IJSP Number 4, 2022

28 The supervision program, as part of the training program, determines the “practical intervention” in defining the psychotherapist’ s identity. During this period the psychotherapist works on one’s style of intervention, analyzes, interprets and reflects on the practical activity with the clients. This is the period when the horizontalization of knowledge in practice is done. This is when, what has been learnt and is assimilated by the psychotherapist is applied in practice, through a feedback received from the supervisor, from colleagues and clients. 2. Creating the psychotherapist identity though the supervisory relationship The supervision relationship is subject to the risk of rupture at any time during the supervision process [7] and implicitly impairs the creation of the psychotherapist ’s identity. Perhaps an awareness of this risk that appears between the two actors, the supervisee and the supervisor, makes the relationship to be guarded with vigilance. At the beginning of the supervision period, the roles of creation and maintenance of a supervisory relationship rests with the supervisor, who must specify the supervisee’s, and the supervisor’s duties and rights in the supervision contract. If we were to use an analogy between supervision and a painting, then the supervision contract would be the frame and the canvas would be the supervision framework, which the supervisor and the supervisee paint together. The brushes, the colour palette, the colour dosing, cleaning one’s hands after painting and the training are all presented by the supervisor at the beginning of the process and as time goes on, the supervisee gains autonomy and stimulates creativity, builds self- confidence every time a painting is done together with the client in the office therapeutic environment. Accidents can happen every time the supervisor and the supervisee paint according to the theme presented by the client, but the frame of the painting remains the same; the supervision contract does not change easily. The conditions for the modification of a supervision contract are to be specified at the beginning of the supervision process, together with the consequences of this interruption. If at the beginning of the supervision process the supervisor is the one who specifies the details of the picture frame, at the end of the supervision process the supervisee decides the colours used with the client in therapy. Just as the supervisor stimulates the psychot herapist’s creativity and style; the psychotherapist in turn stimulates the creativity and functioning of each client. Over the years, I have been concerned about the supervisory relationship, about the supervisory alliance created with the supervisee. I tried to understand the supervisee from my perspective as supervisor: - What landmarks I had at my disposal as supervisor at the beginning of the road? Do I have anything else except the manner in which my supervisors supervised me? - What should predominate as a landmark, the advice “not like that”?, a variant that I have not encountered in my training as a psychotherapist but lived it; - What was it like for me when I was supervised, sitting in the centre of the room and with over 20 eyes on me?