Things You Learn in Therapy
Episodes
266 episodes
Ep183: What If Your Greatest Strength Is Connection
Two days before Mya leaves for college, the countdown gets real. We sit down as mom and daughter and try to say what’s actually true under all the logistics: stress, hope, anxiety, and that weird denial that shows up when you still haven’t pack...
Ep182: Growth Is Not Betrayal
College transition advice usually starts with boxes and bedding, but the bigger shift is emotional. Mya and I talk about what it really feels like to leave for college: the grief of changing high school friendships, the fear of disappointing pe...
Ep181: A Practical Guide to College Homesickness and What Helps
Homesickness can hit like a wave, but it rarely means only one thing. When we call every hard moment “I miss home,” we miss what’s really happening underneath: exhaustion that turns everything darker, insecurity that makes you doubt yourself, o...
Ep180: Snoring, Eye Masks, And Other Dorm Survival Tools
Dorm life has a way of turning tiny things into huge feelings. One light left on, one late-night study session, one unexpected snore, and suddenly you’re exhausted, irritated, and wondering how you’re supposed to live with a stranger in a shoeb...
Ep179: Mya and I Talk Through the Real Transition to College
The college countdown can feel like one long shopping trip, but we know the real transition is way messier and far more meaningful. I sit down with my daughter, Mya, as she gets ready to leave for college and play volleyball, and we talk throug...
Ep178: OCD In Kids, Explained Clearly with Sierra Dator
OCD in kids can hide in plain sight and it rarely looks like the stereotypes. If you’ve ever watched your child get stuck on a “not right” feeling, repeat a question for reassurance, or redo a routine until it clicks, you already know how confu...
Ep177: You Can Teach Coping Skills and Still Struggle with Dr. Gerry Novak
The hardest part of being a helper isn’t learning the tools. It’s living them when your own life is loud, crowded, and messy. Beth sits down with psychologist and coach Dr. Gerry “Dr. Sunshine” Novak for a real conversation about why competent ...
EP176: The First Two Minutes
The fastest way to turn pickup time into a power struggle is to start with a checklist: seatbelt, behavior report, homework, chores, questions, questions, questions. If you’ve ever watched your kid shut down the second they get in the car, we g...
Why Boundaries With Your Parent Can Feel Impossible with Jessica Van Der Merwe
The moment you ask for something small a knock before entering, a little privacy, a basic respect and the conversation somehow ends with you apologizing, you are not “too sensitive.” We dig into why interactions with emotionally immature parent...
Parenting In The Scroll Era with Nicole McNelis
Your feed can make you feel like everyone else has parenting figured out and your brain treats those images like facts. That is where the spiral starts: comparison, pressure, overstimulation, and the quiet sense that you are failing at somethin...
Ep173: What If Your Calm Is the Real Product? with Barbara Sheehan-Zeidler
Therapy is “just listening” the way surgery is “just holding a scalpel.” Barbara Sheehan Zeidler joins me to name the thing many clinicians feel but rarely say out loud: our presence is the intervention. Barbara is a licensed professional couns...
Ep 172: What If Your Body Remembers More Than You Do with Scott Stolarick
Trauma doesn’t have to be catastrophic to be real and “it wasn’t bad enough” might be the most common thought that keeps people from getting help. We sit down with Scott E. Stolarick, LCPC, CCTP, a trauma-informed therapist and the owner of Mos...
Ep171: What If Summer Had Just Enough Structure?
Summer doesn’t need to be a “go with the flow” free-for-all to be fun. I’m Dr. Beth Trammell, and I’m sharing a simple, therapy-informed way to plan a season that actually matches your life: your work schedule, your home projects, your relation...
Ep170: Sometimes the Best Conflict Skill is Shutting Up with Paula Yost
Most conflict doesn’t end a relationship. The lack of repair does. I’m joined by Paula Yost, a rare blend of attorney and licensed clinical mental health therapy supervisor, to talk about what she sees when people walk into a la...
Ep 169: Grief Is Not Just Death with Jillian Oetting
Grief can feel like a private storm, but it’s also one of the most universal experiences we share and it doesn’t only arrive after a death. I sit down with licensed professional counselor and advanced grief counseling specialist Jillian Oetting...
Ep 168: Stop Telling Yourself to Calm Down with Laura Sgro
Your body reacts before your brain can explain it and that can feel confusing, embarrassing, or downright discouraging. We sit down with licensed therapist Laura Sgro to make the “nervous system” conversation concrete, starting with what people...
Ep167: When High Achievement Hides Emotional Burnout with Dr. Akua K. Boateng
Success can be a brilliant strategy and a brutal one. When you’re wired for performance, you can push through pain, outwork exhaustion, and even “do therapy” like it’s another assignment. But what happens when the grind starts costing you sleep...
Ep166: When One More Thing Is Too Much with Jacque Tyrrell
One small request can feel like a breaking point when you’ve already been carrying too much and you’re not sure where the extra capacity is supposed to come from. We sit with that exact moment, the “I’m quitting everything” feeling, and unpack ...
Ep165: The Healing Fantasy with Jessica Van der Merwe
You can ask for something small, like a knock before someone enters your space, and suddenly you’re defending your character, calming their emotions, and questioning your own reality. That spiral is not a personal failure, it’s often a predicta...
Ep164: Who Do You Become When You Scroll? with Nicole McNelis
Social media can connect parents to real support and still leave us feeling exhausted, behind, and strangely ashamed. We sit down with therapist, perinatal mental health specialist, educator, and mom rage researcher Nicole McNelis to name what’...
Ep 163: Therapy Without Silos with Essence and Emily
Therapy collaboration gets praised constantly, yet most people never hear what it actually costs, what it risks, and what it can unlock for clients when it’s done with care. I sit down with Essence and Emily Deming-Rivers, two married licensed ...
Ep 162: You Can’t Help People for Free If You Want to Keep Helping with Nicole Liloia
If you’re great at therapy but secretly uneasy about money, marketing, or the sheer logistics of running a practice, this conversation is for you. We sit down with Nicole Liloia, LCSW, to talk about what actually makes a private practice sustai...
EP 161: If You Can Name It, You Can Handle It with Tatiana Rojas
Most of us were taught to talk about emotions with the same six words, then we wonder why conflict keeps repeating and connection feels hard. I sit down with licensed marriage and family therapist Tatiana Rojas to slow the whole thing down and ...
Ep 160: Reigniting Desire and Pleasure in Midlife with Brooke Bralove
Want your desire back without pretending you’re who you were at 22? We sit down with therapist and sex therapist Brooke Bray Love to unpack how midlife women can rekindle pleasure by changing the script—less waiting to feel “spontaneous,” more ...
Ep 159: Seeing What We Miss in Love with Liz Polinsky
Ever find yourself thinking, “Why are we here again?” when a familiar argument fires up? We dig into the hidden patterns that run your relationship on autopilot, and we show how to replace blame with growth by building emotional safety first. W...