ABSTRACT
Most of the work as an educational therapist (ET) occurs while sitting at a table with a client. The table might be located in a home office, a school, or a clinic where there are tables, chairs, paper, notebooks, colored markers, pens, pencils, and all the paraphernalia usually found in a classroom. Most clients are glad to find some security on their side of the table. Johnson and Blasco reported that children begin developing their language and social skills around the table. The clinical setting of The Table offers a similar opportunity by being not only a place to sit with materials that symbolize a pending task, but also a place to talk about the work that like a vapor may loom heavily over a client. Like fingerprints and palm prints, the impact of a compromised ego manifests itself in the unique profiles that unfold before us in our table-and-chair setting.
