Reality Therapy

Reality Therapy

Reality Therapy is a podcast about how reality itself can be therapeutic. While I touch on a variety of topics with many interesting guests, I am primarily focused on the therapy profession. Most guests are therapists or graduate students who focus on observing and analyzing the influence of social justice ideology on this field.

Episodes

May 29, 2025 79 mins

In this episode, Leslie Elliott Boyce, Suzannah Alexander, Katie Kernodle, and Gabrielle Turner break down how grad schools for counseling have been corrupted by political bias and overtaken by the social justice agenda. This leaves many students feeling alienated and prevents people seeking therapy from getting the help they need.

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In this episode, Kat Woods discusses effective altruism, specifically how we can reduce the suffering of animals. She also delves into the existential risk that humanity would face if AI became super intelligent and became hostile to all of us.

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In this episode, therapists Juda Alcabes, Tony Ziolko, Jake Wiskerchen, Jake Freeman, and Jonathan Cogburn comment on what makes healthy masculinity, why men don't want to come to therapy, and how men can improve their mental health.

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In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Michael Olan discusses political bias in his field and in graduate school due to social justice ideology. He also discusses the mindset behind those who adopt these views.

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In this episode, psychotherapist Sasha Ayad describes her efforts to push back against the harmful and unscientific practices known as gender affirming care for minors.

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In this episode, Dr. Dawn Irons describes her confrontation with wokeness in graduate school when a biased dissertation panel blocked her ability to graduate. She tells of how the field has been corrupted and how we can get back on track.

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In this episode, I spoke with former professional wrestler Aaron Machbitz on how sports and wrestling can teach us about life, about why men are struggling right now, and the rise of antisemitism.

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In this episode, I spoke with UK based psychotherapist Darren Magee about what makes for good therapy, bias in the mental health field, and the connection between science fiction and ancient mythology.

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In this episode, Dr. Andrew Hartz describes bias in mental healthcare due to critical social justice ideology and how he formed the Open Therapy Institute to fight back.

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In this episode, licensed marriage and family therapist Heidi Mortenson discusses her career in mental healthcare and how she uses this to further her Christian ministry.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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