ABSTRACT
During COVID-19 and the related lockdowns, more than in any period prior, the issue of grief, bereavement and loss showed up persistently in supervision. This raised intersecting boundary management issues relating to individual, task, gender, role and culture. COVID was an emotionally challenging period of significant duration, a context that the whole world population found themselves in. Two coaches in the supervision group presented practice-related issues, one on feelings of incompetence as a new coach and another on growing their business differently given the circumstances. Crossing the boundary between supervision and therapy and thereby creating a new issue or leaving the client uncontained. There is also the possibility of greying of task boundary – for example working with the client within their professional sphere as opposed to their personal sphere. In many cases where clients of different genders are working together, and the client is vulnerable, there's potential to cross appropriate physical/personal space boundaries.
