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65 become critical and ironical? / What does your client do / say in those particular moments?”). At this point I also entered in connection to one’s self, hurt by an insecure attachment of dependent style (as my client’s) and got insights concerning repressed emotions and repression as a defence mechanism for the need to be observed and appreciated by others. 5. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, as far as the present case is concerned, supervision enriched the experience with the client, helping a reflection upon certain aspects without which continuing the therapy would have been complicated and definitely less efficient for the client. Furthermore, the risk of relationship rupture was rather high. The particular aspects targeted in the process were: the therapeutic framework, the therapist’s mistrust in the client, the transfer situation (the traumatising childhood experience of betrayal by a histrionic friend transferred on the client), working with emotions and the difficulty to empathise with the client. The supervisor’s questions and discussions prompted a reflection upon those sensitive points touching soft spots of the supervisee’s being, most probably belonging to the hurt child requiring from the Adult Self understanding, love, appreciation and protection. Ultimately, supervision helped me understand that a competent professional always stays in contact with the self, and relearns to grow in accordance with the reality, both the subjective one (the private life experience) and the objective one (the client’s subjective reality), which ought to prevail in the therapist profession. REFERENCES [1] Vîşcu L.-I. & Popescu O.-M., (2016). Psihoterapie integrativă strategică. Teorie şi aplicaţii practice , [Integrative strategic psychotherapy. Theory and applications] Craiova: Liber Mundi [2] Popescu, O.M., Drobot, L., (2016). Integrative Strategic Psychotherapy–the Four- Self Model, Proceedings 23rd International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied in Psychology (SICAP23) – Psychology and Ongoing Development , pag. 243-148 [3] Watkins, C. Edward, Jr.; Callahan, Jennifer L.; Viscu, Loredana-Ileana. The Common Process of Supervision Process: The Supervision Session Pyramid as a Teaching Tool in the Beginning Supervision Seminar. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy Volume: 50 Issue: 1 Pages: 15-20 Published: MAR 2020 [4] Vîşcu, L., (2018), Modelul integrativ strategic de supervizare , [The integrative strategic model of supervision] Bucharest: Universul Academic Publishing House