Episode 8 Ever leave a conversation feeling good about being authentic, only to spend the next three hours wondering if you said too much? Welcome to the vulnerability hangover. Let’s Talk About It What Is a Vulnerability Hangover? You share something personal. You speak honestly. You let someone see[…]

Episode 3 You learned how to be a therapist. But did anyone teach you how to be yourself as one? Graduate school teaches us a lot. Theories. Interventions. Ethics. Diagnoses. How to reflect feelings, ask open-ended questions, and avoid the dreaded “why” question. But somewhere between learning the skills[…]

Episode 2 You don’t have to become someone else to become a good therapist. Ever catch yourself using your “therapist voice” and wonder when exactly you started sounding like that? Maybe you find yourself carefully choosing every word, rehearsing the perfect response, or trying to embody what you think[…]

Episode 1 You can be professional without pretending you’re not a person. Somewhere along the way, a lot of us got the message that being a good therapist means being a blank slate. Neutral. Unreadable. Carefully composed. A mysterious human who apparently has no opinions, emotions, personality, or life[…]

Podcast Trailer We’re therapists. We’re human. Let’s talk about both. Let’s Talk About It Welcome to The Unmasked Therapist, a podcast where we take off the professional mask and have honest conversations about what it really means to be a therapist. Because here’s the thing: You can know all[…]