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.

Hi, I'm Rory and Ken is taking a well-earned vacation at the moment, a well-earned break,

but I am joined on this special edition podcast by Derek Cunningham from the CPCAB,

who's going to try, we're going to try together, Derek, aren't we, to kind of demystify

courses and what courses are relevant to become a counsellor

because it's a bit, as we'd say in our part of the world, a bit of a dog's dinner.

I think try is the right expression, Rory, because myself and some of my colleagues, we've spent a lot of time

clarifying this, and then when we released it, we realised that it wasn't clear. So we've had

great feedback in our attempts to clarify it, but the difficulty is, of course, that people

will go to so many places looking for information

and it becomes even more and more confusing.

It is, Derek. And it's interesting, if you Google choosing a counselling course in a search

engine, you will find that there's huge amounts of people, certainly here in the UK,

looking for counselling courses and some of them don't give progression to becoming a counsellor.

Can we just say a little bit about that?

What are the pitfalls and minefields that can beset someone who knows nothing about counselling training,

who goes out and taps into a search engine, counselling training, and finds lots of offers?

What are the difficulties that they may face?

I think really, I mean, I'm going to talk a little bit today as well about the CPCAB

progression route and another progression route, but really the difficulty is what it is they want to

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