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 doing, Ken?

I'm doing exceptionally well. Thank you for asking Rory. And we hope that you, too, are doing well.

You've tuned in to the counselling tutor podcast. This is episode 206. We're going to be covering three topics today, starting with our counselling foundations, where we're looking at contracting in counselling.

And although we put this in counselling foundations, kind of looking to what underpins counselling,

it's not just applicable to students.

I wonder if you're a qualified practitioner, when last you might have looked at your counselling contracts.

So we're going to go into all things contracting before moving on to that focus on self where we

recognise we are the heart of our practice.

And today we're going to be speaking about clothing in counselling.

I'm not going to be telling you what to wear when you're counselling.

We're just going to be discussing some of the aspects around what we wear and how that might come across.

And then into practice matters, where we take an element of something that may present within your practice as a qualified therapist.

And we're speaking with Martin Smith about compassion fatigue.

So kind of where our compassion is worn away, almost eroded by the constant maybe

messaging that we're getting of heavy material, a really, really important topic and definitely

an interview I'm looking forward to hearing, Rory. But starting with those foundations, the

contracting in counselling. And I'm looking back to level two where it was suggested that counselling is a contracted

activity.

Yes, and that was a bit of a surprise to me when I started in my counselling course, my

introduction course many, many, many years ago, because it was something I never,

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