On The Brink of Nowhere

<p><strong>'She seems to be destroying me on some level and saving me on another.'</strong></p><p>Ophelia Wynters is on the verge of taking her own life. She has only recently started seeing a new therapist - one who seems calm wise and incredibly available. The therapist persuades Ophelia not to act on her self-destructive impulses and Ophelia starts to invest the therapist's every word and gesture with intensely personal meaning. For a considerable time therapy seems to be working - but then it slowly unravels.</p><p>Wynters' story delivers a nuanced revelatory<em> </em>and gut-wrenching account of being a client in therapy over the period of four years. Focusing heavily on the connection with her therapist Wynters reveals her own vulnerabilities with a raw honesty that lays bare her most painful and terrifying thoughts and feelings. Every minute of every day becomes a struggle for Ophelia fluctuating between feeling loved and hated safe and unsafe powerful and powerless. </p><p>Holding a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and a Master of Social Work degree Wynters draws on an earlier time in her life when she was both receiving therapy and starting her own career in the industry.</p><p>Her story highlights the significant power dynamic both real and perceived inherent in the therapist-client relationship and serves as a powerful warning for both clients and practitioners about the potential consequences when a therapist loses sight of professional boundaries.</p>