Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast.

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

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

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

Exceptionally well, thanks for asking Rory. You have joined us for episode 142 of the counselling tutor podcast.

We've got three topics that we're going to be discussing today, starting off with what is the right environment for counselling.

So we're going to be kind of talking about the environment that counselling is best suited to. Then our next topic, we're going to check in with our very good friends

at CPCAB awarding body, where Rory, you spoke with Ray Fundapool, and the topic that you

discussed was what else CPCAB does. And I think that people would be a bit surprised by this.

Absolutely.

In our interview, Ray outlined their vision, a new vision for mental health.

And I'm going to get Ray talks about how that is being rolled out and their view of what positive and healthy mental health should be.

Love it. Looking forward to that one. And then we are ending episode 142 by dipping into

practice matters, which is the section of our podcast for our qualified practitioners. And Rory,

you had a chat with Kath Nibs on the topic of working with children.

Yeah, absolutely. The Fab Caff Nibs, PhD candidate, she's just in the middle of doing a PhD,

a real specialist in child work and she gives us a real insight into what skills and what thinking is needed

when you're working with children.

Looking forward to that as well. So starting off with the right environment for counselling.

Yes, and it's an interesting one. This topic came up in our Facebook group and if you're not a member of our

Facebook group, go to Facebook, type in Counselling Tutor. You'll find us, we're a closed group,

just knock on the door, course we're going to let you in, and you can join the party which has

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