IJSP Number 2, 2020

70 Briefly presented, it is the case for a 16-year-old teenager who enters therapy after a period of using substance, gambling addiction and theft behavior, which all took place after his parents divorced, and this behaviour lasted for almost one year. After the first session with this client I had the feeling that we did not get to the depth of things, of her problem, as though it was not enough, without being focused on emotions, but only on presenting events in a superficial and mechanical way. I did not realize why this had happened and why I felt like this, so I decided to prepare the case and bring it to the supervision meeting. In the discussion with the supervisor, reflexively analyzing the entire content of the therapy session, as well as the formulation of my need for supervision, the questions I have about the case, going through the stages described by Vîșcu [3] and starting from the present interaction with the supervisor, I have analyzed the answers which I found following her guidance, I had the insight on the parallel process that had occurred with the client and which for me was a new feeling as beginner therapist, and at the end I checked that the interpretations I reached were relevant to the case. The supervision relationship between the supervisee and the supervisor was much closer, when the latter has identified with sensitivity and empathy the blockage created by the parallel process as a starting point for reflection. So I have discovered a parallel process between the therapist, myself, and the client, that something in the client’s story has been a trigger. As a therapist I identified myself in the client’s life story and this lead to the failure of approaching that aspect during the session. Considering the client’s experiences, what Bollas called the reaction against the transfer, which can affect the therapist, as opening to one’s experience in order to find new perspectives inside one self was identified [5]. In this case, reflecting on the first session, being supervised, I have identified the parallel process, referring to the parents’ divorce as a common event for the client and I. The event mentioned took place approximately during the same age period, and the unconscious emotional tension, not being involved in my individual therapy as a therapist, lead to avoiding discussions on this topic and focusing on the cognitive activity. 3. CONCLUSION That being said, when I think about supervision and its purpose the words of Irvin D. Yalom, come to my mind: “It is said that the goal of therapy is to become your own mother and father. I think we can say the same thing about supervision. The goal is to become your own supervisor.” [6]