Gestalt Counselling In Action 4e – Clarkson

We then agreed to spend a session exploring whether or not he in fact wanted to open a counselling relationship at that stage of his life. At our initial session together, Gary arrived fifteen minutes early and when asked to wait he strode up and down the passage and looked relieved yet embarrassed when called into my consulting room. He sat in his chair with the lower part of his body sprawled and seemingly relaxed, yet his arms were fairly tightly folded across his chest and his right-hand fingers tapped a subtle tattoo on his left upper arm.

The vividness of these first impressions is characteristic of the naturally heightened awareness which attends beginnings. Many people can recall with exquisite detail beginnings they have experienced, and children are often fascinated by how their parents first met. In the same way the beginning of the counselling relationship is marked by a sensitisation of the counsellor and client to each other on a great many levels. With Gary I was aware of the colours, the quality and the texture of his clothes, including a pair of rather dirty trainers.

I could smell that he was a smoker and that he used aftershave. He appeared to be ‘weighing me up’ in a similar way. My awareness of myself included experiencing a curious attention, a slightly increased heartbeat, and I was peripherally aware of the sound of April rain falling on the roof. I spoke aloud some of my awareness of Gary, myself and our environment as a means of demonstrating the awareness continuum. I invited him to speak out his awarenesses, whether they were intellectual, fantasy, visual, auditory, olfactory or whatever else.

As he was doing this he became aware of wanting to force or seduce me into giving him ‘an answer’ to his current problem, but at the same time not wanting to trust or believe that anything that I had to say could really be of help to him. Near the end of that first session Gary became aware of the sense of relief that accompanied his sharing with ‘someone who needs no reciprocal care-taking’ and he contracted to continue counselling on a weekly basis.

During many of those initial sessions Gary would want to spend considerable time relating his past experiences to me.

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