Welcome to the Counseling Tutor podcast, the must listen to podcast for students of

counseling and psychotherapy. Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello, I'm Rory and with me, as always, is Ken. How are you, Ken?

Exceptionally well, glad to be here. This is episode 118 of the counselling tutor podcast and a great

episode packed with useful information, whether you're a qualified therapist or a student.

There is something here for you. We're going to start off with our first topic and that is being

the adult in the therapy

room. Really interesting topic there and something we need to be mindful of as therapists. And then

we go into a special section that we call practice matters. And today, Rory, you're going to be

covering the different forms of families. And it's, I guess, easier to think that a family is a family.

I know what a family is, but there are so many differing forms.

Absolutely.

And I'm going to be talking about different forms of families.

And also, what you might have to think about in particular family structures.

And we're going to be ending episode 118 by speaking about helicopter skills.

Now, this is not flying a helicopter.

This is not having a helicopter in the corner of your therapy room.

This is something completely different and something that every therapist should be practicing.

So we'll leave that there and we will be approaching it.

But we're going to kick off with our first

topic, and that is being the adult in the therapy room. Yes, there's a great phrase that the

adult is parent to the child. It was coined by Keith Tudor, who is a well-respected author,

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