ABSTRACT
Ensuring competence for clinicians and facilitating their professional development rest on another presumption – namely, the belief that clinical supervisors have a point of view about clinical supervision that guides their supervision, a philosophy of clinical supervision. To ensure that new counselors and therapists can provide competent help, they receive profession-necessitated clinical supervision. Clinical supervision assists supervisees in their professional development toward becoming effective clinicians. Several researchers and writers have given definitions of a philosophy of clinical supervision. Many supervisors seem to conclude that they are good clinical supervisors because they are good counselors/therapists. Principally, clinical supervisors carry the obligation of informing their supervisees about their personal-professional approach to clinical supervision. Effective clinical supervision requires solid experience in and understanding of therapy but as a matter of practice is much more about effectively relating with professional colleagues than discharging the obligations of a therapist.
