Session two...
Since our first session together, I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about Pat. She had spent most of the session in a state of distress, because her 38-year-old son (her only child) had cut her out of his life. She was feeling devastated – confused, abandoned, and isolated.
All I had been able to offer her was my attention, and a safe, containing space in which she could share her feelings.
But Pat looked happy to see me when she arrived for her next session, and there was a new energy about her. ‘I’m pleased I have found this haven. I had been scared to come to see you because my experience of telling other
