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 a counselling tutor podcast with me, Rory Lee-Zo.

And with me, as always, in the world of practice and ethics, is my good friend and fellow

traveller, Ken Kelly.

How are you, Ken?

I am very well, exceptionally well today, Rory.

And as I come to you today, you may hear the pitter-patter of little raindrops on the roof of my studio. We're being bombarded as we make this recording by the first named storm, winter storm to hit the UK. And it's making a noise. So if you hear, that's what it is. Yes, raindrops are literally falling on your head, aren't you?

Oh, I like it. I like it. I'm going to burst into song any minute.

This is episode 92 of the counselling tutor podcast.

Today you can expect us to kick off with a discussion about developing your chosen modality.

It's going to be an interesting topic, that one.

And then going into practice matters, which is a specialist section that Rory is going to lead,

going to be speaking about free speech in the therapy room, Rory.

Tell me more.

Yes, well, I'm going to be arguing strongly a point that was driven home to me when I was a student.

The therapists are not agents of social control. In other words,

we're not there to police clients' opinions or thoughts. We're there to hear what they have to say.

We may not agree with what they have to say, but I think to paraphrase Evelyn Beatrice Hall,

you know, we should defend the right for them to say what they want and we can

explore that with them. It's all about exploring frames of references and we shouldn't audit

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