Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast.

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

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

Hello, I'm Rory and with me, as always, is Ken.

How are you, Ken?

I am exceptionally well and a warm welcome to episode 105 of the counselling tutor podcast.

We have got a packed episode.

You're going to be glad you joined into this one.

We're going to be kicking off speaking about what defines the therapeutic relationship.

And then we're going into practice matters where Rory,

you're going to be speaking about distractions in the therapy room. Yes, distractions in the

therapy room. This is a question that's come from our Facebook group. If you don't know where

our Facebook group is, type in counselling tutor into Facebook, click return. And what will happen

is you'll find us.

We're a closed group, but if you click on, we'll let you in very quickly.

And you can join 22 and a half thousand other people interested in the world of counsellor and

psychotherapy.

Students, supervisors, tutors, lots of people all talking about counselling and

counselling-related matters.

And one of the questions was asked, how do you handle distractions in the therapy room?

So I've been practising, I think, for about 17 years now.

And I'm going to share some stories of distractions that I've had to work with

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