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This is a qualitative study of the supervision processes of two trainee clinical psychologists who conduct their first intensive psychodynamic therapy. The study questions whether the trainees’ degree of disclosure of feelings toward their supervisors to the supervisor was influenced by the evoked relational scenarios in them. The trainees had one patient each, two sessions a week for ten months, with supervision weekly. The study includes three process interviews with the trainees during the supervision, and a fourth, follow-up interview one year later. Additionally, an independent evaluation of their therapist competence is included, based on the fifth last therapy session. The two supervision processes are first presented separately. Hypotheses of relational scenarios evoked in the trainees toward their supervisors are inferred. It is concluded that these relational scenarios may have influenced the degree of these trainees’ disclosure of negative feelings toward their supervisors. Supervisors are recommended to be particularly sensitive to which relational scenarios may be evoked in novice trainees in the supervision relationship.