Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast.

The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.

Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello and welcome to episode 33 of the Counseling Tutor podcast.

I'm with me, as always, is my friend in

the postmodern world, Mr. Ken Kelly. How you doing, Ken? I'm good. I'm good, Rory. It's great to be here.

It's interesting you say postmodern because that's going to tie into something that we'll be

bringing to you in this episode. Episode 33 is a packed episode and we've got some really interesting topics and I think

some current topics as well because we're going to start off by speaking about something that is

currently in the news as we're making this recording and that is about councillors in schools

here in the UK. So we're going to be discussing what that might look like going forward.

Really interesting theory with Rory today. And this is where it ties in. This is where it ties in,

because we're going to be looking at postmodernism in therapy. Now, I believe this is a little bit like Fight Club.

So the first rule of Fight Club is that we don't talk about Fight Club. What's postmodernism, Rory?

What can we expect? Well, I think we can expect a little wonder through a modern philosophy. We start off a little wonder of modern philosophy.

And then we'll be asking some really fundamental questions about what we believe to be true in

terms of therapy. And after that, in a real postmodern world, then people can make their own minds up about it and construct their own realities from it. I'm looking forward to that. And the reason I put in the Fight Club reference for anybody who may have seen the film is because when we were doing the preamble, I said to Rory, what are you going to be telling us about postmodernism? And he says nothing, because that's postmodernism in itself. So there it is. And then we've got a debate. And we're going to be speaking about insurance as a counselor. So what should you expect for an insurance company? What should you be looking for? Because you do have choice out there.

And how your insurer is actually sometimes right there in the therapy room with you.

But we'll come to that towards the end of today's podcast.

So kicking off with something that's in the news at the moment,

Rory and I have just looked over a blog post on a school's website where they kind of bring you the latest and greatest of what's happening on the forefront.

And there is talk about bringing councillors into schools.

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