The inspiration for the name of my counselling practice comes from the poem ‘The Elephant in the Room’ by Terry Kettering, an excerpt from which is as follows:
There’s an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting,
so it is hard to get around it.
Yet we squeeze by with,
“How are you?” and, “I’m fine,”
and a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.
We talk about the weather;
we talk about work;
we talk about everything else—
except the elephant in the room.
There’s an elephant in the room.
We all know it is there.
We are thinking about the elephant
as we talk together.
It is constantly on our minds.
For, you see, it is a very big elephant.
It has hurt us all, but we do not talk about
the elephant in the room…
My key objective as your counsellor is to help you explore and make sense of what is going on in your inner world, to put things into words and to find the answers that work for you, so that you are not left alone – in a room – with an elephant.