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.

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

I'm well and I'm glad to be here, Rory.

You are joining us as a listener at the Counseling Tudor podcast.

This is episode 198.

We've got three stops on our tour today.

We're going to be stopping off at Counselling Foundations, which is our brand new slot,

where we're going to be looking

at the use of silence in counselling.

And we've got a great handout for you on that.

Then our next stop is a focus on self-stop, where we're going to be asking a question, does

your history inform who you are in your practice?

And then our final stop in episode 198 for this episode of the

podcast is practice matters where we're going to be listening to an interview that Rory did

with Mahmoud Ahmed and that is on the topic of race and culture. So getting the bus started for

stop number one, our counselling foundations,

Rory, where we kind of revisit the foundations that make practice what it is. Use of silence in

counseling. And I know, as I'm saying, use of silence in counseling, the interesting thing is

you're listening to a podcast. And in podcasts, in

broadcast, in general, a silence is a no-no. You do not have what is called dead air. Yes,

usually in our society, silence is considered quite oppressive. You know, we've heard the

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