Well, I'm still giving advice of the legal kind (mostly debt management/benefits entitlements) but recently I have been exploring the world of just listening and helping people to resolve their own problems through counselling.

A while ago I decided to go into therapy myself to resolve my feelings of unworth and general depression.  My uncle died and the money he left me gave me the opportunity to do this which i wouldn't have had otherwise.  I was generally unhappy, something I had been for years.  Not depression son crippling I couldn't function, but enough to make some days difficult to get through.

So I did some research and decided to meet up with a psychotherapist called Jenny, who has a bit of a thing about dreams and their significance as well as the general thrust of psychotherapy that we are all products of our upbringing, and imprinted by our parents, sometimes not in a good way.

So we starters this process in September 2012, and since then have met nearly every week for a session.  I think the biggest difference between psychotherapy and person centred counselling (apart from the philosophy) is the couch, it is strangely liberating to lie down and look at the ceiling and talk.  Cause you can't see the therapist, its almost like talking to yourself although they are there listening and sometimes commenting.

Because of these sessions I felt the urge to test out if I could be on the other end of the conversation, be the therapist.  So in September I started a course in counselling skills, that if I stick to it will in three years or so give me the qualifications to do this work.  So the question remains, will i be able to do it?

I'm going to try and document what happens next.