Welcome to the counselling tutor podcast.

The must listen to podcast for students of counselling and psychotherapy.

Here are your hosts, Rory Lee's Oaks and Ken Kelly.

Hello, I'm Rory and with me as always is Ken.

How are you doing, Ken?

Exceptionally grateful to be here, Rory. You have tuned in to the counselling tutor podcast.

This is episode 199. And today we've got three stops on our journey, starting off with our

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

within your practice or within your placement work or even within your studies.

And then into practice matters where we are going to hear from Emma Chapman,

who did a recent CPD

lecture on us on maternal mental health.

And Rory is going to be sharing an interview with Emma.

Loads of great content there.

But back to those foundations, Rory, which is kind of a new section where we revisit and

recognize that it is the basics, the foundations of counseling on which we build.

And today, speaking about empathy, I think that really is going to the foundation. It's interesting.

Empathy is something you would learn as a brand new student coming in, studying counseling.

You'd be told about empathy.

Yet empathy is something you will be using within your sessions right up until the last session you ever have.

Absolutely, Ken.

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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