Episode 17: Keeping up with social change as a helping professional – the importance of challenging CPD.

Elizabeth talks with guest Dr Peter Blundell, counsellor/psychotherapist, social worker, lecturer, researcher and founder of Therapists Connect. Discussion on the importance of continually learning and challenging yourself as a helping professional in a changing and sometimes divisive world. We look at ways to work on ourselves at different career stages to address our privilege, prejudices, power dynamics and avoid potential harm to our clients that can come from our own ignorance or fear through anti-oppressive practice.

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‘How We Care’ is a series of monthly collaborative conversations between helping professionals for people who care, counsel, guide, or coach for a living (or may want to in the future). We consider what this takes, the challenges, how best to look after our own wellbeing and ways to develop our effectiveness. With combined experience in their fields of nearly 60 years, Paul and Elizabeth are passionate about what they do and the interactions they have with their clients. With guest conversationalists from other disciplines, this is ‘How We Care’!