199 – Resilience in the Counselling Practice

Counselling Tutor

Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes

Education, Courses

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Empathy in Counselling - Maternal Mental Health In Episode 199 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Rory Lees-Oakes and Ken Kelly return with your three favourite segments: 'Counselling Foundations' - where today's focus is enhancing your empathy. 'Focus on Self' - where Rory and Ken introduce how to gain the necessary resilience in your counselling practice to cope with a client's personal struggles. And once again ending with 'Practice Matters', where today Rory is joined by Emma Chapman to discuss maternal mental health. Empathy in Counselling (starts at 1:16 mins) If there's something you will use from beginning to end during your journey through counselling, it's empathy. Naturally possessed by human beings, empathy is a skill that must be enhanced and developed, and during this section, Rory and Ken discuss the key things to think about: The difference between sympathy and empathy, feeling for vs. feeling with. Recognising the level of empathy required for your client, and meeting them there. Building trust with your client to enhance the effectiveness of your empathy. Acknowledging that empathy takes commitment and investment. The importance of having a frame of reference. Practicing empathy among your peers. Building Resilience in the Counselling Practice (starts at 15:20 mins) Being able to withstand the waves of emotion thrown at you in the therapy room takes sturdy and refined resilience, but this doesn't mean you're on your own. In this segment, Rory and Ken take us through the support system needed in order to build up resilience in your counselling practice, and the key aspects of protecting yourself from carrying the weight of your client's problems. These aspects include: Remembering these are your clients' problems, not your own. Reaching out to your supervisor is a part of your own resilience; you're not expected to cope all on your own. Talking with peers when something is troubling you. The importance of managed self-care, mindfulness and breaks. Self-maintenance is an important factor in keeping yourself resilient in your counselling practice. Maternal Mental Health (starts at 27:15 mins) In an interview with Emma Chapman, Rory discusses maternal mental health, the widespread and shared issue experienced by women daily, and the societal views that serve as its cause. The key topics of this interview are: The pressures to be a perfect mum. Dealing with the feelings of becoming a mum, both positive and negative. Recognising that you won't have all the answers. Allowing yourself to be more realistic. Links and Resources Counselling Skills Academy Advanced Certificate in Counselling Supervision Basic Counselling Skills: A Student Guide Counsellor CPD Counselling Study Resource Counselling Theory in Practice: A Student Guide Counselling Tutor Training and CPD Facebook group Website Online and Telephone Counselling: A Practitioner’s Guide Online and Telephone Counselling Course

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0:00.0	Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast.
0:04.4	The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.
0:10.6	Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.
0:15.7	Hello, I'm Rory and with me as always is Ken.
0:19.1	How are you doing, Ken?
0:20.4	Exceptionally grateful to be here, Rory. You have tuned in to the counselling tutor podcast.
0:25.8	This is episode 199. And today we've got three stops on our journey, starting off with our
0:33.4	counselling foundations where we're going to be looking at empathy. We then move on to a focus on self where we're going to be speaking about being resilient
0:43.1	within your practice or within your placement work or even within your studies.
0:49.1	And then into practice matters where we are going to hear from Emma Chapman,
0:54.0	who did a recent CPD
0:55.8	lecture on us on maternal mental health.
0:59.3	And Rory is going to be sharing an interview with Emma.
1:02.9	Loads of great content there.
1:04.9	But back to those foundations, Rory, which is kind of a new section where we revisit and
1:09.8	recognize that it is the basics, the foundations of
1:13.1	counseling on which we build. And today, speaking about empathy, I think that really is going to
1:19.5	the foundation. It's interesting. Empathy is something you would learn as a brand new student
1:24.6	coming in, studying counseling. you'd be told about empathy.
1:27.9	Yet empathy is something you will be using within your sessions right up until the last session you ever have.
1:36.2	Absolutely, Ken.
1:37.3	And I think one of the things you talked about students coming into practice, maybe they're starting for the first time.
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