ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the loving relationality that is the triune God offers the ideal pattern for a counselling alliance. It suggests that a 'three-dimensional' working alliance involving the counsellor, the counsellee and his or her support person mirrors the loving participation that is the life of the Trinity. Counsellors and therapists from a variety of schools are aware of the value of a support person in effecting change. Counsellors and therapists from a variety of schools of thought are aware of the importance of resource persons who can support the client. The two key underlying and related premises of narrative counselling are that human existence has a storied structure and that all social reality is a human construct. There is in narrative counselling, however, a step beyond this shifting of the encouraging third party from tacit to explicit awareness. The question of the nature of the relationships in the counselling alliance was also addressed.
