Episode 198: Finding the Right Online Therapist, Help with Grief, Family Gathering Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! Another Q&A episode for you today.
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Here are the questions covered in this episode:
- What can I do when therapy apps don't have male providers in my state?
- How can I deal with the grief from losing my mother?
- How can I feel less anxiety at my partner's family gatherings?
As always you can send me your questions and suggestions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and full show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode198
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| 0:00.0 | But you also have a unique opportunity here to work through the issue with a family that appears to be supportive. |
| 0:07.0 | So, you know, I would call this a corrective emotional experience because it allows you to recognize that there's a different way of being a part of a family |
| 0:14.3 | without the same pain and abuse that you've experienced before. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:21.1 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:35.1 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:36.8 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel |
| 0:40.9 | free to feel it out, check out the the episode and just see what happens if you |
| 0:44.1 | need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. I also |
| 0:48.2 | need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not |
| 0:51.8 | your therapist. |
| 0:53.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:58.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All Right. |
| 1:17.8 | Hello, Friends of All Varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:20.7 | Podcast episode 198. |
| 1:22.7 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:25.2 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:28.5 | And yeah, today we got a question and answer episode. |
| 1:31.1 | I also did want to mention, so we're coming up very quickly on |
| 1:33.6 | episode 200 and I have no idea what I'm going to do for that. I don't know like if I |
| 1:38.1 | should do something special I kind of feel like I should. If you have any ideas |
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