Briefly Describe Why Supervision Is Important In Counseling Work

1. Briefly describe why supervision is important in counseling work.

Supervision is the ‘cornerstone of counseling’. It protects the well being of the client and facilitates the counselor in developing greater self-awareness so she can become more alert to herself, her clients and the relationships involved.
Getting an integrated supervision at least twice a month is crucial for growth as a counselor. It helps the therapist to reflect on the content of the sessions, appropriate and well-timed use of therapeutic interventions, to understand the relationship in the room through unconscious dynamics like transference and counter transference. Many a times supervisory intervention gives the therapist insight into his habitual or induced countertransference