346: Triangulation and Trauma
Counselling Tutor podcast
Kenneth Kelly
4.8 • 657 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 346 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, your hosts Rory Lees-Oakes and Ken Kelly take us through this week's three topics:
- Firstly, in 'Ethical, Sustainable Practice', they explore trauma-informed practice, focusing specifically on triangulation and trauma — how this hidden dynamic shows up in therapy and why recognising it is vital for working safely and effectively with clients.
- Then in 'Practice Matters', Rory speaks with Mel Ciavucco, a counsellor, trainer, and specialist in domestic abuse, about her new CPD lecture, Domestic Abuse Awareness. They discuss working with both survivors and perpetrators, how coercive control operates, and the importance of understanding abuse through an intersectional lens.
- And finally, in 'Student Services', Rory and Ken explore why formal counselling training includes a full year focused entirely on counselling skills. They explain how these foundational skills form the bedrock of all therapeutic work and how they support students in becoming confident, competent practitioners.
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| 1:06.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 346 of the counselling tutor podcast. I'm Rory and my guest today |
| 1:14.1 | is Mel Chavuco, a counsellor, trainer and writer. She works as an online integrative counsellor, |
| 1:21.5 | specialising in eating disorders, body image, weight stigma and domestic abuse. |
| 1:30.5 | Mel's portfolio of qualifications is impressive, |
| 1:34.6 | a first-class honours degree in counselling and therapeutic practice, |
| 1:39.0 | an advanced diploma in neurodiversity and eating disorders, |
| 1:42.6 | and a stop-so-cofferer one-to-one program, |
| 1:46.4 | which focuses on compassion-focused, risk-aware, one-to-one program which focuses on compassion-focused risk-aware, |
| 1:53.9 | one-to-one therapy for managing sexual risk, and that will be working with perpetrators of sexual abuse. In today's conversation, Mel will be sharing her insights on a subject that sadly every |
| 2:02.5 | therapist needs to be aware of, that of domestic abuse, which is the focus of her lecture |
| 2:08.8 | in the councillor-CPD library titled Domestic Abuse Awareness, and she'll be talking to us |
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