Therapy Geeks
Therapy geeks is a podcast by Northern Irish comedian-counsellors Louise Taylor and Luke Mcgibbon, aiming to discuss mental health in a lighthearted and conversational way.
Episodes
Therapy Geeks returns after a year-long break to talk about forgiveness.
What is it?
Why is it so damn hard?
How do you do it?
For some reason the recording gave Luke an intermittent lisp throughout the episode. Weird stuff.
https://internationalforgiveness.com/need-to-forgive/ - Enright's 20 step process model of forgiveness
Luke and Louise attempt to tackle another big topic. On the way we cover
Molly Mae,
What can be done with 7 Billion Beyonces?
Louise's life after her neurodivergent diagnosis.
New minisode released!
in this mini episode, Luke and Louise try to interpret a dream Luke had involving anger and grief.
Have you got a dream you would like us to interpret? Maybe you'd like to come on the podcast to talk about it! Let us know!
Therapy Geeks is a podcast by Northern Ireland-based counsellor/comedians Luke McGibbon and Louise Taylor.
it is available on youtube, spotify, google podcast...
CW: Suicide
A more somber episode for a more serious topic.
Luke and Louise tackle one of the most important topics in mental health: Suicide. We try and thread the needle of being respectful while still keeping the light heart that people enjoy about therapy geeks.
Who does it effect?
What are signs of risk?
What can we do as individuals and as a society?
What is with Luke's obsession with Scatman...
With Omagh Pride is just around the corner, Luke and Louise interview Kittykat AKA Daz Catterson on-
His role in mid-ulster pride,
the protest that accompanies pride parades each year,
being LGBT in mid ulster,
Donald Winnicott and pride's role in challenging a false self,
homphobia,
biblically accurate angels, and a pansexual god.
Hope you enjoy it!
In this episode, we discuss gender, sexuality and pride.
We have an interview with pillow, a young nonbinary lesbian, about her experience.
Louise talks about her experience organizing mid-ulster pride, as depicted in the BBC documentary "pride of place"
We discuss conversion therapy, the great shame of the therapeutic profession,
and Freud and Adler's positions on sexuality, and how they may have evo...
In this mini episode, Luke and Louise try to interpret each others' dreams.
a friendly man offers help to Louise.
Luke ponders upon the horrible things he could do to people he loves.
CW: brief mention of sexual assault
In this episode- Emotions!
Why do so many mean people on facebook have their dog as a profile picture?
Why not call Sammy Wilson MP a big slice of ham?
An alternative 12th of July is discussed,
How do you communicate a fear of spiders and what does that say about you?
The intense emotions of the Euros,
and Louise sings the sash (why not?)
Therapy Geeks is a podcast by Northern Ireland-based counsell...
DISHONESTY.
Who do we lie to? Why?
When do we lie to ourselves?
Some thoughts on trigger warnings and exposure therapy.
When should you jump in front of someone in the supermarket dressed as a clown?
Therapy Geeks is a podcast by Northern Ireland-based counsellor/comedians Luke McGibbon and Louise Taylor.
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In this episode Luke and Louise try to talk about stress, and find it's actually quite hard to talk about stress without getting political.
Can a therapist get political? Is that a good idea? A controversial facebook post in a large counselling group is discussed.
Is resilience a controversial word?
What does the mental health sector rely too much on?
who is handing you shit on a plate and telling you it's...
What are we really saying when we describe ourselves as "weird" to our peers?
What keeps you from just shitting yourself?
What's with Newry people and coleslaw?
What can be learned from love is blind and trash TV?
In this episode Luke and Louise discuss boundaries and self-worth.
In this episode-
More on grief!
Louise and Luke talk about the things we can't control- in the therapy room and out of it.
Louise talks about her recent Asperger's diagnosis.
This week we're talking about different ways of connecting. The pandemic has changed the way mental health practitioners reach people, but also the ways that others connect. We explore that.
Intro/outro by Bensounds
In this episode-
Some cats fall down some stairs
Grief is discussed. What are some of the common ways of thinking of grief?
What is the importance of rituals?
Why has a funeral in Northern Ireland recently been so controversial?
We stumble our way through interpreting a dream.
What are the implications of the pandemic? The geeks take to Zoom to discuss.
First published 31st March 2020
The podcast is introduced and named, Therapy is discussed, and a dream is interpreted.
Children's mental health is the major topic of discussion in this episode.
What makes for a good childhood?
What's a big predictor of success in children?
And what about grit?
A child gives their opinion.
First published 4 April 2018
This episode is about Respect.
First published 11 November 2018
In this episode, trauma and recovery are discussed- as always, with a lighthearted tone.
First published 28 April 2019
In this episode we discuss that most basic bedrock of Therapy: The relationship.
From there we expand upon all the relationships people go through in their lives.
First published 6 May 2018
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