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.

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

Exceptional Rory. So delighted to be here. You have tuned in to episode 137 of the

counseling tutor podcast. And today we are covering three topics in our episode. The first topic

is what do we do if a client mentions that they are feeling suicidal?

Secondly, we're going to be going into check-in with CPCAB, where Rory, you spoke with

Heather Price, and you spoke about taking a year out of study. Can you kind of give us a

flavour of what to expect from that? Yeah, so John Lennon famously said,

life happens well you're planning other things. I think I'm paraphrasing. And sometimes, you know,

a two-year course is a big commitment and sometimes, you know, on the level four course,

people can't make the other year because life just gets in the way. So I'm talking to Heather

about how you can defer a year, the mechanisms of that,

and also what you might come across when you come to re-engage with your studies.

It's essential listening if anybody's thinking of taking a bit of time out.

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And then we'll be ending episode 137 today with our new section, practice matters, where we look at issues that relate to qualified practitioners in practice.

And we're going to be speaking about what to do when you have a disagreement with a colleague, how that can influence on your practice.

So let's start off with our first topic, which is when clients mention feeling

suicidal. Yes, and I want to kind of state for the record, if you like, that this is a very

delicate and sensitive topic. But, you know, for students who may have just going into practice

and as someone who taught for a long time,

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