This digest focuses on issues of parallel process in supervision. The concept of parallel process has its origin in the psychoanalytic concepts of transference, when the counselor recreates the presenting problem and emotions of the therapeutic relationship within the supervisory relationship, and countertransference, when the supervisor responds to the counselor in the same manner that the counselor responds to the client. Parallel process, then, is defined as that which occurs when the supervisory interaction replays, or is parallel with, the counseling interaction. Types of parallel process are identified and ways for the supervisor to respond to parallel process are discussed. Suggestions also are given for when supervisors should respond to parallel process. The digest concludes that the supervisor should always be aware of how the therapeutic relationship and client issues are presented by the counselor in the supervisory session, and that if the parallel process is not worked through in supervision, both the supervisory and therapeutic relationships will suffer. Contains 8 references. (NB)