Blue Therapy Sucks
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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00:00 What made Couples Therapy an interesting watch?
11:41 How is Blue Therapy different?
29:25 So, what's the problem?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners, it's just me today. So I want to talk about this new TV show called |
| 0:05.1 | Blue Therapy. It is a reality TV show in which they depict therapy. And I will cut to the chase |
| 0:12.0 | and say that this show is a pile of shit. It is horrible. I say pile of shit because I just got done recording a bunch of reaction videos that will be published over the next few weeks. |
| 0:27.2 | And in the end, I just spontaneously blurted that out. I was like, you know, I think I was talking about how I'm often wanting more therapy depicted in the world, |
| 0:41.3 | good therapy depicted in the world. |
| 0:42.9 | And then I said, and yet we get this pile of shit. |
| 0:46.6 | So, okay. |
| 0:48.2 | So to start from the beginning, there's another show called Couples Therapy on Showtime that has been out for a number of years. |
| 0:57.7 | And if you know of the show, then you know. |
| 1:00.5 | And if you know that I've been reacting to the show on YouTube, then you know that too. |
| 1:05.0 | But if you don't know, a lot of people over the years have been asking me to watch couples therapy and make reaction videos. |
| 1:13.0 | And when I started to do that, I realized that the show provoked a lot of things from me that regular reaction videos or even just audio podcast episodes didn't provoke me to talk about. |
| 1:29.5 | And I found that to be very professionally satisfying for myself because it gave me a chance to talk |
| 1:35.6 | about things I'm passionate about. And also, you know, helps me to hone my skills as a couple |
| 1:41.2 | therapist. By the way, for decades, we referred to it as couple |
| 1:45.6 | therapy. And then in the last, I'd say 10 years, I would say millennials and younger people |
| 1:51.0 | were always referring to couple therapy as couples therapy. I get it. It rolls off the tongue |
| 1:56.2 | more, but it doesn't make any sense grammatically because you have individual therapy, group therapy, |
| 2:02.4 | family therapy, and couple therapy. None of them are pluralized. You don't have individuals |
| 2:09.7 | therapy or groups therapy or families therapy. It's family therapy. Anyway, you know, |
| 2:13.6 | whatever. So I think I just have to concede that 99% of people, I even hear professors, |
| 2:21.2 | I teach in the couple and family therapy program and I hear the current director of the |
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