Welcome to the Counseling 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. I'm with me, as always is Ken. How are you, Ken, in this new year?

Yes, very well, thank you, and I hope that the same is true of you, Rory. If you're listening in real time,

this is the first episode of the Counselling Tudor podcast in 2021. It is episode 175. So happy new year,

if you are listening in real time. We're going to be covering three

topics today, starting off with our student check-in, where we bring something from the world of

studying. And we're going to be thinking about diversity today. In real time, that's probably

something you might be looking at in your studies at the moment.

Moving on, we're going to be looking at the digital counselling revolution where we're going to be delving into supervision while working online. Do we need a special online supervisor for

working online? We're going to talk about that. And then we end episode 175 with practice matters,

where we're going to be following on from episode 174, where we spoke about polyvagal theory.

We actually have Emma Chapman, as a guest, go delving deeper into the lecture that she did for us

on polyvagal theory. So that is something to look forward to. But starting out with,

I think, an evergreen topic, Roy, when we're speaking about equality and diversity, it may well

be students this time of year, might be studying it, might be looking at it a little bit closer,

but I think it's something we need to look at closely, no matter where we are in our counselling

journey.

Yes, absolutely. And when we think about diversity, I guess on a very basic level,

we are all different. We are meeting the other when we meet in the therapy room.

We're meeting someone who has different experiences. But there are members of our community and indeed ourselves who could be, who are diverse.

We are in a multicultural society. And as a consequence, we need to be thoughtful of how someone's view of the world and how their diversity has informed how they see

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