A Conversation with the Reluctant Therapist
Hosted by The Reluctant Therapist · KCBX
4.8from 38 ratings
- 131
- Episodes
- 38
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 5B
- YouTube views
About A Conversation with the Reluctant Therapist
The Reluctant Therapist, Elizabeth Barrett, leads a conversation about the state of our collective mental health and the ways in which our helping professions are either aiding or getting in the way of our cultural well-being. With so many social services, treatments and programs available—why are we all still struggling in so many ways?
- Publisher
- KCBX
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
38 of 131 episodes have a transcript.
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How to Share Difficult Feelings
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Service as the Antidote for Despair
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Assessing your Mental Load with Zach Watson
Inside a recent episode
How to Share Difficult Feelings
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it opens a door and brings a depth to that relationship that you never imagined being there. And so you think, well, if there's just positives in opening up and sharing our fears or asking for comfort or disclosing something that's going on this, why, why don't we do it? Well, because there are five common things that hold us back from self-disclosing. opening up to other people the first is the fear of intensity you know once we say something out loud then that thing becomes true if you say out loud I have a cancer diagnosis or I'm suffering from depression or I'm having suicidal thoughts or I don't know if I can continue this relationship the fear of the intensity of once that comes out of my mouth what do I do with that truth once it's out there and it's real and so the instinct is to hold that in the second bit of reluctance is the fear of disintegration. […]
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- Kristen Bennett
- Zach Watson
- Ben Morrison
- Michele Weiner-Davis
- Jackie Venson
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 5,059,086,097
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 33 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100
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- Quality
- 75
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts A Conversation with the Reluctant Therapist?
The Reluctant Therapist host the show. Published by KCBX.
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