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 the counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee's Oaks.

And with me as always, my fellow traveller in the existential field of life, Mr Ken. Ken, Kelly, how's the field today, Ken? The field of life is exceptional. And I'm enjoying it. I'm loving life at the moment. I enjoy this time a year. It is mid-autum here in the UK. The leaves have turned. The trees are looking a little bearer. There's a nip in the air. And I prefer it. I really struggled mid-summer when we had the heat waves. So extestentially, I am in a good place. How about yourself, Rory? Oh, yes. Yes. Well, my existential self is very well. Thank you. And as always, we're living in the hearing now. We've got some

great topics haven't we come today? We have. Indeed, we have. Episode 89, what can you expect

counselling tutor podcast? We're going to start by speaking about direct questions from

clients. As when a client might ask you in your placement or as a counselorsellor a question about yourself and about your life.

How do you deal with that?

Then in practice matters.

That's going to be a good one today.

How research informs practice.

I know Rory has done so much research into how research informs practice.

So you can expect something good from that.

Can you kind of give us a little taste to Rory? Yes, I think that it's the idea that we're all perpetual students in the world of cancer and psychotherapy. There's a lot of research,

and that research influences how we work and how we interact with our clients.

And that's why as therapists, we need to be aware of certainly milestones in research, which

I'll be discussing. And of course, I know Rory has been working on a super-duber handout.

So we'll tell you more about that and where you can get that after, when we get to practice matters.

But closing episode 89, we're going to be looking at agency policy, understanding your agency policy.

And this is so, so important when you go into placement, the policies, the procedures of your agency,

understanding that, understanding how that balances off against

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