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Developmental relational counseling (DRC) is an integrative model designed to help people move from inaccurate and unproductive perspectives to perspectives that are more compassionate and realistic (Duffey & Haberstroh, 2014). On one hand, the unproductive and disconnecting perspectives people adopt about themselves and others can be seen as being self-aggrandizing and diminishing of others. On the other hand, people can disconnect from themselves and others when they adopt a self-denigrating perspective, whereby they neglect their own relational power.

Based in RCT and influenced by the enneagram personality typology, cognitive theories, and narrative theories, DRC provides a framework by which people can assess their degree of accurate self- and other-awareness, their connection to a range of perspectives that influence how they see themselves and others, and their appropriate or inappropriate use of power. (Duffey et al., 2020, p. 462)

Using a visual representation (Duffey et al., 2020), counselors work with clients to identify their connections to self-aggrandizing, self-denigrating, or clear and balanced perspectives within the varied contexts of their lives. Because DRC is RCT based, counselors explore relational images, strategies of survival, and how a client’s worldview disconnects them from meaningful relationships and mutuality (Duffey et al., 2020).

Using DRC as a framework, we designed a randomized study (Duffey et al., 2016) to evaluate the effects of supervisors who operated from self-denigrating, self-aggrandizing, and clear and balanced perspectives. Using the Relational Health Indices (Liang et al., 2002) as an outcome measure, clients rated the supervisory relationship as highly ineffective when supervisors acted in a self-aggrandizing or self-denigrating manner. The data demonstrated that counseling supervisees attended to the quality of the supervision relationship and appreciated supervisors who were clear and balanced and who relationally connected with supervisees.