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.

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

Exceptionally well, Rory. I'm delighted to be here.

And you're joining us on the counselling tutor podcast.

This is episode 160.

We're certainly clocking up those episodes, Rory.

And we've got three sections we're going to be covering today.

We'll start off with our introduction

session, which is our student check-in where we cover a student-related topic, and we're going to be

speaking about blended learning in counselling, training and practice. After that, we're going to go

into our brand new section called Digital Counseling Revolution. This is where we kind of look at the movement

towards online counseling. And we're going to be looking at the benefits and challenges of working

online with clients. And in our final section, we look at our qualified practitioner

colleagues with practice matters. And we're going to be speaking to Nicola Hughes,

who is a bereavement specialist lecturer today. Exciting, Rory. Yeah, absolutely can. It's a fully

packed episode. And we kick off really with the new norm, which is a word, a phrase that's being used in the media.

We seem to hear it quite a lot in conversations.

And that new norm is, of course, student training and practice.

As we move still in the COVID situation of COVID,

students who are going back to college or university are finding themselves in slightly different circumstances.

And we're finding that blended training is becoming the norm.

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