Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of

counseling and psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello, I'm Rory. I'm with me as always. Is Ken? How are you, Ken? I am exceptionally well. It is episode

101. If you didn't listen to episode 100, get back there and listen to it because it was a real

corker, but today is packed with value as well. We're going to be starting off speaking about

study life balance. That's an interesting topic. We hear so much about

that one. And then in practice matters, we're heading into an area that I guess a lot of us don't

want to look at Rory. And it's when counseling doesn't help our client. Yes, I'm going to be

talking about the times when counseling doesn't work and there's nothing happening and the kind of

clinical thinking that you might have to employ to be both effortal and help the clients to get

maybe a better outcome. I sense a referral coming on there, Rory. And then we're going to be

ending episode 101 by looking at your own personal development

we often view personal development during our counselling training as a massive positive

because we kind of get to learn and grow as individuals but they can have an effect on our

relationships where those around us are maybe not growing at the same rate that we are growing, and that can cause

difficulties. So we're going to be looking at that one. But opening us up today, study life balance.

You know, when I was looking at this topic, Rory, I was thinking, does it really exist to this study life balance?

Well, it's really interesting. There was a student money survey that was taken in 2017,

and it said that around 67% of the people who responded,

worked and studied at the same time.

And if you think of a counselling course, that is a big ask

because you've got your placement, you've got your supervision,

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