Jane, Me and Myself

My name is Debbie and I am a psychotherapist.
I absolutely love my work, I love the diverse people that I get to meet and I love to observe the emotional growth that I see with my clients.
I enjoy supporting my clients to reach their long term goals; it is an uplifting experience when I see their stuckness unravel or when that light bulb experience brightly lights up the therapy room.
I love that I learn as much from my clients as they learn from me and it gives me a sense of satisfaction when each client that I work with helps me to grow, not only as a professional but as a person too.
The story that I am about to tell you is concerning three of my clients whom during our sometimes dramatic time together tested my professionalism and my strength, questioned my ethics and weathered my own emotions but at the same time brought me great joy.
It is a heartbreaking story that will shock you to the core, it will command you to examine the complexity of the mind, it will test your strength to its limits, and it will pull on your heart strings maybe leaving you in floods of tears.
It is a heart warming story that examines human emotions and the capacity of pain in which one human being is able to endure.
All three of my charming but intricate clients accessed my services at around the same time.
It was in May 2010, just when spring was ready to encounter summer and for me the best time of the year.
It is the time when the daffodils are out in bloom providing a ray of colour in the once bleak gardens, and the summer flowers are just beginning to peep their heads through the damp soil, it is when the smell of fresh air ventilates the house, and energises people into new beginnings.
I have worked tirelessly with these clients for just over three years, through twelve spectacular changes of the seasons.
A good many long hours were spent building up relationships with Jack, Jane and Jasmine whom all predictably had trust issues and these needed to be worked through before the fundamental work could begin.
It was a difficult and painful passage of time, where we shared tears of sadness and tears of joy and we faced many challenges as the seasons continued to transform and unfold.
It was a time of painful endings and a time of apprehensive new beginnings, for all of us.
They were however, a privilege to work with and it is an honour to be able to share their extraordinary story with you.