Clients‟ experience of counselling within a narrative framework


Construct: desire for containment - freedom


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Construct: desire for containment - freedom 
The validation and affirmation of the client, apparently by the counsellor, suggest that she desires 
containment. If the counsellor can validate who she is (line 3) then perhaps she will be able to 
find and contain herself. The energy of the entry suggests her desire for freedom as she appears 
to take control by finding a different way of looking at things.
 
Week 13. 
Line 1.
Clarity over other Co. 
Line 2.
Tricked / Co. own agenda = my 
Line 3.
feelings of sadness + become „victim‟. 
Line 4.
Felt like role dumped on me. 
Line 5.
Realization „we are all struggling‟ 
Line 6.
I‟m not alone. Others just 
Line 7.
wear better masks / or Ok on 
Line 8.
days I‟m not. OK after all! 
Line 9.
Synchronicity. 
Line 10.
Hope, internal pain, value of achievements. 
Line 11.
Difficulty of change, valuing + internalising. 
There seems to be some understanding gained over what has been happening in the relate 
therapy she is attending with her husband (line 1). She appears to think that she tricked the 
counsellor (line 2) with her own agenda which she equals (line 2) with her feelings of sadness 


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which she seems to use to put herself in the role of victim (line 3). She senses that this role was 
dumped (line 4) on her as if she realizes that this is what the abuser did to her when she was a 
child. There is also the realization that she is not alone (line 6) but that the whole family are 
struggling (line 5) which seems to be continued from the previous entry. Not being alone (line 6) 
feels important as she did not tell about the abuse when it happened so she felt very isolated. She 
appears to feel that the others in the family wear better masks (line 7) than her as if they have 
been able to hide the fact that they were struggling too. Or she seems to wonder if they are just 
alright (line 8) on the days when she does not feel alright (line 8). And this seems to make her 
feel that she is perhaps „OK after all‟ as if this makes some sense to her. Perhaps she is only able 
to feel alright when others do as if she is still not separate from others in her internal world. But 
it is also possible that the family represent different aspects of herself that are just beginning to 
come into awareness at an unconscious level as she writes the journal. She uses the word 
synchronicity (line 9) again as if this feeling of oneness with herself and others is important to 
her. The statements in line ten and eleven seem to be her way of validating what is going on in 
her internal world, as if she is affirming the process of counselling for herself. 

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