Extended (RPQ-E), a measure designed to assess reflective processes in therapists and other helping professionals. Reflective practice, as conceptualised by the RPQ-E, refers to the tendency to actively reflect on thoughts, actions, and experiences that occur when working with clients, including both reflection-in-action during interactions and reflection-on-action after the event.
 
Alongside his research, Shane has strong interests in psychometrics, research methodology, and the application of psychological science within real-world settings. He teaches and coordinates units in cognition and research methods at Edith Cowan University.

Belinda Seymour-Wright

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Belinda Seymour-Wright is a Melbourne-based Educational and Developmental Psychologist and supervisor with experience across private practice and community settings in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. She has worked across the lifespan with a wide range of developmental and mental health presentations.

As a supervisor, Belinda supports practitioners and organisations to implement evidence-based models, with a focus on translating theory and research into practical, client-centred care. In both her clinical work and supervision, she is particularly interested in helping clinicians develop reflective practice as they navigate the complexities of effective, ethical and sustainable work in private practice.

She brings a grounded clinician’s perspective, highlighting how structured tools can be meaningfully integrated with flexible, reflective, and relationship-focused care.

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