Anchored Minds
Supporting the Strength behind the Service
Anchored Minds is an Irish company interested in the emotional and relational wellbeing of practitioners in the Health, Education, Community and Social Care Sector. Anchored Minds provides a number of services including;
- Individual and Group – Clinical Supervision
- Reflective Practice Groups (with a specific reflective model)
- Training – Supervision, Reflective Practice, Empathic Therapeutic Fostering Support Model
- Leadership and Consultancy
- Professional Therapeutic Reflective Spaces – individually
- Specialist Support Services to Foster Families (using the Heart and Mind Model, developed by Dr O’Sullivan)
At Anchored Minds you can find a range of services to support you and your staff team including; supervision, reflective practice and group supervision. At Anchored minds, we continue to diversity, race, and complexity as central aspects of our work in health, social care, and social work organisations. If you are interested in our work and would like to get in touch with us. Please do so here
Clinical Supervision at Anchored Minds
At Anchored Minds we provide the following supervisory services;
Individual Clinical Supervision (online and inperson) – availability limited
Group Supervision (online and inperson)
Meta Supervision or Supervision Consultation Groups (for practising supervisors)
Supervision Training – Level 1 – Endorsed by Social Care Ireland
Hearts and Minds A model of family support
At Anchored Minds, we know that working alongside parents and children is both deeply challenging and profoundly rewarding. It requires humility, care, and thoughtfulness.
The Heart and Mind Model balances compassion with knowledge to support foster families. It is a model that acknowledges the importance of pace, structure and time in supporting families. It is a medium to long term model of support, providing consistency and recognising the power of psychological containment (Bion, 1962). The Model keeps compassion and knowledge at the core of support. We know that emotional wellbeing is enhanced when the caring adults feel supported (Lobatto, 2021).
Our Literature
You go in heavy and you come out light
An interpretative phenomenological analysis of reflective practice experiences in an Irish infant mental health setting
Creating space to think
and feel in child protection social work; a psychodynamic intervention
Working in complex contexts
mother social workers and the mothers they meet
Centre-based supervised child-parent contact in Ireland:
the views and experiences of fathers, supervisors and key stakeholders
The danger of denying emotions in our work
BASW, Professional Social Work Magazine.
Anchoring social care and social work practice
in structured reflection: introducing a model of group reflective practice
Professional Supervision in Health & Social Care
September 2026 | Radisson Blu Hotel, Little Island, Cork | Fully Booked
Dr Nicola O’Sullivan, Director of Anchored Minds, will facilitate this four-day introductory programme in Professional Supervision in Health & Social Care, delivered in collaboration with Social Care Ireland and the National Health and Social Care Professionals Office (NHSCPO).
Designed for professionals working across health and social care settings, the programme provides an experiential and reflective introduction to effective supervision practice. Across four days, participants will explore supervision frameworks and contracting, reflective practice, the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision, working with difference, anti-racist supervision, ethical practice and the complexities that can arise within supervisory relationships.
Drawing on more than 26 years of experience in social care, Nicola brings together theory, research, reflection and practical application, with particular attention to the inner world of the practitioner and the development of sustainable, thoughtful and ethically informed supervision practice.
This programme is now fully booked.
