ABSTRACT
Most of the literature on the nature and function of boundaries in the counselling relationship has focused upon the classical situation of the client who visits a counsellor in private practice and who pays a fee for the counsellor’s services. The frame of the counselling relationship becomes much more complex, of course, once the counsellor enters organisational context of primary care. In this chapter, the author endeavours to create the conditions for a safe and holding dance, but one where there is sufficient flexibility to meet the needs of the setting, including those that are required by the Mental Health Service. He intends to give one further example, where the dance of firmness and flexibility around boundaries of the counselling relationship varied at different points during the work with the same client.
