Jonathan Alpert

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146 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Something You Should Know · Has Therapy Gone Too Far? & The Hidden Genius of Birds · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And I do often find myself playing referee, but I try to give couples specific homework to follow and really tell them, like, look, this is just a 45 to 60 minute session.

The real work occurs outside of this session, and you need to put into action what we're talking about.

Well, you raise a good point, Mike, and I do think there is a tendency for people to hyper focus and even fixate on all that's wrong in their life.

And that's understandable.

Things that are wrong bother us, whether it's a bad relationship, a bad job or feeling feeling depressed.

So naturally, that's

foremost on our mind.

But as a therapist, I like to shift the focus to what's possible and, you know, what are your strengths and how can we tap into those strengths to get you feeling better?

But if therapists dwell on

and spend so much time on all that's wrong, that's how we get this pathology in our culture that just doesn't seem to go away.

And I'm just advocating for people to try to focus on what's right, where they want to be, and really work out a path to get there.

Oh, absolutely.

And you know, a true trauma, like a major accident or losing a loved one, that certainly requires care and attention and often will take quite a while to work through.

But it's important to note that a lot of people and therapists will label

things trauma that aren't and just to get back to what i said earlier a bad day isn't necessarily a trauma in your life it's just a bad day and for a trauma there needs to it needs to be a life-threatening event or at least close to that uh

I mean, just to share a funny story, I once had someone who had a pimple and she felt traumatized.

She panicked and called me in an emergency situation because she was so traumatized, in her words, traumatized by that pimple.

I'm sorry, but a pimple is certainly not a traumatic event.

I don't care who you are, it's just not a traumatic event.

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