369 - Working with Shame in the Therapy Room

Counselling Tutor podcast

Kenneth Kelly

Education

4.8 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 369 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 working with shame in the therapy room – how shame presents, how it differs from guilt, and how to work with it gently and ethically.
Then in 'Practice Matters', Rory speaks with Nadine Pittam about limerence – a powerful and often overwhelming state of obsessive romantic attachment – and how therapists can work safely and effectively with clients experiencing it.
And finally in 'Student Services', Rory and Ken discuss what to do when you feel out of your depth as a counselling student, offering reassurance, practical guidance, and encouragement.

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1:06.5	Hello and welcome to episode 369 of the counselling tutor podcast. I'm Rory and my guest
1:13.2	today is a Manchester-based BACP accredited counsellor Nadine Pittam who draws on person
1:20.5	sense of therapy, aspects of transactional analysis and internal family systems model in a
1:26.9	clinical practice bringing a rich and integrative
1:30.4	approach to her work with clients. She is also an accredited member of Kourst, the UK's leading
1:38.3	professional body for sex and relationship therapy, and holds a level five certificate in psychosexual therapy.
1:47.3	Today, Nadine joins us to explore a powerful and insightful lecture that she's recorded for
1:53.5	the councillor CPD library titled Working with Limerent, codependence or obsessively romantic clients.
2:03.2	Together, we'll be unpacking what limerence really is, how it shows up in therapy,
2:08.5	and how counsellors can work ethically, safely and effectively with these deep relationship patterns.
2:16.1	So with that said, let's know the intro.
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