If The Couch Could Speak

Happy New Year! Join the panel as we embark on Season 2 of IF THE COUCH COULD SPEAK! In this new episode Jess, Kristie, and Sam as we discuss celebrating the beginning of 2024, reflecting on the seeds planted in 2023, and how to make sustainable life changes for a renewed and easy new year. We're so excited to share and connect with you! ***"If The Couch Could Speak" is an unscripted and unedited podcast of mental health therapists talking about life on the other side of the couch. The goal of this podcast is to increase transparency in therapy, reduce the stigma of mental health, and give an insight into the person-side of therapists. It’s part education, part hilarious entertainment. Give us a follow on IG! @ifthecouchcouldspeak Featuring: - @happylilbrains - @paladinmft - @notanothertherapistt - @swearytherapy

We're Back and WE MISSED YOU!!! New Episode of If The Couch Could Speak is live! Listen on Spotify or watch on YouTube! You can visit my website or check the link in my bio! @ifthecouchcouldspeak Featuring: - @happylilbrains - @paladinmft - @notanothertherapistt - @swearytherapy What's been going on the past year? Join the panel in this NEW TEASER EPISODE as Jess, Kristie, and Sam catch up, discuss new life updates, and prepare to launch our pod's new content for the upcoming 2024 year! It's been a long year of ups and downs and we've taken some time off to engage in some self-care and make some pretty big lifestyle moves (some quite literally). Listen as we discuss these life updates and also share some pretty big feelings about what's happening in the world right now. We're so excited to be back and sharing with you! "If The Couch Could Speak" is an unscripted and unedited podcast of mental health therapists talking about life on the other side of the couch. The goal of this podcast is to increase transparency in therapy, reduce the stigma of mental health, and give an insight into the person-side of therapists. It’s part education, part hilarious entertainment.

We hunt ghosts and shit, but like - together. Join us as the panel plays Phasmophobia.  

Featuring @happylilbrains @paladinmft @notanothertherapistt @swearytherapy Follow our shenanigans at @ifthecouchcouldspeak ! or www.ifthecouchcouldspeak.com

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New Episode of If The Couch Could Speak is live! Listen on Spotify and Anchor or watch on YouTube! You can visit my website or check the link in my bio! @ifthecouchcouldspeak  

Featuring:
- @happylilbrains
- @paladinmft-
- @notanothertherapistt
- @swearytherapy  

Goodbye 2022, Hello 2023!
Join the panel as we review what was ass (and not as much ass) from 2022 and what we are looking forward to in 2023!  We explore New Year’s Resolutions, goals vs vision boards vs values/intentions, and how we love/hate each.  We spend some time processing the grief that sometimes accompanies the ending of the year and the anxiety associated with the unknown of the coming new year.  We also explore the whole “New Year – New Me” phenomena and what the difference is between being assertive and being an asshole (Be sure to check out our amazing role play lol).

"If The Couch Could Speak" is an unscripted and unedited podcast of mental health therapists talking about life on the other side of the couch. The goal of this podcast is to increase transparency in therapy, reduce the stigma of mental health, and give an insight into the person-side of therapists. It’s part education, part hilarious entertainment.

This week we interview Santa! Join us for an extra special holiday episode. 

- tarot pull in lieu of spideys 

- what is spirituality 

- Jung and Tarot 

- what we were taught about spirituality in the sense of our jobs/fields 

- how we use it now in sessions

Join us as the panel plays Phasmophobia. Featuring: Amber Thomason - Video Game Consultant.

Therapy can be scary (we promise it's not!), but this week, we get downright spooky. Join us for our special Halloween episode as we explore unethical therapy that is so yikes it's scary, play who's that serial killer, learn about the psychology side of serial killers, explore the sensationalism of murder, and a special pet costume party. Definitely a ghoulish time you don't want to miss. . Join us on the couch at: Spotify, Anchor, YouTube. Stay tuned on @ifthecouchcouldspeak or www.ifthecouchcouldspeak.com for updates on what we'll be exploring next.

 what is the differences of our licensure &/or degree paths? why did we pick what we did? what are the different paths and ways to go about becoming a therapist or counselor? is there a difference between lmft and lpcc? what about phd and psyd?  spidey: practicing outside scope

Join us as we explore our experiences with shitty supervision, what it looks like, and how to navigate through/out of it.

Coming soon: Exploring sex in therapy

This week we welcome back the amazing @MamaFoxfire to interview the panel :)

Coming up: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby - Exploring Sex in Therapy

Join us as we explore red flags:
- what are some red flags when looking for a therapist

- what are some red flags we look for when looking for our own therapists

- red flags we've seen in our fields

Coming up: exploring sex in therapy

This episode, we explore daddy issues - good, bad, and good intention/shitty execution of popular dads from pop culture and explore what we'd work on if they were our clients. 

-Intro of Anime

 -Define anime (origin) manga, and cosplay  

-How Anime explores mental health  

-What is everyone's cosplay?  

-What is your experience with anime/manga/cosplay & mental health?

This week, our host Carissa explores culture. What is it? What does it look like in therapy? How do you go about addressing this in session? How can you be an advocate and ally in respect to culture?

COMING SOON: Special anime episode hosted by Sam. 

Host: Jessica Ehrman, LMFT
This week we explore psychedelic therapy - what is it? how is it done? pros and cons?

This week, our host Kristie explores Imposter Syndrome - what is it, how do we manage it, do clinicians experience it too?

This week, Carissa and Jess explore geek therapy - what is it, how do we use it in session, video game addiction, and the benefits of gaming as a whole. 

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than to meet the fur babies we love the most?! This episode we also explore unethical associates, animal assisted therapy, service animals, and emotional support animals. 

This week, we absolutely talk about Bruno! This episode is all about exploring Encanto. Join us next time for an extra special episode: meet the pets of the panel! We will also explore animals in therapy. 

This week we explore what happens when others find out we're a therapist, how we handle emotion dumping in social situations, and dating as a therapist. Join us next week as we explore the movie Encanto. 

On today's very special episode of If The Couch Could Speak, the gang first spends an hour playing a hilarious game and then later gets into a fascinating Spider Pages discussion! Oh, most of the panelists either start under the influence, or head there during this late-night recording. Join us for the longest, and probably most amazing, episode we've done to date.

This week, the panel is interviewed by MommaFoxFire. Join us as we explore our experiences as therapists, pet peeves, what we love hearing in session, how we got here, and more!

This week we explore unethical couple's work, our experiences navigating the bureaucracy of our fields, our gratitudes for our work, and what boundaries we would enforce if we could.

This week we explore unethical dual relationships, what we're known for but never intended, and nostalgic games from our childhoods.

This week is our halloween episode! Join us as we explore scary disciplinary/unethical cases, our scariest moments as therapists, and the treats of what we do. Take a look at us on youtube (@happylilbrains) to see our costumes. 

This week we explore the importance of therapists having their own therapy, keeping a poker face in session, and what we'd be doing if we weren't therapists.

This week we explore: who we are and what we do, lessons from grad school, the spider pages of CAMFT, ethics, our dream offices, and the craziness of mental health.