TILT – Therapeutic Innovations in Light of Technology
the priority as being how to address the client's difficulties in regularly attending sessions. She tells Lisa what she has done already in this area (approach). l In the space, Adele decides to 'become' the client and asks Lisa to be her - addressing the issue with her-as-client. Adele experiences huge ambivalence towards Lisa as counsellor, and they explore what might be happening both in the 'here and now' and also in the 'there and then'. m This has helped Adele to have a greater understanding of what might be going on for her client (client perspective) and some sense of how she might take this forward (goals and action).
n As they come towards the end of the session, Lisa feeds back to Adele that she has noticed she is gaining confidence in experimenting online, and Adele agrees that she now feels able to risk trying things out. They are both quiet, not typing for a few moments, reflecting on the session (grounding) and then, as always, they look at what’s been useful and what they might have done differently in the session (evaluation). Adele tells Lisa that as part of her appraisal in the agency where she works online, there has been a suggestion that supervisors should be asked for a report (assessment) and suggests they spend some time in the next session discussing this (re-contracting). After
checking details of the next session, they end. llllll
In the next issue of TILT, I will be showing how the third stage – the space – has been used extremely effectively in reality. Reference: Page, S., and Woskett, V. (2001) Supervising the Counsellor: a cyclical model, 2nd edition. London Routledge
Anne Stokes is based in Hampshire, UK, and is a well-known online therapist, supervisor and trainer, and Director of online training for counsellors ltd.
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