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 as always is Ken. How are you doing, Ken?

Exceptionally well, delighted to be here as always. Thank you for joining us on the

counselling tutor podcast. You've joined us at episode 141. We've got three topics, exciting topics we're looking to dive into today. The first one is we're going to be having a chat about what integrative counseling is.

Now that's difficult for me to say integrative.

I don't know why it is, but the tongue does not flow well around the word integrative.

But we're going to be looking at what that is.

Then we're going to have our check-in with CPCAB, where we're speaking about standardising of assessment levels.

Rory, you met up with Heather to discuss this.

What can we expect from that?

Well, we're going to be talking about,

it's basically pulling the curtain back on the warding bodies

and seeing why standardisation is so important.

So if someone is doing a qualification in Bath

and someone is doing a qualification in St. Birmingham,

the qualification is standardised.

And I'm going to be talking...

You'll hear the talk a little bit

about why it gives people like employers comfort

to know there's a standardised assessment.

Looking forward to that one. And then we're going to be ending with delving into practice matters,

which is kind of where we look at elements of practice. And we're going to be speaking about

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