Conversations from the therapy room: Recent Episodes
Shade Babalola
The work with Bisi continues and the memories from last session keep flooding back into the work.
Bisi continues to narrate her experience and talks about her relationship with her mother.
Bisi is Fola's new client. She unravels secrets that have been hidden for many years in the counselling room.
Francesca returns back to therapy there has been a long break as she recovers from a breakdown.
Francesca returns to the therapy room and continues to explore her experience in the therapy room.
Francesca speaks to her therapist about her experience in Libya. She explores her despair in the therapy room.
Francesca begins to narrate her story. Orphaned and trafficked to Libya at the age of 10.
Fola receives a telephone call from a new client in the middle of a storm. Her name is Francesca and she has been trafficked.
Lara narrates her mothers historical past to Fola. She speaks about the tragic poverty that engulfed the family.
Lara continues to discuss her relationship with Tunji her former lover with Fola her therapist. She discloses to Fola that she was introduced to Tunji when she was only 14 years old.
Lara seeks therapy. She tells her therapist that she has a deep void inside of her and that it refuses to go away.
Shola discusses her brokenness in the counselling space and Fola tries to get to the bottom of Afolarin's death.
Fola tries to get to the bottom of what Shola meant by having a hand in Afolarin's death.
Fola has another session with Shola. Fola is apprehensive about the session but wants to get to the bottom of what happened the last time they met.
Shola returns to her session with Fola and begins to open up about her life with Afolarin. Fola realises that Afolarin her former client is dead.
Rolake summarises her learning from the sessions. She begins to take ownership of her personal validation.
Rolake begins to develop a better understanding of her need to be married. She begins to piece together the jigsaw of her life.
Rolake talks about her fourth husband and discusses the pain and depression she struggled to overcome after Chika's death.
Rolake admits to her therapist that she is seeking the approval of both of her parents.
Rolake tells the therapist about her cleansing by the river. The theme of shame is explored during the session.
Afolarin ends his sessions. He reveals his reason for attending therapy to his therapist.
Afolarin's therapist continues to find the work with Afolarin difficult. The challenge continues to in the therapeutic space.
The challenge continues in the therapeutic space and Afolarin tells his therapist that his wife has asked him for a divorce.
Afolarin returns to therapy and faces the wrath of his therapist. She struggles to be congruent with him.
The therapist feels overwhelmed from all that she has heard from Afolarin in the therapeutic space.
Afolarin wants his wife to submit to him. His therapist struggles to understand her client. The session is filled with tension.
A new client visits the therapy space. He wants his wife to submit to him. The therapist endeavours to explore the meaning of the word submission in marriage with her new client.
Rita is beginning to realise that her husband may not return. She spots both her husband and mistress in a coffee shot. She slowly begins to realise that the relationship is over.
Rita speaks to her therapist about the struggles in her marriage. She begins to come to terms with her husband leaving her for a younger woman.
This episode follows the fictional tale of Rita who explores in therapy the breakdown of her marriage.
Tales from the therapy room. Rita is a client desperate to win back her husband who has left her for a younger woman.