Moving office

An unexpected change in the new year: I have to move to a different office. My immediate reaction of reluctance and anxiety was very quickly replaced by a sense of excitement and new beginnings. I will still be based in the centre of Liverpool, not far from where I have been based for the past few years.

Let's see what I can make of this.

I have three supervisors: one for my counselling work and one for my supervision work. But the most important one is the other version of me who sits somewhere off in the upper, left-hand corner of the room and observes my work, keeping an eye on what's going on. He is silent and compassionate; he is interested yet objective. He cares for me and also for my clients. He wants me to be the best I can for them - with them. While I am trying to empathise as much as I can with each client, attempting to understand their experiences as they are experiencing them, engaging with them at an appropriately deep level and partnering them in the 'therapeutic dance', he keeps himself separate and watches over both of us. I can check in with him during sessions as well as at the end, to get a perspective on what has been happening.