Light Up The Couch Podcast
1) Professional Wills: The What-If Scenarios No One Warned You About, Ep. 259
Robyn Miller, PhD, outlines the real-life emotional, legal, and logistical burdens that fall on clients, loved ones, and colleagues when clinicians lack a clear professional will, and she offers pract...Show More
2) Before and After A Psychedelic Experience: Integration and Harm Reduction in Clinical Practice, Ep. 258
Dr. Peter Addy, LPC, LMHC, integrates foundational set and setting concepts with core therapeutic competencies to support clinicians working with clients who use psychedelics while outlining ethical r...Show More
3) Autism Through an IFS Lens: Reducing Uncertainty and Building Self-Compassion, Ep. 257
Sarah Bergenfield, MA, IFS educator, explains how Internal Family Systems can help autistic clients reduce overwhelm, understand their parts, and build confidence through self-compassion and predictab...Show More
4) Detecting Dropout Danger: Data-Driven Ways to Keep Clients Engaged and Reaching Goals, Ep. 256
Dr. Keith Klostermann, LMFT, MHC, shares practical, evidence-based ways to use early feedback data to spot dropout risk, repair ruptures before clients vanish, and foster lasting engagement and progre...Show More
5) Ethical Kink-Affirming Practice: Power, Culture, Consent, and Pleasure, Ep. 255
Dr. Elyssa Helfer, CST, LMFT, explores the ethical and cultural dimensions of kink-affirming therapy, helping clinicians distinguish between abuse and healthy erotic expression to enhance ethical comp...Show More
6) Empowering Neurodivergence: Honoring Neurological Differences from Giftedness to ADHD, Ep. 254
Dr. Matt Zakreski, PsyD, reframes “deficits” as different operating systems, highlighting neurodiversity across giftedness, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and OCD (the "big five"), and explores how clinician...Show More
7) Codependency Reconsidered: History, Stigma, and Clinical Alternatives, Ep. 253
Lara Okoloko, LICSW, traces codependency’s roots in addiction culture, exposing the cultural and clinical gaps created when vague definitions pathologize normal caregiving. She then introduces evidenc...Show More
8) When Teens Threaten Self-Harm: Guidance for Clinicians and Parents, Ep. 252
Dr. Jaimee Arnoff reviews evidence-based strategies to help caregivers support adolescents facing suicidal ideation or self-harm, including guidance on boundary setting, safety planning, and recognizi...Show More
9) When Parents Split Late: Supporting Adult Children of Divorce, Ep. 251
Linda Hershman, LMFT, examines how later-in-life parental divorce disrupts rituals, relationships, finances, and caregiving for Adult Children of Divorce (ACODs), highlighting ways to validate their g...Show More
10) Elective Forgiveness in Trauma Therapy: Distinguishing Forgiveness from Reconciliation, Ep. 250
Amanda Ann Gregory, LCPC, offers a critical look at forgiveness in trauma therapy, clarifying its elective role and its distinction from reconciliation, as well as providing practical tools to help th...Show More