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. Hope you are well too, Rory.

And I hope that you are well listening to this. You've joined us for episode 164 of the

counselling tutor podcast. We have got three sections that we're going to be covering today.

Our student check-in where we kind of speak about something that students on a formal

counseling course may be experiencing at the moment and we're going to be speaking about

practicing skills in an online training environment very much of this moment. And then we move

on to the counseling digital revolution where we recognize how counseling psychotherapy,

the delivery thereof, how clients engage in that is changing through the use of technology.

And today we're going to be looking at contracting when working online, the difference

between face-to-face and online contracting.

And we close today's episode with practice matters, where we

dip our toe into the pool of practice and we speak about what we may come across in our practices.

And today, Nicola Hughes, a specialist and one of our lecturers is going to be speaking about

how bereavement and loss can affect children. So hopefully something there for everybody.

It's our smorgas bored, Rory, of today's episode.

Starting off with our student check-in,

why would a student be practicing skills in an online training environment, Rory?

Let me have a think.

Well, at the time I've recorded this, which is in September of 2020,

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