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 and with me as always is Ken. How are you, Ken?

I'm well, Rory. Thanks for asking. I'm exceptionally

grateful for being here and we're really grateful that you have joined us, that you've tuned in to

the counselling tutor podcast and joined us for episode 195 where we're going to be covering

three sections, starting off with our student check-in, where we're going to put look at therapeutic impasse.

Then we go on to focus in supervision where we're going to look at the seven tasks of supervision.

And finally, we're going to close out episode 195, speaking about managing skepticism when counseling clients. So if a client is skeptical about engaging in the

relationship or during the relationship, and that is in our practice matters section. And that is a

recent lecture that we had in our counselor CPD library. So we'll get there in a moment. Let's

start off by that student check-in where we speak

about something that you may come across in your formal studies to become a counsellor, but we know

that this section also really interesting and holds value for our qualified practitioner

friends as well. Therapeutic impasse. What do we mean by that, Rory? Well, I would say a very short-hand way of

describing therapeutic impasse would be stuckness. When the client is stuck, and this can happen

for a number of reasons. It may be that you have a client and all of a sudden there's no material. It's

sometimes referred to in training as thin material. Nothing of deep process going on for the

client. And I think that, I think that, you know, certainly if you're a student counselor

with not a lot of experience, this can be quite a difficult place to be because you're, you know, certainly if you're a student counselor with not a lot of experience, this can be

quite a difficult place to be because you're, you know, you're new into practice and all

a sudden the process seems to halt. And there could be many, many reasons why clients become

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