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Welcome to Couple Counselling, a new podcast from MBACP Counsellors Anna and Neil Webster. This is just a little introduction to the upcoming podcast, if you like the sound of it. please LIKE and FOLLOW. The first real episode will follow shortly.

Thanks for listening! If you'd like to learn more about our counselling practice, you can find us at:

www.forrescounselling.com

If you'd like to contact us with any questions, thoughts or if you are looking for counselling, you can contact us on:

info@forrescounselling.com. 

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:12

Welcome to Couple Counselling. I'm Anna Webster.

Speaker 0:16

And I'm Neil Webster. We are a couple of MBA CP counsellors, and yes, we are also a couple.

Speaker 1 0:23

This is a podcast aimed at anyone who has considered counselling, is considering counselling, or has never considered counselling, but has a passing interest in how a married couple of counsellors speak to each other when they're not at work.

Speaker 0:37

Each episode we'll be giving you tips on how to use counselling techniques for yourself, how to get on better with your partner, and just generally how to make life a little bit easier. All wrapped up in some light bickering from a couple who've been together for over 30 years. So here we are. This is this is actually us and not the intro that we recorded. Welcome. This is we're doing it. Thank you. Oh, are you saying welcome to me or welcome, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:08

Welcome, Anna. Thanks. To our life. Let me show you around.

Speaker 1:13

I'm interested.

Speaker 1 1:15

So this, what is this? This is a little introduction to our new podcast. So this isn't episode one.

Speaker 1:22

No. This is It's nearly episode one.

Speaker 1 1:26

It's episode zero.

Speaker 1:28

It's the bit between the intro and episode one.

Speaker 1 1:31

Yes, good. Okay. What are we here to impart?

Speaker 1:34

We are here to impart counselling knowledge. Counselling knowledge to a wider audience. Wider than us two. Why is that silly?

Speaker 1 1:49

Okay. So as the intro says, we are wider than us two. We are we are a couple and we are counsellors. Yes, we are. Each episode we will dissect a part of what it is to be a couple from the perspective of being two counsellors. Yep. And also from the perspective of being a couple for over 30 years. Which is what we've written on our website. A couple over 30 years.

Speaker 2:16

Do you have to say over like that? Well, that's the thing. It's quite onerous.

Speaker 1 2:20

Yeah, it's part of our branding.

Speaker 2:21

If you were one of my clients, I might pick up on that. Yes. But how long have we been a couple, Anna? For over 30 years.

Speaker 1 2:27

Over 30 years. Yes.

Speaker 2:28

But under 50.

Speaker 1 2:29

But under 50. We're in that sweet spot. And obviously now, being a couple for over I've got to stop doing that. But over 30 years. And as counsellors, we no longer argue, do we?

Speaker 2:43

I really wondered what you were going to say then.

Speaker 1 2:46

Yes. We no longer argue.

Speaker 2:49

No, yeah. Of course we do.

Speaker 1 2:51

Of course we do. Incessantly. No, we don't. But we have tools. And uh I would suggest that to use in an argument, you mean with tools. I we get tooled up. We have counseling tools.

Speaker 3:06

Where are you going with this?

Speaker 1 3:08

We have counselling tools.

Speaker 3:09

Yes, we do.

Speaker 1 3:10

Um and uh through our work as counsellors, we've learned how to repair and how to get back from those kind of reach reach. Reach and repair. Reach and repair. Uh and get back from those kind of escalated moments. And so that's stuff that we can talk about and hopefully give little tips to people. Yep. Um, we're also both we both counsel single individuals as well as couples.

Speaker 3:35

It might be worth clarifying what we mean by couples counselling in that we What was the grunt for?

Speaker 1 3:41

That was meaningful about what we mean by couples counselling. We could just say what we mean by couples counselling.

Speaker 3:48

You just edit that bit out.

Speaker 1 3:50

No, that's Danis.

Speaker 3:51

Okay. Uh in that we don't counsel people together. As a couple. Yes. That's a very it's not two counselors in the room ever.

Speaker 1 4:00

Yes, we are couples counsellors, but we do not counsel as a couple. No. We counsel couples.

Speaker 4:06

Yes, we do.

Speaker 1 4:08

But not together in the room ever.

Speaker 4:10

They're together in the room. It's just one of us in the room.

Speaker 1 4:12

Yes, that would be weird and uh unethical.

Speaker 4:14

Is this a good moment to talk about also what we don't do?

Speaker 1 4:18

What we yes, good. I mean certainly as part of the podcast as well, right?

Speaker 4:22

Yeah. What do we not do, Neil?

Speaker 1 4:23

Okay, so we'll we'll be talking about counselling principles. We'll be talking about us as a couple. Uh what we will never talk about is our clients. No. Because as part of our ethical responsibility, what happens in the counselling room is entirely confidential and will always remain so, to the extent that we don't even discuss our clients with each other.

Speaker 4:46

No.

Speaker 1 4:46

Because of the ethical boundaries.

Speaker 4:48

No, I have no idea who your clients are.

Speaker 1 4:50

Likewise. So yeah, so we will never be discussing anything along those lines.

Speaker 4:55

No.

Speaker 1 4:56

Uh on this podcast. So that's a clarification. We clarified that we don't counsel together.

Speaker 5:02

No. So this feels like a numbers thing now. Yes. One counsellor.

Speaker 1 5:06

Yeah.

Speaker 5:06

One or two clients.

Speaker 1 5:08

Yes.

Speaker 5:09

Two counsellors on the podcast.

Speaker 1 5:11

And no talking about the clients.

Speaker 5:14

And zero talking about the clients.

Speaker 1 5:16

Zero, that's better. Zero talking about. See, this is why we're such a great partnership. We don't need a three.

Speaker 5:20

Well, there's three people in in a couple's counseling.

Speaker 1 5:23

You're getting a bit hung up on the number.

Speaker 5:24

Okay, I'll leave the numbers thing.

Speaker 1 5:26

So that's us. And each week we will, as well as having a chat about what's happening for us, some counselling tips, some general nonsense. We'd also love to hear from anybody who's listening. Any questions, thoughts? Yep. Uh and the details of how to get in touch will be coming up right now. Well not now, in a second. But thanks for listening and hopefully you'll join us again soon. Goodbye.

Speaker 5:53

Bye. Thanks for listening to Couple Counselling. If you'd like to get in touch with any thoughts or questions, we'd love to hear from you. Or you may have an inquiry about in-person or face-to-face counselling. Either way, you can reach us via our website, forestcounselling.com. That's f o r-r-escounselling.com. We'd love to know. How did that make you feel like