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.

Hello, my name's Rory and with me as always is Ken.

How are you doing, Ken?

Exceptionally well, Rory and delighted to be here. Thank you for joining us for the

counselling tutor podcast. This is episode 115. And a really good episode today, we're going to

be kicking off speaking about valuing yourself as a professional, a real interesting topic.

And then moving on to growing as a therapist.

Now, I assume we're not going to be watering ourselves or sitting on racks and pulling ourselves,

Rory, what do you mean by growing as a therapist?

Well, I think it's interesting. There's no watering cans or medieval tortured devices involved

in this. But sometimes it can feel like a balance of nurturing yourself

and developing yourself. And, you know, sometimes a little bit of a painful growth as you

grow out maybe of your base therapy and start to integrate other ideas. I'm going to be talking

about what you need to think about to grow as a therapist and what that could look like.

Looking forward to that one. So that's in practice matters. And we're ending episode 115.

Speaking about the topic of how we can fill the time between training. So if you're a student and you're on a formal training course, you come to an academic break.

What can you be doing during that

academic break? Of course, besides a little bit of self-care and putting the feet up, but if you want to use

that time productively, and I guess also that can apply to our qualified colleagues of how you

might use time in between your CPD sessions for your ongoing continuous development as a professional counsellor.

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