086 – Touch in Counselling – Working with Suicidal Clients
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In episode 86 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes look at the difficult issue of touch in counselling. In 'Practice Matters', Rory describes strategies from his experience of working with suicidal clients. The presenters end the episode by talking about the anxiety that can naturally hit us when working in a group setting – and how we can help assuage this.
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and welcome to the counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks. |
| 0:20.7 | And always with me, by my side, across the studio monitor, my good friend and fellow therapist, Mr Ken. Kelly, how you doing, Ken? I am very well. How are you today, Rory? You find me very well, and we've got a cracking episode today, haven't we? We do indeed. Now, I apologize if I sound slightly different to normal, |
| 0:38.5 | I have a bit of a sniffle. It's the change of the seasons here in the UK. I generally pick up a |
| 0:42.8 | sniffle at this time. So if I sound all deep and bassy, that's why. We're going to be kicking |
| 0:47.6 | off episode 86 by speaking about touch in counselling. Really interesting topic. Many different |
| 0:53.8 | opinions on this. Do you touch a client? Is it |
| 0:56.7 | unethical to touch a client? Is it comforting to touch a client? So we're going to be digging into that |
| 1:01.2 | and having a bit of a discussion. Then we're going to be going into a serious area with practice |
| 1:07.4 | matters today because Rory, you're going to be speaking about working with suicidal |
| 1:11.6 | clients. Can you give us like a little flavour of that? Yes, I mean, I think it's one of the things |
| 1:16.6 | that student counsellors are new counsellors coming into practice for the first time, |
| 1:21.4 | get the most anxiety about. And I'm going to be talking about some practical things to think about |
| 1:26.5 | when first starting your placement to help |
| 1:29.8 | kind of ease your mind and give you a strategy should a client kind of say that they're feeling |
| 1:34.9 | that they might want to take their own life very very important topic looking forward to |
| 1:39.1 | that one and we're going to be ending episode 86 today with looking at group work so when you're working in groups does that bring up anxiety for you and we're going to be ending episode 86 today with looking at group work. So when you're working |
| 1:45.4 | in groups, does that bring up anxiety for you? And we're going to be kicking that ball around as well. |
| 1:50.8 | But let's kick off with touch in counselling. What's your thoughts on that, Rory? Well, I've had many |
| 1:57.8 | thoughts through the years on this. If we look at the literature, interestingly |
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