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Hello, listeners. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast and welcome to this brand new episode

of my podcast for learners of English all around the world. How are you doing today? I hope you're

doing fine and that you've been enjoying my recent podcast episodes. Let me tell you about this one.

This is a brand new one. And this is a conversation episode. And I'm talking today with Emma Kamara Ortega, who is a former colleague of mine.

I've known Emma for many years.

We used to work together as English teachers in the same school.

And so I've been meaning to talk to Emma for ages on this podcast.

I've always wanted to get her on the show to talk about the topic of this episode, which as you can see from the title, is all about therapy, mental health and counselling. So Emma and I used to work together at the London School of English, as I said. She used to be an English teacher.

We would hang out a lot in the teacher's room between classes. We'd go to the pub and stuff at the end of the week together.

So we spent a lot of time working together. And I've had lots of my former colleagues on this podcast over the years.

Long-term listeners might remember,

you know, the various guests that I've had on the show, people I used to work with.

And so the thing is about Emma is that she no longer works as an English teacher.

In fact, I remember when we were working together, she made the step to move into a different career path.

And she became a therapist and licensed counsellor, which was actually quite a long and complicated process because she had to do various different qualifications.

She did lots of different types of professional training.

She was studying a lot, I remember, as well as working full-time as a teacher. She was doing all her studies. And nowadays, she is a fully licensed therapist and counsellor. Just a few of those different qualifications she took. Her certificate in counselling skills,

diploma in counselling skills, diploma in psychodynamic counselling, a certificate in cognitive

behavioural therapy skills, a certificate in working with couples and other relationships,

psychosexual studies, trauma therapy, all sorts of

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