Box 11.

Questions for Self-Reflection About Countertransference

● What do I like or dislike about this therapist? What do I see as its strengths and weaknesses? ● What are my emotional reactions to the supervisee? ● What am I worried about in supervision? What can upset me during supervision with this therapist? ● What are my body feelings during supervision? ● What am I saying about this therapist? ● Reminds me of someone? ● Am I putting too much pressure on this therapist? Am I not too strict with them? ● Does what I expect to correspond to his level of development in training? ● Am I able to give him negative feedback and alert him to mistakes directly, or do I often apologize in advance? ● Am I not being too important to this therapist? Am I not showing how I understand everything and how good I am? ● What do I want or do I not want to talk to the supervisee about? ● Are there any signs of a supervisee’s difficulties that I have ignored? What does that say about me? ● Do I negate the therapist’s problem with the patient? Do I give general advice and recommendations instead of leading him to discover a procedure for a particular patient? ● How am I confident when they supervise this therapist? Am I afraid of how he will see me and what he will tell me? ● Am I happening to be competing with this therapist for who is right? ● Are not I bored too much with this supervisee? How do I understand that? ● Do not I feel too energized, unfocused, frustrated or blocked during supervision? ● Do I have memory dropouts related to the details of the supervisee’s case? ● Does not this supervisor talk negatively about his client? ● Does not it occur to me that I can work more than a supervisee during supervision? ● Am I not supporting a client against a supervisee?