Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast.

The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.

Here are your hosts, Rory Lise Oakes and Ken Kelly.

Hi, I'm Rory and with me, as always, is my partner in everything therapeutic.

Ken, how you doing, Ken?

I am exceptionally well. This is episode 102, 102 of the counselling tutor podcast, and it is a great episode that we have today. I've been looking over the topics, Rory, and these are all

heavy hitters, I believe. We're going to be starting off speaking about

how you explain your modality, the modality that you practice to a client, or whether you should,

in fact, explain your modality to a client. That's what we're going to be starting off with.

Then practice matters today, Rory, you're going to be dipping your toe into something that I believe is covered very shallowly when we do our counselling training,

and that is endings in counselling, or as you put it, the art of the ending in counselling.

Yes, I'm going to be talking about how you end a session, and I've just delivered a lecture

in the counselling study resource on the use of structuring counselling skills,

and this is just a little taste, a little song of that lecture.

I'm going to be talking about how to end a counseling skills session.

And there's some of the things that might come up.

And of course, I've got a super duper handout, Ken, to help people.

A bit of a checklist to help people develop that art.

And it is an art of ending a session.

Well, you're going to want to stay tuned for that one.

And we're going to be ending episode 102, asking the question, what do we do when a client

directly looks us in the eyes and asks us, what should I do? Or they ask us

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