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41 6. CONCLUSIONS The therapeutic relationship is an essential factor in the therapeutic process; both the quality of therapy and its goal (its success and failure) depend on it. It is important for this therapeutic factor to permanently be under the focus of the therapist and his/her supervisor. The therapist can notice in time the changes from his/her collaboration with the client and to put again the therapeutic relationship on the coordinates of its functionality, by permanently monitoring this therapy component. For this, a careful and vigilant participation on the therapist’s part is necessary; one that can prevent dysfunctional results. And it is also necessary for the therapist to prove realism and objectivity, to permanently take into account all that’s important in a therapeutic relation, adapting and continuously redefining the content of meetings and his/her connection to the client and to the changes occurred. In this direction, the role of supervision and of the therapist-supervisor relationship must be underlined. It is important and necessary to remember that the echoes of the relationship with the client goes on in his/her life beyond the private office door, in the relations of the client with all the others he interacts on, becoming a relating model in the therapy period and further on. Beyond the didactic definitions given to the therapeutic relation, I think it is a mechanism, a construct realised together by the therapist and client, by involvement and devotion, in a common effort to bring the change in client’s life. The therapeutic relationship is an ability; the therapists’ ability to understand and make this connection to be a „common foundation”, but not „an undermined field” where they meet clients. REFERENCES [1] Popescu, O. M., Vîşcu, L. I. (2017). Factorii comuni in psihoterapie: perspectiva integrativ-strategica . Bucharest: Pro Universitaria. [2] Rogers, C. R. (1961). On Becoming a Person . Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Company [3] van Luyn, B., Akhtar, S., Livesley, W. J. (2007). Severe Personality Disorders. Everyday Issues in Clinical Practice. Cambridge University Press. [4] Clarkin, J. F., Levy, K. N. (2004). The Influence of Client Variables on Psychotherapy, in M. J. Lambert. Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change. (pp. 194-226). (5th ed.). Wiley, New York. [5] Schmitt, L. (2010). Premiers pas en psychotherapie. Petit manuel du therapeute. Elsevier Masson SAS.