In this weeks episode of the Counselling Tutor Podcast Ken and Rory look at Phenomenology - Therapeutic Pace - Skill of Questioning and BACP Accredited courses for those who wish to study counselling.

A question that came in through our Counselling Tutor Facebook Group asked

“I have noticed that I find it challenging to balance client needs when they come in and want results fast, effectively putting pressure on me as a clinician to perform quickly and efficiently.” Isiah Palm.

Rory and Ken discuss the pace of therapy and how separate a clients expectations over progress from our own want to meet those expectations.

In Theory with Rory, Rory looks at Phenomenology a philosophical recognition that the world as we perceive it is based on the structures of experience we have had.

The historical movement of phenomenology was developed in the first half of the 20th century by philosophers and thinkers such Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Paul Sartre to name but a few,, although the basic ideas can be traced back to the Greek philosopher Plato. It was the German philosopher Edmund Husserl who developed a set of ideas which is sometimes referred to as descriptive psychology.The study of experience or consciousness as experienced from your point of view, sometimes referred to as your frame of reference, and includes perception, habits, social; practices , language and feelings.So why is phenomenology such an important philosophical component in therapies such as Gestalt, Transactional Analysis and Humanistic approaches?

Carl Rogers refers to the phenomenological field in his 19 Propositions which puts phenomenology at the heart of the Person Centred Approach to Counselling.

This weeks counselling skill is the skill of appropriate questioning. Ken delves deep into what makes a question appropriate and we look at how the counselling process can be derailed by inappropriate questions. Ken also explores what we can use instead of questions to get clarification test keep the client within a feelings based response.

BACP accredited courses for counsellors

What makes a course BACP accredited and what does that really mean?

This weeks Ask Ken and Rory looks at the way that counselling courses are structured. Often learners ask whether their course is BACP accredited, often they are not. Find out what happens if your course is not accredited by the BACP and how you can still end up with the same level of BACP membership even if you are on a non BACP accredited counselling course.