

Reality Therapy
Ryan Rogers
Reality Therapy is a podcast about how reality itself can be therapeutic. While I touch on a variety of topics with many interesting guests, I am primarily focused on the therapy profession. Most guests are therapists or graduate students who focus on observing and analyzing the influence of social justice ideology on this field.
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Oct 15, 2025 • 1h 5min
Julian Adorney on Challenging Bad Narratives
In this episode of Reality Therapy, Julian Adorney talks about the work he does writing for Reality's Last Stand and why it is important to challenge bad ideas on both the political left and the right.

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Oct 14, 2025 • 1h 2min
Mary Grabar on Debunking Progressive Ideology
In this episode of Reality Therapy, Dr. Mary Grabar explains her writings that have debunked historical arguments from progressives, such as Howard Zinn, the 1619 Project, and President FDR.

Oct 13, 2025 • 60min
Sandy Peterson on Designing Video Games
In this episode of Reality Therapy, game designer Sandy Peterson explains his role in designing games such as Age of Empires, Doom, and Call of Cthulhu.

Oct 11, 2025 • 1h 19min
Eric Kaufmann on Wokeness as a Symptom of Liberalism
In this episode, political science professor Eric Kaufmann traces the ideology, psychology, and demographics of wokeness, concluding that it is a warped version of "be kind" liberalism rather than a form of Marxism.

Oct 8, 2025 • 1h 2min
Christine Sefein on the Corruption of Counselor Education
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.

Oct 7, 2025 • 1h 3min
Mark L. Ruffalo on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and BPD
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.

Oct 4, 2025 • 1h 18min
AMHP with Kathleen and Phillip
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.

Oct 4, 2025 • 1h 40min
Social Emotional Learning
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.

Sep 19, 2025 • 60min
Pamela Garfield Jaeger Responds to the Charlie Kirk Assassination
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.

Sep 19, 2025 • 1h 45min
Charlie Kirk Therapist Response Panel #3
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.


