A Therapist Can't Say That

A Therapist Can't Say That

Therapy is full of cliches. There are things we’ve all been taught as therapists not to question, even when we get that feeling deep down in our guts that the truth might be a bit more complicated than that. Riva Stoudt wants to talk about it. Each episode dives into a cliche, truism, or best practice of therapy to look at how it really plays out in practice. Whether you agree or not, you’ll appreciate a candid look at the things therapists don’t normally talk about.

Autor: Riva Stoudt

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29 hr 47 min

Último Episodio: 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 or discussed the modality I use with clients, Mentalization-Based Narrative Exposure Therapy (MBNET).MBNET is a methodology that Dr. Kae Hixson and I synthesized from two different approaches that we were independently trained in, and it’s what we teach at The Kiln.On today’s bonus episode, Dr. Hixson joins me to get into how we arrived at this blended model for treating patients struggling with complex interpersonal trauma.Listen to the full episode to hear:How MBNET builds on existing research and frameworks to create a novel approach designed explicitly for interpersonal traumaWhy complex interpersonal trauma needs an approach that addresses incidents across the lifespanHow MBNET provides tools to intervene in client avoidance of traumatic memoriesHow the concept of traumatic mind mapping explains and addresses the depth and severity of interpersonal traumaWhy we believe …

Publicado: 4 de diciembre de 2024 | Duración: 50 min


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MBNET: Confronting Interpersonal Trauma with Courage
04 Dic, 2024

Over the course of three seasons, we have talked plenty about trauma. And yet, somehow, I have never explicitly described or discussed the modality I use with clients, Mentalization-Based Narrative Exposure Therapy (MBNET).MBNET is a methodology that Dr. Kae Hixson …

Duración: 50 min
Ep 3.12 - Into the Hall of Mirrors: Deciding What (and When) to Pathologize
20 Nov, 2024

As I’ve been trying to wrap up this season of the podcast, I’ve been reflecting, in particular on my conversations about psychiatric diagnosis with Dr. Awais Aftab and Dr. Miri Forbes.I keep coming back to this question: How do we …

Duración: 26 min
Ep 3.11 - Redefining Psychiatric Constructs with Dr. Miri Forbes
02 Oct, 2024

Everyone who has a foot in the world of psychiatric diagnosis seems to agree that our diagnostic system could, at the very least, use some updating, if not burning it down and starting over.So how do we approach developing constructs …

Duración: 1 hr 0 min
Ep 3.10 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Diagnosis
18 Sep, 2024

In my last episode, Dr. Awais Aftab and I explored the controversial nature of Borderline Personality Disorder as a diagnosis.One of the reasons I wanted to discuss BPD is that it opens the door for digging into psychiatric diagnosis itself, …

Duración: 33 min
Ep 3.9 - Epistemic Justice in Diagnosis: Exploring Borderline Personality Disorder with Dr. Awais Aftab
28 Ago, 2024

Suppose you polled therapists and asked them what the most controversial diagnosis is in the current version of the DSM. Many of us would likely say Borderline Personality Disorder, and it would certainly be in almost everybody's top three.I’ve been …

Duración: 41 min
Ep 3.8 - The Medicine of Intimacy: Embracing Anger in Therapy
07 Ago, 2024

Imagine yourself saying, “I am angry at my client.” If you immediately need to add a whole bunch of context and caveats to make that statement feel okay, you’re not alone.Admitting that we get angry with clients is uncomfortable. It’s …

Duración: 21 min
Ep 3.7 - Getting Into It: Overt Conflict with Your Clients with Dr. K Hixson
17 Jul, 2024

Be honest. When you think about overt conflict with a client, is your first thought that it’s a site of exciting progress, full of potential for movement?No, of course not. I don’t either.If you’re like me, and I’m guessing a …

Duración: 54 min
Ep 3.6 - How to Stop Treating Your Clients Like Your Parents
03 Jul, 2024

How can we stop treating our clients like our parents? As therapists, we often share the experience of having been a parentified child, and this shared background fundamentally shapes the way we practice therapy, creating a unique bond and understanding …

Duración: 29 min
Ep 3.5 - From Childhood Wounds to Therapeutic Wisdom with Dr. Karen Maroda
05 Jun, 2024

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: as a group, therapists tend to have some pretty similar formative childhood experiences.Our shared experiences as parentified children not only draw us to this field, but according to today’s guest, they …

Duración: 57 min
Ep 3.4 - Therapy in the Shaky Landscape of Contemporary Neuroscience
22 May, 2024

As humans, we tend to like answers a lot more than we like questions. When we believe we have found answers, re-examining what we think of as truth is inherently destabilizing.In a relatively young field like neuroscience, paradigm shifts, misconceptions, …

Duración: 24 min