Welcome to the Counseling Tutor Podcast.

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

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

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

How you doing, Ken?

Delighted to be here as always. This This is the counselling tutor podcast. It is episode

122. And we have got lots of stuff planned for you today. We're going to start off by

speaking about the difference between counselling and other helping roles. That's something

that comes up again and again and

again. We could spend hours on that. Then we're going to be checking in with our good friends at

CPCAB. And it's interesting. Today, the check-in with C-P-C-A-B is, why do we check in? So that's

something for you to look forward to. And we're going to be ending episode 122 by looking at the difference between using counseling skills in class or in a simulated session.

And the difference that makes when you go out and you practice in placement or if you're a qualified practitioner and you're practicing with your clients.

Yeah, absolutely.

And, yeah, I'll speak to someone the other day and they were saying that they were really surprised

when they went into their counseling course level two.

They were sat with professionals from other disciplines, police officers, nurses, teachers. I've had doctors,

I've had psychologists, believe it or not, who did level two. I had someone with a PhD in

psychology did a level two because her training was completely different to being a counselor.

And one of the things that we have to do is that we may have a

job where we're very, very competent in it and we're the top of our profession. And then we move

into the realm of counselling and we discover that our skill set needs adjusting a little bit and you

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