IJSP Number 8, 2026

International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy, Number 8, 2026 Page | 114 that can deal not only with symptoms but also with the deeper, life-changing effects of traumatic experiences. That is why the issue of professional support for specialists working with traumatic experiences is so important. Working with deep suffering, existential loss of meaning, guilt, grief, and post-traumatic reactions significantly increases the risk of vicarious traumatization, emotional exhaustion, and professional burnout among psychologists. Under such conditions, supervision ceases to be an optional element of professional training and acquires the status of a necessary condition for ethical and effective practice. The world in which modern professionals work is unstable, traumatic, and oversaturated with demands that go beyond standard approaches. In these conditions, supervision serves as a professional support system that helps professionals cope with the complexity of reality without losing their ethical and human guidelines. Analysis of research. Analysis of scientific literature has revealed the diversity of definitions of “supervision.” Supervision is defined as: professional support for mental health specialists aimed at overcoming professional difficulties, analyzing and eliminating weaknesses in work, improving its organization, motivating professional development, ensuring compliance with ethical norms and standards for the providing of mental health services, preventing professional burnout, and providing emotional support [2]; intense interpersonal interaction aimed at bringing together two people, the supervisor and the therapist, where the first person tries to make the second more effective in helping others [7]; “signature pedagogy” of psychotherapy, necessary for the professional development of the supervisee and ensuring the well-being of clients [6]; as a special type of psychological practice that focuses on the professional thinking of a specialist, on their methods of conceptualization and assimilation of professional experience [4]; as a way of developing specific psychotherapeutic competencies in specialists, in particular knowledge, skills, and professional values [3] etc. Psychological practice abounds with a considerable number of scientific developments in the context of supervision, but so far supervision in logotherapy (psychotheraputical method developed by V. Frankl in 1930th) has not been the subject of separate studies. The purpose of this article is to analyze theoretical sources for determining the potential of supervision as a systematic factor in professional growth and support for psychologists and logotherapists in wartime conditions. RESEARCH METHODS The study uses a set of complementary methods: theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization of scientific sources); methods of scientific modeling and conceptualization of the supervisory space. The methodological basis of the study consists of the principles of logotherapy and existential analysis, as well as modern approaches to supervision in psychological practice.