ABSTRACT
Chapter 11 dealt with issues of difference and diversity in supervision. In that chapter we argued strongly for the need for supervisors to develop an ability to be supervisee-directed in response to transcultural issues in supervision. This chapter explores a further aspect of supervisee-responsiveness in considering the supervision needs of a particular group of counsellors and therapists-those who are experienced practitioners. We have included this chapter because, as we see it, the majority of the supervision literature currently available applies mainly to the supervision of trainees and newly qualified therapists. We think that the supervision needs of experienced practitioners are, at times, sufficiently different to those of novice counsellors to merit separate attention. In our view the difference mainly comes down to supervisor and supervisee needing to work more closely at the interface between supervision and therapy in the service of enhancing the personal and professional development of the therapist. We would suggest that, to a large degree, the supervision issues of mature, experienced practitioners are also their life issues.
