Directional Presence in the Therapeutic Encounter

“In my work as a therapist I have begun to discover something more in the presence of being in the therapeutic encounter which if attended to even in the smallest of ways, movement towards healing can be experienced. It is as if there is some kind of guidance towards the direction for potential growth which can be experienced as a presence of there being something more.
I may be called a counsellor and the other person a client, yet I believe that ultimately in this relationship, we are not separate in our fullest universal expression of being, and that there is what I have termed a ' directional presence ' towards us both functioning more fully in each moment of encounter.
And it is by receiving this directional presence, that there is a deeper therapeutic contact between helper and receiver of help which joins us momentarily in the mystery of life.”
‘On Becoming More in the Therapeutic Relationship: An exploration of
Directional Presence’. Mike Moss (2017). COSCA Counselling in Scotland Journal, Spring 2017 (pp14-16).

Mike Moss was trained as a Youth & Community worker and has worked in voluntary and statutory roles with children and young people and their families for 40 years. He is now a registered psychotherapist and clinical supervisor and has had many articles published on the power and mystery of the therapeutic relationship. He has also presented his work at various workshops, national and international conferences. Mike lives in Edinburgh and has a small private practice offering counselling, supervision and training and works part time as a school counsellor. He can be contacted at mike.moss@outlook.com.
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