What set you on this journey? How did you find yourself here? Was it ‘a someone’ or ‘a something’ that pointed you to this path?
Do you remember who you first spoke to……. and where you sat? Do you remember who you were in those first few days and months? 
Choosing your spot at the swimming pool, your deepest secret read aloud by a relative stranger. Pizza and laughs hastily distributed over lunch.
Elusive and puzzling concepts such as ‘dropping in’ and ‘coming home’
A candle lit with quiet assurance that what we do is sacred.
You journey on……………
Check in quickly becomes an opportunity to marvel at the depth and breadth of human experience in one small room, The comfort of revealing a little more of yourself each time.
Immersing yourself in Personal therapy, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, group process
Surrendering to bereavement, bereavement, bereavement….
Comrades come and comrades go. By now there are no strangers. There is a knowing in this field.
Group roots, house moves, lifts shared, kettles brought, contacts paired.
All of a sudden you are face to face with your first client, stomach churning, clock ticking, palms sweating.
You carry on with what once seemed impossible, intensive training alongside your client work, personal therapy, assignments, and life.
Body psychotherapy, family systems, abnormal psychology all demand a deep dive into the core of who you are and what you are striving to be. You turn inside out, upside down and right-side round.
This course affects every aspect of your life, forcing you to assess the quality of your own relationships. But it’s a little easier now, you’ve dropped in, and you understand what is necessary to sit before your client.
Then, just like that, you’re the fourth year; graduation is a hair’s breadth away. 10,000 words in bite size pieces, cheerlead and cheerleading as you move gingerly through at your own pace.
You look around and you’ve made it,
but really, you understand; ‘it’ has made you.
