052 – Self-Care in Skills Practice – Topdog and Underdog in Gestalt Therapy
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In episode 52 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken and Rory discuss how to look after yourself in skills practice. 'Theory with Rory' looks at the concepts of topdog and underdog in gestalt therapy. Last, the presenters debate whether (either younger or older) age is a barrier for counsellors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy. |
| 0:10.6 | Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 52 of the counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks. |
| 0:23.0 | And with me is my fellow traveller in the phenomenal logical field as it's experienced, Mr Ken Kelly. |
| 0:30.4 | How are you, Ken? |
| 0:31.1 | I'm okay, Rory. |
| 0:32.1 | And I'm going to be honest. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm going to be congruent in that I'm feeling slightly less energetic today than normally. I've been pulling |
| 0:38.6 | 14 to 16 hour days and I'm noticing it taking a toll. It's probably about nine in a row now. |
| 0:45.3 | So I am here and I am eager, but maybe less bubbly than normal. Yes, yes. And that's okay, |
| 0:52.4 | isn't it, Ken? We don't have to be bubbly all the time. I'm reminded of what Roger's said. I don't have to be consistent. I just have to be myself. Oh, I do like that. And being myself today, I am excited as I normally am for the episode today. So episode 52, what can you expect? Well, |
| 1:14.1 | we're going to be speaking about role play, but we're going to be having a look at an important |
| 1:18.1 | part of role play, and that is the self-care. So if you're bringing material and your role |
| 1:23.0 | playing in a simulated skill sessions, how do you protect yourself in that? Theory with Rory, a really good one. |
| 1:29.5 | It is top dog, underdog, and we're going to be dipping our toe into Gestalt therapy there, |
| 1:35.3 | Rory. I'm really looking forward to that one. And then ending off with a bit of a debate, |
| 1:39.7 | and we're going to be speaking about the age barrier. and specifically from the point of view of the |
| 1:45.2 | counsellor can we sometimes feel too old if we're working with a younger client can that be |
| 1:50.7 | reversed can we sometimes feel that that we're too young and unexperienced when we have a more |
| 1:55.7 | mature client come in so we're going to be debating that yes it's a packed episode but we're going to be debating that. Yes, it's a packed episode, but we're going to start |
| 2:02.9 | with what we try to do every single week on the podcast is to take a comment that's been put |
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