Participant has selective mutism and PDA profile.
Counsellor joins the participant and offers to follow their prompts.
At first the participant does their own thing while the counsellor follows along.
The counsellor is expected to wait for prompts and participant disengages if something goes wrong.
The counsellor stays in the interactive platform and types in chat that they will be here waiting for them when they are ready. Participant returns to session and continues participation in the digital environment.
The counsellor begins to explore the boundaries of the interactive platform in a non challenging approach and over time, the rapport is built.
The participant trusts the counsellor to do what is instructed. Milestone reached recently, with the counsellor offering help with building a garden and was allowed to complete this without instruction, and
further from there was then able to make suggestions that were explored and often adopted by the participant.
The next session, the counsellor was able to suggest what to build and they worked on the next stage together.
