Reality Therapy

Brandon McMurtrie on Bias in the Field of Psychology

In this episode, psychology doctoral candidate Brandon McMurtrie discusses bias in the field of psychology, the difference between good research and bogus research, and hunting in New Zealand.

Jonathan Cogburn on the Corruption of Therapy

In this episode, Jonathan Cogburn, LMFT, discusses marriage and family counseling, bias in graduate school, and the corruption of the field of therapy.

Jake Freeman on Transitioning from the Military to Woke Grad School

In this episode, veteran and therapist Jake Freeman discusses his time in the military and the struggle in integrate into civilian life, including trying to learn the ever-changing rules of wokeness.

Stephanie Winn on ROGD Repair and How Therapy is Failing Us

In this episode, marriage and family therapist Stephanie Winn describes how therapy has gone off the rails, why she switched to coaching, and her ROGD Repair course for gender confused kids.

Dr. Michael Ziffra on practicing better psychiatry, bias in research, and men in therapy

In this episode, Dr. Michael Ziffra explains his ideas around good psychiatry and medicine, why men resist therapy, and why research in psychology is biased.

Leslie Elliott Boyce on the Nightmare of Woke Counseling Grad School

In this episode, Leslie Elliott Boyce describes the nightmare of woke indoctrination in her masters of counseling program, her effort to resist, and her journey to call out political bias in the mental health fields in her podcast.

Ryan Forbes on Pushing for the Future of Good Therapy

In this episode, therapist Ryan Forbes describes ideological bias in the field due to politics, but also how the profession is certifying people whose own mental illness may disqualify them from helping others.

Joan Landes on How Therapy Became Political

In this episode, therapist Joan Landes describes how she has observed the therapy profession become ever more political, and notes how this increasing corruption is destroying the spirit of the field.

Megan Holder on Standing Up for Good Therapy

In this episode, therapist Megan Holder describes continuing education trainings to maintain her license that were little more than indoctrination. She says that even in South Carolina, it is often easier to call yourself a communist than a conservative among therapists. She describes how she was motivated to stand up against this corruption in the mental health profession and take a stand for good therapy.

Dr. Michael McClurkin on Holistic Mental Health

In this episode, psychiatrist Dr. Michael McClurkin discusses growing up in poverty and rising to being educated at three different Ivy League schools before beginning his practice in psychiatric medicine. He discusses why he thinks the social justice movement lacks nuance and why masculinity is unfairly demonized.