Affi rmative supervision is an important aspect in all supervisory relationships that encompasses the broad spectrum of individual and cultural diversities and should be present in all interactions with a supervisee; however, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) persons, that may not always be the case.Historically those approaches to psychology and therapeutic practice that have pathologised homosexuality have brought the same constrictions to supervision. In supervision literature homosexuality and bisexuality appeared only as evidence of the client's pathology and were treated as such. In most cases there was no question of the supervisor being lesbian, gay or bisexual because these were barred from training in many training institutions (O'Connor & Ryan 1993;Ellis 1994), and even if they did train they found diffi culty in advancement. (Pett, 2000, p. 54) Affi rmative supervision is an atheoretical framework that is intended to augment and to be used consistently with the supervisor's existing AFFIRMATIVE CLINICAL SUPERVISION