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 Ken isn't with us today. He's taking an well-earned break.

This is a special edition of the counselling tutor podcast that we put across academic breaks.

And I'm delighted to have with me Freya Bottomley, who's interim CEO of the National Counseling Society, and Giles Rabard Day,

who's Head of Engagement and Development at the National Counseling Society.

And they are here to answer some questions that have been asked in our Facebook page.

And if you don't know our Facebook pages type in Facebook go to

Facebook type in counseling tutor you'll find us we're a closed group but knock on

the door we're a friendly bunch and you can join thousands and thousands of student

counselors qualified practitioners tutors supervisors all talking about the world

of counseling and psychotherapy So those are the people's

questions. We put a post on the Facebook page. People have asked questions and Freya and Giles are here

to answer them. So welcome Freya and welcome Giles. Hi Rory. Thank you, Rory. Thanks for having us. It's an absolute pleasure

and in Fat Frii, you're interim CEO because Meg is not with us at the moment. No, she's not. So

literally on Friday she left on maternity leave to have her second baby. So I am stepping in.

I've been a society for about seven years now in a number of different roles.

So hopefully, all will be well.

It'll be great.

I'm sure.

And, you know, we, you know, if Meg's listening to this, we wish you well.

Meg's appeared on the podcast and we wish her, we wish you well and of course the new little life that will appear, hopefully will have appeared, but it's maybe

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