IJSP Number 1, 2019

40 the therapist’s relationship with his/her clients. Noticing and bringing adjustments to the therapeutic process and in an implicit way – to the therapeutic relationship – the supervisor intensifies the connexion between the therapist and his/her client. The supervision process is „a professional guideline” for the barely initiated therapist and for the experienced one is as useful as necessary when the therapist faces new situations or delicate ones or to more special cases. So, the cases brought into discussion in the supervision process will be - in a way - seen and analyzed from different angles and perspectives. From this point of view, new information can reveal, aspects that weren’t noticed or were ignored and we can find solutions to the client’s problems. At the same time, a focus is both on the therapist’s and the supervisor‘s ability to be flexible - an essential skill for the therapeutic process and the collaboration between the two of them [22]. Showing his/her cases to the supervisor, the therapist can be helped be aware of the transfers and counter-transfers and this way correctly manage them and use them in the benefit of the therapeutic process. A supervisor could notice in time, when a therapeutic relationship is on the verge of deteriorating or of becoming inefficient, intervening and making the relationship functional. Also, a supervisor is a sharp observer of the cases where the therapist-client connection is not natural or unprofessional. The supervisor will be, for sure, more objective when the therapist becomes subjective to his/her client. The same supervisor can remind us the authenticity and the transparency, noticing the presence or the absence of these therapist’s qualities because psychotherapy „gains a lot by completely revealing the process and the reason of treatment” [23]. As regards the prevention of a therapy relation breaking a collaborative communication is necessary and also the initiation of an active repair when the breakages show up. Using our empathy, authenticity and deliberate self-revealing or interpretation, we can reset the balance in the therapeutic couple [7]. Also for preventing the misrepresentation of therapeutic relationship A. Beck and partners warn on the setting of limits concerning the therapist’s and client’s behaviours inclusive the fact that it is necessary for the therapist to focus on the transfer behaviours of the client and on his/her own reactions and emotions [10]. The same authors – speaking about patients with avoiding personality disorder – recommend for the therapist to encourage and to help them in the identification and testing of the dysfunctional thoughts, essential in a collaborative relation, which is representative for the other relations of the client. Thus, all these causes (presented in the previous section) could be prevented or set solving when they suffered reversible modifications, by the supervisor’s aid. The supervision process is for sure an important and valuable help, both in the forming process of the therapeutic relationship and later in its evolution.