The Podcast
Wait... can you say that?!
For a field that prides itself on helping people talk about things that nobody else talks about, there are a lot of things we don’t talk about. And by "we," I mean therapists. Things that don’t fit with the image of the “good therapist” that lives in our heads—or in the heads of other therapists.
On A Therapist Can’t Say That, we get real about what it’s really like to do this job.
We’re going to unpack the cliches you’ve assumed every other therapist believes, and speak out loud the thoughts you’ve thought no other therapist has had. We’re going to let it get messy, complicated, and uncomfortable. And we’re going to say it’s okay for therapists to disagree—even in public—without immediately accusing each other of being unethical.
Season 2 Ep 6: The Vulnerability of the Therapist as Client
Being in therapy as a therapist, and being a therapist for therapists, is a bit like magicians trying to entertain each other. We’ve studied the tricks and techniques. We’ve seen behind the curtain and we can’t pretend otherwise.
Season 2 Ep 5: Behind the Scenes: When Therapists Become Clients with Dr. Elena Herrera
Why is it so hard to be in therapy as a therapist? Why is it so hard sometimes to be a therapist for other therapists? I’ve been wanting to do an episode on therapists as clients since I conceived of this show, so I’m excited to share my conversation with Dr. Elena Herrera today.
Season 2 Ep 4: What Happens When Our Clients Encounter Our Humanity?
I’m digging into why it feels so vulnerable to share our life circumstances with our clients, why our fears of rupture when we have to might be exaggerated, and how cultural expectations of therapists as aspirational figures impact how our clients perceive us and what we do.
Season 2 Ep 3: Normalizing Vulnerability: The Power of Authenticity in Client Relationships with Onyx Fujii and Asher Pandjiris
What opportunities for connection with our clients are being lost when we perform what today’s guests describe as a “constructed state of perpetual well-being?”
Season 2 Ep 2: Deep Play: Exploring the Therapeutic Playground
When you set out to look at the topic of setting goals in therapy in anything more than a superficial light, you relatively quickly start running into the question of what therapy is.
Season 2 Ep 1: Balancing Goals and Healing in Therapy: Navigating the Tension with Silvana Espinoza Lau
Silvana Espinoza Lau and I talk about how we determine and assess where we’re actually trying to go with clients, the importance of paying attention to all of the different agendas that inform a client’s stated goals, and how we can use connection and curiosity as our guideposts.
Season 1 Ep 18: Therapists as Makers of Culture
I’m becoming more aware of how important I think it is that as therapists–all of us, clinical supervisors or not–we cultivate an understanding of ourselves as makers of culture.
Season 1 Ep 17: The Intimacy and Aliveness of Clinical Supervision with K Hixson
Dr. K Hixson has made clinical supervision and training supervisors a cornerstone of their practice, and the conversation you're going to hear us having today is born out of a shared vision for what clinical supervision has the potential to be.
Season 1 Ep 16: Marketing With Integrity
On episode 15, creative director and brand strategist Rachael Kay Albers said something that I have been turning over and over in my mind since: Marketing artificially accelerates the pace of human relationships.
Season 1 Ep 15: Is Ethical Marketing Possible? with Rachael Kay Albers
How do we market ethically? What does it actually mean to be authentic in our marketing? Is there any way to do this without feeling icky or like we’re selling ourselves?
