The update to the counselling confidentiality post is taking far longer than I thought it would take. It is really hard to put into words the importance of confidentiality, the reasons for it and the rare occasions it needs to be broken. It comes across as rather legal and cold, which is of course not what counselling is all about, so i am taking my time on it.
In the meantime a lovely blog bud of mine JD has helped me come up with a way of summing up how important trust and confidentiality is within the counselling relationship. He also emphasised that once that trust is broken it is hard if not impossible to build up again, but that doesn't mean all counselling relationships will be like that.
'You work hard to build a sandcastle, make it solid, even decorate it, then a wave comes and just washes all that hard work away. You can't build the same sandcastle again but you could build another one'.
Hence the cartoon up there. I hope that at least made some sense?
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