"She told so many different versions of things it was hard to know what to believe," the counsellor wrote in her last report.
"Congratulations for being complete pretentious snobs!" Erin Johnston, who identified as both a parent of a bullied child and a counsellor, wrote that Anderson's advice was "way off": "There is a vast difference between teaching resilience and victim blaming and your message crossed the line".
So, I freelance as a writer of websites, a copy editor of books and blogs, I am a counsellor, writing mentor, writing therapist and workshop facilitator.
Colette Gallard, a family-planning counsellor, writes that when FGM was first encountered in France, the reaction was that Westerners ought not to intervene, and it took the deaths of two girls in 1982, one of them three months old, for that attitude to change.
This one and this one… The counsellor will write all the names down to form a group" – CAG member during FGD with members from semi-urban areas.
"It reads like the letter of a jilted lover," Misha Angrist, a former genetic counsellor who writes about personal genomics and teaches at Duke University, said.
Altman served as a counsellor, he wrote letters for the villagers, he sent messages, he read letters for those villagers who couldn't read, whispering the words for the sake of privacy.
Creative endeavours run in her family; her younger brother is an artist who makes body-builders out of bubble wrap; her mum went to art school when she was in her 50s and her dad is a drug and alcohol counsellor but wrote Bird poems every year for Christmas.
In the early years, I couldn't speak at all about what had happened but then a counsellor advised me to write it all down.
"My counsellor told me to write down all my experiences of the secret war and having amassed so many stories of my time in the Det I realised there was a book in this.
