ABSTRACT
Amale counsellor had a first session with a new female client. He was alone arid working from home in the evening. He went to the front door to greet her and guided her through the hallway to the counselling room. Before sitting down, she held out her hand to him and offered him something. He was surprised, but assumed she was keen to pay and was offering the session fee they had agreed over the telephone. In fact, what she was handing the man was his house keys which she had picked up on the way through the hallway. She looked at him rather sternly and said: "If you are going to invite strangers into your house, don't leave any keys on the sideboard by the front door!" He discovered during that session that she worked as a professional escort and had a lot of knowledge about, and experience of, how to keep safe when working with strangers at home.
