Welcome to the counselling 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 Ken. How are you doing, Ken?

I am exceptionally well, Rory, delighted to be here. You. How are you doing, Ken? I am exceptionally well Rory.

Delighted to be here. You have tuned in and are listening to the Counseling Tutor podcast and this is

episode 112 and what a show we have planned for you today. We're going to be starting off by

speaking about meeting a client for the first time. You've got a new client presenting

for therapy. What do you say? What do you do? Do you shake their hand meeting a client for the first time?

We then move from that into practice matters where Rory, you're going to be speaking about a subject that

nobody wants to look at or think about, and that is what happens when a client dies.

Yes, I'm going to be talking about those very, very sad occasions when, you know, you get a phone

call or maybe someone says to him, I'm afraid that, you know, we've heard information that your

clients died, and what the procedure may be, and also other avenues that you may have to investigate and

walk down in terms of things like the coroner's court making statements. So I'm just going to give

an overview of that. So as I always say, we hope for the best, but we do plan for the worst.

Yeah, not a happy topic to, but these are the kind of topics that so often were faced with them only when this happens.

And counselling tutor is about bringing up the topics that we should be thinking about in advance and planning for that, as you say, Rory.

And then we're going to be ending episode 112 with becoming more employable as a counsellor.

So that is really lightening things up.

That's a positive note to end our program on, becoming more employable as a counsellor. So that is really lightening things up. That's a positive note

to end our programme on becoming more employable as a counsellor. There's lots you can do there and

we're going to be talking about that. But kicking us off, we're going to be speaking about

meeting a client for the very first time, Rory. Yes. What is the etiquette? How does that work? And there's a few things that

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