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Good Enough Therapy - Live from Edmonton

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Why You Shouldn't Get Behind On Notes

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Therapist Ego - Live from Kelowna

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Do Therapists Get Tired of Talking About the Same Thing Over and Over Again? - Live from North Vancouver

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Working with Dissociation

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Ending Sessions on Time

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The Role of Emotion in Therapy

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How to Avoid Being Harmful on Social Media

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Has a Client Ever Hurt Your Feelings?

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Confrontation is a Key Part of the Job

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If You Want a Village, You Have to be a Villager

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PATREON PREVIEW: Therapist Red Flags

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Therapists as Wet Blankets

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Touching in Therapy: A Relational Perspective

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It's Not Morbid to Talk About Death

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Where Story Meets Science

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Should We Bring Back Shame?

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The Problem with Therapist Promises and Guarantees

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Show and Tell in Therapy: When Clients Want to Share Videos, Text messages, or Poetry with Us

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For the Record... Neutrality Doesn't Exist

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Our Thoughts on Acceptance and Forgiveness

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Permissive Parenting, Spanking, and The Therapist's Conundrum

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Naming The Culture of Thinness in the Room

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Working With Clients Who Know Each Other

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Heated Rivalry and Why We Need to Know What Our Clients are Watching

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Working with Despair

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Treating Different Clients Differently

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We Wish Your Mom Would Go To Therapy

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What is 'Fit'?

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What Makes Someone a Specialist?

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Working with Clients who Thrive on Drama

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Is Therapy a Cult?

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Therapy Beyond Individual Work

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Self-Awareness Can Become Its Own Problem

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Oversaturation Part 2: Fit and Rejecting Competition

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Oversaturation: Graduate Programs and the Importance of Gatekeeping

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Imposter Syndrome Revisited

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Examining the "Victim Mentality"

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Who is The Villain?

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Working "Harder" Than Your Client

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Honing Your Therapist Intuition

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Time to Grieve

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Let's Talk About Mean Therapists

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When Therapists Miss Key Information

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Working with Intellectualizing

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Are We "Treating" Our Clients?

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Being a Therapist on Social Media

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When the Client Hits a Nerve

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How to Get the Most Out of Supervision

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The Trend of ‘The Cool Therapist’

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Talking to Clients About Politics

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When Clients Set Unrealistic Expectations

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Opening a Private Practice: Our Personal Stories

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Live Q+A

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Working with Discernment

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Managing Crisis (Without Becoming a Crisis Worker)

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What Does 'Following the Client' Mean?

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When Does Compassion Cross Over into Complicity?

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Clients are Lonelier Than Ever Before

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Watching Our Very First Recording: When Edge of the Couch was Reel Therapy Talk

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DEI is Not Enough: A Conversation with Bhupie Dulay and Abby Chow

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Getting Dumped: When the client decides to terminate

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Working with Dreams

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Is This Client Being Passive Aggressive?

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Clients Recording Their Therapist: An emerging trend

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How to Create Continuity from Session to Session

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Erotic Transference

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The Misuse of Therapy Speak

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The Meaning of Silence

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Rethinking Unconditional Positive Regard

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When Clients Dismiss Their Trauma

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Working with Clients who are "Too Emotional"

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Are Therapists Becoming Enmeshed?

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Why Therapists Aren't Talking about Genocide

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Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Love Letter to Ourselves and to You, Our Listeners

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Managing Our Own Shit When It's Activated in Session

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When You Feel Like You Need to Prove Yourself

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When a Client Rejects Us

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Starting and Ending Sessions

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Responding to "I Don't Know"

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Cancellations, Late Cancellations, and No-Shows

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Helping Clients Take Relational Risks

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Disillusionment, Exhaustion, and the Economy: Why so many therapists are leaving the field

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The Differences and Similarities Between In-Person and Virtual Sessions

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When Clients Talk about "Small Things"

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Therapist Boundaries

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Naming the Elephant in the Room

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Working with Shame

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The Therapist as Fellow Traveller

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What We Look for in Practicum Students

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Hardest Moments, Most Joyful Moments

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The Dreaded Summer Slump

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The Basic Skills of Therapy, According to Us

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Q&A: Big Questions Answered

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Sitting with Grieving Clients

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The Unsettling Truth of Bad Therapists

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Clients Who Exclusively Talk About Other People

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Do Clients Owe Us The Truth?

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Being Selective about Clients: Are we allowed to work solely with ideal clients?

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The Difference Between Theoretical Orientation and Personal Approach