This book is focused on relational processes in supervision for counselling and psychotherapy.
The aim is first to introduce a relational theoretical stance then to apply that stance to the
process of supervision and finally to offer practitioners immediately accessible resources for
relational supervision. Within a relational perspective supervisor and supervisees are viewed
as partners who co-construct the supervisory process. Unlike other approaches to supervision
where the emphasis is on specific techniques and strategies for supervision the relational
orientation of this book invites supervisor and supervisee into different understandings of the
supervisory interaction. This orientation directs our attention to the importance of
co-creating the therapeutic relation alliance with special attention to the wellbeing of the
the supervisee and the supervisor. Supervision from this perspective is focused on what
participants are making together rather than on the individual abilities strengths and
weaknesses of either the supervisor or the supervisee.
