Meet Lauren Finemore
Trauma-specialist supervision and counselling
Lauren Finemore is an experienced social worker specialising in clinical supervision services for front-line and human services workers.
Passionate about helping care professionals navigate complex emotional landscapes, Lauren has firsthand experience of the daily challenges faced by those in caring professions.
At the heart of Lauren’s practice is the belief that caregivers should be able to continue their vital work without sacrificing their own well-being. Those who give so much of themselves should have the support and resources they need to thrive both professionally and personally.
Guiding Professional Journeys:
Reflective & Trauma-specialist supervision
Those who dedicate their lives to helping others often carry the weight of their clients’ traumas on top of challenging workloads and systemic barriers.
Lauren’s mission is to empower and support front-line and human services workers through specialised trauma specialist clinical supervision services.
Her goal is to provide a nurturing and critically reflective space where professionals can find respite, seek professional growth, and thrive
in their careers.
Values
Lauren’s practice is rooted in her core values. These principles shape the environment and services she creates for her clients and inform every aspect of her work.
Presence
Lauren cultivates an atmosphere of calm and stability, where you can feel safe exploring your needs throughout your professional growth.
Integrity
Authenticity and accountability are vital aspects of Lauren’s practice. Lauren is committed to acting with genuine sincerity while honouring the trust placed in her by clients.
Joy
Lauren believes in the importance of celebrating the wins and incorporating creativity, and fun into sessions.
Wellness
Lauren views professional achievement and personal well-being as deeply interconnected, advocating for a holistic focus that nurtures a balanced life.
Generosity
While it’s often easier to extend kindness to others, it’s also important to be compassionate, understanding, and generous towards oneself for healing and growth.
Lauren’s story
Transforming challenges into change
The experience of living and working remotely was one of the most vivid and incredible experiences of my life, and I will be forever grateful to the people who made that time of my life.
Driven by a long-held desire to work as a Social Worker with some of Australia’s most underserved communities, Lauren left her urban life and moved three and a half thousand kilometres to a remote area of Australia. While Lauren has traveled extensively, she acknowledges she was unprepared for the systemic poverty, racism, and violence she would encounter while supporting those within the remote and isolated communities where she worked.
Lauren worked with both adult and child survivors of violent crime. Her caseload predominantly consisted of individuals who had endured significant acts of violence, leaving them traumatised not only by their experiences, but often also by their subsequent involvement with the criminal justice system.
Despite the regional coordination aspect of her role, there was no clinical supervision, nor recognition of the impacts of hearing repeated stories of violence and abuse while holding an impossibly large caseload.
It wasn’t long before the burden of this trauma and workload began to compound, leading to vicarious trauma, moral injury and burn out.In frontline support and human services professions, discussions around ‘vicarious trauma’ and ‘burnout’ are common, yet Lauren admits she had no idea what these terms really meant and was unable to recognise them, let alone know how to address them. At this stage in her career Lauren had never encountered the term ‘moral injury.’ Despite the growing strain, she continued to work, encouraged by both her employer and a personal resolve to ‘be better,’ ‘try harder,’ and ‘get on with it.’
Reach out for a conversation
Based in Northern Sydney, Lauren tailors her services to meet your needs,
offering some online and others face-to-face.
Whether you’re navigating the challenges of front-line service provision or looking to enhance
your team’s resilience, Lauren can help you on your professional growth and well-being journey.