Counselling

‘Just ‘tend that I’m the dolphin mum, and I say you can’t swim outside the sandpit.’ ‘Yeah! And just ‘tend, that I go anyway, and I swim out here on the grass.’ ‘Yeah, and just ‘tend, that I get this shark to come and bite you because you won’t stay in the sandpit.’
It’s two weeks before Christmas. The exhaustion that comes along with the end of the calendar and school year is palpable throughout the clinic. I’m baked. The kids are all baked. My next client is an eight-year-old boy with ASD, with whom I’ve conducted over 20 sessions during the year working on emotional and social skills.