ABSTRACT
I began counselling in 1978, well before the days of professionalisation. I worked in a woman-oriented setting and was fortunate to receive excellent supervision from women who were themselves feminists. My understanding of women’s issues has long been located in a conviction that they are society’s issues, women’s and men’s alike. We exist in relation to each other. I am also a sociologist, and I believe that interdisciplinary perspectives are invaluable to the future of counselling. And I am a woman, charged with the responsibility to raise a daughter and a son to the best of my ability in a world which offers them different choices because of their genders. These, then, are the perspectives from which I write.
