IJSP Number 1, 2019

27 study, research); the importance of time management (professional and personal); the importance of attending conferences, workshops, roundtables; stimulating the organizing of such events in the cities where the training centres in integrative psychotherapy were established (the supervisor’s therapeutic orientation). The supervisor’s activity from her private practice and later focused on psychotherapy has generated the practice of a counsellor role. It seems that the psychotherapist practice is the winning one for the supervisor, because it over- passed the professor role (the supervisor gave up her didactic career for a period of 2 years). Still the entire being is composed of a combination of roles: for supervisees and for the supervisor the counsellor is the first role chosen, counterbalanced by the consultant (role demanded by supervisees) and the professor (role resulted from the supervisor’s self-evaluation). b. The Mayers-Briggs test (MBTI) The second inventory self-applied by the supervisor is the Mayers-Briggs test (MBTI) which refers to the following differences: - extraversion (E) or concentration of interest on the energy source oriented towards the outside world (people and things) versus introversion (I) or orientation towards the inner world of ideas; - sensing (S) or gathering information based on facts and data, versus intuition (N) or gathering information based on intuition to understand meanings; - feeling (F) or information used in decision-making focused on the analysis of subjective feelings versus thinking (T) or searching for explanations in facts and objective analysis; - judgment (J) or environmental management through structuring and regulation, versus perception (P) or adaptation and experience of the environment. The supervisor’s psychological type evaluated with the MBTI test is ISFJ or Introvert / Sensitive / Feeling / Judgement. The analysis of the results obtained is necessary for the supervisor to adapt her supervision style and practice by improving the skills that require changes. From a personal perspective, certain skills need to be improved, especially those that are more courageous to address conflicts arising in the supervision relationship; the ability to focus on the process, not just on goals and on a balance between logic and emotion.