The Process of Becoming a Supervisor for Students in a Doctoral Supervision Training Course

This qualitative, longitudinal study explored the experiences of 6 counseling psychology doctoral students engaged in an 8-month supervision training course. In-depth, tape-recorded face-to-face interviews were conducted at the beginning, middle, and end of the course to assess how these supervisors-in-training experienced the process of becoming clinical supervisors. Themes that were common to participants were identified through phenomenological data analysis and described for each of the 3 interview sets. The perceived importance of participants' relationships with the supervisees and their senior supervisor throughout the course, as well as the common themes, are discussed in terms of implications for supervisor training.