A Therapist Can't Say That
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S3 Introducing The Kiln Podcast!
Dr. Kae Hixson and I started a new podcast! I wanted to give you a peek into what we’re up to.Welcome to The Kiln, where postgraduate education meets brave, bold, and imperfect therapy.We’re here to…
S3 MBNET: Confronting Interpersonal Trauma with Courage
Over the course of three seasons, we have talked plenty about trauma. And yet, somehow, I have never explicitly described or discussed the modality I use with clients, Mentalization-Based Narrative…
S3 Ep 3.12 - Into the Hall of Mirrors: Deciding What (and When) to Pathologize
As I’ve been trying to wrap up this season of the podcast, I’ve been reflecting, in particular on my conversations about psychiatric diagnosis with Dr. Awais Aftab and Dr. Miri Forbes.I keep coming…
S3 Ep 3.11 - Redefining Psychiatric Constructs with Dr. Miri Forbes
Everyone who has a foot in the world of psychiatric diagnosis seems to agree that our diagnostic system could, at the very least, use some updating, if not burning it down and starting over.So how do…
S3 Ep 3.10 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Diagnosis
In my last episode, Dr. Awais Aftab and I explored the controversial nature of Borderline Personality Disorder as a diagnosis.One of the reasons I wanted to discuss BPD is that it opens the door for…
S3 Ep 3.9 - Epistemic Justice in Diagnosis: Exploring Borderline Personality Disorder with Dr. Awais Aftab
Suppose you polled therapists and asked them what the most controversial diagnosis is in the current version of the DSM. Many of us would likely say Borderline Personality Disorder, and it would…
S3 Ep 3.8 - The Medicine of Intimacy: Embracing Anger in Therapy
Imagine yourself saying, “I am angry at my client.” If you immediately need to add a whole bunch of context and caveats to make that statement feel okay, you’re not alone.Admitting that we get angry…
S3 Ep 3.7 - Getting Into It: Overt Conflict with Your Clients with Dr. K Hixson
Be honest. When you think about overt conflict with a client, is your first thought that it’s a site of exciting progress, full of potential for movement?No, of course not. I don’t either.If you’re…
S3 Ep 3.6 - How to Stop Treating Your Clients Like Your Parents
How can we stop treating our clients like our parents? As therapists, we often share the experience of having been a parentified child, and this shared background fundamentally shapes the way we…
S3 Ep 3.5 - From Childhood Wounds to Therapeutic Wisdom with Dr. Karen Maroda
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: as a group, therapists tend to have some pretty similar formative childhood experiences.Our shared experiences as parentified children not only draw us to…
S3 Ep 3.4 - Therapy in the Shaky Landscape of Contemporary Neuroscience
As humans, we tend to like answers a lot more than we like questions. When we believe we have found answers, re-examining what we think of as truth is inherently destabilizing.In a relatively young…
S3 Ep 3.3 - Unraveling Popular Ideas: Challenging Neuroscientific Narratives in Therapy with Kristen Martin
If you’re a therapist in 2024, odds are you have given a client a neuroscientific explanation for a symptom they’re experiencing or an intervention you’re using. You’ve probably done it sometime in…
S3 Ep 3.2 - Finding Our Place in the Lineage of Therapeutic Practice
Since the last episode’s conversation with hannah baer about the Jewishness of therapy, I’ve been thinking a lot about lineage.When I first decided to do an episode on the topic, I was primarily…
S3 Ep 3.1 - Between Mysticism and Modernity: Reclaiming the Jewishness of Therapy with hannah baer
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: In a group of leftie social justice therapists, someone says that therapy is a profession founded by white men. Everyone else in the room nods along and…
S3 Introducing The Kiln: Revolutionizing The Therapy Training Landscape
Co-conspirator and friend of the podcast, Dr. K Hixson, returns to share some exciting news about a true labor of love.We’ve joined up to create The Kiln, a comprehensive supervision and training…
S2 EP 2.12: 10 Things I Have Learned in 10 Years as a Therapist – Part 2
To wrap up season two of A Therapist Can’t Say That, I’m continuing my reflections on my ten years as a therapist.I’ll be back in April with interviews on some juicy topics, but for now, here are…
S2 EP 2.11 - 10 Things I Have Learned in 10 Years as a Therapist – Part 1
Every therapist remembers their first client. Many look back and cringe at what a bad job they think they did. But for me, I look back and remember the magic I felt in the room with my very first…
S2 EP 2.10 - Client Relationships in the Trenches: The Role of Self-Validated Intimacy
In the last episode with Dr. K Hixson, I said that our field is defined by the wish fulfillment fantasy of the parentified child. The parentified child wants nothing more than to get it right, manage…
S2 EP 2.9 - Immediacy in Therapy: Breaking the Fourth Wall with Dr. K Hixson
Immediacy may seem like a stale topic, but I truly believe that it has the capacity to be the primary tool of magic in the therapeutic relationship.Immediacy is risky. Immediacy is counter-cultural.…
S2 EP 2.8 - Paradox, Love, and the Therapeutic Journey
Inspired by my conversation in the last episode with Dr. Andrea Celenza, today I want to talk about tolerating paradoxes and about love in the context of therapy.In our conversation and in her book,…
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