What is psychotherapeutic supervision?
Psychotherapeutic supervision consists of receiving therapy by an expert in psychology in order to grow in your work and continue with your self-knowledge, directed towards your inner world, cognition (thinking), emotions and behaviour.
Why Supervise?
I believe that supervision is important to take care of aspects of countertransference (shifting experiences of past or present personal problems to the patient) as well as to actively listen to the patient without distortions. Therefore, it is important that therapeutic supervision is carried out with the aim of achieving as aseptic a relationship as possible between therapist and patient.
Moreover, from a more pedagogical perspective, it is interesting for the supervisee to learn internal interpersonal skills. Personally, having received and received supervision from a psychoanalytic and humanistic perspective, what I seek is to develop a series of skills such as tolerance of intersubjectivity (being able to experience the patient as unique and different) and to strengthen other types of skills such as empathy and sensitivity to the latent content of the patient’s discourse.
Benefits of Psychotherapist Supervision
- Integration of knowledge.
- Enrichment of psychotherapeutic practice.
- Encourages analysis.
- Improves knowledge of the patient’s world.
- Encourages self-care.
- Self-knowledge.
It is important to note that the process of supervision is an active process, as is the process of therapy per se, since it consists of constant training in order to provide quality therapy.
