The Contextual Supervision Relationship Model: Genesis, Evolution, Revision, 2015-2025

We consider three questions in this paper: How does psychotherapy supervision work? Why does it work? and What are the critical ingredients that contribute to that process of ‘working’?. In providing answer to those questions, we elaborate upon the Contextual Supervision Relationship Model (CSRM) --- one vision that proposes a coherent trans-theoretical structure by which the supervision relationship evolves and instigates supervisee development. The need for such a trans-theoretical structure is presented, and the CSRM components and connections are described. The development of the model is considered, changes made to the model during the past decade are identified, and some new CSRM revisions circa 2025 are proposed.