218 – Counselling Clients with Addiction

Counselling Tutor

Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes

Education, Courses

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Why Did You Become a Helper? - Learning from Our Mistakes In Episode 218 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Rory Lees-Oakes and Ken Kelly discuss this week's three topics: In 'Counselling Foundations', we'll look at the importance of knowing why you want to work in the service of others. Then in 'Focus on Self', Rory and Ken discuss learning from our mistakes. And lastly in 'Practice Matters', Rory speaks with Marion Elkin-Greener about counselling clients with addiction. Why Did You Become a Helper? [starts at 02:07 mins] Knowing why you've chosen to work in the service of others will help you develop a level of understanding and motivation to do well. The key points of this section include: When you have a strong 'why', the 'how' you do things will fall into place. When it gets hard or lonely, you can look back to your 'why'. Make sure you're in a position to help others - you're putting yourself in emotional harm's way. You will require emotional robustness. Self-evaluation - be honest with, and know yourself fully. Learning from Our Mistakes [starts at 15:33 mins] Everybody makes mistakes; it's owning up to them and deciding how to move forwards that matters. The main factors of this discussion are: Reflexivity - reflect, think over your actions and what you can do better in the future. Own up to mistakes - this allows you to move past them, most mistakes can often be resolved with an apology. Most mistakes are made without malice or intention. We're just human, it's natural to make mistakes. Counselling Clients with Addiction [starts at 30:31 mins] This week, Rory speaks with Marion Elkin-Greener on treating clients suffering from addiction. The key points include: Working with addictions requires extra training, but the core needs don't change (empathy, positive regard etc.) There are differences in how you treat each form of addiction e.g. you will treat an alcohol addiction differently from drug addiction. There is slang you'll have to adapt to and recognise. It's referred to as treatment - goal centered. Family therapy - addiction often affects those around the client. Relapse will be a part of the recovery process - it's important the client is aware of this to help prevent feelings of shame and failure. Educate clients on other websites etc. that they can go to for additional help and support. When counselling clients with addiction, it's vital to have an open mind and be non-judgemental. Links and Resources 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 Shop 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 Lees Oaks and Ken Kelly.
0:15.6	Hi, I'm Rory. I'm with me. As always, is Ken. How are you, Ken?
0:20.2	Exceptionally well, thank you very much for asking Rory.
0:22.9	And we are delighted that you've joined us for the counselling tutor podcast.
0:26.7	It's episode 218.
0:29.9	Wow.
0:30.8	We're certainly getting through those podcasts, Rory.
0:33.0	And today, three topics we're going to be looking at.
0:35.4	We're going to start with our counselling foundations,
0:55.0	where we're going to be asking the question, why did you decide to become a helper? What drew you into wanting to be in service of others? Then we go to focus on self, where we kind of recognize that you as the practitioner, you're the heartbeat of your we need to look to self before to in order to be there for our clients and today we speak about learning from our
1:02.9	mistakes we do make mistakes what do we do when we make those stakes do mistakes do we take out
1:07.5	a big stick and hit ourselves over the head or is there an opportunity to grow through that? And then in practice matters, which is our final topic for today and practice
1:16.6	matters is where we look at something that you might come across in practice. And today we have
1:21.2	an expert in that delivered a lecture for us in our councilor CPD library. And Rory, you spoke with Mia Elkin Greener
1:29.5	around the topic of addictions. So make sure you stick around for that because even if you don't
1:35.0	plan to work as a specialist addictions therapist, it may show itself. You may have a client
1:41.0	who is struggling with drinking or some other compulsive behavior and you'll get a lot of information from that last topic today on what you might do with that.
1:50.6	But starting with those counseling foundations, Rory, the foundations that underpin good practice, you know, for whether you're a student or a qualified practitioner.
2:00.1	Maybe you've been doing this for 25 plus
2:02.1	years, we can always go back to this question. Why are you choosing? Why did you become a helper?
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