Healing Through Time: A Growth Guide for Counselors

Everything that happens in the consultation room is a miniature model of relationships. How clients treat me is often how they treat the world; what they expect from me is often what they expect from everyone; what they feel in my silence is often what they repeatedly experience in intimate relationships.

And I am no different. My impatience, my overinvestment, my desire to save or escape: these are the reflections of my hidden wounds in the mirror. As I gaze into the broken minds of others, my own cracks gradually come into focus in the reflected light; as I try to illuminate the dark corners of other people's lives, the meaning of my own existence takes shape in that same light.