The Longest Journey addresses the main issues that generally prompt people to seek counselling, such as anxiety, depression and addiction. Usually they have struggled with their difficulties for a long time before looking for some form of help. Who wants to admit they are not coping and that they need to pay someone to help them?
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It is the story of 35 people who sought counselling with me – men and women, from teenagers to seventy year olds, who were brave enough to face their demons.
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The book explores the struggle these brave men and women went through to take control over their lives – to change the path they were on for a healthier way of living. It is their demons that are explored in counselling sessions.
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What surprised me when I first began as a counsellor was that underneath the presenting issue – anxiety, depression, loneliness and fear, is the effect of treatment received in childhood from parents, grandparents, teachers and carers.
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These 35 people could be anyone – your siblings, your friends, your colleagues, even you yourself. Because the problems that brought them to counselling are common to many of us.