ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the reader with the author’s process of learning to become a family therapist while being supervised by Dr. Salvador Minuchin. The author describes several lessons she learned during the several years that she participated in the Minuchin supervisory group. The author presents a family she worked with and various points of interaction with them, utilizing case transcripts to help explain her intent with various interventions. The lessons discussed include increasing the complexity of the therapist’s voice, intervening at the level of relationship, carrying messages that are sometimes uncomfortable, being comfortable being an uncertain expert, appreciating complementarity, and utilizing self of the therapist.
