Bigoted Friend, Crossdressing, and Therapy Speak
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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00:00 Handling a bigoted friend
10:22 How can I support a crossdressing partner?
16:54 Has therapy speak become a disservice to our clients?
48:34 Is it okay to bring a stuffed animal to therapy?
51:40 Vicarious trauma and burnout as a therapist
1:06:23 Is broaching always necessary?
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June 13, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Rebecca, I've sent emails here that I think you might have some opinions on. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm ready. |
| 0:06.7 | Patron Noah from Queens, she says, |
| 0:10.1 | Hi, Dr. Kirkcum, Berto, Rebecca, Bob, and all. |
| 0:13.7 | I have a conundrum that I really don't know what to do about. |
| 0:16.5 | My boyfriend is wonderful, and I really love and respect him, but his best friend has been sexist towards me. |
| 0:23.4 | And recently, he said to my face, I'm Jewish, by the way, that he found Jews to be dirty and that their traditions were bullshit. |
| 0:33.6 | My boyfriend didn't talk to the friend for about a week after that because he was so angry with his friends for how, with his friend for how he treated me and the Jewish people. |
| 0:42.9 | But now they're hanging out regularly again and the friend still hasn't apologized. |
| 0:47.5 | I know I can't control my partner, but this keeps eating at me and it's really starting to make me feel sick every time I hear about him |
| 0:54.7 | and my boyfriend acts like everything is cool. I love you all. What should I do? Rebecca, what do you |
| 1:00.3 | think? Yeah, I mean the company that people keep is important. I mean, I would just want to, first |
| 1:08.5 | off, your feelings are valid. The anti-Semitism is real. |
| 1:13.1 | I want to, you know, just check in that you've made sure to tell your boyfriend that this is a deal breaker for you. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, I can't think of much more than that. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, I'm trying to think what's going on in the husband's mind because clearly he's a good person and he doesn't support this. |
| 1:37.5 | But if it's one of those things, it's like, well, he's never done it in front of me or he never insulted my people. |
| 1:43.9 | It doesn't sound like that |
| 1:45.6 | though because he was upset so I wonder if there's like some kind of maybe maybe he's like |
| 1:51.6 | most men he only has one friend well that's another thing to think about right but that doesn't |
| 1:56.9 | no no no no that's I didn't like the way that sentence began but the way it ended is fair and |
| 2:04.2 | and something I actually thought about but I wonder if he would say yeah it wasn't good but I know |
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