Working with Angst in Counselling
What do you say to a client whose presenting issue is deep angst over the question of relationship? Whether the person is in a primary relationship and deeply unhappy, questioning whether to stay or to go, or the person longs for that primary relationship in order to feel happy and fulfilled, the issue is a profoundly unsettling one to those caught up in it. How are we, as mental health professionals, to be with clients’ inner conflicts of the partnering kind? What should our clients know when considering whether to enter — or to leave — a relationship? And how can we know if their impulse toward partnering or toward singlehood is healthy or not for them? We entertain the questions of what we might be looking out for with such clients, and which notions/modalities may be ... »
