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175 – Supervision for Online Therapy Work<\/h1>\n\t

Diversity – Polyvagal Theory<\/h2>\n\t
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In episode 175 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast – the first for 2021 – Rory Lees-Oakes and Ken Kelly open with the ‘Student Check-In’, discussing diversity. ‘Digital Counselling Revolution’ then looks at supervision for online therapy work. Finally, in ‘Practice Matters’, Rory interviews counsellor and trainer Emma Chapman on polyvagal theory.<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Diversity (starts at 1.30 mins)<\/h2>\n\t

Diversity is a key topic in counselling studies – as is equality, i.e. the importance of all people being treated equally. Ken lists a number of areas of diversity, some of which are widely recognised and others less so.<\/p>\n

Clients are naturally affected by how they have experienced the world to date – but counsellors too have their own personal experiences.<\/p>\n

This means that we must be willing to undertake self-exploration in order to uncover any hidden biases we may have. While equality has come a long way in recent years, none of us is immune to ongoing prejudice – both our own and others’.<\/p>\n

It is important to know about the Equality Act 2010<\/strong>, which aims to protect people from unfair treatment, and to promote a fair and more equal society. Indeed, lack of knowledge is not appropriate either on this or on areas of diversity relating to individual clients.<\/p>\n

As counsellors, we have a responsibility to educate ourselves (not to rely on clients to do so), and to consider all aspects of service accessibility (e.g. physical and linguistic).<\/p>\n

Rory has produced a handout on equality and diversity in counselling, which you can download here, or via the Counselling Study Resource<\/a>. The CSR contains a whole section on equality and diversity, tailored to the needs of students of counselling and psychotherapy.<\/p>\n\t

Supervision for Online Therapy Work (starts at 14.40 mins)<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\"Online\n\t\t\t
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a huge growth in online working, which in turn has triggered a need for supervision for online therapy.<\/p>\n

Ideally, a supervisor of online work would have both a qualification and experience in this. But what should you do if you can’t find such a person, or if you already have a supervisor for your face-to-face work who doesn’t have a qualification in online supervision?<\/p>\n

As a minimum, your online therapy supervisor should have a qualification and experience in working online themselves as a counsellor, for example our course, Online and Telephone Counselling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In exciting news, Rory announces that he is currently working on developing a new supervision qualification – which will be recognised by a well-known awarding body in this field. This will qualify practitioners to work as supervisors of both face-to-face and online work. Current face-to-face supervisors may be able to top up their skills in online supervision too.<\/p>\n

Ken hopes there will be more news on this in around March 2021: so keep an eye on your emails and an ear on our podcasts!<\/p>\n\t

Polyvagal Theory (starts at 27.55 mins)<\/h2>\n\t

In episode 174 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Rory and Ken spoke about polyvagal theory, the topic of an exciting new lecture by Emma Chapman for Counsellor CPD<\/a>, our online CPD library that contains over 150 hours of on-demand CPD lectures to support your development. In this episode, we bring you an exclusive interview with Emma on this important topic.<\/p>\n

Emma and Rory cover:<\/p>\n