Edge of the Couch
By Jordan Pickell and Alison McCleary
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Episodes: 168
Jun 9, 2021
Description
Two good friends and experienced therapists explore the topics that were either shied away from or dismissed because they were too big, too nuanced, too risky, or too uncomfortable to address in school or even in supervision. We want to inspire and encourage therapists to think more deeply, show up more fully, and find humour and self-compassion in navigating the messier parts of being a therapist.
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Ending Sessions on Time
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May 13, 2026 |
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The Role of Emotion in Therapy
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May 06, 2026 |
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How to Avoid Being Harmful on Social Media
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Has a Client Ever Hurt Your Feelings?
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Confrontation is a Key Part of the Job
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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If You Want a Village, You Have to be a Villager
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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PATREON PREVIEW: Therapist Red Flags
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Therapists as Wet Blankets
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Touching in Therapy: A Relational Perspective
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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It's Not Morbid to Talk About Death
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Where Story Meets Science
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Should We Bring Back Shame?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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The Problem with Therapist Promises and Guarantees
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Show and Tell in Therapy: When Clients Want to Share Videos, Text messages, or Poetry with Us
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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For the Record... Neutrality Doesn't Exist
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Our Thoughts on Acceptance and Forgiveness
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Permissive Parenting, Spanking, and The Therapist's Conundrum
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Naming The Culture of Thinness in the Room
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Working With Clients Who Know Each Other
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Heated Rivalry and Why We Need to Know What Our Clients are Watching
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Working with Despair
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Treating Different Clients Differently
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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We Wish Your Mom Would Go To Therapy
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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What is 'Fit'?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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What Makes Someone a Specialist?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Working with Clients who Thrive on Drama
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Is Therapy a Cult?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Therapy Beyond Individual Work
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Self-Awareness Can Become Its Own Problem
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Oversaturation Part 2: Fit and Rejecting Competition
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Oversaturation: Graduate Programs and the Importance of Gatekeeping
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Imposter Syndrome Revisited
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Examining the "Victim Mentality"
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May 28, 2025 |
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Who is The Villain?
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May 21, 2025 |
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Working "Harder" Than Your Client
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May 14, 2025 |
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Honing Your Therapist Intuition
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May 07, 2025 |
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Time to Grieve
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Let's Talk About Mean Therapists
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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When Therapists Miss Key Information
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Working with Intellectualizing
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Are We "Treating" Our Clients?
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Being a Therapist on Social Media
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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When the Client Hits a Nerve
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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How to Get the Most Out of Supervision
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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The Trend of ‘The Cool Therapist’
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Talking to Clients About Politics
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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When Clients Set Unrealistic Expectations
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Opening a Private Practice: Our Personal Stories
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Live Q+A
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Working with Discernment
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Managing Crisis (Without Becoming a Crisis Worker)
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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What Does 'Following the Client' Mean?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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When Does Compassion Cross Over into Complicity?
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Clients are Lonelier Than Ever Before
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Watching Our Very First Recording: When Edge of the Couch was Reel Therapy Talk
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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DEI is Not Enough: A Conversation with Bhupie Dulay and Abby Chow
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Getting Dumped: When the client decides to terminate
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Working with Dreams
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Is This Client Being Passive Aggressive?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Clients Recording Their Therapist: An emerging trend
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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How to Create Continuity from Session to Session
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Erotic Transference
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Misuse of Therapy Speak
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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The Meaning of Silence
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Rethinking Unconditional Positive Regard
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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When Clients Dismiss Their Trauma
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Working with Clients who are "Too Emotional"
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Are Therapists Becoming Enmeshed?
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Why Therapists Aren't Talking about Genocide
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Love Letter to Ourselves and to You, Our Listeners
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Managing Our Own Shit When It's Activated in Session
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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When You Feel Like You Need to Prove Yourself
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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When a Client Rejects Us
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Starting and Ending Sessions
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Responding to "I Don't Know"
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Cancellations, Late Cancellations, and No-Shows
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Helping Clients Take Relational Risks
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Disillusionment, Exhaustion, and the Economy: Why so many therapists are leaving the field
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Differences and Similarities Between In-Person and Virtual Sessions
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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When Clients Talk about "Small Things"
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Therapist Boundaries
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Naming the Elephant in the Room
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Working with Shame
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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The Therapist as Fellow Traveller
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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What We Look for in Practicum Students
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Hardest Moments, Most Joyful Moments
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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The Dreaded Summer Slump
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The Basic Skills of Therapy, According to Us
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Q&A: Big Questions Answered
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Sitting with Grieving Clients
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May 31, 2023 |
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The Unsettling Truth of Bad Therapists
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May 24, 2023 |
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Clients Who Exclusively Talk About Other People
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May 17, 2023 |
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Do Clients Owe Us The Truth?
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May 10, 2023 |
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Being Selective about Clients: Are we allowed to work solely with ideal clients?
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May 03, 2023 |
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The Difference Between Theoretical Orientation and Personal Approach
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Finding Levity in Therapy
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Metaphor and Analogy as Therapeutic Tools
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Parents, Parenting, and Parental Estrangement
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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How Much Relational Processing is Too Much?
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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When Clients Say They Aren't Getting Anything Out of Therapy
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Showing Up When You Don’t Feel Your Best
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Responding to Feedback about the Podcast
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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When You Have a Mediocre Session
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Can Clients Become Too Dependent on Therapy?
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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When Your Clients Take Your Words and Run with Them
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Art of Asking Questions
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Are Boys and Men a Special Population? - Interview with Jake Ernst
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Honouring All of Your Identities as a Therapist
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Understanding Your Scope of Practice
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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What You Deserve From Supervision: An Interview with Jennifer Hollinshead
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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There are Consequences to Therapy
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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What Does Authenticity Mean as a Therapist?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and the Myth of Self-Care
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Using Your Face in Therapy: Sometimes a slow nod or an eye roll says it all
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Worry about Clients (How Much is Too Much?)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Setting Intentions for Second Sessions
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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How to Know What to Say
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Season 3 Thoughts and the Current Landscape for Therapists
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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How to Build Trust
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Q+A Best Trainings, Saying the Wrong Thing, and Managing Guilt for Leaving Agency Work
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May 25, 2022 |
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When You Judge Your Clients
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May 18, 2022 |
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You Have to be a Therapist to be a Therapist
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May 11, 2022 |
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Saying Goodbye to Clients
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Messiness of Therapy - Interview with Tyndal Schreiner
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Take Up Space in Session
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Why Therapists Must Go to Therapy
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Your Dread is Telling You Something
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Own Who You Are and What You Need - Interview with Theresa Thomas
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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How to Do Free Consultations
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Chitchat Isn't Therapy
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Anti-fat Bias in Therapy -- Interview with Alexandra Shewan
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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The Insidious Nature of Competitiveness
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Finding Your Theoretical Orientation
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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When Things Go Sideways
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Holding onto Hope
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Religion, Spirituality, and Ghosts
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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How to Leave Work at Work
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Rupture and Repair
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Reframing Our Fear of Failure and Embracing Mistake Making - Interview with Kat DeFatta
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The Beautiful, Powerful Art of Self-Disclosure
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Progress Notes: Often Stressful, Sometimes Dangerous
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Practicing Joy and Play for Collective Liberation - Interview with Ji-Youn Kim
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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I passed a client on the street! Should I say 'Hi'?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Multiple clients owe me money. Now what??
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Talking to Clients about Sex
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Celebrating Humanness in the Therapy Room and on Social Media - Interview with Taylor Broughton
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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What the heck happens in first sessions anyway?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Moving Through Client Stuckness
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Re-imagining therapy - Interview with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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The Myth of Dressing Unprofessionally
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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As therapists, do we become desensitized to trauma stories?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Can therapists say "I'm proud of you" to clients?
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Q+A Part 2 Dealing with a racist client, processing our own "stuff", and thoughts on homework
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Q+A Part 1 Breaking up with a supervisor, using jargon, and a client says "You're pretty"
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May 26, 2021 |
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The therapeutic relationship is a place of experimentation and affirmation - Interview with Co-host Jordan Pickell
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May 19, 2021 |
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We're all going to die someday - Interview with Co-host Alison McCleary
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May 12, 2021 |
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When you are attracted to the client
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May 05, 2021 |
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When you disagree with your school
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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When the client wants to die
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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When you want to be friends with the client
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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When you have lived experience - Interview with Mimi Cole
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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When you can't help laughing
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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When you are chronically ill
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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When you fall in love with therapy - Interview with Chloe Powell
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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When you are a therapist in a pandemic
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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When the client won't cry
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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When you feel like an imposter
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Trailer
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Feb 03, 2021 |