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
HELP - My Loved One Needs More care!
Where Do I Take My Child or Loved One Who Needs More Care? What if we tried all the meds and weekly treatments, and it's no longer enough?In this episode, Heleen Woest sits down with Larisa Klein, MA, an Advanced Tr...
Dying for Sex
Content Warning: This episode contains explicit discussions about sex, childhood sexual abuse, BDSM, and death. Listener discretion is advised.Today we are talking about the FX mini-series Dying for Sex, based on the tr...
The Epidemic of Family Estrangement
Family estrangement is a silent epidemic leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. In this episode, Heleen Woest, LPC, sits down with fellow therapist and friend Felicia Wallberg, LPC, to unpack the rising tide of young adults cutting ties wi...
PART ONE: Addiction - Video Games and Screens
Guest: Dillon Robertson, LPC: Email: Dillon@waypointPDX.xomBio: https://www.waypointpdx.com/dillon-robertsonIn PART ONE, we get into video game and screen addiction. Also tune in for PART TWO where we will t...
Everything NEURODIVERGENT - Trauma of Misdiagnosis or Late Diagnosis
Guest: Rachel Ward, PMHNPDo not miss this important information on the latest studies in Neurodivergence. We talk with psychiatric nurse practitioner Rachel Ward about why ADHD and autism are so often misread as anxie...
