
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
111 episodes
Your Therapist Needs Therapy 111 - Good Riddance to James Dobson
This week Jeremy celebrates the death of awful human, James Dobson. James Dobson built Focus on the Family into one of the most powerful engines of evangelical control, peddling authoritarian parenting, rigid gender roles, and relentle...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 110 - Play, Pleasure, and Permission with Veronica Dress
Jeremy is joined this week by certified sex educator Veronica Dress. Veronica shares her journey from growing up with Catholic sex misinformation to becoming a queer, trauma-informed sex educator and intimacy coach. She and Jeremy discuss the p...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 109 - From Savior Complex to Healthy Boundaries with Jane Kennedy
Jeremy is joined this week by Australian therapist Jane Kennedy, who shares her journey from church ministry and humanitarian work into private practice specializing in religious trauma, exploring how burnout, deconstruction, and the “white sav...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 108 - Deconstruction Drama or Ethical Red Flag With Emily Maynard
This week Jeremy is joined by returning guest Emily Maynard to unpack the ethical complaints against Dr. Laura Anderson, a prominent figure in the deconstruction space. Together they explore the nuance between licensed therapy and coaching, the...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 107 - Touch Not God's Annointed Predator
This week Jeremy looks at how the church covers up abuse and protects predators, and how those same tactics of spiritual bypassing and DARVO are being employed by Mike Johnson to protect our pedophile in chief. We look at examples of institutio...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 106 - Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism with Spencer Sunshine
This week Jeremy is joined by very special guest Dr Spencer Sunshine, author of Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: Th...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 105 - What Too Many Therapists Are Getting Wrong
In this week’s episode, Jeremy Schumacher vents about systemic and interpersonal failures in the therapy profession, from exploitative 1099 contracts to outdated, trauma-ignoring treatment models. He critiques how therapists perpetuate harm by ...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 104 - Normalizing Evil: The Overton Window’s Lurch Right
In this episode Jeremy unpacks the Overton Window—a concept describing how public discourse shifts to define what's acceptable—and how it's been deliberately dragged rightward by fascists, religious zealots, and media oligarchs. Jeremy links th...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 103 - Religious Trauma Peer Support
This week Jeremy takes a break from celebrating his birthday to share the upcoming religious trauma peer support group. This has been in the works for a bit, and launches in July! You can sign up directly
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 102 - The System Wasn’t Made For Us with Sara Rahn
In this episode of Your Therapist Needs Therapy, Jeremy Schumacher interviews Sara Rahn, a Milwaukee-based trauma therapist and advocate for disability representation in mental health care. Sara shares her personal journey into the field, shape...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 101 - Pride is Still a Protest
In this solo Pride Month episode Jeremy reflects on Pride as both protest and celebration, emphasizing its radical roots and the urgent need for resistance against rising authoritarianism and anti-LGBTQ+ policies. He shares his experience at Mi...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 100 - The Eminently Excellent Emily Extravaganza
Jeremy is graced by some of the coolest therapists he knows, who all are returning guests, who also all happen to be named Emily. So much cool conversation, we talk about the paperwork drain of therapy, the lack of modern society to hold and re...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 99 - Q&A
The internet has therapy related questions, and I offer some answers! Jeremy has all his practice info at Wellness with Jer, and you can find him on
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 98 - Life Lessons We Don’t Learn in Grad School with Polly Sackett
Jeremy is joined this week by Polly Sackett from Firefly Counseling. Jeremy and Polly talk about her winding path into the mental health field, and how her lived experience, including navigating motherhood, experiencing grief, and discovering s...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 97 - AAMFT’s Guidelines for Ethical Gender-Affirming Care
Jeremy drops in this week looking at the recent guidelines released by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapist (AAMFT) for working with Trans, Non-Binary, and/or Gender Expansive (TNBGE) clients. It’s a really good set of guid...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 96 - Being Present in the Moment with Madeline Bush
Jeremy is joined this week by fellow Milwaukee therapist, Madeline Bush. Jeremy and Madeline explore her journey from early service work to private practice, where she now focuses on adult individuals and couples. Together, they dig into the re...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 95 - Autism, Ableism, and the Authoritarian Idiots: RFK Jr Edition
This week Jeremy rips into the dangerous rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now head of Health and Human Services, calling out his long history of anti-science rhetoric, profiteering from antivax movements, and proposed policies that threaten neuro...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 94 - Healing Belongs to the People with Bruno Lenzi
Jeremy is joined this week by a fellow therapist, community organizer, and honestly one of his favorite humans, Bruno Lenzi. Jeremy and Bruno talk about the power of collaborative and dialogical therapy, community healing, and resisting colonia...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 93 - Goodbye Church to Goodbye Earl, A Healing Journey with Emily Maynard
Jeremy is joined this week by the incredibly insightful Emily Maynard. Jeremy and Emily talk about the journey to doing religious trauma work, the emotional cost of working in broken systems, and why private practice can be both liberating and ...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 92 - Doing Trauma Work in a Traumatizing Society with Emily Lapolice
Jeremy is joined this week by returning guest Emily Lapolice from Integrative Wellness Therapies. Jeremy and Emily dive into the importance of unlearning harmful narratives around productivity, especially ...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 91 - The Bearded Therapist Talks Masculinity
In this episode, Jeremy breaks down the toxic masculinity grift peddled by guys like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Jordan Peterson. We look at how these so-called "alpha males" profit off insecurity, why their version of masculinity is just a perfo...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 90 - Autism Doesn’t Cause Nazi Salutes
This week Jeremy discusses Elon Musk's public persona, arguing that his behavior is not a result of ketamine use or autism but rather his long-standing personality and privilege. He critiques Musk’s exploitation of wealth, right-wing political ...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 89 - Media Complicity in the Christian Nationalist Grift
In this solo episode of Your Therapist Needs Therapy, Jeremy explores the historical and ongoing intersections of Christian nationalism, white supremacy, and the media’s complicity in spreading disinformation, particularly within right...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 88 - It’s Not Christian. It’s Not Nationalism.
This week Jeremy talks about the inherent paradox of “Christian Nationalism,” and how that phrase very intentionally doesn’t mean much of anything at all. We also follow some rabbit holes of the Christian Nationalist Crusade and early American ...
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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 87 - Balancing Advocacy and Wellness with Kate Sayers
This week Jeremy reconnects with Kate Sayers, a therapist and owner of Safe Space MKE. They discuss Kate's recent certification with WPATH, an organization supporting transgender health, and the importance of advocacy in their profession. The c...
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