Mental Health Social Worker
Ashlee Ruskin
Ashlee places a strong emphasis on the therapeutic relationship, ensuring her clients feel comfortable in the space. Whilst co-creating safety, Ash provides a collaborative journey with her clients to address their unique mental health challenges.
Fields of Practice
Mental Health: Counselling using Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing
Specialist Family Violence Work: Facilitation of men’s behaviour change programs and case management of men who have used family violence; advocacy and casework with victim survivors of family violence, including MARAM risk assessments and safety planning
Families: Supporting families impacted by alcohol and other drug issues; group family counselling; family systems work
Alcohol and Other Drugs: Individual counselling and case management, harm reduction
Group Work: Group facilitation, program design, and reflective group practice
Crisis and suicide intervention
Disability support
Fees:
$180 per session
About
Ashlee Ruskin
I provide clinical supervision to allied health professionals that is collaborative, reflective, and empowering. I believe that as professionals, we are the tool for our clients – and that caring for ourselves through critical reflection and selfcare practices is essential to showing up with presence and integrity in our work.
In supervision, we explore your practice in a way that invites curiosity and growth. My supervision style utilises reflective questioning to support practitioners in finding their own insights rather than being told what they “should” do. Together, we reflect on how your values, experiences, and social location influence your work with clients, while identifying areas for ongoing professional development.
Our conversations may include exploring personal triggers and emotional responses, navigating organisational challenges such as workload, boundaries, and systemic pressures, and workshopping ethical dilemmas that arise in practice. We may also focus on case formulation skills, applying social work approaches, practical discussions around crisis intervention strategies, risk assessment and safety planning, and using professional frameworks to guide ethical and accountable practice.
Each session is shaped by what you most need – whether that’s space for reflection, skill development and professional growth, or refining selfcare approaches to sustain your practice. I am an AASW-accredited social worker, currently working towards my AASW mental health accreditation, and have completed clinical supervision training.
