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

Awesome, grateful to be here, Rory.

And thank you, our listener, for joining us.

This is episode 181 of the counselling tutor podcast.

On our episode today, we're going to be starting with our student check-in,

where we bring something relevant to a student.

There will be training on a formal course to become a counselor.

We're going to be looking at stages in a counselling relationship.

It's also good, I think, Rory, to revisit that as a qualified practitioner.

Recognise that it's not an activity, but it does have its stages that we go through.

We then going to the digital counselling revolution, and today we're

going to be looking at referrals in online counselling, how they differ from face to face,

and they do considerably. And then in practice matters, where we take a little bit of information

from what might present to a qualified therapist, we're going to be having a lecture and it's going to be about

applying neuroscience in your practice. And we have Maggie McAllister McGregor that is going to be

our expert on that. And Rory, you caught up with her. So great episode, episode 181. Let's start

off with stages in a counselling relationship.

Yes, I think it's one of the things that is asked a lot,

certainly at certain times of the year when students are thinking about maybe recording their skills,

maybe recording their advanced skills, a lot of awarding bodies

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