Podcast Episodes

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 156 - The Pen is Mightier than the Freud: The Weaponization of Therapy Speak

In this week’s episode, Jeremy explores how therapy speak terms like gaslighting, narcissist, attachment, and trauma have drifted from clinical conce…

5 hours ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 155 - When Should We Speak Ill of the Dead?

CW: Suicide

This week Jeremy sits in the complex emotions surrounding the recent death of Ryan Stollar. Jeremy looks at how we try to hold the tragedy…

1 week ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 154 - Influencer Culture and the Illusion of Connection

This week famed podcaster and friendly neighborhood therapist Jeremy Schumacher talks about parasocial relationships. Jeremy explores why these relat…

2 weeks ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 153 - The High Priests of Therapy

This week Jeremy takes a look at what happens when therapeutic frameworks evolve from useful models into systems of certainty. Jeremy uses Internal F…

3 weeks ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 152 - Sportswashing! Greenwashing! Everything is Dirty!

This week Jeremy talks about the dirty laundry involved in major sporting events, such as this year’s upcoming World Cup. We look at the terrible env…

4 weeks ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 151 - The Memeification of Mass Violence

This week Jeremy peels back a dark corner of the internet to look at how meme culture and edgelord attempts at irony contribute to mass violence. We …

1 month ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 150 - No One Wants To Pay For Mental Health

This week Jeremy discusses some therapy business drama! Aetna and/or Alma are the worst and blaming each other for what is in effect a huge pay cut f…

1 month, 1 week ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 149 - Let the Professionals Handle It

One of Jeremy’s greatest adversaries is the topic today, as we’re doing a deconstruction of professionalism! Hooray! Jeremy takes a look at how the a…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 148 - Wisconsin's Mental Health Action Plan

This week Jeremy goes over the recently released ‘Mental Health Action Plan’ from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Jeremy breaks down wha…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Your Therapist Needs Therapy 147 - Does Reality Even Matter Anymore?

When the news feels like a fever dream, it's easy to ask whether truth even matters anymore. This week we look at propaganda's long history through a…

2 months ago