Counselling works best when you feel safe, and can trust the person you’re talking to enough to tell them about your adult career life. But if you feel the therapist your talking to will judge some of your life decisions, and so you keep large parts of your life ‘secret’, you may find the therapy is not very effective. We often get stuck because we are missing some part of the whole picture.

In certain choices we make, stressful situations can occur that in turn can make us more vulnerable to the forces of shame. These can be very powerful, as we all well know. Getting support to hold yourself can help it not begin to erode your sense of self. And like any stressful life choice/profession, such as sex work, having someone to talk can save us a lot of trouble down the road.