by Ruth Coppard | May 22, 2013 | Relationships With Clients
I was talking to a friend who is doing a Counselling Course. They had been working in groups and she remarked that the phrase ‘Are you OK with continuing with this?’ was a really helpful thing to say to a client who was seeming quite tearful and overwhelmed. And then...
by Ruth Coppard | Sep 8, 2011 | Relationships With Clients
I went to the waiting room to fetch my new clients, Chloe and her mum, but instead saw a teenager and what seemed to be her younger sister. There was no one else there so I asked ‘Mrs Ingle?’ and the teenager got up with the about-nine-year-old. Either the two girls...
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 14, 2011 | Relationships With Clients
One of my lovely boys came this morning. He has Tourettes and had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder though he appears to be largely growing out of the latter. I have been seeing him for several years at about two monthly intervals both to help with coping with...
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 7, 2011 | Relationships With Clients
So what happened to the boys? These boys arrived with ghastly memories of vicious unpleasantness at home, a horrendous journey to an unknown destination, bereavement issues, no english and no family or friends. Their shared language was Arabic, but the three boys...
by Ruth Coppard | Jul 5, 2011 | Relationships With Clients
This from five years ago: it came back into my mind as I read today that in Sudan , children are being injured and sometimes slaughtered despite the agreement that the south can secede. Three asylum seeking African boys have been referred. They have been sent here by...
by Ruth Coppard | Jun 30, 2011 | Relationships With Clients
‘Today I was speaking to a colleague who works with young adults. She was talking of a particular client who had very much liked her and had, eventually, copied everything my colleague did. She did as suggested, dressed similarly and wanted to call her boy baby after...
