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Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide®
Where Therapists Live, Breathe, and Practice as Human Beings
It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection.
To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of a therapist in the modern age.
Check out all of our episodes and show notes!
- How Do Therapists Get Paid?
- How to Scale Your Therapy Practice to 7 Figures So You Can Sell It: An interview with Dr. Nicole McCance
- Going No Contact, Relationship Recovery, and the NY Times: An interview with Patrick Teahan, LICSW
- How Do Therapists Manage Intense Caseloads?
- Bipolar Disorder - How Can Therapists Support Clients and Their Families?: An interview with Dr. David J. Miklowitz, PhD
- Is Your Informed Consent Based on Magical Thinking?
- Is Artificial Intelligence Bringing Bias into Mental Health Treatment?
- Why Are So Many Adults Getting Diagnosed with ADHD and Autism? An interview with Dr. Monica Blied
- AI Therapy is Already Here: An interview with Dr. Ben Caldwell
- Growing Antisemitism in the Therapy Profession: An interview with Halina Brooke, LPC
- Exploring the Danger, Trauma, and Grief for a Palestinian Therapist in the United States: An anonymous interview
- Navigating Religious Trauma, Spiritual Abuse, and Lies About God: An interview with Dr. Jamie Marich
- Do Therapists Lie to Their Clients?
- Welcome to Therapist Grad School!
- Are Therapist Conferences Elitist? An interview with Linda Thai, LMSW
- How Much is Too Much? Thoughts on therapists being too branded, niched, and political
- How Can Therapists Help Politically Divided Families: An interview with Angela Caldwell, LMFT
- Beyond Being a Therapist is Hard Work: Curt and Katie respond to listener feedback
- What is Working Now in Online Marketing: An interview with Katie Read
- What to do when supervision goes bad? A guide to supervision ruptures and repair
- Should We Stop Badmouthing Evidence Based Practice? An interview with Jessica Tappana, LCSW
- Two Years In: Is 988 Actually Helping People Facing Mental Health Crises?
- Don’t Let TikTok Fool You – Being a Therapist is Hard Work: An interview with Sandra Kushnir, LMFT and Anita Avedian, LMFT
- No Cap: It’s Time to Glow Up Your Teen Therapy Skills
- More Than Cogs in the Machine: Bringing trauma-informed principles into the workplace
- Pursuing Happiness as a Therapist: An interview with Stevon Lewis, LMFT
- On The Move: How Run Walk Talk Therapy Reshapes Mental Health An interview with Sepideh Saremi, LCSW
- What Can Therapists Do About the Loneliness Epidemic?
- When Doing “No Harm” Isn’t Good Enough: Bringing beneficence to your clients
- Is Seeking an “Abundance Mindset” Toxic?
- How to Navigate Shifts in the Mental Health Field and Your Career Path: An interview with Dr. Melvin Varghese
- Are Therapy and Coaching All That Different?
- Are You Too Burned Out to Work? An ethical assessment of therapist burnout and impairment
- What Therapists Need to Know About Menopause and Perimenopause: An interview with Dr. Sharon Malone, MD
- Conscious and Trauma-Informed Leadership: An interview with Kelly L. Campbell
- Is It Worth It? Analyzing return on investment for your therapy practice
- Don’t Forget to Pay Yourself and Other Money Planning Strategies: An interview with Carla Titus
- An Expert Witness Weighs in on Therapist Malpractice: An interview with Dr. Frederic Reamer
- Are You Burned Out or Are You Bored?
- Seeking Purpose Beyond Accomplishment: An interview with Kasey Compton
- When Your Clients are Wealthy and Well Known: An interview with Dr. Holly Daniels, LMFT
- When Your Client is a Little Bit Famous: The unique needs and perspectives for working with content creators in therapy
- The Power and the Peril of Pop Psychology
- Is AI Really Ready for Therapists? An interview with Dr. Maelisa McCaffrey
- Are Therapists to Blame for Ineffective Workplace Wellness Programs?
- When Your Client is a Super Fan: Exploring parasocial relationships and their effects on mental health
- What Is It Like To Be a Medicare Therapist? An interview with Gabrielle Juliano-Villani, LCSW
- What Can Therapists Do When They Get a Life-Threatening Diagnosis? An interview with Patricia Ravitz, LMFT
- Want to Fix Mental Health Workforce Shortages? Speed up the Licensing Boards: An interview with Dr. Ben Caldwell
- REPLAY Structuring Self-Care
- REPLAY Therapists Are Not Robots: How We Can Show Humanity in the Room
- What Do Therapists Need To Do About Medicare? Opting in or out for 2024: An interview with Joy Alafia, CAE
- How Can Therapists Take a Real Vacation?
- Religious Trauma and High-Control Religion: An Interview with Anna Clark Miller, LPC, LMHC
- How Much Autonomy Do Therapy Clients Deserve? Balancing client autonomy with therapist skill
- What’s Confidential and What’s a Secret? Navigating “No Secrets” Policies
- Is This My Stuff? How therapists can sort through countertransference: An Interview with Dr. Amy Meyers, LCSW
- Decolonizing Therapy: A Movement - An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Mullan
- Should Therapists Admit to Making Mistakes in Therapy?
- Is BPD a Genuine Diagnosis or a Dismissive Label?
- Dealing with “Therapy Doesn’t Work”
- Is Your Therapist Website ADA Compliant? An Interview with Anita Avedian, LMFT
- We Answer the Question: Is EMDR a Pyramid Scheme?
- Your Modern Therapist Ethics Questions Answered: Digging into the mail bag to identify how to behave ethically in modern times
- Family Therapy: Not Just for Kids - An Interview with Adriana Rodriguez, LMFT
- Modern Therapist Reflections on Preventing a School Shooting
- Why Do Therapists Feel They NEED to be Coaches? An Interview with Jo Muirhead
- Humor in Psychotherapy
- How Therapists Can Deal with the Crisis of the Week
- Making Sense of Insurance Billing and Client Referral Services for Therapists
- Choosing Yourself as a Therapist: Strategies to address burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, An Interview with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C
- Building Your Treatment Team in Private Practice: Essential Networking Skills for Therapists
- Revisiting SEO and AI – Ethics and best practices: An Interview with Danica Wolf
- How Can You Create an Ethical Faith-Based Practice? An Interview with Whitney Owens, LPC
- What Can Therapists Do When Clients Don’t Getting Better?
- Are You Actually Neurodivergent Affirming? An Interview with Sonny Jane Wise
- Liability Hot Potato: Defensive Therapy practices that give clients inadequate care
- Special Episode: Modern Therapist’s Consumer Guide on Thrizer
- How to Provide Culturally Appropriate Care for African American Families: An interview with Mercedes Samudio, LCSW
- The Future is Now! Chatbots are Replacing Mental Health Workers
- The Sky is Falling: How Therapists Can Protect Our Industry, Patient-Centered Care, and Our Businesses, An Interview with Dr. Ajita Robinson
- How Do Therapists Develop?
- Teaching Wisdom: Best practices for decision-making to support your clients
- Does Your Social Media Make You Look Like a Bad Therapist?
- Oklahoma Bureaucrats Want Your Mental Health Records
- Making Every Therapy Practice Profitable: An Interview with Julie Herres
- What is Our Fascination with Anything Vaguely Neuroscience?
- Clinical Work with Sex Workers: An Interview with Jamila Dawson, LMFT and Dr. Theo Burnes, PhD
- Is AI Smart for Your Therapy Practice? The ethics of artificial intelligence in therapy
- What Therapists Should Know About Code-Switching: An Interview with Dr. Jameta Nicole Barlow
- Why Is Therapy Taking So Long? The causes and solutions for therapeutic drift
- What Therapists Should Know About Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: An Interview with Dr. Jamie Marich
- Understanding Your Money in Private Practice: An Interview with Jennie Schottmiller
- Has Therapy Become the New Religion?
- Understanding Impostor Syndrome in High Achievers: An Interview with Stevon Lewis, LMFT
- Special Episode: Modern Therapist’s Consumer Guide on Mulberry Web Design
- Supervision in the Real World: Understanding what makes an effective supervisory alliance
- Sex Therapy with Perfectionists: An Interview with Dr. Tom Murray
- What Actually is Therapy?
- Am I Honoring My Personal Values OR Am I Discriminating? An exploration of ethics for modern therapists
- Addressing Racism in Clinical Licensing Exams: An Interview with Ben Caldwell and Tony Rousmaniere
- Private Practice Planning for the Future of Mental Healthcare: An Interview with Maureen Werrbach
- Penny Wise and Pound Foolish: Thoughts on investing and getting paid as a therapist
- How to Manage Your Practice as a Traveling Therapist: An Interview with Kym Tolson, LCSW
- Smarter than SMART: How therapists can improve goal-setting with clients
- Navigating the Social Media Self-Diagnosis Trend
- What Therapists Should Know About Sexual Health, Monkey Pox, and the Echoes of the AIDS Epidemic: An Interview with Mallory Garrett, LMFT
- It’s the Lack of Thought That Counts: Ethical Decision Making in Dual Relationships
- How Can Therapists Help Couples Recover from Infidelity?: An Interview with Dr. Talal H. Alsaleem
- Why Aren’t Men Becoming Therapists Anymore?
- Why Men Don’t Stay in Therapy
- What is Play Therapy?: An Interview with Ofra Obejas, LCSW
- How Therapists Can Really Help Kids Who Are Being Bullied
- What Modern Therapists Should Know About Law Enforcement Mental Health: An Interview with Cyndi Doyle, LPC
- Medical Assistance in Death (MAiD) in Canada: Mental Illness and Assisted Suicide
- What Therapists Should Actually Do for Suicidal Clients: Assessment, safety planning, and least intrusive intervention
- Risk Factors for Suicide: What therapists should know when treating teens and adults
- How Therapists Can Manage a Sedentary Job: An interview with Celina Caovan, DPT
- Therapists on the Hostage Negotiation Team and Supporting Police Work: An interview with Dr. Andy Young
- Why Therapists Shouldn’t Be Taught Business in Grad School
- What Goes in Your Notes? Interstate therapy practice and documentation for clients considering abortion or gender affirming care
- Speaking Up for Mental Health Awareness: An Interview with Metta World Peace
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: An Interview with Dr. Barbara Stroud
- What Maslow Missed in his Hierarchy of Needs - The Native Self Actualization Model: An Interview with Dr. Sidney Stone Brown
- What Therapists Need to Know about Abortion and Termination for Medical Reasons: An Interview with Jane Armstrong
- Therapy for Executives and Emerging Leaders
- I Just Graduated, Now What? – Career Advice for New Mental Health Clinicians
- What Therapists Should Know about the Rollout of 988
- The Clinical Supervision Crisis for Early Career Therapists: An Interview with Dr. Amy Parks
- What is Parental Alienation and How Can Therapists Successfully Treat it?
- The Practicalities of Mental Health and Gender Affirming Care for Trans Youth: An Interview with Jordan Held, LCSW
- Portrayals of Mental Health and Therapy in the Media: An Interview with Danah Davis Williams, LMFT
- Beware of Scams Targeting Therapists
- Beyond Reimagination: Improving your client outcomes by understanding what big tech is doing right (and wrong) with mental health apps
- The Risks and Consequences of Failing to Report Child Abuse
- Should Therapists Correct Clients?
- Is the Counseling Compact Good for Therapists?
- Clinical Considerations When Working with Asian Immigrants, Refugees, and Dreamers: An Interview with Soo Jin Lee
- Reflections on Content Creation and the Therapy Profession
- What is Eco Anxiety? An Interview with Dr. Thomas Doherty
- Therapists Are Not Robots: How We Can Show Humanity in the Room
- What You Should Know About Walk and Talk Therapy and Other Non-Traditional Counseling Settings – Part 2
- What You Should Know About Walk and Talk Therapy and Other Non-Traditional Counseling Settings
- Now Modern Therapists Need to Document Every F*cking Thing in Our Progress Notes?!?
- Do Therapists Curse in Session?
- Thriving Over Surviving: Growing a Practice without Burn Out
- What’s New in the DSM-5-TR? An interview with Dr. Michael B. First
- How Therapists Promote Diet Culture: An interview with Rachel Coleman
- What to Know When Providing Therapy for Elite Athletes
- Antiracist Practices in the Room: An Interview with Dr. Allen Lipscomb
- What Can Therapists Say About Celebrities? The ethics of public statements
- Working with Trans Clients: Trans Resilience and Gender Euphoria
- Who’s in the Room? Siri, Alexa, and Confidentiality
- How to Understand and Treat Psychosis
- Which Theoretical Orientation Should You Choose?
- The January 2022 Surprise of Good Faith Estimates Requirements
- How Can Therapists Actually Retire?
- Should Private Practice Therapists Take Insurance?
- When Clients Have to Manage Their Therapists
- How to Be Accessible Beyond the Sliding Scale
- Peer Support Specialists
- Is Your Practice Ready for Paid Digital Marketing?
- Conspiracy Theories in Your Office
- Therapists Shaming Therapists
- Advocacy in the Wake of Looming Mental Healthcare Workforce Shortages
- Waiving Goodbye to Telehealth Progress
- Reimagining Therapy Reimagined
- Why You Shouldn’t Just Do it All Yourself
- The Return of Why Therapists Quit
- How to Fire Your Clients (Ethically) Part 1.5
- What to do When Clients Get in Their Own Way
- Are You Even Trauma-Informed?
- The Balance Between Boundaries and Humanity
- Understanding the Psychological Impacts of Leaving Afghanistan, Part 2: Afghan Americans
- Understanding the Psychological Impacts of Leaving Afghanistan
- What the Grief Just Happened?
- Episode 219: Asian American Mental Health
- How to Fire Your Clients (Ethically)
- How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome to Leave Your Agency Job
- An Incomplete List of Everything Wrong with Therapist Education
- Psychiatric Crises in the Emergency Room
- Why YOU Shouldn’t Sell Out to BetterHelp
- The State of the Profession in a COVID World
- Special Episode: Modern Therapist’s Consumer Guide on SimplePractice
- Being a Therapist on Both Sides of the Couch
- At Least 3 Reasons Continuing Education Sucks (Usually)
- How to Stay in Your Lane to Support Diversity and Inclusion
- Why You Should Stop Trying to Convince Clients to Change
- Post Pandemic Practice
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
- Serious Mental Illness and Homelessness
- Fixing Mental Healthcare in America
- It’s NOT a Chemical Imbalance
- Partners of Therapists
- Bilingual Supervision
- Therapy with an Audience
- Episode 200
- Why Therapists Quit Part 2
- Infertility and Pregnancy Loss
- Why Therapists Quit
- Mental Health Entrepreneurship
- Negotiating Sliding Scale
- Invisible and Scrutinized
- Understanding Polyamory
- Overcoming Your Poverty Mindset
- Navigating Pregnancy as a Therapist
- White Terrorism and Therapy
- Taking a Shot at Vaccinations
- You Do NOT Have to Be a Thought Leader
- Malpractice is No Joke
- Marketing with Empathy
- Don’t Take Tax Advice from Therapists
- Therapists Struggling with Darkness
- Noteworthy Documentation
- Grad Programs Moving Online
- Career Trekking with MTSG
- Quarantine Self-Care for Therapists
- All Things Group Therapy
- Online Therapy Apps
- Biden and Trump on Mental Health
- Treating Political Reactionism and the War on Science
- Therapy for Intercountry Transracial Adoptees
- Niche Burnout
- Showing Up for Your Clients
- Irrational Ethics
- Therapy with an Accent
- Rage and Client Self-Harm
- Cultural Humility and White Fatigue
- Wear a Mask as a Therapy Directive
- Starting a Therapist Podcast
- Financial Therapy
- Greater Impact as a Therapist
- Is Therapy an Opiate of the Masses?
- Exploring Trauma and the 12 Steps
- Work Harder Than Your Clients
- Bi+ Erasure
- Reigniting Therapy
- Mission Driven Work
- Therapy as a Political Act
- Ally is a Verb
- Authentic Side Hustles
- Shared Traumatic Experiences
- The Person of the Therapist
- Returning to the Office
- Gaslighting Therapists
- Confidential Communications
- CAMFT Ethics Code Update
- Treating First Responders
- COVID-19 Legal and Ethical Updates
- Recession-Proofing Your Practice
- Burnout or Depression
- The Viral Episode
- Dissociation in Therapy
- You Can't Trust Your Gut
- Unlearning Very Bad Therapy
- Structuring Self-Care
- Suicidal Therapists
- Preventing Client Suicide
- Therapists on Your Couch
- Iran, The News, and Your Clients
- We Can't Help Ourselves
- Special Episode: Striking for the Future of Mental Healthcare
- A Living Wage for Prelicensees
- Get Paid to Speak
- Branding for Your Ideal Client
- How to BE a Therapist
- Making Access More Affordable
- Therapist Suicide
- SEO Guide for Therapists
- Defining the Therapy Movement
- Impaired Therapists
- Donald Trump in Therapy
- Sex and Shame
- In it for the Money?
- When Clients Die
- Who Gets to Have Therapy?
- Trauma Informed Work Place
- Millennials as Therapists
- Therapy of Tomorrow
- Mass Shooters and Mental Illness
- Responding to Mass Shootings
- Privileged and Biased
- All Kinds of Burned Out
- Black Mental Health
- Therapist Haters and Trolls
- Not Your Typical Psychotherapist
- Summer Slow Down
- Creating Opportunities
- Off-Duty Therapist
- Death, Dying, and Grief
- Interdisciplinary Teams
- Field-Based Private Practice
- It's About Time
- Health At Every Size
- Is CBT Crap?
- Neurodivergence
- One Hundred
- Let's Talk About Race Again
- Clinical Marketing
- Attracted Clients
- The Mental Load of Therapists
- Outside Obsessions
- Integrative Psychiatry
- Antitrust for Therapists
- Beyond Selling the Couch
- Joining Your Association
- Managing Chronic Pain and Illness
- On the APA Guidelines for Boys and Men
- Open to Opportunity
- When is it Discrimination?
- Let’s Talk About Race
- Take Action Like a BOSS
- CYA for Court
- Modern Therapists Strike Back
- Millennials and Telehealth
- Clinical Versus Business Decisions
- Clinician AND Entrepreneur
- Agency and School Drama
- Vulnerability, The News, and You
- Ending Therapy
- 21st Century Divorce
- So You Want to Plan a Conference
- Busting Insurance Myths
- Addressing the Burnout Machine
- The Burnout System
- The Neuroscience of Stress
- Therapy is DOPE
- Being Truly Mindful
- A Bit of Advice
- Let’s Get Political
- Bad Business Practices
- Own Your Awesome Business
- Therapy Reimagined
- Making Bank as a Therapist
- That's Unethical!
- Therapists Conducting Asylum Evaluations
- Getting Accurate Referrals
- Hostage Marketing
- Navigating the Food and Eating Minefield
- What Clients Want
- Dating as a Therapist
- Dual Relationships – Pros and Cons
- Managing Vicarious Trauma
- Toxic Work Environments
- Delegating Virtually Anything
- Referrals Done Right
- The Brand Called You
- Building Hope for the Next Generation of Therapists
- Therapists In Therapy
- The 4-1-1 on Your 401K
- Our Take on Texts
- Building the “Psyko Therapist” Brand
- Interview Strategies for Therapists
- Be the CEO of your SEO
- Getting a J-O-B
- Let’s Talk About Sex
- Getting the Supervision You Want
- Be a Better Therapist
- Therapist Safety
- Creating Relevant Ads
- Finding Your Blind Spots
- Make Your Paperwork Meaningful
- Bad Marketing Decisions
- Investing in Yourself as an Entrepreneur
- Finding Your Perfect Private Practice Office
- The Fight to Save Psychotherapy
- Are You Sure You are a Specialist?
- Compassion Fatigue
- Giving and Getting Good Supervision
- What Therapists Get Wrong
- The Dividing Line Between Coaching and Therapy
- Small Town Sex Therapist
- Asking for Money
- Crafting Your Authentic Message
- Managing Client Cancellations
- The New Tax Bill and Planning for Taxes in 2018
- Managing Your Online Reputation
- Getting Personal to Advocate for Compassion, Understanding, and Social Justice
- It’s Time to Think About Your Goals
- The Danger of Poor Self-Care for Therapists
- Bridging Cultural and Communication Differences in a Bilingual Psychotherapy Practice
- A Brief Chat with Dr. Philip Zimbardo
- A Brief Chat with Dr. Michael Yapko
- Reflections on The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference
- Having Fun at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference
- Getting Ready for The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference
- How Much is TOO Much?
- Vulnerability, Mistakes, and The Impostor Syndrome
- Creating an Effective Schedule
- Becoming a Group Practice Owner
- Navigating the Holidays as a Therapist
- Therapist Know Thyself
- In-Person Networking
- Self-Care, Self-Compassion, and Self-Awareness for Therapists
- Social Media and Video Marketing for Therapists
- What is a Modern Therapist?
- The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Introduction
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