During the six-month supervision period, trainees receive ongoing support as they bring Imago Relationship Therapy into their real work with couples. This is where you practise holding the relational space, facilitating the Imago Dialogue, deepening affective connection, and learning to see the couple through an Imago lens.
The training materials describe this post-module period as a requirement of at least six months of ongoing supervision while preparing the final certification video. The supervision may be completed monthly, either individually or in a group, with your trainer or a certified Imago consultant.
What happens during supervision?
Supervision is a safe, structured learning space. You will be invited to bring recordings of your work, clinical questions, stuck places, and moments where you want support in strengthening your facilitation.
The focus is not on criticism. The Imago supervision process is designed to help you notice what already supports connection, where your growth edge is, and what small shifts will help you become more effective. The process includes noticing your body experience, identifying what you liked in the work, receiving technical suggestions, and working with a growth gift that supports your development as a therapist.
What we are helping you grow
During these six months, the aim is to help you become more confident and grounded in facilitating the Imago Dialogue. You will develop your capacity to:
- Hold the couple safely in the Sender and Receiver roles
- Guide mirroring, validation and empathy
- Move couples from content into deeper affective connection
- Track the relational dynamic rather than taking sides
- Use your own presence in service of the space-between
- Prepare a final video that demonstrates your readiness for certification
The supervision period also gives you time to integrate your own growth gifts and observe how your adaptations may show up in the therapy room. This is part of the Imago journey: we do not only learn a method; we grow ourselves as instruments of connection.
Preparing for certification
The six-month supervision period supports you as you prepare your final certification recording. The final video needs to show your capacity to facilitate an Imago session, guide the Dialogue process, and deepen affective connection between partners.
By the end of this period, you should feel clearer, steadier and more confident in your work with couples. You will have had the opportunity to practise, review, receive feedback, refine your skills, and become more fully part of the Imago learning community.
A continuing relational journey
Supervision is more than a requirement. It is a bridge between training and certification, between knowledge and embodiment, between learning Imago and living from the relational paradigm in the therapy room.
You are not expected to be perfect. You are expected to stay in connection, keep practising, remain open to feedback, and allow the work to shape you.
This is where you begin to become the Imago therapist you are training to be.