About supervision SUPERVISION OF TA AND INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY TO WHOM: STUDENTS OF PSYHOTHERAPY, COUNSELLORS

My philosophy of supervision: Gilbert and Evans (2000, p.1) wrote: »Generally, there is agreement that supervision is a learning process in which a psychotherapist engages with a more experienced practitioner in order to enhance their skills in the process of their ongoing professional development. This, in turn, promotes and safeguards the well-being of their clients.” My philosophy of supervision is firmly based upon the integrative relational approach (Gilbert and Evans, 2000, Safran and Muran, 2000). With the term »relational«, I want to stress not only the importance I attribute to the supervisory relationship, but also the relational context of supervision as the basis, and main tool, of successful supervision. With the term »integrative«, I would like to acknowledge that I see supervision as a discipline which reaches beyond any one school of psychotherapy. Nevertheless, as a supervisor, I see myself being firmly grounded within the TA theoretical and organisational model.