Exposed

I went to get a bikini wax today.  I was lying there half naked with my legs spread out, thinking how I could never do that job.  It's so intimate and takes such a certain person to put someone at ease in such a vulnerable position, even if you've never met before.  Then I started thinking about how that is so similar to my job as a counselor.  I figuratively ask people to sit there "naked" and open themselves up in such a vulnerable way.  I invite them to share their most intimate details of themselves with me from almost the beginning of our therapeutic relationship.  I strive to put them at ease even in their most exposed and helpless times.  I bet that esthetician thought to herself, man, I could never be a counselor...