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122 – Counselling Session Role Play versus ‘Real-Life’ Counselling<\/h1>\n\t

How Counselling Differs from Other Helping Professions – Why We Check In <\/h2>\n\t
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In episode 122 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Ken Kelly and Rory Lees-Oakes discuss the differences between counselling and other forms of helping. Our new regular segment, ‘Check-In with CPCAB’, then looks at why we check in. Finally, the presenters explore the experience of counselling in ‘real life’ as opposed to college-based counselling session role play or practice sessions.<\/p>\n\t

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How Counselling Differs from Other Helping Professions (starts at 1.20 mins)<\/h2>\n\t

People from many different helping professions are attracted to counselling training. For example, you may come across police officers, teachers, and healthcare staff as peers on your training course.<\/p>\n

Although these people may be highly competent in their existing profession, the form of helping that they are used to practising may be very different from counselling – and so require them to adjust their skill set quite markedly.<\/p>\n

For example, the role of some other helping professions is to rescue or advise, but these are two things that counsellors (particularly in the person-centred tradition) specifically do not do.<\/p>\n

There is a huge difference between listening to respond and listening to understand.<\/p>\n

In our society, the latter is rare and thus a special skill to be able to offer those with whom we share a therapeutic relationship as counsellors.<\/p>\n

This involves listening to ‘the music behind the words’<\/em> as Carl Rogers put it, which involves attending to far more than just the words used by the client. It can involve a big shift for many other helping professions.<\/p>\n

For more information on this, you might like to read the piece on the Counselling Tutor website about the definition of counselling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rory has also written a handout on comparing and contrasting counselling with other helping professions. You can download this free of charge here; it is also available through the Handouts Vault<\/a> and Counselling Study Resource (CSR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t

Check-In with CPCAB: Check-ins (starts at 9.00 mins)<\/h2>\n\t

Rory speaks to Ray van der Poel (Head of Business and Development) at CPCAB (Counselling & Psychotherapy Central Awarding Body) about check-ins.<\/p>\n

Ray explains that the concept of checking in derives from Buddhist meditation, where it refers to bringing something into our awareness or to our attention.<\/p>\n

Ray and Rory discuss a number of reasons why checking in has become an important part of counselling training:<\/p>\n