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Basic Counselling Skills

A Student Guide

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Basic Counselling Skills

By: Kenneth Kelly
Narrated by: Craig Whittaker
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A book on counselling skills for students of counselling and psychotherapy

  • High quality reference links to podcasts, articles and downloads to support your learning.
  • Written in easy-to-understand (non-academic) language
  • Counselling skills theory decoded into plain English
  • Bonus downloadable audio files that demonstrate skills in action
  • Listen on your smartphone, tablet or computer
  • The perfect skills book for any student of counselling or psychotherapy
  • Easy reference to complement your studies

In my book, I go beyond offering just a theoretical definition of what a skill is and an explanation of what it does in a counselling relationship.
I share a deeper look into the skills and explore a more philosophical explanation from my own experience as a practising therapist and former counselling tutor - Kenneth Kelly

©2017 Kenneth Kelly (P)2023 Kenneth Kelly Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Student
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As a new student of counselling I found this book to be excellent, easy to follow and well narrated. I would highly recommend for trainees, experienced counsellors or those simply looking to learn counselling skills for an unrelated job (manager, nurse, etc). Having listened to the book and watched some of the authors training videos afterwards I can see Ken Kelly clearly knows and understands his subject, It is certainly a book I will listen to over and over again and plan to buy a hard copy to follow along with. I would also recommend visiting the website Counselling Tutor along with the book as you will have the opportunity to watch the skills in practice which really helps to put everything into perspective.

Excellent guide to skills

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I downloaded this audio version after listening to the Counselling Tutor podcasts. This is a great resource and really helped me prepare for a counselling skills test for a Level 4 course.
I would recommend this for any Level 2/3 student.

A great resource for counselling students

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I am a studying L3 Counselling and this book helps demonstrate some of the basic skills being used, the context they are used in and how they get results when used in the right place at the right time. The book clarifies and reinforces the course material and very easy to follow.

Easy to Follow

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I wish i discovered this book when I was training. Now that I have completed my course, I find that it can be a lonely journey even when you have a support network. This is because the collective learning environment that training provides encourages more reflections. This book however, invites you to reflect on different aspects as you continue to practice. It has also plugged holes in my learning and is a book I can refer back to for refocusing. I see it as the basic foundation of person centred counselling. Thank you for putting this together.

It's simplicity and illustrations

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made councilling more understandable for me, great book to listen to. listened to it in one hit and thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing.

enjoyable

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