Your Therapist Needs Therapy
Everyone needs help with their mental health, even mental health professionals. Join us as we have your therapist take a seat on the couch to talk about their own mental health journey!
Episodes
159 episodes
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 159 - Oh No! My Favorite Celebrity Might Be A Dummy
This week Jeremy looks at how celebrity culture has convinced us that visibility is the same as wisdom, turning artists, athletes, and influencers into stand-ins for philosophers, political analysts, and moral authorities. Jeremy uses the recen...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 158 - The Business of Feeling Safe
This week Jeremy talks about one of his favorite topics: safety! Jeremy looks at what safety for our system actually looks and feels like, and how that is different from discomfort. Jeremy breaks down why working through being uncomfortable is ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 157 - You Are What You Eat, Algorithm Edition
This week Jeremy looks at the algorithms we consume. Jeremy breaks down how these mindless math equations actively shape who we become by rewarding outrage, insecurity, and endless engagement over truth and connection. We touch on how the atten...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 156 - The Pen is Mightier than the Freud: The Weaponization of Therapy Speak
In this week’s episode, Jeremy explores how therapy speak terms like gaslighting, narcissist, attachment, and trauma have drifted from clinical concepts into everyday weapons, and why curiosity is more healing than diagnosis. Jeremy talks about...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 155 - When Should We Speak Ill of the Dead?
CW: SuicideThis week Jeremy sits in the complex emotions surrounding the recent death of Ryan Stollar. Jeremy looks at how we try to hold the tragedy of a loss simultaneous with anger at harm perpetrated, and how that gets even mo...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 154 - Influencer Culture and the Illusion of Connection
This week famed podcaster and friendly neighborhood therapist Jeremy Schumacher talks about parasocial relationships. Jeremy explores why these relationships feel so real, when they can be helpful, and how they can slide into dependency, especi...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 153 - The High Priests of Therapy
This week Jeremy takes a look at what happens when therapeutic frameworks evolve from useful models into systems of certainty. Jeremy uses Internal Family Systems (IFS) founder Richard Schwartz (among others) as an example of how authority, ins...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 152 - Sportswashing! Greenwashing! Everything is Dirty!
This week Jeremy talks about the dirty laundry involved in major sporting events, such as this year’s upcoming World Cup. We look at the terrible environmental impact that will make this the worst World Cup ever for pollution, the nightmarish p...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 151 - The Memeification of Mass Violence
This week Jeremy peels back a dark corner of the internet to look at how meme culture and edgelord attempts at irony contribute to mass violence. We look at the recent shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego where three victims died while t...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 150 - No One Wants To Pay For Mental Health
This week Jeremy discusses some therapy business drama! Aetna and/or Alma are the worst and blaming each other for what is in effect a huge pay cut for a majority of therapists. Jeremy breaks down the comically evil way in which this pay cut wi...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 149 - Let the Professionals Handle It
One of Jeremy’s greatest adversaries is the topic today, as we’re doing a deconstruction of professionalism! Hooray! Jeremy takes a look at how the arbitrary and socially constructed meaning of a concept like professionalism serves to protect p...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 148 - Wisconsin's Mental Health Action Plan
This week Jeremy goes over the recently released ‘Mental Health Action Plan’ from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Jeremy breaks down what he likes about it, what he really doesn’t like about it, and questions why more mental health...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 147 - Does Reality Even Matter Anymore?
When the news feels like a fever dream, it's easy to ask whether truth even matters anymore. This week we look at propaganda's long history through authoritarian regimes, dystopian fiction, and how this all affects our collective mental health....
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 146 - The Bible Prop
This week Jeremy looks at two recent bible events in the public eye, Trump reading some choice scriptures in the Oval Office and Russell Brand failing to navigate the worn pages of his good book. Jeremy looks at the cynical nature of these even...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 145 - #notalltherapists
Ugh. This week there’s drama to talk about. We’re talking about the recent online firestorm around TherapyJeff, whose response to CNN's reporting on a so-called "rape academy" website was not good. We’ll cover why the way he said it matters as ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 144 - What Comes Next in Mental Health?
Jeremy tries his hand at being an optimist this week! We take a look at a few possible futures and what role mental health might play. Jeremy questions if the profession is ready (and willing) to pivot into different models of care and call on ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 143 - Sexual Ethics of the Crumbling Empire
This week Jeremy catches up on a sex scandal! And a viral moment from a pastor? But, both stories highlight different aspects of the control culture present both in this authoritarian regime and in high control religions. Jeremy discusses the s...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 142 - Movement, Performance, and Meaning-Making with Mario Ismael Espinoza
Jeremy gets to chat this week with extremely talented Mario Ismael Espinoza. Mario shares their journey from being a professional dancer to moving into social work, and blending body movement and mental health. Jeremy and Mario talk about some ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 141 - Talking Apostasy with Sammy from HaramDoodles
This week Jeremy is joined by the incredibly talented Sammy from Haram Doodles. Jeremy and Sammy are both Borgenicht Fellows and they chat about some of the similarities they experienced leaving high ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 140 - Re-parenting Your Inner Child with Tracy Keller
This week Jeremy is joined by returning guest Tracy Keller, owner over at Firefly Counseling. Tracy was the guest on episode 81
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 139 - Deconstructing Civic Faith
This week Jeremy takes a look at people deconstructing their civic pride and offers the framework of religious deconstruction as a useful model for navigating the fallout. We look at the “American Dream,” “Manifest Destiny” and even “We’re #1” ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 138 - Polyvagal Theory Debunked!?!?!
This week Jeremy tackles the ongoing drama in the world of Polyvagal Theory in the therapy room and online. Jeremy explains why some theories have better scientific data than others, and why therapy as a whole needs to do a better job of holdin...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 137 - Co-Creating Social Worlds Symposium (Part 1)
This week Jeremy gets to talk about an upcoming symposium he is attending. Jeremy shares the conversation starter paper he wrote, “Questioning the Utility of Religion as Moral Arbiter” in all its nerdy social constructionist glory. Part 2 will ...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 136 - Why Are We All So Dumb?
This week Jeremy tackles the rising tide of anti-intellectualism, and tries to bring some nuance to the conversation of “expertise.” Is the Internet making us dumber? Not really. Is AI making us dumber? For sure! But the reality of tools is the...
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 135 - The Super Bowl and the Hollow Center of American Dominance
This week Jeremy looks at America’s favorite pastime of staging a glossy reassurance ritual that the old prosperity myth is still alive! Three cheers for late stage capitalism celebrating itself! Corporate ads sell nostalgia, AI hype, and body ...