A Therapist Can't Say That

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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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Introducing A Therapist Can't Say That

Mar 22 2022 2 mins

We're going to get real about what it’s like to do this job. We’re going to unpack the clichés you’ve assumed every other therapist believes, and speak out loud the thoughts you’ve thought no other therapist has had. We’re going to let it get messy, complicated, and uncomfortable. And we’re going to say it’s okay for therapists to disagree, even in public, without im

Ep 02 - The Myth of the "Good Therapist" with Nancy Jane Smith

Apr 05 2022 52 mins

Nancy Jane Smith and I talk through some uncomfortable questions: When you think about that archetypal good therapist that you compare yourself to, is that therapist a blank slate? Does a good therapist take all the most challenging cases? Do they self-disclose? Do they diagnose and write treatment plans? Are they quiet introverts? Do they have it all together? Who is this mythical

Ep 01 - Why I Started A Therapist Can't Say That

Apr 05 2022 15 mins

There is a kinship among people who do this work. Even from the privacy of our offices, we are in this together. So, let's open those office doors and have some fun exploring the things that it feels like a therapist can't say.

Ep 03 - Uncharted Waters: The "Good Therapist" and Collective Trauma

Apr 26 2022 20 mins

The specter of the good therapist has definitely been much more activated for almost all of us during the past two years of the pandemic. The pandemic has made the gap between who we believe we should be as therapists and who we actually are much, much harder to bridge.

Ep 04 - Doing Our Own Work: Mental Health and Workplace Culture with Rebecca Ching, LMFT, PCC, Certified IFS Therapist

May 10 2022 56 mins

Today I’m talking with psychotherapist and certified leadership coach, Rebecca Ching. Rebecca also has extensive experience with supervision, teaching, and advocacy in the mental health field and we’re going to dig into dysfunctional mental health workplace culture, how we got here, and why it’s so hard to change it.

Ep 05 - How Are You Doing? Building A Culture Of Support

May 25 2022 24 mins

There is a culture of silence from supervisors that contributes to the dysfunctional workplaces in mental health. Silence imbues the event with shame and inhibits the capacity to do self-work. So what stops supervisors from supporting their clinicians after a crisis?

Ep 06 - Carrying the Weight of Moral Injury with Dr. K Hixson

Jun 07 2022 52 mins

Dr. K Hixson and I get into some of the big factors that contribute to moral injury among therapists like individualism and the burdens of excessive responsibility that we place onto individual clinicians, and how the larger systems that we operate within prevent us from living out our own values, both as clinicians and as regular humans.

Ep 07 - The Poison and The Cure: Expanding Our Understanding of the Wounded Healer

Jun 28 2022 25 mins

Therapists are tasked with being secret keepers. But what does it really mean for us as therapists to be the bearers of all of this confidential information about other human beings?

Ep 08 - Why We Become Therapists with Ben Fineman and Carrie Wiita

Jul 12 2022 61 mins

Today I’m joined by Ben Fineman and Carrie Wiita, co-hosts of the Very Bad Therapy podcast, and we’re discussing the reasons we become therapists, consciously and unconsciously, and how that shows up in the therapy room for us and for our clients.

Ep 09 - It's Complicated: Why We Become Therapists

Jul 26 2022 26 mins

Why do we become therapists? You wouldn’t necessarily think this is a spicy topic, but it is.