After the Session – Cigars, Cooking, and Conversations That Matter

About After the Session – Cigars, Cooking, and Conversations That Matter

Welcome to After the Session, where two seasoned therapists step out of the office and into real-life conversations. Hosted by Dwain and John, this podcast is for anyone looking to navigate life with a little more insight, humor, and common sense. We bring our experience as therapists—and as regular guys—to the table, breaking down the intersection of mental health, faith, and everyday life. Whether we’re talking about relationships, personal growth, or just sharing stories over coffee and cigars, After the Session is a space for honest, meaningful, and practical conversations. If you’ve ever left therapy thinking, I wish we had more time to unpack that, or if you just want to hear relatable discussions about life’s struggles and triumphs, this podcast is for you.

Publisher

Dwain and John

Category

arts · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Mar 2025

Latest episode

13 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

51 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Things We’ve Learned from the Therapy Chair

   In this episode of After the Session, John and I sit down and reflect on a few things we’ve learned from the therapy chair. After years of listening to people work through relationships, loss, change, anxiety, and all the messiness of being human, we’ve picked up a few lessons along the way. Some of them are simple. Some are hard. And honestly, some of them we’re still learning ourselves.

2. 

   11 Sept 2026

   Hey Matt Walsh, Some Good Points. But Have You Met Every Therapist?

   In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, Matt Walsh makes some legitimate criticisms of therapy. There are therapists who overpathologize normal struggles, turn every problem into trauma, and can inadvertently reinforce a person’s identity as a victim. But here’s the problem with broad generalizations: neither John nor I have met every therapist. We believe good therapy should do more than help people understand what happened to them. It should help them decide what they are going to do with it. We talk about the difference between validating someone’s story and keeping them stuck in it, the importance of agency and personal responsibility, and why therapy should ultimately help people move forward and become healthier, better human beings for themselves and the people around them.

3. 

   28 Aug 2026

   When Does Our Stuff Start Owning Us?

   In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, we explore our relationship with stuff—from meaningful collections and everyday clutter to the more complex reality of hoarding. Why do we hold on? What do our possessions represent? And when does keeping become something that keeps us?

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 11 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

2

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51