One of the outcomes from our relationship counselling was that our conusellor thought that it would be worthwhile for me to have some individual counselling sessions. To this end, she managed to book me in with one of the other counsellors there.
In my first session with this counsellor, we went through a bit of a get-to-know you process. I admitted to not beig sure how individual sessions might help me, and noted that I had felt a little like the focus had been too much on me, but also commented that I was open to these individual sessions.
One of the key things that I need to think about in relation to these sessions is what I want to achieve through them - this is something that I hadn't really considered before going to this session (as perhaps I was too fixated, privately at least, on wondering why the focus had been so much on me).
The counsellor was someone who, like our couples' counsellor, I was comfortable talking with. She was also at pains to note that they didn't share otes or files between our two sessions.
One thing that she felt particularly moved by was from my emails to the other counsellor (which I said could be shared) about the sense of abandonment that I must have felt - both as a baby (the story of my parents noting that I stopped crying as they approached) and as a twelve year old (family moving overseas and intending to leave me behind).
We agreed that we'd have another couple of sessions and then assess where we were going.
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