Meet Our Psychology Supervisor Hub Masterclass Facilitators

The Psychology Supervisor Hub Masterclass Series is facilitated by two highly experienced Board Approved Supervisors with extensive backgrounds across clinical practice, leadership, supervision, and professional training.

Developed in response to years of supervisory consultation and practice-based experience across a large national network of Board Approved Supervisors, the series reflects extensive real-world insight into supervision across diverse settings. Since its establishment, Provisional Psychologist Hub has supported hundreds of Board Approved Supervisors across Australia, contributing to the ongoing development of high-quality supervision practice and consistent standards within across all pathways and programs in psychology. 

The Masterclass Series itself was developed and written by the Directors and Management team of Provisional Psychologist Hub, in close consultation with experienced Board Approved Supervisors. This collaborative design process ensures the content is grounded in contemporary supervisory practice, responsive to sector needs, and aligned with both regulatory expectations and the lived realities of supervision delivery.

Delivered online in a small-group format, each Masterclass provides participants with practical tools, downloadable resources, and guided discussion that can be directly integrated into supervision practice. The focus is on translating supervision standards into confident, consistent, and effective day-to-day application.

A key strength of the Masterclass Series is its strong emphasis on both supervision practice and provisional psychologist training pathways. Supervisors are supported to strengthen their understanding of program requirements, assessment expectations, and reporting obligations, while also building the confidence to guide provisional psychologists through complex training milestones.

The series also aligns closely with the broader work of Provisional Psychologist Hub in supporting structured, accessible, and high-quality pathways into the psychology profession. This includes strengthening supervision systems, improving consistency across internship experiences, and supporting both supervisors and provisional psychologists to navigate training requirements with clarity and confidence.

Core topics covered in the Masterclass include building effective supervisory relationships, confidentiality and ethical considerations, record keeping, supervision agreements, supporting provisional psychologists undertaking internship programs, providing constructive feedback, and managing reporting requirements efficiently. The series also places strong emphasis on practical supervision application, ensuring supervisors are equipped to respond effectively to both routine and complex supervision scenarios.

We are proud to introduce the experienced facilitators leading this series: Dr. Lyn O'Grady and Melissa Cheras.

Meet Dr. Lyn O'Grady
Dr. Lyn O'Grady is a Community Psychologist with extensive experience working in community, education, and health settings in various roles over the past three decades. Her work has included supporting parents in the community, serving as a school psychologist, and working as a manager at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) on the KidsMatter project, a national mental health initiative focused on children's wellbeing. 
For the past five years, she has been in private practice, working with a diverse range of client groups and presentations. Her current professional responsibilities include supervision, training, and writing. As a Board-approved supervisor for the past decade, she also facilitates Board Approved supervisor training programs for the Australian Psychological Society. Additionally, she serves as the Chair of the National College of Community Psychologists. Dr. O'Grady has a longstanding interest in the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, beginning with her community-based work with parents in the 1990s. She has also held the position of Chair of the Program Advisory Group for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference since its inception in 2020.In 2017, she completed studies in suicidology and authored a book for parents of young people experiencing suicidal thoughts. Most recently, she published her second book, Keeping Our Kids Hopeful: Parenting Children During Times of Uncertainty.

What Lyn's participants said

"I enjoyed Lyn's warm and friendly style I found the 2 part day workshops beneficial for time management and learning"

"Lyn was a great facilitator! "

"I really enjoyed access to some of the resources and practical take aways eg the logbook templates and the questionnaires to gain feedback from supervisees was a nice touch."

"The most valuable thing about the training was that it allowed me to reflect on my supervision style and identify meaning areas for improvement. The focus on agenda setting and logbooks was also helpful." 

Meet Melissa Cheras
Melissa has 15 years of experience supporting children, adolescents, adults and families across diverse settings: corrections, community-based not-for-profit services (childhood sexual assault; youth mental health; eating disorder support), private practice and hospitals. Working from a trauma-informed approach, Melissa has experience in counselling and group therapy, workshop facilitation, program development, and senior leadership roles. Melissa also worked in a suicide prevention commissioning role, providing strategic leadership for the co-design and implementation of services.

Melissa values that people are the experts in their own lives, and her framework is person-centered and relational, with a strong social justice perspective. Evidence based approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Mindfulness and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

In addition to providing supervision for provisional and registered psychologists, Melissa currently works in the eating disorder field facilitating hospital based group therapy. Melissa also provides suicide prevention specific supervision; and co-facilitates ‘STARS-p’ professional training for responding to suicidality (AISRAP, Griffith University). Melissa values creating a safe and supportive supervisory relationship through which skills and reflective practice can be fostered.

What Melissa's participants said

"Melissa did an incredible job of presenting a lot of detailed material, keeping track of our questions/responses in both the room and the written chat, very seamlessly, while also assessing us in session 1 and providing feedback. I'm quite in awe of how she was able to do this!"

"Melissa a great trainer - easy to listen too, explanations succinct and always relevant. Great to have break out rooms and discuss with other Psychs."

"Melissa Cheras is a wonderful teacher and so helpful with questions and answers. I thought the role plays were  very helpful." 

Upcoming Masterclasses 

Visit our website for upcoming masterclasses and secure a place https://www.psychologysupervisorhub.com.au/masterclasses