Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast. The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.

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

Hi, I'm Rory and with me, he's always Canne. How are you doing? Ken?

Exceptionally well. Great to be here. You've tuned in to the counselling tutor podcast.

You've caught us at episode 131. We're going to be covering three topics related to

counseling, psychotherapy, the journey to becoming a counsellor and practicing as a counselor

today, kicking off with our first topic,

and that is personal development groups. This is a topic that comes up again and again.

We're going to be digging deep into what personal development groups are, and specifically

going into new groups, forming new groups. Then we've got our check-in with CPCAB, our partners that kind of prepare really

specialist content, content for our podcast to share with you our listener. And what can we expect from our

check-in today, Rory? Well, it's the old chestnut of personal therapy comes up time and time again in counselling

courses. Why are people expected to undertake personal therapy? I'm going to try and answer

the question, you know, maybe someone's had personal therapy and they finished on the week

they start the course and they say, well, why do i have to have it again so um we'll

explain that and kind of outline what the process of personal therapy is in terms of um being working

and working and practicing and learning on a higher level course looking forward to that one and then

we're going to be uh ending episode 131 looking at

ethical frameworks and specifically using the ethical framework in practice and not just reading

over it. How does it apply to you? How does it apply to your practice or your placement? And this is

useful if you're in practice, if you're in placement,

but it's also interesting if you're a student

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