Closing a door.

If my client arrives today, it will be her last session.
And mine.

Unless she cancels?

And that means that today is my last day of a job I've done for almost two years.

Not over forever I hope. 

But the money has run out.

We offered - note past tense - 'free at point of service' brief counselling.

Apparently there may be funding to coach and mentor kids facing exam stress. There will be a short course to get us up to speed in how to do this. 

But the idea makes me want to run screaming!

So that leaves me with my private work, and my unpaid placement clients (for the Diploma in Integrative Therapy) only 33 hours of placement left...The next hoop to jump through is accreditation, then try and get a paid therapy job somewhere...

Free at point of use is how therapy should be, with a trained and paid therapist. Most 'Free at point of use' is going to be with an unpaid trainee. 

This is not fair, nor is it good practice - to say 'well, you are being paid in experience'! 

Of course - we could just walk away and try and get paid employment doing something else, after paying for our education, all the assignments we have pulled our hair out to write, all the practice sessions we have done, all the mandatory therapy we have paid for and attended, our supervision too...Anyway!

My client might cancel, in which case!

Next Thursday will be my last day.