When I terminated the client whom was the first long-term
client of mine, I wanted to express my sincerest gratitude to her from the bottom
of my heart.
She did not know that at the beginning how much I was
struggling in scheduling and how nervous I was to see my clients. She came on
time every time and said “thank you” to me at the end of every session. I guess
she believed in my professionalism even before my colleagues began to believe
me.
The reciprocal trust between me and her was the thing
that I held firmly in hand and kept me going at the very beginning of my counselling practice. I was very vulnerable
as a counsellor with inadequate self-confidence. It was this client that let me climb up to the
stage where I re-assured that I can be fully qualified as a counsellor.
She and I worked together going through maybe the darkest
period of her life. The counselling commitment took her to realize that the
world is not all bad, and there are always hopes; it took me to know more about
myself as a counsellor.
When we terminated, our shared journey also ended. However,
I will remember this journey, where we relied on each other and fought against
odds in her life-----she became a much more mature herself, and I became a much more mature
counsellor.
She is her own heroine. I wish her a good life.
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