IJSP Number 1, 2019

71 solved and that the a positive counter-transfer behaviour should be avoided. This referred to being extremely careful with the client and not offer an excessive support or avoid too much self-disclosure regarding the daughter and her “problems” and the mother’s regarding her body image. The biological axis is always connected to the emotional one, where the client feels an acute need for attention and love, need also found in the therapist’s experiences. In psychotherapy, the psychotherapist represents an attachment figure for the client and a secure base which allow the client to safely attend therapy and explore painful experiences. Thus, psychotherapist must offer encouragement, comfort and harden the client’s qualities and potential. This is the point in which it was realized that the blockage resulted from the question “did I succeed in offering support to my daughter?”, “will I succeed in doing the same with the client?” On the family axis, a reflection on the subject of family problems management and of the role the therapist had in transmitting family values, as for example the body image, was demanded. Thus, the types of values transmitted from her origin family were discussed with the client, and how these influenced her life. It was no surprise that she described the same values, her mother transmitted, as those received by the therapist during her adolescence. As a result of these reflections, during therapy hours the therapist managed a parenthesis and eliminated all blockages with the client. A final reflection needed in this case, was on the cognitive axis, where a certain degree of perfectionism and control was felt in S. This problem was also mentioned by her mother and it also surfaced the therapist’s daughter image and her perfectionism and the therapist’s in every day’s life. This point is important to all characters involved (the therapist, the daughter and the client, because all of them faced a low self-esteem. This low self-esteem is seen today in many adolescents due to multiple influences from their entourages. Aspects of the therapist’s childhood and adolescence were re-analysed, the relations established between the therapist and her children, and even with her parents, types of attachment gained and transmitted and automatic thoughts that still appear and that need more careful “work”. In this therapeutic process the role of “good parent” was also taken, but by succeeding after a self-analysis to use parentheses and to investigate more before each session with this adolescent, in order to eliminate all blockages appear in the case of S. This choice of becoming a psychotherapist also offered the occasion to reflect, to meditate on the self together with each client, to grow and develop and to consolidate a professional functioning. The fact that the case of S. was presented in supervision represented a healing experience for the therapist and insured a secure basis of self-disclosure and a containing space. The fact that both the therapist and the supervisor belong to the same therapeutic field, integrative strategic psychotherapy, this relation is a beneficial one and it represents a fruitful collaboration for optimum results in the