38. VBT in History (1960s): The Gloria Tapes
In 1964, Dr. Everett Shostrom had a brilliant idea: record short videos of the same person receiving therapy from three top psychologists. These videos are colloquially referred to as the Gloria tapes...
3 Feb 202051min
37. You Can Be a Therapist for $16 (with Jordan Dunbar)
In the UK, anyone with $16 can become a certified psychotherapist and begin seeing clients immediately. If this sounds surprising, imagine how clients feel when they have a bad experience and realize ...
27 Jan 202041min
36. Please Renew Your License
In America, psychotherapist licensure requirements vary – often absurdly – from state to state. What does not vary is the need for periodic license renewal, an otherwise mundane fact that holds forebo...
20 Jan 202037min
35. What is Pastoral Counseling? (with The Reverend Meredith Harber)
The exploitation of uneven power and emotional vulnerability is, of course, not limited to the field of psychotherapy. Today's guest Megan shares her experience of very bad pastoral counseling, and we...
13 Jan 202055min
34. VBT in History (1950s): The DSM-I and Thou
The first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I) was published with the intention of creating standardized language for mental abnormalities. It was also basically a war departm...
6 Jan 202044min
33. Boundary Entanglements
Today's story from T is a cautionary tale about a therapist causing harm by blurring boundaries around texting, personal space, and self-disclosure. Carrie and Ben attempt to hold space for T's experi...
30 Des 201941min
32. When No Therapy is Bad Therapy
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. In today's episode, the absence of bad therapy is indeed evidence of bad therapy as our guest Eric joins us to discuss the impact of showing up for ...
23 Des 201938min
31. How Important is Therapist Attachment Style? (with Jon Hook)
Jon Hook, PhD student at Western Michigan University, is contributing to research on how the coding of session transcripts to determine therapist attachment styles can be used to facilitate better cli...
16 Des 201942min
