

Touched
I had a recent experience with a patient who I’d been seeing individually for some months for psychological therapy where we said our goodbyes and she gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek. I was really touched by this relatively simple gesture and it seemed to be particularly significant as we had spent almost a year of therapy sessions sat across from each other with a gulf of space between us. With my therapeutic work with adults (over the past year this has mainly been ol