IJSP Number 2, 2020

84 scenario. The moment of awareness and assumption was crucial and defining for me and it took place during the training and supervision period. We need something or someone to put a mirror in front and give us something different. The change took place at the beginning of the training process and was finalized in individual therapy and strengthened during the supervision and intervision sessions. So, building a new life scenario that favours my career success and relationships with others implies authenticity and commitment, focusing on one’s emotions, feelings and experiences here and now, as well as focusing on how they can contribute to bring a positive change in the lives of others. It all depends on oneself, here and now. 2. THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP In integrative psychotherapy, a particular emphasis is placed on the therapeutic relationship, focusing on co-creating the therapeutic relationship as an interaction involving both sides. It is not a unidirectional relationship in which one party acts and the other is a passive receptor, rather it is a collaborative process that is constantly evolving and in which both the client and the therapist participate equally [3]. Healing and change come only within and through this co-created relationship between the two. The therapeutic relationship is therefore a psychodynamic process between two people in mutual interaction within the psychotherapy office, being a unique interaction between two unique personalities: the client and the psychotherapist, recognizing the bilateral side of the process and the fact that everyone will have an influence on the other constantly. This vision comes from contemporary relational psychotherapy, which emphasizes the mutual influence in the relationship between two people, and gestalt therapy, which focuses on the healing dialogue in psychotherapy. The therapeutic relationship, although built on reciprocity, does not necessarily imply equality of influence or similarity of contribution, according to Evans and Gilbert [4]. Reciprocity does not involve the disappearance of the therapeutic role but rather the awareness that two persons cannot be in a meeting without influence or mutual impact. The relational model of integrative psychotherapy is based on the fact that both the therapist and the client bring together the totality of what they are, their experience, unconscious processes, body expressions, etc [5]. The client will also take on a multilevel influence on the therapist’s influence. I went to school without any experience as soon as I graduated faculty, and the experience of individual or group therapy did not resemble what was happening during college. Only later, after during the training period, and especially after the experience of individual therapy, I understood where the