ABSTRACT

Although feminists have been writing about and practicing feminist family therapy for over twenty years, writing about feminist family therapy supervision has been limited to a few in-depth personal designs and Avis’ (1986) Delphi study. This article reports on a portion of the findings of a larger study of feminist supervision. The sixteen participants described their therapist-supervisor relationship to be the heart of their supervision experience, the center point from which the supervision derived meaning. When asked if they thought they focused on anything that they would call feminist, supervisors and therapists described issues that fell into the following areas: gender, power, diversity and emotion. These results are reviewed within the context of the feminist family therapy supervision literature and with suggestions for their use.