Episodes
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Self Help
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
This week, we are unfortunately without our fearless friend Christina, but May and I soldier on! In this episode, we discuss Self-Help by Gabrielle Bernstein--we talk about Internal Family Systems (IFS), taking your inner child out for ice cream, why particular clients gravitate towards different therapists (and vice versa), and why therapists should be, you know, therapists.
Check out the episode and let us know what you think in the comments!
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Good Morning Monster
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
For this week's episode, we discuss Good Morning Monster. We talk about how trauma makes it hard to receive love, how therapy actually works (including why it's a bit like the Wizard of Oz), and the rise of robot therapy.
Take a listen and let us know what you think of the episode in the comments!
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
State of Affairs
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
In this episode, we tackle Esther Perel's State of Affairs. We discuss the causes and treatment of infidelity, compare sex and love here and in other countries, and debate the merits of couples therapists' "no secrets policy" Take a listen and let us know what you think!
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Polysecure
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Valentine's Day is approaching, and being couples therapists, we decided to kick off the month by discussing Polysecure. We talk about what it takes to make ethical non-monogamy work (and how monogamists could learn a lot from their ENM peers); we debate the use of the term co-dependent; and Erica makes the case for gatekeeping the mental health profession.
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Season 2: More
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
In our first episode of the new year, we discuss More: A Memoir of Open Marriage. We talk about how open marriage is...not quite what folks think it is, and the challenges of being a mom while being a whole person.
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
The Art of Money
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
In our final episode of the year, we're joined by friend of the pod, Jillian Knight, to talk about the Art of Money. We discuss the new-ish field of financial therapy, how different cultures talk (or don't talk) about money, and how your finances do actually care about your feelings.
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
What it Takes to Heal
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
In this episode, we are thankful to have friend of the pod, Meagan Chevalier, MS, LMFT to talk about Prentis Hemphill's book, What it Takes to Heal. Not that we're biased or anything but Meagan is like, the therapist we all want to be our therapist??? In our conversation, we discuss when therapy meets the body (somatic therapy), getting comfortable with being afraid, and how therapy can play an important role in community and activist spaces.
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Motherhood
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
For this spooky edition of the podcast, we're discussing motherhood (I mean, really, what could be scarier?)
We discuss 3 books about being a mom in our time: the Mamas by Helena Andrews-Dyer, the School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan, and Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose. We talk about how the role of motherhood has shifted over time, the impossible and contradictory standards mothers are held to, and mothering as a woman of color.
Check out the episode and let us know what you think in the comments!
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
How Do You Feel?
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
We are so excited to have our first guest author on the podcast! Dr. Jessi Gold joined us to talk about her new book, How Do You Feel, that just came out this month. We discuss core themes from her book including burnout, being a mental health professional navigating your own mental health, and the unreasonable demands made of those who work in the medical and mental health fields.
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Bad Therapy
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Oh boy. So in this week's episode, we tackle the book Bad Therapy, and discuss what this book claims is bad therapy, what we wish it actually addressed about the failures of mental health treatment, and make a case for why telling kids to just "man up" is not the move.
You know, in each episode of our podcast we talk about who a book is for, and for this particular book our answer is...no one.

About SYTR
Books about mental health, wellness, and relationships are more popular than ever, but how do we make sense of everything out there? How do you know if a particular book is for you? If will actually help?
S* Your Therapist Reads is here to try to tackle those questions. We tell you who we think each book is for, how it might be useful (or not), and offer our thoughts as marriage and family therapists. And while we take our work as therapists very seriously...ourselves, not so much. We hope you'll read and laugh along with us as we discuss these books.