ABSTRACT
David didn’t actually like thinking about what he offered in terms of it being ‘supervision’; he didn’t feel the term really reflected the quality and relational emphasis that good supervision required. He always found his supervision work touched him deeply. And he saw it as a very definite responsibility. Coun sellors were working with clients, seeking to offer them authentic, therapeutic relationship. Yet he knew how the dynamics of the counsellor-client relation ship could trigger all kinds of reactions in the counsellor which were not likely to be therapeutically valuable - indeed, which could damage the client. Yet he was left having to rely on what his supervisors wanted to raise, and even that meant that a certain screening could take place, and not necessarily con sciously. Significant moments could simply be missed by the counsellor and, if not raised in supervision, could be missed again.
