Light Up The Couch Podcast
1) The Impact of Growing Up With a Parent With BPD: Paths to Healing in Adulthood, Ep. 262
Daniel Lobel, PhD, discusses the adult impact of growing up with a parent or caregiver with borderline personality disorder, with a focus on mistrust, identity development challenges, and therapeutic ...Show More
2) Brains and Bodies: Neurodivergence and Hormonal Change Across the AFAB Lifespan, Ep. 261
Helen Bennett, counsellor and psychotherapist, explores hormone-aware therapy practices and how hormonal shifts can influence neurodivergent presentations in clients assigned female at birth, with a f...Show More
3) When Sessions Go Sideways: Catching Resistance Early Using Process Coding, Ep. 260
Jordan Harris, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC-S, shares how recognizing resistance as a timing cue, not a clinical failure, can transform therapeutic responsiveness through process coding and feedback-informed trea...Show More
4) 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
Professional Wills: The What-If Scenarios No One Warned You About, Ep. 259
1:02:12 | Dec 10th, 2025
5) 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
6) 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
Autism Through an IFS Lens: Reducing Uncertainty and Building Self-Compassion, Ep. 257
1:01:28 | Nov 6th, 2025
7) 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
8) 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
Ethical Kink-Affirming Practice: Power, Culture, Consent, and Pleasure, Ep. 255
1:02:13 | Oct 8th, 2025
9) 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
10) 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
Codependency Reconsidered: History, Stigma, and Clinical Alternatives, Ep. 253
1:05:20 | Sep 24th, 2025