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.
Episodes
9 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...
Sexual Wholeness After Trauma
Healing from sexual trauma can feel like graduating from the hardest work of your life, until you start dating again, enter a new relationship, or try to build intimacy with someone safe and kind and your body still reacts like danger is near. ...
Everyone Loves Mr. Nice Guy (But No One Knows His Pain)
In this episode of The Missing Piece, we dive deep into the "Mr. Nice Guy" profile with our guest, Licensed Professional Counselor Dillon Robertson. We discuss the men who have spent their entire lives showing up for everyone else while n...
Mystery Illness - "It's all in your head"
Guest: Rachel Ward, PMHNP Have you ever known something was wrong with your body, only for doctors to tell you "you're fine" or "it's just anxiety"?In this episode of The Missing Piece, psychiatric nurse practitioner Ra...
Introducing The Puzzles and The Missing Pieces
Welcome to The Missing Piece.I'm so excited to present this collaborative space designed for therapists, clinicians, health experts, and anyone out there who is tired of trying to solve their medical/mental health puzzle and getting nowh...
