Image: Episode 497 artwork for Skill Issue or Systemic Reality? featuring a laptop on a desk with Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide branding.

Skill Issue or Systemic Reality? Systems, Platforms, and What Therapists Are Still Responsible For

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Skill Issue or Systemic Reality? Systems, Platforms, and What Therapists Are Still Responsible For A payer cuts reimbursement by 12 percent and adds a six page renewal form. A platform runs your credentialing, your marketing, and your client…
Image: Episode 496 artwork for Knowing When They're Ready for Deeper Work. A close-up of a person stepping down to a lower stair appears beneath a dark purple overlay. The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide logo and continuing education podcourse designation are displayed.

Knowing When They’re Ready: Navigating the Shift from Stabilization to Deeper Work in Psychotherapy

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Knowing When They’re Ready: Navigating the Shift from Stabilization to Deeper Work in Psychotherapy A client who has spent months in survival mode takes a breath and says they are ready to open the box. Something in most of us wants to say…
Image: Episode 495 artwork for Your Client Is Not a Category. Four different autumn leaves are arranged across a blue wooden background, with a photo of guest Alex Iantaffi, Ph.D., LMFT. Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide branding appears at the top.

Your Client Is Not a Category: Binary Thinking, Gender Trauma, and Presence as a Clinical Skill – An Interview with Alex Iantaffi

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Your Client Is Not a Category: Binary Thinking, Gender Trauma, and Presence as a Clinical Skill – An Interview with Alex Iantaffi Grad school handed most of us a short stack of checkboxes for gender, sexuality, and relationship structure,…
Image: Episode 494 artwork for Just a Hypothesis. The graphic shows a person writing with a blue pen at a desk, alongside a photo of guest Dr. Nikki Rubin. Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide branding appears at the top.

Just a Hypothesis: Case Formulation and Treatment Planning for Real-World Therapy – An Interview with Nikki Rubin, PsyD

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Just a Hypothesis: Case Formulation and Treatment Planning for Real-World Therapy – An Interview with Nikki Rubin, PsyD Somewhere between the case conceptualization you stayed up until three in the morning writing in graduate school and the…
Image: Episode 493 artwork for What This Work Asks of Therapists. The graphic features a rock partially submerged in calm water beneath a cloudy sky, with a photo of guest Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP, and Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide branding.

What This Work Asks of Therapists: Integration, Not Knowing, and the Capacity to Stay – An Interview with Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP

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What This Work Asks of Therapists: Integration, Not Knowing, and the Capacity to Stay – An Interview with Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP We collect modalities like trading cards. We are taught to be the expert in the room. And most…
Image: Episode 492 artwork for Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide titled “Clinical Depth: Not Tools, Hacks, and Sound Bites.” The graphic features a view beneath the surface of deep blue water, reinforcing the episode’s focus on clinical depth.

The Clinical Depth Principle: Why Therapy Cannot Be Reduced to Tools, Hacks, and Sound Bites

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The Clinical Depth Principle: Why Therapy Cannot Be Reduced to Tools, Hacks, and Sound Bites Tools have their place. If a square breathing exercise keeps a client from throwing their phone across the room, that is a good outcome. But somewhere…
Image: Episode 491 artwork for Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide titled “Burnout Before Licensure: A Supervision Problem.” The image shows an overwhelmed person sitting at a laptop with their head resting in their hand. Text notes that the episode is a Continuing Education podcourse.

Burnout Before Licensure: Why Prelicensed Therapist Exhaustion Is a Supervision Problem, Not a Time Management Problem

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Burnout Before Licensure: Why Prelicensed Therapist Exhaustion Is a Supervision Problem, Not a Time Management Problem Curt Widhalm, LMFT, and Katie Vernoy, LMFT examine why prelicensed clinicians are entering the workforce already depleted,…
Image: Episode 490 artwork for Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide titled “You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way Out of Burnout,” featuring pizza in the background and photos of guests Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD, and Lucy Li, MD.

You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way Out of Burnout: Moral Injury, Compassion Fatigue, and Treating Healthcare Workers – An Interview with Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD, and Lucy Li, MD

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way Out of Burnout: Moral Injury, Compassion Fatigue, and Treating Healthcare Workers – An Interview with Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD, and Lucy Li, MD If you have had a healthcare worker in your practice, you…
Image: Episode 489 artwork for Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide titled “Rest, By Force or By Choice,” featuring a quiet park bench surrounded by greenery and a photo of guest Cecily Moore, PhD.

Rest By Force or By Choice: Burnout, Self-Care, and Sustainable Practice for Therapists – An Interview with Cecily Moore, PhD

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Rest, By Force or By Choice: Burnout, Self-Care, and Sustainable Practice for Therapists – An Interview with Cecily Moore, PhD You were trained to hold it together. To be the calm one, the steady one, the blank slate who can absorb whatever…
Image: Episode artwork for The Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide, Episode 488, titled “Suffering Is Collective, So Is Healing.” The background shows a group of people gathered closely in a supportive embrace. A portrait of guest Dr. Suzan Song, smiling at the camera, appears in the lower right. Text identifies the episode as an interview with Dr. Suzan Song and includes the website mtsgpodcast.com.

Suffering Is Collective, and So Is Healing: Belonging, Ritual, and Meaning in Uncertain Times – An Interview with Suzan Song, MD

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Suffering Is Collective, and So Is Healing: Belonging, Ritual, and Meaning in Uncertain Times – An Interview with Suzan Song, MD If you have spent the past several months trying to breathe your way through systemic collapse, wondering whether…