Couples Therapy (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 11 February 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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September 11, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob, Patron Maya wrote in and said that she wanted us to talk about couples therapy. |
| 0:15.0 | And since you're a couple's therapist, I thought it'd be great to have you on the podcast |
| 0:20.5 | and we could just kind of |
| 0:21.5 | go back and forth about what couples therapy is and our experiences with it. What do you say, Bob? |
| 0:26.6 | Sounds good. This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a licensed |
| 0:33.3 | marriage and family therapist, and I'm also a professor of a marriage and family therapy program. |
| 0:38.8 | Who are you, Bob? I'm a good friend of yours from graduate school from way back when, |
| 0:42.8 | a therapist in practice in Seattle who's only gotten interested in couples therapy in the last 12 years. |
| 0:47.7 | Yeah, only in the last 12 years. It's funny the older you get, and you're just like, only in the last. |
| 0:55.3 | The other day in class, I said something like, you know, in my early career, for the first |
| 1:01.2 | 15 years of my career, da, da, da, da. And I thought, to them, that's like a long-term career, |
| 1:08.7 | but to me, that's early career. Right. But anyway, so patron, Maya, |
| 1:14.2 | dear doctor, dear doctor, professor Honda, that's, that's my favorite moniker. I started training |
| 1:19.8 | as a psychodynamic counselor. It would be great if you could dedicate an episode to couples |
| 1:23.6 | counseling the most common difficulties face and how you as a counselor address these, |
| 1:29.7 | et cetera. So let's kind of break this up into different sections. The first section I want to |
| 1:37.6 | talk about is that there's so much to say about couple. Well, actually, the very first thing I want to |
| 1:43.5 | say is that I come from a time when couples therapy was called couple therapy. It's the same as when you call family therapy. You don't call it families therapy. You call it family therapy. Individual therapy. You don't call it individuals therapy so it should be |
| 2:02.5 | couple therapy but for whatever reason from the start couple therapy doesn't like gel with your brain |
| 2:11.3 | it's there's something weird about couple therapy you know there's do you know why that word just |
| 2:16.5 | doesn't appeal i always thought it was weird why that word just doesn't appeal? I always thought |
| 2:18.8 | it was weird. It doesn't sound right. It doesn't sound right. Yeah, couple therapy. I think it's because |
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