113 – Therapeutic Use of Self
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In episode 113 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes start by talking about the neuroscience underlying empathy in humans and animals. In 'Practice Matters', Rory explores the therapeutic use of self in counselling. Last but most certainly not least, Ken announces the publication of Rory's new book, Counselling Theory in Practice: A Student Guide (Nielsens UK, 2019), and asks Rory to tell us more about his motivations for writing this and what readers can expect to find there.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast, 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. |
| 0:15.7 | Hi, I'm Rory and with me, as always, is Ken. How are you doing, Ken? |
| 0:19.8 | Exceptionally well, Rory, I'm going to be honest and open. This is our third take at starting |
| 0:24.7 | this podcast, and I'm wondering if it's because it is episode 100, Rory, wait for it, |
| 0:29.7 | 113, lucky for some. But it is lucky for us all because it's a phenomenal episode that we have for you here today. We're going to be kicking off by speaking about empathy, but we're taking a different slant on this. We're talking about the neuroscience of empathy. How does it work in the brain? Then we're going to be speaking about use of self-in-counseling. That's going to be in practice matters. You're going to be covering this, Rory. what can we expect use of self-in counselling. That's going to be in practice matters. You're going to be |
| 0:54.5 | covering this, Rory. What can we expect use of self-in-counselling? Well, I'm going to be talking about |
| 0:59.9 | how we psychologically hold clients when they may be discussing really difficult or traumatic material. |
| 1:08.5 | And this is something that sometimes really not covered to a great extent, |
| 1:12.9 | I don't think, in courses. It is about how you use yourself and how you work with your own |
| 1:19.7 | process when working with clients who may be struggling with trauma and make sure that they |
| 1:25.8 | don't rupture themselves. In other words, that they don't |
| 1:29.3 | completely disassociate or completely become unwell as they talk about what's going on. It's |
| 1:36.3 | something that I think a lot of practitioners need to know really, because in some cases, |
| 1:42.3 | carrying on can be quite dangerous for a client. |
| 1:44.9 | Like it. |
| 1:45.6 | Need to know, you're 100% correct. |
| 1:47.3 | And we'll know, just stay tuned to this episode. |
| 1:50.0 | And then we're going to be closing episode 113 by something rather special, Rory. |
| 1:54.4 | I'm excited about this. |
| 1:55.6 | Speaking about your brand new book that came out in April of 2019, and that is counseling theory and practice, |
| 2:04.0 | a student guide. I don't want to give any more away on it than that, because we are going |
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