audiobook – Iain Douglas Stewart

The Mission – updated

By Iain 11 May 2021The MissionNo Comments

So I had a look at my old plans and it was glaringly obvious why I was drifting, rudderless. Apart from learning to drive and buying a car, and taking the next step in my counselling journey, I'd ticked off everything that was possible to tick off. And even then, there are plans in place to complete those objectives. A…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 10th April 2020

By Iain 10 April 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Research is an interesting aspect of counselling and psychotherapy, and I think it is very important. It is essentially a sphere of knowledge that exists parallel to your own body of knowledge as a person and as a counsellor, and overlaps in places. Research, or “finding out what works” has created talking therapies and its different modalities and theories, and…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 27th March 2020

By Iain 27 March 2020Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

Due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, there was no college last week, or this week. Last week I caught up on my work, wrote up my thoughts on the case studies, but it did feel a little odd. It was hard to concentrate. It is still hard to concentrate to be honest. It’s taken me until now to properly formulate…

L3CiCS Reflective Diary – 8th November 2019

By Iain 8 November 2019Qualifications courseworkNo Comments

We were still working on diversity, discrimination and prejudice this week. Our tutor asked us to discover all the ways (both positive and negative) in which diversity can impact on the counselling relationship, which allowed us to consider how to take diversity issues into account when developing a counselling relationship. The most obvious negative one is a counsellor being unable…