Reality Therapy

In this episode of Reality Therapy, therapist and counselor educator Christine Sefein of Critical Therapy Antidote describes how the academic portion of counselor education was corrupted from her perspective as a professor on the inside.

In this episode, therapist and social worker Mark L. Ruffalo describes his approach to psychodynamic therapy, especially dealing with borderline personality disorder. He discusses the research around these issues and better ways to treat such conditions. We discussed why men don't come to therapy and how the field became politicized. 

In this episode of Reality Therapy, Kathleen Mills and Phillip Crum discuss their organization, the Association for Mental Health Professionals, and the upcoming conference for heterodox therapists and other professionals in the field.

In this episode of Reality Therapy, Katie Kernodle and Jonathan Cogburn explain and wrestle with the presence of social emotional learning in schools and whether this is useful for kids or part of a Marxist plot.

In this episode of Reality Therapy, The Truthful Therapist Pamela Garfield Jaeger responds to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, including her role as a Turning Point USA ambassador.

In this episode of Reality Therapy, mental health professionals join together to discuss the Charlie Kirk tragedy, including Dr. Chelsea Smith, Brant Elwood, Karen King, Jonathan Cogburn, and Robin Atkins.

In this special episode of Reality Therapy, a panel of mental health professionals respond to the recent murder of Charlie Kirk. Participants include: Tony Ziolko, Jake Wiskerchen, Katie Kernodle, Phillip Crum, Kathleen Mills, and Rachel Haack.

In this special episode of Reality Therapy, a panel of mental health professionals respond to the recent murder of Charlie Kirk. Commentors include: Sara Stockton, Soad Tabrizi, Josh Slocum, Dr. DB Palmer, and Jake Freeman.

In this episode of Reality Therapy, scholar, public intellectual, and master swordsman James Lindsay explains his role in the conservative movement to Ryan Rogers and Katie Kernodle, as well as how he has been ostracized for pointing out troubling elements that have been entering the MAGA movement. He points out the similarities and differences between the Woke Left and the Woke Right, noting how both are derived from forms of Marxism that obsess over identity. He discusses how wokeness has infiltrated the therapy and mental health professions, how people are falling into online cults, and how AI is causing psychosis in people who rely on it too much.

In this episode of Reality Therapy, social scientist Wilfred Reilly pulls no punches, exposing the bad ideas coming from the political left and the political right. He dismantles sloppy research that attempts to prove all of society is racist, why most people really don't need a therapist, and why we should pay more attention to existential threats.