IJSP Number 1, 2019

68 Through a therapist-client relation, according to Freud’s belief on conscious and unconscious psychic life, the therapist may resurface profound desires, in a transvestite shape and, which at one point in life came into conflict to moral convictions and were casted in the subconscious, or these desires may intervene with the therapeutic relation and the therapeutic process. During the analysis realized in supervision therapists ask a series of questions as: what do I feel? Which are the feelings rising inside? What sensations does the client arise? Why do memories come to mind about similar situations from my life? Would I prefer to embrace this moment or to run away? Which is my state of mind? Am I absent, lucid or disorientated? After these questions are answered, the therapist may analyse his/her thoughts about the situation, the conclusions which may be reached and which steps should be taken next. These reflections help therapist in finding their own answers and the most appropriate solutions to their problems, when meeting clients who may cause blockages and who may demand analysis during the supervision sessions. In Romanian, the term “supervision”, from a psychological point of view, doesn’t have a definition in the dictionary. It only appears with the meaning: “to see a show, a film, to read a text in order to observe its qualities and to recommend it for acquisition, representation, publication it” [1]. Supervision is a practice of acquiring therapeutic aptitudes [2] and an activity of continuous professional learning or professional training. It offers a qualitative gaining to therapists by reflection on their activity, on preventing professional de-motivation or on overcoming conflict situation which may appear in their personal or professional lives, in the development of professional competencies, in establishing objectives and strategies etc. In a restrictive meaning, in psychotherapy, according to a specific therapeutic orientation, the supervision process contains training modules, which include learning, evaluation, therapy planning, and the discovery of key issues, contractual condition, and parallel process and supervision models. Through supervision, the therapist will gradually accumulate positive changes and will evolve through lived experiences in an independent practitioner, with a high feeling of trust, which will replace the initial state of discomfort and anxiety, lived at the beginning of one’s career [3]. Supervisors and supervisees are professionals with experience and with high professional degrees, with training (practical and theoretical) in this activity, their supervision qualities being correlated with professional experience. They are oriented towards “working” with the supervisee’s activity and attitude and towards those tasks that will be processed, reviewed and discussed. Facts, feelings and emotions are verified by supervisors, on the background of certain concepts and theories in order to understand what therapists live and the situations that are presented during supervision sessions. The supervisor is