Welcome to the Counseling 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, Ken?

Exceptionally well.

Hope you are well too, Rory.

And I hope that you are well listening to this podcast.

You've joined us at episode 163 of the counselling tutor podcast.

Three sections today, starting off with our student check-in, where we kind of check-in with our student counsellors.

And today we're going to be looking at questions that you need to ask at your placement interview. So stand by for that one. Then we're going to

go into the counseling digital revolution where we look at how technology-based therapy is kind

of developing in this age. And we're going to be speaking about something called

the black hole effect. If you're working online, considering working online, you need to know about

that one. And then we're going to end, as we always do, with practice matters where we kind of dip

our toe into what we might experience in practice for our qualified practitioner listeners. And we're

going to be looking at preparing to work with

self-harm what do we do when self-harm kind of presents itself within our therapy room and the

statistics are pretty frightening of how much how prevalent I guess the word is for self-harm is so

important topic which we will be getting to but we start with our

student check-in questions to ask at a placement interview and Rory I guess it is that time as we're

making this live that students might be preparing to level four students might be preparing to go

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