The Missing Piece: Cracking Therapy's Toughest Cases
Some therapy cases don't come with a clear diagnosis or a textbook answer. They sit in the gray areas of human experience, where trauma, addiction, neurodivergence, family conflict, and cultural shifts collide in ways that leave both clients and clinicians searching for the missing piece.
The Missing Piece: Cracking Therapy's Toughest Cases is a podcast hosted by Heleen Woest, a Licensed Professional Counselor with years of experience in trauma work. Each episode, Heleen sits down with fellow clinicians and experts to unpack the cases and topics that challenge even the most seasoned therapists: the veteran haunted by moral injury, the family torn apart by estrangement, the adult who just discovered they are neurodivergent, the client stuck in a cycle of relapse that nothing seems to break.
This is not surface-level self-help. This is an honest, clinically grounded conversation about what happens when therapy gets hard, when the easy answers fail, and when the real work begins. Whether you are a mental health professional looking for deeper insight or someone trying to understand your own story, this podcast meets you where the textbook ends, and real life begins.
New episodes drop regularly. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
The Missing Piece: Cracking Therapy's Toughest Cases
Latest Episodes
KETAMINE - New Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression and Chronic Pain
What happens when someone has tried multiple medications, years of therapy, and other evidence-based treatments, and is still struggling? There is actually new hope for these treatment-resistant cases: KETAMINE Treatment/Therapy....
YOUR PELVIC FLOOR KEEPS THE SCORE: Trauma showing up as problems in the pelvic area
DISCLAIMER: This episode discusses sexual trauma, pelvic pain, pain during sex, sexual dysfunction, and difficulty tolerating medical examinations. Please listen with care.The effects of sexual trauma are not limited to thoughts, emotion...
THE BODY - the biggest missing piece in mental health
In this episode, Heleen sits down with Certified Personal Trainer Josh Martin to talk about exercise, mobility, and their undeniable link to mental health. Heleen shares her own four-year journey of transforming her body, and togeth...
