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We are open to absorbing profound loss, hurt and mistrust from our clients but also to the stimulation of those states, present in us all (Berger in T. Spiers (Ed.), Trauma: A practitioner’s guide to counselling. Brunner Routledge, 2001). This chapter opens with Hatti Berger’s poignant words. She wrote this while working for the London Underground staff counselling service, in which she explores the double-sided nature of the emotional impacts in our therapeutic work. When we include the supervisor in the above quotation, we might wonder about the triple sided nature of the impacts for the supervisor, as they live within, and reflect on, the triangle of supervisor-therapist-client and their respective interlocking contexts of influence. There are many sources of emotional resonance in our therapeutic and supervisory work, so the key questions I shall address here centre around the development of resiliency and receptivity for practitioners, supervisors and their teams that help in sustaining supportive working contexts.
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Vetere, A. (2021). Safety and Self-Care of the Supervisor. In: Ness, O., McNamee, S., Kvello, Ø. (eds) Relational Processes in Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision . Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71010-1_9
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