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What are the defining features of a crisis, and how do these illuminate what an effective therapeutic response might look like? Drawing on his Single-Session Therapy model, Windy Dryden outlines his approach to helping clients in the throes of crisis – including the importance of addressing uncertainty, identifying internal resources, and beginning always with the unique individual.

How can we continue to hold risk when so many clients are in crisis, and when under-resourced support and emergency services appear on the brink of collapse? Jude Boyles, manager of a Refugee Council therapy service, shares the mounting – and perhaps familiar – pressures being experienced by her team, and explores what we can do to contain clients and colleagues in a world where ambulances may never arrive.