Therapy Success with Kim Richardson

I've just made contact with the new occupant of the room above me. This took a lot of courage, as I was building myself up to confronting the worst - ie someone who would be oblivious to my concerns and inflexible about any arrangements. It has been very salutary to me to find myself 'catastrophising' at times - imagining the worst - then feeling the anxiety that inevitably attends that state of mind. I guide my clients through this kind of mental morass, pointing out the thinking errors and wondering how they can think more realistically and effectively, and yet here I am doing the same thing!

It's good to be reminded of what it's like to be fallible, vulnerable and ineffective at times, isn't it? It breaks down the barrier between 'therapist' and 'client', which is often an artificial barrier anyway.

The long and the short of it is that the occupant upstairs, called Karin, is delightful and fully open to working with the issues. That's the good news. The bad news is that she is a jeweller who uses a hammer a lot in her work, and spends the rest of the time listening to the plays on Radio 4!

To be continued ...

Kim Richardson
the therapists' coach
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