099 – How to Dress as a Counsellor
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In episode 99 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes discuss the thorny issue of whether it's possible to become friends with a former client. In 'Practice Matters', Rory explores his experience of appropriate attire as a counsellor, and – without telling listeners how to dress – asks listeners to consider how what you wear might affect the therapeutic relationship. Last, the presenters talk about possible progression routes after level 3.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the counselling 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. |
| 0:15.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 99. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Rory and what have we got on the menu today, Ken? |
| 0:22.2 | Such an exciting episode today. It really is. And a special number, 9-999. What have we got? |
| 0:29.4 | Well, we're going to be kicking off with speaking about friendships. Now, friendships with clients that we may have seen in therapy. |
| 0:38.4 | After therapy maybe is finished, are we okay having those friendships? |
| 0:43.2 | Is it ethically correct to do that? |
| 0:45.6 | So we're going to be talking about that a bit. |
| 0:47.2 | Then in practice matters, an interesting one today, |
| 0:50.3 | appropriate dress for a counsellor Rory. |
| 0:54.0 | What can we expect from that? Well, yes, |
| 0:56.3 | I'm going to be exploring dress. I'm going to be speaking a little bit about my own experience |
| 1:01.7 | of dress and just asking people to think about, I'm not going to be telling people how to dress, |
| 1:08.1 | that would be completely wrong, But to think about what is |
| 1:10.9 | appropriate dress for a counsellor. It's an interesting topic and one that's come up in our |
| 1:16.1 | Facebook page. And if you don't know what our Facebook pages, if you're new to the podcast, |
| 1:20.9 | if you go to Facebook, type in Counseling Tutor with 2Ls, you'll find our group. It's a closed |
| 1:26.7 | group. Knock on the door, and you'll |
| 1:28.6 | come in and you'll meet 22,000 like-minded people. There's tutors, there's qualified practitioners, |
| 1:35.8 | there's a whole host of students going through the training, and it's a really vibrant group. |
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