IJSP Number 5, 2023

76 psychotherapist demands at least two years, thus supervision in psychotherapy also demands a period of two years. In this case, a professional training provider offers a college graduate the possibility to become an independent psychotherapist through a training program of at least 4 years. The professional training provider is an organization that “produces learning” and “teaches” having this double characteristic. Focusing on only one side of this feature will, at some point, cause a blockage in the provider’s activity. To produce learning - in learners and teaching as an organization - all decision-makers, trainers, supervisors, committee members are permanent intentions in the provider’s policy if it wants to create an organizational ethos (related to the organizational climate) and an image (related to organizational culture). The professional training provider should constantly concern itself with the initial and continuous training of the trainers and supervisors who coordinate the training programs through their knowledge and practice. In this training, an emphasis should be placed on the admission and knowledge of the learners’ needs, styles of learning, stages of development and the stimulating of their personal and professional development. Before being competitors on the training market, the providers of professional training in psychotherapy want to develop psychotherapy and offer specialists necessary in achieving the well-being of clients who will call on psychotherapy services. Before being competitors on the market, the providers of professional training are first of all representatives of a therapeutic orientation. Thus, the issues, the shortcomings observed within a provider of professional training in psychotherapy reflect by extension on the image of therapeutic orientation on the training market. We consider that the constant interest of a professional training provider for the permanent professional development of trainers and supervisors and the open discussions with the representatives of the professional commissions of several professional training providers will constitute benchmarks of the internal and external policies of development. The social image of the professional training provider is given by how the graduates practice psychotherapy and how they maintain and develop their interactions with each other and with other colleagues. The contentment and satisfaction gained by the graduate of a training school during therapeutic practice is the best and most realistic advertisement for the professional training provider. The purpose of a professional training provider is essentially to train specialists on how to work and from their work to be able to also meet their needs their families’. Reasoning by analogy, a professional training provider concerned with training trainers and supervisors (who coordinate the provider’s programs) is constantly interested in its trainers’ level, how they are selected, how they develop, how they combine their qualities as educators of adults with their therapeutic practice. In other words, the provider has the possibility to intervene at the trainers’ and supervisors’ level and up to a point at the level of meeting the needs and requirements of learners. Still, in therapeutic practice it is found that regardless of the therapeutic orientation, there is a relatively small number of supervisors “practicing supervision”, and even if a considerable number of supervisors are registered, only some actually practice supervision.