Supervision: A Collaborative Endeavor

By utilizing multiple lenses—the personality functioning of the therapist, supervisor, and client; the relationships between client, therapist, and supervisor; theories of development, personality, and psychotherapy; clinical theory, diagnosis, and treatment—the authors present a visual model of supervision that expands the possibilities for understanding what transpires in both the therapy and the supervisiory hour and offers clinical interventions for both. tThe focus of this paper is on supervision from a Gestalt therapy perspective; however, the emphasis is on the modes of thinking and attitudes that need to be fostered in supervision regardless of the theoretical orientation of the supervisor.