
45. VBT in Focus: Dr. Scott Miller and Dr. Daryl Chow on Deliberate Practice
Scott Miller and Daryl Chow return to the podcast to discuss their new book, Better Results: Using Deliberate Practice to Improve Therapeutic Effectiveness. Topics include the importance of targeting...
23 Mar 202056min

44. Supporting Clients with Disabilities (with Joy Wolf, LCSW)
What should therapists know about working with individuals with disabilities? In this week's episode, Joy Wolf joins us to share her personal story about two therapists who responded to her disability...
16 Mar 202041min

How Should Therapists Respond to Coronavirus?
An urgent conversation about the role of therapists in doing the most public good during the coronavirus outbreak. Pat Wiita, MD and Farah Zerehi, MS explore the science, needed actions, and social ju...
13 Mar 202050min

43. Specialization and Ethical Responsibility (with Curt Widhalm, LMFT)
This week's captivating story from Paloma brings together themes of postpartum depression and therapist specialization. Paloma offers insight into the harmful impact of societal narratives about mothe...
9 Mar 202054min

42. VBT in History (1970s): Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham?
Philip Zimbardo rode the impact of the Stanford Prison Experiment to international renown. Perhaps he forgot to mention that his famous research was more performance art than psychological experiment....
2 Mar 202058min

41. Less Advice, More Transparency
This week's story from Farah touches on many common themes of bad therapy: disempowerment, unsolicited advice, misrepresenting qualifications, and more. We explore how early-career therapists can be t...
24 Feb 20201h 18min

40. Exploring Bad LGBTQ+ Therapy (with Dr. Joe Kort)
Today's guest Danny shares his outrageous experience of being told to urinate in a cup so his therapist could test if he was really gay. And that's just the beginning of the story. We also speak with ...
17 Feb 20201h 4min

39. Making Sense of Mean Therapy
Today's guest Kat shares her experience with a therapist who was unnecessarily cruel in her approach to treatment. In trying to make sense of this behavior, Carrie and Ben consider the research on how...
10 Feb 202051min



















