

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.
Episodes
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Apr 8, 2025 • 42min
Dr. Michael McClurkin on Holistic Mental Health
In this episode, psychiatrist Dr. Michael McClurkin discusses growing up in poverty and rising to being educated at three different Ivy League schools before beginning his practice in psychiatric medicine. He discusses why he thinks the social justice movement lacks nuance and why masculinity is unfairly demonized.

Apr 8, 2025 • 59min
Laura Becker on Surviving the Trans Myth
In this episode, Laura Becker discusses the dark mental and emotional states that led her to pursue gender transition, followed by her detransition and advocacy for other vulnerable people. She discusses life after trans, including her book, her coaching career, her art, and what it is like to date in 2025.

Apr 8, 2025 • 1h 11min
Suzannah Alexander on Breaking Down CACREP Indoctrination in Counseling Grad Programs
In this episode, Suzannah Alexander describes her experience getting pushed out of a counseling graduate program and her journey to understand how the field became ideologically captured. She breaks down CACREP accreditation, showing that political bias is a requirement to become certified as a counseling program.

Apr 8, 2025 • 1h 4min
Soad Tabrizi on being a Conservative Therapist
In this episode, therapist Soad Tabrizi, founder of conservativecounselors.com, discusses what it is like to be a conservative therapist in a field dominated by leftwing thought. She describes the outrage in the mental health profession over Trump supporters and why conservatives need a place to go where they can be treated fairly and receive quality mental healthcare.

Apr 8, 2025 • 55min
Katie Kernodle on the Woke Hijacking of Counseling Grad Programs
In this episode, Katie Kernodle, a recent graduate of NYU's Master of Counseling program, diagnoses the nefarious social justice ideology that has infiltrated these courses, including mandates from CACREP in order for such schools to gain accreditation. Her knowledge of the ideology provides an intimate "behind the scenes" look at how therapists are indoctrinated.

Apr 5, 2025 • 1h 6min
Karen King on Fighting Ideological Bias in Therapy
In this episode, Karen King of the Ideological Oasis Podcast discusses her work as a Ketamine-assisted therapist, how the therapy profession has been ideologically captured by the social justice movement, and how to get mental health back on track.

Apr 5, 2025 • 57min
Josh Lewis on Classical Conservatism
In this episode, Josh Lewis of the Saving Elephants podcast discusses classical conservatism and how the ideas of thinkers such as Edmund Burke, Thomas Sowell, and William F. Buckley can be applied to contemporary politics.

Apr 5, 2025 • 1h 14min
Jake Wiskerchen on the Future of Psychotherapy
In this episode, therapist Jake Wiskerchen discusses how the therapy profession has changed for the worse, masculinity and men's mental health, and how the mental health profession can correct course.

Apr 2, 2025 • 1h 14min
Gabrielle Turner on Woke Grad School and the Social Justice Takeover of Therapy
In this episode, Gabrielle Turner, LPC and LMFT, explains the political indoctrination she faced in graduate school and how this woke ideology has taken over the field of therapy.

Apr 2, 2025 • 59min
Dr. Elliot Kaminetzky on Standing Up Against Child Gender Transitions
In this episode, Dr. Elliot Kaminetzky describes his decision to take a courageous stand against medical transitions for children experiencing gender distress in the field of clinical psychology. He also details how aquascaping your fish tank can revolutionize your life.