Alta Sacra
I am a practitioner, educator, and Registered Social Worker with more than 15 years of experience across youth support, disability, mental health, education, employment, community services, adult safeguarding, research, and leadership.
I offer specialist supervision for neurodivergent and disabled practitioners, and for practitioners seeking to build confidence and capability in working with neurodivergent and disabled people.
Alongside my professional expertise, I bring lived experience as an autistic person with ADHD and the parent of an autistic young person. Across my mahi, I seek to strengthen access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
My Approach
My supervision practice is collegial, collaborative, and grounded in reflective, ethical, neurodiversity-affirming, culturally responsive, intersectional, and rights-based practice.
Alongside relevant professional codes of ethics, my approach is informed by Te Tiriti o Waitangi, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the Enabling Good Lives (EGL) principles.
I recognise autistic, neurodivergent, and disability identities as cultures. I take an intersectional approach to understanding how disability and neurodivergence interact with culture, ethnicity, Rainbow identities, faith, socioeconomic circumstances, and other aspects of identity and experience.
Supervision provides space to consider how identity, culture, power, access, relationships, safeguarding, and lived experience shape professional judgement and practice. I support practitioners to work through ethical questions and complex situations, strengthen their practice lens, and keep the mana, voice, aspirations, and tino rangatiratanga of taiohi at the centre of their mahi.
Qualifications
Master of Applied Social Work (Massey University)
Master of Science in Education (Capella University)
Graduate Diploma in Disability Sector Leadership (Open Polytechnic)
Profesional Association
Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers
DAPAANZ
Social Work Registration Board
Other: Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA), Career Development Association of New Zealand (CDANZ), Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Care Action Network (FASD-CAN), Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID), Australian & New Zealand Social Work & Welfare Education & Research (ANZSWWER), Australasian Society for Autism Research (ASfAR), International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)