The Badass Counseling Show
Episodes
When Your Own Feelings Don't Matter
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven’s counseling session builds to a dramatic climax when his client realizes her parents never allowed her to express her own feelin...
Lightning Round XII
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textListeners have questions, Sven has answers. Deep answers! In this collection of Sven's followers' challenging issues:My mom do...
Echoes of Parental Abuse
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe continuing effects of parental abuse create an intolerable life for Bella, who asks for Sven’s help to find true healing for her a...
Lightning Round XI
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTons of great advice from Sven in this Lightning Round! Fears of an age gap in your relationship? Dealing with abuse resulting from your...
Ch-Ch-Changes! Cheating, Children, Church...and Choices.
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen you’re raising 4 kids and discover that you’re married to a serial cheater, then what? And when you confront your husband and h...
Lightning Round X
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven fields more of his followers’ rapid-fire questions on a variety of tough topics. I’m living in my car and stuck in the past. H...
Generational Trauma: Sins of the Fathers
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhen your inheritance is abuse and neglect, the lasting effects of trauma run deep from generation to generation. Listen in as Sven coun...
Lightning Round IX
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textMore deep answers to questions from listeners! Sven illustrates his response about dealing with "takers" with the story of Ec...
I'm Stuck! Sven, Please Kick My Ass!
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textCome inside Sven’s counseling sessions with two clients who can’t seem to change their lives the way they want. James is separated b...
Lightning Round VIII
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textHow to navigate dating sites? Sven draws on his own personal experience in graphic detail. Other topics from followers include convincin...
Break Up to Make Up?
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven quickly untangles a complicated web of breakups, make-ups, changing partners, children, and serial cheating to help his guest disco...
Lightning Round VII
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe best of Sven's online followers' questions and comments recorded from a live online session. "My husband says my feel...
The Pain of Shared Parenting
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven counsels a woman who comes to a startling revelation about the roots of her difficulties in dealing with the biological father of h...
Lightning Round VI
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textTill death do us part? Sven tackles this question along with many others from a recorded online session with his followers. Issues inclu...
Unforgivable, That's What You Are
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThey say “Forgive and forget” and “Forgive for yourself, not for them.” But what if that doesn't work? What if you just can...
Lightning Round V
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven fields his followers' questions in another recorded online session. He responds to "My friends say you're too aggres...
Cheating: She Said
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textThe other side of the story from Episode 8! You've heard from the cause of the problem, now hear the effects on the partner he hurt...
Lightning Round IV
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven fields his followers' rapid-fire questions about regret and other topics. A husband can't explain why he watches live c...
Cheating: He Said
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textA random hookup derails an impending wedding, and Sven goes deep with a remorseful guy to discover why he would choose such a destructiv...
Lightning Round III
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textSven again responds to followers' questions and talks about body image, getting over someone, dealing with a dishonest husband, ang...
Dating: The Inside and Outside Story
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textWhat drags us down in dating? It’s not what’s going on outside us or in the other person; it’s what’s going on inside ourselves....
Lightning Round II
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textRapid-fire questions recorded from Sven's online followers with challenging issues, including finding the ideal partner, changing y...
Sven, He Keeps Cheating! Why Do I Stay?
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIt's a hellacious loop when you're involved with a cheater who denies, deflects, apologizes, and blames. What do you do when a...
Lightning Round I
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn a prerecorded session, Sven takes questions from his online followers on a variety of provocative topics, including addiction and dre...
Failure to Launch, Part 2
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textContinuing with the issue of young adults finding their way on their own, Sven plays his original short online post, and answers related...
Failure to Launch, Part 1
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Send us a textIn Sven's inaugural podcast, he tackles the thorny issue of young adults struggling to move on from their parents' control and...