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About A.S.I.
Supporting Supervisors. Advancing the Profession.
The Association of Supervisors in Ireland was established by a team with decades of experience in both delivering and teaching supervisory practice. Our mission is to support and elevate the profession across a wide range of sectors in Ireland, while fostering an inclusive, engaged community of practitioners, supervisees, educators, and allied organisations.
Our Story
The ASI was founded on the belief that supervision is a distinct, skilled, and vital professional practice — one that deserves its own dedicated membership body. For too long, supervisors have worked at the edges of other professional bodies, without a dynamic organisation focused solely on their development, representation, and professional standards.
In February 2026, the ASI’s Executive Board was formally ratified, marking an important step in establishing the organisation’s governance, leadership, and strategic direction.
We saw the need for a body determined not just to represent supervisors, but to actively progress the profession — expanding its reach, deepening its training pathways, and aligning with national and European trends in professional development.
Meet The Board
Marie Divilly
Chairperson & Accreditation Lead
Marie Divilly is a highly experienced social care professional and is a clinical supervisor in practice. She has 25 years across residential, child protection, and asylum support services. Grounded in person-centred and psychodynamic approaches, Marie creates reflective spaces that honour ethical clarity, emotional insight, and practitioner resilience. She brings deep sectoral knowledge and supervisory wisdom to her private practice and national initiatives.
Marie advocates for rigorous, relational, and reflective supervision as a pillar of ethical frontline care.
Dr. James Kinane
Director & Vice Chairperson
Dr. James Kinane, PhD, is a clinical supervisor, educator, and therapist with over 30 years’ experience across private, academic, and rehabilitation settings. Known for his relational depth, ethical clarity, and reflective wisdom, James has mentored countless practitioners through their professional journeys.
In founding the Association of Supervisors in Ireland, he aims to promote excellence in supervision, champion best practice, and foster a national community of skilled, attuned supervisors across disciplines.
Mike Hackett
CPD & Education Lead
Mike Hackett is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist and supervisor with over 18 years’ experience across clinical practice, training, and research. As ASI’s CPD & Education Lead, he brings strong leadership in professional learning and sector development. A former Editor-in-Chief of the Irish Journal of Counselling & Psychotherapy and Chair of the IACP Research Committee, Mike is also founder of Introspect Counselling in Dublin.
Myriam Clancy
Ethics & Standards Lead
Myriam Clancy offers reflective supervision to experienced therapists, social care workers and frontline community professionals. As ASI’s Ethics & Standards Lead, she brings a strong commitment to safe, attuned and ethically grounded practice. She lectures at Munster Technological University in creative cross-professional supervision and the MA in Play Therapy, with particular experience in child and adolescent work, social care, and trauma-informed therapeutic practice.
Tony Nolan
Accreditation Lead
Tony Nolan is ASI’s Accreditation Lead and brings over 20 years’ experience in supervision across leadership, education, chaplaincy, pastoral practice and reflective practice settings. His work includes supervision of supervisors, trainee supervisors, group facilitation, mediation and conflict transformation. With over 35 years’ experience working reflectively with individuals and groups, Tony’s approach is contemplative, collegial, systemic and grounded in respectful curiosity.
Prof. Denis Ryan
Board Member
Professor Denis Ryan is an ASI board member and President and Foundation Professor of Mental Health at ICHAS. He brings over 50 years’ experience across academic, clinical and professional practice. Denis recently chaired the design of the MA in Clinical Supervision in Professional Practice at ICHAS, where he also teaches. His research interests include work-related stress, coping, workplace violence, and the development of supervision within professional practice.
Adrian McKenna
Board Member
Adrian McKenna is an ASI board member and qualified clinical supervisor with over 35 years’ experience in Irish health and social care. His background includes frontline practice, senior management, consultancy, training and supervision. A former member of CORU’s Social Care Workers Registration Board, Adrian brings strong governance and sector leadership experience. His supervision practice supports ethical reflection, resilience and professional development across frontline, management and organisational settings.
Ciaran Cuddihy
Board Member
Ciaran Cuddihy is an ASI board member and mental health nurse with Galway Roscommon Mental Health Services. His practice development role includes facilitating clinical supervision for nurses across all divisions and for members of multidisciplinary teams. With experience across acute inpatient and community mental health, Ciaran also co-facilitates the Professional Credit Award in Clinical Supervision at the University of Galway and has published research on nurses’ and midwives’ experiences of supervision.
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Myles Doyle
Marketing Lead & Revenue
Myles Doyle brings over 25 years of commercial, digital, and organisational leadership to the Association. As a former sales director in the tech and training sectors, Myles has a proven record in strategy, operations, and audience engagement. He is currently completing a master’s in counselling and psychotherapy, deepening his commitment to supporting mental health professionals.
In his role Myles supports the Association’s mission through governance, growth strategy, and sector advocacy.
The founders of the Association of Supervisors in Ireland bring over three decades of experience in supervision and mental health practice. Their professional journey has spanned private clinical work, public sector roles, and the training and development of future therapists across a variety of disciplines.
At the centre of their philosophy is the belief that supervision is not simply oversight, but a collaborative, reflective process that nurtures growth, safeguards ethics, and sustains long-term professional resilience. Their supervisory style is grounded in respect, relational safety, and a deep appreciation for the complexities of therapeutic work.
ASI was formally established in 2018, shortly after Dr. James Kinane began delivering supervision training modules at ICHAS. With the support and encouragement of the college authorities — and in collaboration with supervision colleagues — James laid the groundwork for what would become ASI.
Other trusted peers contributed to the design of our formal accreditation process, helping to set high and pluralistic standards from the outset.
From the beginning, ASI aims not only to represent supervisors, but to advance the profession — by building community, promote high standards, supporting continuing development, and strengthening the visibility and value of supervision in professional practice across an expanding number of professions Ireland.
