Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus)
Counselors’ self-awareness has been linked to effective counseling and psychotherapy. Counselors’ self-awareness encompasses unresolved conflicts, family dynamics, cultural biases, worldviews, beliefs, and self-perception. Clinical supervision as part of continuing professional development is one area of training where counselors’ self-awareness typically receives more explicit attention. Conducted in Türkiye, this study examined the role of supervision in novice counselors’ self-awareness. For this purpose, 11 novice supervisees participated in semi-structured interviews as part of this phenomenological study. The results indicated that novice supervisees gained greater awareness of their counseling competencies, emotional responses toward clients, and their present circumstances. Supervisor behaviors, supervision techniques, and supervision methods were identified as key factors facilitating this awareness. The supervisor played a catalytic role in helping counselors uncover inner processes. The findings provided a framework for understanding how supervisors support the developmental progression of novice supervisees to the next developmental level.