( it's strange, still, to be counselling so many people from so many different worlds. it challenges his approach to mental health and the assumptions he's always held. it's a good thing, even if this wasn't exactly where he'd hoped to be in life by this point.
he hasn't touched the pain au chocolats on the side table masquerading as a coffee table between the two seating options, one leg crossed over the other as he looks over the paper on his clipboard, still mostly empty but for her name. )
So—
( he gives, more or less, the same explanation to every patient: this is a talking based therapy where she can talk about anything she wants. it doesn't have to be related to the reason she decided to come in the first place. if she wants to sit and talk about her favourite snacks for an hour, he's happy to do that. sometimes, he might give her "homework" — exercises he wants her to try and incorporate into her daily life — but that will be talked out as necessary. lastly, everything is confidential, there are enchantments on the windows that obscure people's view in and soundproof the yurt, and nothing will leave these four walls.
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Date: 2021-08-11 08:37 pm (UTC)( it's strange, still, to be counselling so many people from so many different worlds. it challenges his approach to mental health and the assumptions he's always held. it's a good thing, even if this wasn't exactly where he'd hoped to be in life by this point.
he hasn't touched the pain au chocolats on the side table masquerading as a coffee table between the two seating options, one leg crossed over the other as he looks over the paper on his clipboard, still mostly empty but for her name. )
So—
( he gives, more or less, the same explanation to every patient: this is a talking based therapy where she can talk about anything she wants. it doesn't have to be related to the reason she decided to come in the first place. if she wants to sit and talk about her favourite snacks for an hour, he's happy to do that. sometimes, he might give her "homework" — exercises he wants her to try and incorporate into her daily life — but that will be talked out as necessary. lastly, everything is confidential, there are enchantments on the windows that obscure people's view in and soundproof the yurt, and nothing will leave these four walls.
uh.
well. metaphorically speaking. )