I’m alone in my office right now and starting a delicious cup of coffee . . . it’s brewing. The smell of the coffee linked back memories of the many clients who were in my office, especially for the first time. Do you remember perhaps coming to the office in fear and anxious because you were facing the loss of your career and even incarceration? You were greeted by an always pleasant and well-mannered Gina who would have offered you a delicious, fresh brewed cup of coffee (always buy the best coffee for clients and myself) and she would remember exactly what you drank every time you came here.
I guess what I remember most is everybody would always tell Gina or my wife, Sylvia, RN that they feel so much more peaceful after seeing me. Some clients would come frequently just for the calming effect. I was always able to talk people into the right resourceful, frame of mind and then we would set about planning to make things better. Sometimes the client’s situation became incredibly better. Sylvia RN was here to remind me that nurses are always right and the Board wrong.
I miss all of you. Everybody was special and every case was unique. I never had the same case twice. My clients come from every country, know politics and history and science ─ epic stories from them. I can’t wait until people are back in the office and they have a really difficult problem to solve. Most professional baseball players can hit singles, but I’m addicted to crushing the long ball over the fence with runners on base. Ok, yes, I’ll take your money for the easy cases too that the guys on T.V. boast about, but it’s all fun.
My clients have problems in their lives that could bring financial and professional ruin if anybody even finds out about the problem. My best cases I can never talk about because you didn’t read about that doctor, nurse, psychotherapist or pharmacist in the newspaper! I wish I could tell you about the closed-door quiet stuff that nobody knows about but the client and me. New and old come back now.