Standing Still to move

Do clients move on when staying still?

I was working with some one today and talking about movement of the client within counselling. As I believe that sometimes the client moves forward when they say still. Think I need to explain what I am on about. I will do my best here goes.

I guess I am thinking about focusing on feeling. To me focusing is about staying still (in that moment) with that feeling and in this moment of stillness the client learns about themselves which in turn moves them on in self.

Its been a long day...lol

Bullying

I have been looking at a couple of websites today and found this web site. http://www.bullying.co.uk/ Its worth a look.

It would be great to add it to you site so people can link to if they come across your site looking for help.

I didnt suffer at all from bulling as a kid or adult but it is not always kids that get bullied. I work as a counsellor with young adults that have suffered bulling in early life and it still happens to them in thier work place.

I am now going to make a comment which maybe a bit difficult to hear for someone who has been bullied and keeps getting bulliede in later life. " what part do they play in allowing themselves to be bullied?" I have used this with many clients and they get a chance to look at themselves rather than blaming the bully for the way they feel.

Management v Counselling

I have a few thoughts about Counselling and I am not sure how to write them down so I am going to list them straight off the top of my head.

• Does business and money making, get in the way of a good counselling practise?
• Can management get in the way of a good counselling service?

I'm not sure what I am trying to achieve with this post or really what I'm trying to say. There is something about the powers to be (management) and what is best for the client and not them. Some time business comes before the client.

I hope this is clear, if anyone has any idea about what the hell I'm on about can you let me know thanks.

Work load

Right! I'm back into the thick of things at work. The counselling service is a busy as hell, its that time of year for us.

We have a large waiting list and a manager that would like it to be zero! I am a great believer that we need a waiting list to value the service and to show the higher management that we are worthy.

Anyway moving on from service issues and there are a few! I am going to offer on line supervision. This would involve Messenger or second life or even a web cam could be used. I have been using all these mediums for many years with family and friends so why not clients. The Internet as far as I am concerned has a big part to play in the Counselling and supervision world and I want to be involved in it.

So I am now going to make in roads to setting up on line supervision, if you would be interested in having online supervision email me covecounselling@ntlworld.com If you have any comments or any thoughts about online supervision please feel free to leave them.

Back to work

I am going back to work on Monday, back to clients and meetings and project work. I will return to a light work load for the first week back then full tilt the following week. Which means 16 client hours and supervising 4 supervises all this in 4 days work.

I am hoping that my blog will become more interesting when I get back to work as I will be in the deep end of the therapy world yet again.

My biggest interest in counselling is supervision I think in past blogs I have said that I am writing a book on supervision which I am in the middle of now its been on hold for a bit but now I am going to pick it up again. So watch this space!

Please feel free to leave comments.

The Unknow is now know.

Well I now know that I don't have cancer! what a couple of weeks waiting to find out tho. Not sleeping, no energy and feeling low and of course NOT working with clients..I have not been fit to practise over the last couple of weeks.

Its have been hard over the past couple of weeks to stay positive.

I work with clients and I know a lot of techniques and copying strategies to help them, it took all my effort to work them for me.

I always try to take the positive out of very thing I can but I was finding it hard to get any positives from this. The only positive was the experience of it all and maybe having a better understanding of clients in their own unknowness! how lost I felt how much a dream it felt. I know my experience will be different from the people I see but I have had a similar experience.

All in all its a chapter to close now, I still have to have a couple of more scans to to confirm findings as these are just run of the mill tests.

So back to work for me on Monday starting of slowly and then picking up to full client load next week.

Log kept

I have kept along of the experience of whats happening to me right now, which I will post on here. The blog is not the right place to do this right now.

The Unknown.

Just thought I would add this short blog. I will be blogging about the unknown real soon. I'm in the middle of a medical unknown right now that's why I have not been blogging much.

I will know about the unknown this coming Thursday and will blog about the experience and its effect on me and my work which is very important to me.

Counselling from Counselling.

What do we get from counselling clients? I guess you have been asked that question before? I answer it different everytime I am asked it, must be how Im feeling at the time of the question. And how many counsellor answer it honestly?

I always question myself about why I am a Counsellor.