ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about a counselling session provided to Billy. Billy's emotions were still very present and he was still finding it difficult to sleep. He wanted to talk about it. Every night, it was wearing him out. He was not concentrating too well at work either. The counsellor responds to the not knowing, rather than the content. The client does not need an empathic response that reflects what he has disclosed, but to hear his moment of not knowing. In a sense, the client's father is gradually becoming more and more present within the therapeutic relationship. Coming to terms with that future now having to be different is in many ways likely to be the main focus for Billy. He sees something that reminds him of the past, but it is also going to remind him of the future that now cannot be. Loss runs behind and before us.
