"In no case! You can't do that! What were you guided by when you made such a decision?! You are making a grave mistake by undertaking this intervention prematurely! This is contrary to our method! Sound familiar? Unfortunately, from time to time I heard from my colleagues that this was exactly the form in which their supervisors gave feedback. Fortunately, such examples are becoming fewer and fewer, but nevertheless, sometimes you can still hear that a psychologist (psychotherapist) turns to a supervisor for support, but leaves him in much more uncertainty and anxiety than he came. A supervisor is not only an expert who knows more and has more experience, not only the one who instructs and gives advice on how to do it right, not the one who evaluates, but also the one who subtly feels the specialist who turns to him , understands his needs, focuses on his request and what professional stage the specialist is at and gives developmental feedback, rather than destructive or only exalting. A supervisor is not the one who occupies an all-knowing position from above, but the one who is nearby and accompanies of your supervisor in the process of finding the optimal solution and expanding your professional vision. Yes, the supervisor can advise, suggest algorithms, explain subtle nuances, share his experience, but only when it is necessary for the psychologist who asked for help, when he talks about it, setting a goal for this specific supervision. The psychologist can generally say that he has come for support and at this meeting all that is important to him is the reflection of his professional competence and together with the supervisor they will look for the support that the supervisor already has. Or suddenly in the process of supervision it turns out that the psychologist’s reaction to the fact that occurs in the psychotherapeutic process - this is his subjective countertransference. So what should a supervisor do? Recommend working with these reactions in personal psychotherapy? What if through this countertransference, although subjective, we can understand something even more about the client and what is happening in working with him? The supervisor can perform certain psychotherapeutic functions or, as many authors call this important supervisory role, the role of a facilitator. There is another important role for the supervisor - the role of a consultant, when there is a joint exploration of what the supervisor came with, when they reflect and discuss together possible hypotheses and suitable interventions. The psychologist, thanks to the fact that he can place his thoughts and feelings, and sometimes even metaphors and images of the psychotherapeutic or consulting process in a space specially organized for this, begins to better understand what is happening with his client and what options for the direction of work can be effective in this case. A supervisor is also a witness to the professional growth of his supervisee, especially when their interaction is long-term, and the supervisor can see and give feedback on how a specialist develops, help overcome professional crises, observe how an individual psychotherapeutic style is formed, focusing on the characteristics the work of a specialist, reflecting his strengths and points of immediate development. You can and should share with your supervisor not only your difficulties, but also your achievements and victories. And if the supervisor creatively combines several roles at once, takes into account both the current needs of his supervisor and what problems he solves in the process of his professional path, believes in him and knows how to give developmental feedback, then the specialist after supervision will feel more confident , the desire to continue to develop professionally and inspiration in your difficult, but so important and interesting work.