In Episode 186 of the Counselling Tutor Podcast, Rory Lees-Oakes interviews Torrie Hall, a final-year counselling student from Australia. ‘Digital Counselling Revolution’ then focuses on the importance of managing digital footprints when working online, before – in Practice Matters – the presenters discuss attachment styles, and how important understanding your attachment style is for counsellors.
What is your Attachment Style?
Rory talks to Torrie Hall, who is a final-year counselling student in Australia, working towards her Diploma of Counselling through TAFE (technical and further education), an Australian government institution. This will enable her to become a registered counsellor with the Australian Counselling Association.
Torrie talks to Rory about:
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The BACP has recently updated its competence framework for online and telephone therapy. The new framework recognises the advances in technology since the original publication and includes a number of new competencies, including the professional competence of ‘knowledge of, and ability to work with, issues of confidentiality and consent, including data protection (GDPR) and ability to monitor own digital footprint and that of the clinical work’.
Rory and Ken compare digital footprints with physical footprints on the sand but note that the former is far less visible and much harder to remove. When working as online counsellors, we must therefore try to minimise our client’s digital footprint, for example relating to:
Ken and Rory also talk about the dangers of facial recognition software and how important it is to be very careful with your own social media presence.
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We may be well aware of the value of knowing our clients’ attachment styles, but are you aware of what your own is?
Attachment style affects how we relate to others, and so understanding your attachment style is essential knowledge for counsellors – especially when transference and/or countertransference come into play.
Drawing on the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, Rory talks about the four main attachment styles, and Ken equates these to Eric Berne’s plain-language versions:
Ken and Rory discuss their own attachment styles, their origins, and how understanding your attachment style will advance your counselling practice.
What is your Attachment Style?
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