This month here is an excerpt from an article I recently published in Therapy Today about my experience of working with elderly clients and how rewarding it is. Why do so few people consider working with the elderly? Why do so few elderly people consider counselling? For me it has profoundly affected me and helped me grow personally and professionally. "Tom* was one of the first clients I worked with during my training – a 95-year-old man who was referred to me by a nurse in