Care & Feeding | Therapy Shopping Is Exhausting

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Jamilah take a great question about therapy, ADHD, and working on behavior. This mom is at her limit with her daughter’s outbursts… and shopping around for therapists has yielded not a lot of success. So: we’ll help this mom take a breath and figure out a path forward. And then, we’ll circle up for a round of checkins… and on Slate Plus, we’ll share what PBS has done for us. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Zak’s check-in: the breastfeeding room Elizabeth’s check-in: a meetup and CPR training Jamilah’s check-in: man-ifest Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:06.0	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
0:10.4	I'm Zach Rosen. I host another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show.
0:14.3	And I'm Dad to Noah, who's seven, and Ami, who's four. We live in Amsterdam.
0:20.1	I'm Jamil Lemieux, a writer, editor, contributor to Slate's
0:24.7	care-in-parent-pating parents in column, and mother to Naima, who's 12, and we live in L.A.
0:30.7	I'm Elizabeth Newcamp. I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch Goose. I'm the mom to Henry
0:35.3	who's 13, Oliver who's 10, and Teddy who's 8. We live in
0:39.1	Tokyo, Japan. Today on the show, we've got a great question about therapy, ADHD, and working
0:46.1	on behavior. This mom is at her limit with her daughter's outbursts, and shopping around for
0:50.7	therapists has yielded not a lot of success. So we'll help this mom take a breath and figure out a path forward.
0:57.6	Then after that, we'll check in with each other and share what's on our minds this week, too.
1:01.4	So let's get going.
1:02.2	We're going to take a quick break and meet you back here for a question.
1:14.9	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front.
1:16.2	Hmm, how naughty.
1:17.6	I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.
1:20.7	The night will be wild and untamed.
1:22.9	Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.
1:26.7	By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but
1:29.3	surely reaching their peak in the afternoon. Not in the mood for miserable weather? Fly
1:35.3	cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. Sun Express, nonstop sunshine. Hey, it's David Plotz, host of Slate's political cabfest.
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