Episodes 46
Avg. Duration 38m
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Since Mar 2022
Latest Episode Jan 2025

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Therapy is full of cliches. There are things we’ve all been taught as therapists not to question, even when we get that feeling deep down in our guts that the truth might be a bit more complicated than that. Riva Stoudt wants to talk about it. Each episode dives into a cliche, truism, or best practice of therapy to look at how it really plays out in practice. Whether you agree or not, you’ll appreciate a candid look at the things therapists don’t normally talk about.

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S3 Introducing The Kiln Podcast!

Jan 29, 2025 4m Bonus

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

Dec 04, 2024 50m Bonus

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

Nov 20, 2024 26m

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

Oct 02, 2024 1h

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

Sep 18, 2024 33m

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

Aug 28, 2024 41m

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

Aug 07, 2024 21m

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

Jul 17, 2024 54m

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

Jul 03, 2024 29m

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

Jun 05, 2024 57m

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

May 22, 2024 24m

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

May 01, 2024 51m

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

Apr 17, 2024 26m

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

Apr 03, 2024 1h 5m

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

Mar 06, 2024 50m Bonus

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

Dec 06, 2023 21m

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

Nov 15, 2023 23m

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

Oct 04, 2023 32m

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

Sep 13, 2023 1h 4m

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

Aug 23, 2023 29m

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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