ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the concept of engaging professional help for professionals with a view to enabling meaningful and safe work. The theme of the group was, “working with domestic violence sufferers.” The reflective group I present was set up in the late 1990s. I called this group a “reflective group for domestic violence workers” because this title seemed more accessible for many workers.
This concept provides a very useful analogy for reflective process, where the “good-enough” therapists or other helping professionals can survive the negative resistance and attacks of the clients through the strength of being held within and by the reflective/supervisory relationship. The reader will see that, the supervisor's role is not just to support or reassure the group of professionals, but to allow the emotional difficulties to be felt within the secure setting of the supervisory relationship, where it can be survived, reflected on, and shared as a group and thus provides a container that holds the helping relationship within the “intercultural therapeutic reflective group process.”
