
Support without surveillance.
Your supervision. Your space.
At PBS4, supervision is completely external, free from workplace agendas, reporting lines, and conflicts of interest. No ethical dilemmas. Just a confidential, independent space where you can be honest, supported, and truly grow.
“For years I watched the ethical flaw in how clinicians were supervised - support tangled with performance, honesty silenced by hierarchy. One night I decided enough was enough. I didn’t sleep until I built a new model. PBS4 is that model. A safe, independent space for practitioners to grow without fear.”
— Bridget Emmerson
With years of experience as an Advanced Behaviour Support Practitioner, Clinical Lead, Counsellor, and mentor, I’ve seen the same story play out: the people holding everyone else up are often the ones running themselves into the ground.
And part of the problem is structural.
Too often, supervision is provided by the very organisations that employ us. That creates blurred lines. How open can you really be when the person supporting you is also evaluating your performance? When “supervision” risks doubling as surveillance, honesty becomes unsafe, and growth is compromised.
That’s why I started PBS4.
My mission is clear — to give Behaviour Support Practitioners a space that is independent, ethical, and entirely yours. A place to care for yourself with the same dedication you give to the people you support.
Through resources, mentoring, and community, I champion practitioner wellbeing, self-care, and resilience. Using the Positive Behaviour Support lens we apply to participants, I turn it back onto practitioners themselves - protecting energy, sustaining careers, and flipping the script on burnout.
PBS4 is change care for Behaviour Support Practitioners. We are an independent, confidential space built out of lived experience - where practitioners can breathe, reflect, and grow without fear. Because when practitioners flourish, everyone benefits.
What People Are Saying
“Bridget is more than a supervisor. I sent her a message at 10:30pm one night… stressed about an appointment the next day. At 7:30am she was video calling me with a coffee in one hand, toast in the other joking ‘sorry I look like shit… what’s up my gal?’
She didn’t just check in, she showed up for me in a way that I’ve never had before.”
Hayley (Shared with consent)
