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A Therapist Can't Say That
A Therapist Can't Say That
Riva Stoudt

Therapy is full of cliches. There are things we’ve all been taught as therapists not to question, even when we get that... more

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Episodes

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... more

04 Dec 2024 · 50 minutes
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... more

20 Nov 2024 · 26 minutes
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... more

02 Oct 2024 · 1 hour,
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... more

18 Sep 2024 · 33 minutes
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.... more

28 Aug 2024 · 41 minutes
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... more

07 Aug 2024 · 21 minutes
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... more

17 Jul 2024 · 54 minutes
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... more

03 Jul 2024 · 29 minutes
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... more

05 Jun 2024 · 57 minutes
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... more

22 May 2024 · 24 minutes
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... more

01 May 2024 · 51 minutes
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... more

17 Apr 2024 · 26 minutes
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... more

03 Apr 2024 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
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... more

06 Mar 2024 · 50 minutes
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... more

06 Dec 2023 · 21 minutes
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... more

15 Nov 2023 · 23 minutes
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... more

04 Oct 2023 · 32 minutes
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... more

13 Sep 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
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... more

23 Aug 2023 · 29 minutes
EP 2.7 - Let's Talk About Sex: A Humane Approach to Sexual Boundary Violations with Dr. Andrea Celenza

 Sex with clients.It’s an interesting topic because it’s both very taboo and not at all polarizing. Many taboo topics are... more

09 Aug 2023 · 50 minutes
EP 2.6: The Vulnerability of the Therapist as Client

Being in therapy as a therapist, and being a therapist for therapists, is a bit like magicians trying to entertain... more

26 Jul 2023 · 23 minutes
EP 2.5: Behind the Scenes: When Therapists Become Clients with Dr. Elena Herrera

Why is it so hard to be in therapy as a therapist?Why is it so hard sometimes to be a... more

28 Jun 2023 · 47 minutes
EP 2.4: What Happens When Our Clients Encounter Our Humanity?

Trauma therapists are often told that we have to prepare our clients for any and all disruptions to our schedules... more

14 Jun 2023 · 31 minutes
EP 2.3: Normalizing Vulnerability: The Power of Authenticity in Client Relationships with Onyx Fujii and Asher Pandjiris

If you’ve been in this field for even a couple of hours or so, you have almost certainly had someone... more

10 May 2023 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
EP 2.2 Deep Play: Exploring the Therapeutic Playground

For the last few weeks, I’ve been reflecting on the conversation I shared with you in episode 2.1 with Silvana... more

19 Apr 2023 · 26 minutes
EP 2.1: Balancing Goals and Healing in Therapy: Navigating the Tension with Silvana Espinoza Lau

In the final episode of my last season, Therapists As Makers of Culture, I asked you to think about what... more

05 Apr 2023 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Ep 18 - Therapists as Makers of Culture

I’m becoming more aware of how important I think it is that as therapists–all of us, clinical supervisors or not–we... more

20 Dec 2022 · 14 minutes
Ep 17 - The Intimacy and Aliveness of Clinical Supervision with K Hixson

In this dance of apprentice and mentor, we are building professional lineages that will shape the culture of our profession... more

29 Nov 2022 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Ep 16 - Marketing With Integrity

On episode 15, creative director and brand strategist Rachael Kay Albers said something that I have been turning over and... more

15 Nov 2022 · 24 minutes
Ep 15 - Is Ethical Marketing Possible? with Rachael Kay Albers

How do we market ethically? What does it actually mean to be authentic in our marketing? Is there any way... more

25 Oct 2022 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Ep 14 - Growing Into the Light: In Memory of David Schnarch

I have tried and failed to pay tribute to David Schnarch before, but in this episode, I will attempt it... more

11 Oct 2022 · 26 minutes
Ep 13 - Why is Subsequent Therapist Syndrome Common in Our Field?

Today, I’m digging into the contributing and converging factors that may explain just what it is about therapists that makes... more

27 Sep 2022 · 26 minutes
Ep 12 - Subsequent Therapist Syndrome with Dr. Ofer Zur

Today, I’m talking with Dr. Ofer Zur about what he calls subsequent therapist syndrome, a surprisingly common phenomenon where a... more

13 Sep 2022 · 45 minutes
Ep 11 - Anti-exposure Bias in Trauma Therapy

I want to dig a little deeper into the factors that are contributing to anti-exposure bias, and how opinion on... more

30 Aug 2022 · 35 minutes
Ep 10 - Leave No Stone Unturned: The Healing Opportunity of Exposure Therapy with Allison Aosved

Today, I'm talking with Allison Aosved, a clinical psychologist who specializes in prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD and does a... more

09 Aug 2022 · 1 hour,
Ep 09 - It's Complicated: Why We Become Therapists

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

26 Jul 2022 · 26 minutes
Ep 08 - Why We Become Therapists with Ben Fineman and Carrie Wiita

Today I’m joined by Ben Fineman and Carrie Wiita, co-hosts of the Very Bad Therapy podcast, and we’re discussing the... more

12 Jul 2022 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Ep 07 - The Poison and The Cure: Expanding Our Understanding of the Wounded Healer

Therapists are tasked with being secret keepers. But what does it really mean for us as therapists to be the... more

28 Jun 2022 · 25 minutes
Ep 06 - Carrying the Weight of Moral Injury with Dr. K Hixson

Dr. K Hixson and I get into some of the big factors that contribute to moral injury among therapists like... more

07 Jun 2022 · 52 minutes
Ep 05 - How Are You Doing? Building A Culture Of Support

There is a culture of silence from supervisors that contributes to the dysfunctional workplaces in mental health. Silence imbues the... more

25 May 2022 · 24 minutes
Ep 04 - Doing Our Own Work: Mental Health and Workplace Culture with Rebecca Ching, LMFT, PCC, Certified IFS Therapist

Today I’m talking with psychotherapist and certified leadership coach, Rebecca Ching. Rebecca also has extensive experience with supervision, teaching, and... more

10 May 2022 · 56 minutes
Ep 03 - Uncharted Waters: The "Good Therapist" and Collective Trauma

The specter of the good therapist has definitely been much more activated for almost all of us during the past... more

26 Apr 2022 · 20 minutes
Ep 02 - The Myth of the "Good Therapist" with Nancy Jane Smith

Nancy Jane Smith and I talk through some uncomfortable questions: When you think about that archetypal good therapist that you... more

05 Apr 2022 · 52 minutes
Ep 01 - Why I Started A Therapist Can't Say That

There is a kinship among people who do this work. Even from the privacy of our offices, we are in... more

05 Apr 2022 · 15 minutes
Introducing A Therapist Can't Say That

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... more

22 Mar 2022 · 2 minutes
A Therapist Can't Say That
Ep 02 - The Myth of the "Good Therapist" with Nancy Jane Smith
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Nancy Jane Smith and I talk through some uncomfortable questions: When you think about that archetypal good therapist that you compare yourself... more