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Edge of the Couch — 168 episodes
Ending Sessions on Time
The Role of Emotion in Therapy
How to Avoid Being Harmful on Social Media
Has a Client Ever Hurt Your Feelings?
Confrontation is a Key Part of the Job
If You Want a Village, You Have to be a Villager
PATREON PREVIEW: Therapist Red Flags
Therapists as Wet Blankets
Touching in Therapy: A Relational Perspective
It's Not Morbid to Talk About Death
Where Story Meets Science
Should We Bring Back Shame?
The Problem with Therapist Promises and Guarantees
Show and Tell in Therapy: When Clients Want to Share Videos, Text messages, or Poetry with Us
For the Record... Neutrality Doesn't Exist
Our Thoughts on Acceptance and Forgiveness
Permissive Parenting, Spanking, and The Therapist's Conundrum
Naming The Culture of Thinness in the Room
Working With Clients Who Know Each Other
Heated Rivalry and Why We Need to Know What Our Clients are Watching
Working with Despair
Treating Different Clients Differently
We Wish Your Mom Would Go To Therapy
What is 'Fit'?
What Makes Someone a Specialist?
Working with Clients who Thrive on Drama
Is Therapy a Cult?
Therapy Beyond Individual Work
Self-Awareness Can Become Its Own Problem
Oversaturation Part 2: Fit and Rejecting Competition
Oversaturation: Graduate Programs and the Importance of Gatekeeping
Imposter Syndrome Revisited
Examining the "Victim Mentality"
Who is The Villain?
Working "Harder" Than Your Client
Honing Your Therapist Intuition
Time to Grieve
Let's Talk About Mean Therapists
When Therapists Miss Key Information
Working with Intellectualizing
Are We "Treating" Our Clients?
Being a Therapist on Social Media
When the Client Hits a Nerve
How to Get the Most Out of Supervision
The Trend of ‘The Cool Therapist’
Talking to Clients About Politics
When Clients Set Unrealistic Expectations
Opening a Private Practice: Our Personal Stories
Live Q+A
Working with Discernment
Managing Crisis (Without Becoming a Crisis Worker)
What Does 'Following the Client' Mean?
When Does Compassion Cross Over into Complicity?
Clients are Lonelier Than Ever Before
Watching Our Very First Recording: When Edge of the Couch was Reel Therapy Talk
DEI is Not Enough: A Conversation with Bhupie Dulay and Abby Chow
Getting Dumped: When the client decides to terminate
Working with Dreams
Is This Client Being Passive Aggressive?
Clients Recording Their Therapist: An emerging trend
How to Create Continuity from Session to Session
Erotic Transference
The Misuse of Therapy Speak
The Meaning of Silence
Rethinking Unconditional Positive Regard
When Clients Dismiss Their Trauma
Working with Clients who are "Too Emotional"
Are Therapists Becoming Enmeshed?
Why Therapists Aren't Talking about Genocide
Celebrating 100 Episodes: A Love Letter to Ourselves and to You, Our Listeners
Managing Our Own Shit When It's Activated in Session
When You Feel Like You Need to Prove Yourself
When a Client Rejects Us
Starting and Ending Sessions
Responding to "I Don't Know"
Cancellations, Late Cancellations, and No-Shows
Helping Clients Take Relational Risks
Disillusionment, Exhaustion, and the Economy: Why so many therapists are leaving the field
The Differences and Similarities Between In-Person and Virtual Sessions
When Clients Talk about "Small Things"
Therapist Boundaries
Naming the Elephant in the Room
Working with Shame
The Therapist as Fellow Traveller
What We Look for in Practicum Students
Hardest Moments, Most Joyful Moments
The Dreaded Summer Slump
The Basic Skills of Therapy, According to Us
Q&A: Big Questions Answered
Sitting with Grieving Clients
The Unsettling Truth of Bad Therapists
Clients Who Exclusively Talk About Other People
Do Clients Owe Us The Truth?
Being Selective about Clients: Are we allowed to work solely with ideal clients?
The Difference Between Theoretical Orientation and Personal Approach
Finding Levity in Therapy
Metaphor and Analogy as Therapeutic Tools
Parents, Parenting, and Parental Estrangement
How Much Relational Processing is Too Much?
When Clients Say They Aren't Getting Anything Out of Therapy
Showing Up When You Don’t Feel Your Best
Responding to Feedback about the Podcast
When You Have a Mediocre Session
Can Clients Become Too Dependent on Therapy?
When Your Clients Take Your Words and Run with Them
The Art of Asking Questions
Are Boys and Men a Special Population? - Interview with Jake Ernst
Honouring All of Your Identities as a Therapist
Understanding Your Scope of Practice
What You Deserve From Supervision: An Interview with Jennifer Hollinshead
There are Consequences to Therapy
What Does Authenticity Mean as a Therapist?
Burnout, Vicarious Trauma, and the Myth of Self-Care
Using Your Face in Therapy: Sometimes a slow nod or an eye roll says it all
Worry about Clients (How Much is Too Much?)
Setting Intentions for Second Sessions
How to Know What to Say
Season 3 Thoughts and the Current Landscape for Therapists
How to Build Trust
Q+A Best Trainings, Saying the Wrong Thing, and Managing Guilt for Leaving Agency Work
When You Judge Your Clients
You Have to be a Therapist to be a Therapist
Saying Goodbye to Clients
The Messiness of Therapy - Interview with Tyndal Schreiner
Take Up Space in Session
Why Therapists Must Go to Therapy
Your Dread is Telling You Something
Own Who You Are and What You Need - Interview with Theresa Thomas
How to Do Free Consultations
Chitchat Isn't Therapy
Anti-fat Bias in Therapy -- Interview with Alexandra Shewan
The Insidious Nature of Competitiveness
Finding Your Theoretical Orientation
When Things Go Sideways
Holding onto Hope
Religion, Spirituality, and Ghosts
How to Leave Work at Work
Rupture and Repair
Reframing Our Fear of Failure and Embracing Mistake Making - Interview with Kat DeFatta
The Beautiful, Powerful Art of Self-Disclosure
Progress Notes: Often Stressful, Sometimes Dangerous
Practicing Joy and Play for Collective Liberation - Interview with Ji-Youn Kim
I passed a client on the street! Should I say 'Hi'?
Multiple clients owe me money. Now what??
Talking to Clients about Sex
Celebrating Humanness in the Therapy Room and on Social Media - Interview with Taylor Broughton
What the heck happens in first sessions anyway?
Moving Through Client Stuckness
Re-imagining therapy - Interview with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy
The Myth of Dressing Unprofessionally
As therapists, do we become desensitized to trauma stories?
Can therapists say "I'm proud of you" to clients?
Q+A Part 2 Dealing with a racist client, processing our own "stuff", and thoughts on homework
Q+A Part 1 Breaking up with a supervisor, using jargon, and a client says "You're pretty"
The therapeutic relationship is a place of experimentation and affirmation - Interview with Co-host Jordan Pickell
We're all going to die someday - Interview with Co-host Alison McCleary
When you are attracted to the client
When you disagree with your school
When the client wants to die
When you want to be friends with the client
When you have lived experience - Interview with Mimi Cole
When you can't help laughing
When you are chronically ill
When you fall in love with therapy - Interview with Chloe Powell
When you are a therapist in a pandemic
When the client won't cry
When you feel like an imposter
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