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Professional supervision for social & allied health professionals from an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker. Wherever you are, so too am I. Read to Heal.

Reflective online supervision across Australia. Creator of SHELF-Care.

17/10/2026

What if you could get more out of every book you read? 📚

Not just enjoy the story, but discover something about yourself along the way?

Next time you pick up a book, fiction or nonfiction, I'd like you to try something.

Look for five things as you read.

They're the five domains of my SHELF-Care framework.

📚 SHARE: What have I discovered in this story that I'd like to share with someone else?

❤️ HOPE: What in this story gives me hope, even when things seem difficult?

💬 EXPRESS: Which character expressed their feelings in a way I admire, understand or perhaps wish I could?

💡 LEARN: What have I learned from this book that I don't want to forget?

🤝 FRIENDS: What does this story teach me about friendship, connection and how we treat one another?

That's SHELF-Care.

A framework I developed through my PhD research into psychoeducation and bibliotherapy.

It's about reading with curiosity, reflecting on what we discover and using stories to explore our own personal growth.

And here's something I particularly love about it.

Two people can read exactly the same book and take away two completely different lessons.

Neither necessarily has to be wrong.

That's why I love bibliotherapeutic book clubs. We learn from the book, but we also learn from each other.

So here's my question for you:

Have you ever read a book that taught you something about yourself that you hadn't recognised before?

I'd love to know which book it was. ❤️

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
PhD in Psychoeducation and Bibliotherapy
Mental Health Accredited Social Worker | Professional Supervisor | Bibliotherapist
Read to Heal 📚❤️

I provide online professional supervision to social workers and allied health professionals across Australia. My booking link is in my Featured section.

15/10/2026

One of the greatest joys of being a social work supervisor is watching my supervisees flourish. I love my supervisees. Truly.

They are dedicated, reflective professionals who care deeply about the work they do and the people they support.

And I love being part of their professional journeys.

The feedback below came from a supervisee I've worked with for several years.

I've supported them through their mental health accreditation journey, celebrated their achievements and watched their confidence and professional identity grow.

But here's something I particularly value about long-term supervision.

The longer we work together, the richer our conversations become.

Trust develops. Reflection deepens. Difficult conversations become easier. And there's room to explore the things we don't always feel comfortable saying elsewhere.

Supervision isn't just about meeting professional requirements.

It's about having someone in your corner who will encourage you, challenge your thinking, celebrate your achievements and help you recognise just how far you've come.

And sometimes, it's about having someone who has watched you flourish remind you of your own growth.

I'd love to be your supervisor too.

Whether you're working towards mental health accreditation, navigating professional challenges or simply wanting a reflective space to grow, there's a place for you in my supervision practice.

Let's help you flourish.

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Social Work Supervisor | PhD in psychoeducation and bibliotherapy

I provide online professional supervision to social workers and allied health professionals across Australia.

My booking link is in my information section above, or you can contact me directly.

11/10/2026

Are you thinking about professional supervision for 2027?

I'm already taking bookings and have room to welcome some new supervisees. ❤️

I provide online individual and group supervision for social workers and allied health professionals across Australia.

Supervision with me isn't about having someone tell you how to do your job.

You've probably got enough people doing that already. 😁

It's about having protected time to think.

To talk about the difficult stuff.

To celebrate what is working.

To notice how your practice is changing.

To problem solve.

To reflect.

And sometimes to have someone else notice how far you've come when you're too busy doing the work to see it yourself.

I also bring something quite particular to my supervision now.

SHELF-Care. 📚

It's the framework that grew from my PhD research into psychoeducation and bibliotherapy.

Books, stories, reading and conversation can give us different ways of understanding ourselves, our clients and our practice.

Sometimes I'll recommend something to read.

Sometimes you'll bring something you've read.

Sometimes there won't be a book in sight.

Because supervision is about YOU and what you need from the space.

I welcome supervisees from across allied health sectors and industries, and I offer both individual and group supervision.

So if you've been thinking:

"I really should organise supervision for next year...", consider this your little nudge. 😊

My 2027 diary is open. Go ahead and book on the link in my info section.

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
PhD in Psychoeducation and Bibliotherapy
Mental Health Accredited Social Worker | Professional Supervisor | Bibliotherapist

Read to Heal 📚❤️

I provide online professional supervision to social workers and allied health professionals across Australia. My booking link is in my Featured section.

04/10/2026

What ordinary task makes your mind go quiet?

Is it something mundane and repetitive?

Or do you need to move your body?

I've discovered that my quiet-mind activities are the slow, slightly boring, repetitive things that leave enough space in my head to reflect rather than concentrate.

Like chopping carrots, apples and sweet potato for my sheep neighbours. 🐑❤️

Post-PhD, I've needed slow.

Quiet.

Space to think.

Being at our rural home, far from the madding crowd, has given me exactly that.

Slow sheep time while I deconstructed three years of academia.

Recently, a couple of my fast-paced Sydney girlfriends came to stay.

They got right into feeding and patting the sheep and commented on how cathartic it was simply being with the animals.

It is soooooo cathartic. ❤️

But here's where I think books can help us find our own version of sheep time.

If you don't have a flock conveniently waiting over the back fence, think about a scene you've read in a novel that made you long to be there.

Someone jogging through a park.

Cooking an Italian meal.

Swimming in a lake.

Walking through a forest.

Sitting quietly beside the ocean.

You identified with something in that scene.

Perhaps you can take the next step and create your own version of it.

Go to the park.

Cook the meal.

Find the water.

Walk through the trees.

Do the thing that quietens your mind and gives you room to simply be.

And if you don't yet know what that thing is?

Pick up a novel and keep reading until you find somewhere you'd like to step inside.

Then see if you can bring a little piece of that story into your own life.

That's one of the things I love about bibliotherapy.

Sometimes we read to escape our lives.

And sometimes we read to discover how we'd like to live them.

So tell me...

What's your quiet-mind activity?

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Mental Health Accredited Social Worker | PhD in Psychoed7cation and Bibliotherapy
Read to Heal 📚❤️

I provide online professional supervision to social workers and allied health professionals across Australia. My booking link is in my Featured section.

28/09/2026

Hot news. Just a little something worth celebrating. I did it 😀 My PhD is complete. I graduate in Nhulunbuy on Nov 26 at which time I can call myself Dr Bayliss the Bibliotherapist.

Thank you to my 18 participants, whom I cannot tag due to anonymity. This would not have happened without you. M######x

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss. PhD in psychoeducation and bibliotherapy. Social work supervisor.

18/09/2026

We visited the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. Grandson went straight for 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' by Jeff Kinney. He chose the 'Old school' edition because I'm old school!!!!!!

MASTER Z reads because he sees others reads. Reading is normal in his life and libraries are interesting.

Do your kids and grandkids a favour: expose them to a bit of wimpy reading.

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Social Worker | Bibliotherapy Researcher | Professional Supervisor
📚 Read to Heal

17/09/2026

What does useful peer supervision look like in your workplace?

Does it look like two colleagues meeting over coffee to reflect on a difficult piece of work.

Does it look like a small group discussing an ethical dilemma, testing different perspectives or sharing useful resources.

Is it face to face, online, on the phone or via email?

Does it involve asking each other:

• What are we noticing?
• What assumptions might we be making?
• Which values, ethics or theories are guiding us?
• What else could we try?
• What support do we need?

Good peer supervision is more than having a vent with workmates and peers.

It is intentional, respectful and reflective. Everyone contributes. Everyone learns. Nobody needs to be the expert with all the answers. It is about togetherness and contributions.

Peer supervision does not necessarily replace formal professional supervision, particularly where accountability, accreditation or complex practice issues are involved. It offers something different: shared experience, collegial challenge and the reassurance that we do not have to think through everything alone.

Here's two pictures of two different peer supervision forums I contribute to and recieve from with my social work colleagues.

What does useful peer supervision look like in your workplace?

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Social Worker | Bibliotherapy Researcher | Professional Supervisor
📚 Read to Heal

14/09/2026

Even in a hotel my beside table is deliciously stimulating. Who knows who owns the quote that Waleed has borrowed from?

Hint, hint, he was one of my PhD theorists.

Hands up if you know and love the most famous wombatador in history, the zoophilist bibliophile, Andrew Griffiths

Post a picture of your current read/s...and make sure you read at least 15 minutes a day.

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Social Worker | Bibliotherapy Researcher | Professional Supervisor
📚 Read to Heal

13/09/2026

We live such transient lives now that keeping in touch with friends is not always top of mind.

But I deeply value my long-term friendships, and I have always tried to stay connected.

Today, I met up with my longest-standing friend. We met in Grade 2 at St Joseph’s in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

Life has been both kind and unkind to each of us over the years.

Bad things happen to good people. Yet somehow, balance returns. We hold on to the belief that after the darkest nights, lighter days will come.

You cannot have a light without a dark to hang it in.

I want to be the friend who is willing to turn the light on. I can do that because I have surrounded myself with friends who do the same for me.

Perhaps that is what enduring friendship looks like. We do not have to remove one another’s darkness. Sometimes we simply stay close enough to help find the light switch.

Who switches the light on for you?

And whose light do you help turn on?

👵🎓 Megan Bayliss
Social Worker | Bibliotherapy Researcher | Professional Supervisor
📚 Read to Heal

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