Counsellor · 9 years · In the room and online
Nine years, four of them in an outpatient service where nobody arrived by choice. That taught me not to need people to agree with me in the first month.
I take the evening hour because most of the men I see cannot come at two in the afternoon and will not ask their employer why.
What comes to Dwayne
Taken from the practice list rather than written here, so the two cannot drift apart.
Nights that start at two in the morning and a day spent paying for them.
First session looks atWhen it started, what your nights actually look like hour by hour, and the list of things you have quietly stopped doing.
8–14sessions is usual
Including when it is only at weekends and nobody has said anything.
First session looks atA plain week: what you drank, when, and what was happening in the hour before.
10–16sessions is usual
The eleven o'clock emails, the Sunday dread, the thing you have become at work.
First session looks atYour actual hours for one ordinary week, and what happens in your body on a Sunday evening.
6–10sessions is usual
The others
Five more, with their own waits. You can ask for any of us by name, or leave it to the call.
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Anxiety, panic, sleep, exams and job pressure, first-time clients.
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Assault, accidents, childhood, flashbacks, nightmares.
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Low mood, purpose after retirement, bereavement, loneliness.
2 weeks