ABSTRACT
In the process of supervision of psychotherapy, the authors are interested in many aspects of the work from the details of technique to transference and countertransference. Similarly, in doing supervision, the authors focus on the correspondence between the trainee's issues and those of his or her client because here the authors find the greatest potential for making strengths and vulnerabilities of a therapist fully available for the work of therapy. The vignette from supervision offers an opportunity to look at an instance of this interplay that resonated between patients and therapist as it did between therapist and supervisor. When the authors support them to confront their internal risk, and especially when the authors do so by confronting our own sense of being at risk, the authors offer an opportunity in which it is often possible to transform old vulnerabilities into new strengths-both for our trainees and for ourselves.
