Takeshi Watanabe

About

The first hour tends to be calmer than people expect. You may arrive expecting to have to prove something or assign blame, and instead we spend most of the time simply working out what has actually happened and what you are dealing with right now. I will ask what you know, what you suspect, and what you have been told, because cheating is rarely a single clean event and the timeline usually matters enormously. I will not ask you to forgive anything, and I will not ask you to make any commitment about what happens next. That is not what a first conversation is for. My first work was in school and university counseling, where I got a lot of practice at being useful to people in the middle of something rather than after it. This is very much a middle-of-something problem. If you are in the thick of it and need somewhere to think, get in touch.