This episode introduces psychodynamic counselling and explains how it focuses on patterns, meaning, and the influence of past experiences. It uses everyday metaphors to compare psychodynamic counselling with other approaches and place it clearly within the wider therapy landscape.

This episode explains the core ideas of person centred counselling, including its emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and the work of Carl Rogers. It explores how this approach understands change and how it differs from more structured therapeutic models.

This episode explains what Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is, focusing on how it understands the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It places CBT within the wider counselling landscape and prepares listeners for comparison with other therapeutic approaches.

This episode explains how counselling unfolds across time, from early orientation through ongoing work and later integration. It explores how sessions connect, how progress develops gradually, and why counselling is best understood as a structured process rather than a single conversation.

This episode explains the client’s role in counselling and how participation shapes the therapeutic process. It explores engagement, communication, pacing, and how responsibility is shared between client and therapist within different counselling approaches.

This episode explains the professional role of the therapist in counselling. It explores responsibility, structure, ethical boundaries, and how different counselling approaches shape the therapist’s work, providing a clear and accessible overview for listeners.

This episode explains what typically happens in a counselling session, including structure, timing, boundaries, and how sessions unfold over time. It provides a clear, realistic overview for anyone wanting to understand what counselling looks like in practice.

This episode explains when counselling is unlikely to be helpful and why timing matters. It explores readiness, expectations, crisis states, avoidance of action, and practical instability, helping listeners understand when counselling works best and when other support is more appropriate.

This episode explains the most common ways counselling is misused, including repetition, reassurance seeking, over explanation, emotional discharge, avoidance, and validation without examination. It clarifies why these patterns prevent progress and how counselling works differently when used as intended.

This episode explains the core mechanisms through which counselling produces change. It looks at attention, repetition, containment, emotional tolerance, and why counselling works by altering how experience is met rather than by fixing problems directly.