A Simple Therapy Podcast: Honest Conversations on Therapy, Mental Health, Healing and Self-Growth

A Simple Therapy Podcast: Honest Conversations on Therapy, Mental Health, Healing and Self-Growth

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  • 136: Overthinking in Therapy: Presence Over Perfection

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky unpacks the overthinking so many therapists experience but rarely discuss openly, tracing it back to perfectionism, fear of causing harm, and countertransference. She offers a few gentle shifts to soften the loop rather than suppress it: naming it out loud, separating reflection from rumination, leaning on supervision, and trusting presence over performance.

    00:00 - Welcome to the Podcast

    00:48 - Naming the Therapist Overthinking Spiral

    02:31 - Roots of Overthinking

    05:59 - Shifting Out of the Loop

    08:40 - Reflection Versus Rumination

    11:17 - Letting Supervision Hold It

    13:22 - Permission to Be Human

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    17 min
  • 135: Beyond the Body: What Eating Disorders Are Really About With Pam Skop

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky talks with Pam Skop, LMHC, CEDS, and founder of EveryBody Psychotherapy NYC, about eating disorders, body image, and what recovery actually looks like once you get past the surface. Pam's own eating disorder went unnoticed through her teens and twenties, even in therapy, because no one ever asked her the right questions — an experience that now shapes how she trains therapists to check in about food and body with every client. Her central reframe: an eating disorder is not a weight disorder, and disordered eating usually isn't a problem to eliminate so much as a protector to understand.

    Together, they work through what that looks like in practice — simple, non-shaming intake questions modeled on how clinicians already ask about sleep, the role of curiosity over advice-giving, and why "you look so healthy" can land as harder than helpful. The conversation moves through the cultural pressure driving harder relapses right now, from GLP-1 messaging to 15-second social media clips to the perinatal period and bounce-back culture. Pam shares what healing can look like using deeper somatic and IFS-informed work of reconnecting people to their bodies.

    00:49 - Meet Pam Skop

    02:53 - Pam's Personal Recovery Journey

    05:19 - What Gets Missed, and How to Ask

    10:23 - Redefining Recovery and Its Protective Roots

    13:30 - Misconceptions About Bodies and Diagnosis

    16:00 - Why This Cultural Moment Feels Harder

    20:09 - What People Wish Others Understood

    24:38 - Signs of Healing and Flexibility

    26:01 - Somatic Work and Reconnecting to the Body

    29:06 - Perinatal and Postpartum Body Image

    36:42 - Nourishment and Resources for New Parents

    39:02 - Building EveryBody Psychotherapy NYC

    40:58 - Interns and the Next Generation of Therapists

    46:24 - Taking Risks and a Message for Anyone Struggling

    49:22 - Where to Find Pam

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    Website: https://www.everybodypsychotherapynyc.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everybodypsychotherapynyc/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everybodypsychotherapynyc/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peaksandtranquilitytherapist/

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    53 min
  • 134: What Therapists Were Never Taught About Money With Randall Avery

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky talks with Randall Avery, CFP and owner of Deasil Wealth Management, about the part of private practice ownership most clinicians were never trained for: money. Randall built his career in corporate financial planning, but it wasn't until a therapist friend described the impact of her work that he found the "soul" missing from the numbers. His central reframe for the conversation: every practice owner is quietly running two sets of books, business and personal, and most therapists have only ever been taught to ignore both.

    Together, they work through what it actually looks like to build financial competence without shame. Randall walks through the natural progression from spreadsheets to QuickBooks to a bookkeeper, breaks down the retirement account ladder (SEP IRA, solo 401K, SIMPLE IRA), and shares his rule of thumb for cash cushions. Underneath the mechanics, Sindee and Randall keep returning to the emotional core: the shame clinicians carry around money, the training that told them profit shouldn't matter, and how staying "on offense" rather than reactive can quiet a lot of that anxiety before it starts.

    00:48 - Meet Randall Avery

    03:05 - Finding the "Soul" in Financial Planning

    05:30 - Running Two Sets of Books

    06:22 - Building Business Equity Through Systems

    09:10 - The Belief That Keeps Clinicians Stuck

    11:15 - Nobody Cares What You Know Until They Know You Care

    14:53 - Know Your Numbers: Budgeting Basics

    15:53 - Where Taxes and Reinvestment Fit In

    18:01 - From Spreadsheets to QuickBooks to a Bookkeeper

    20:08 - SEP IRA, Solo 401K, and SIMPLE IRA Explained

    27:25 - Building Your Cash Cushion

    28:29 - Taking Care of Employees Financially

    32:51 - Playing Offense Instead of Reacting

    37:01 - Signs You're Ready for a Financial Planner

    39:00 - What to Look for in a Fee-Only Fiduciary

    40:20 - Actionable First Steps This Week

    42:22 - Talking Money With a Partner Without Judgment

    45:43 - Where to Find Randall

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    Website: https://deasilwm.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallavery/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rsadeasil50/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Deasilwm

    Book: https://deasilwm.com/book/

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    49 min
  • 133: Nothing to Fix: The Process of Unbecoming with Lacey Kelly

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky talks with Lacey Kelly, LCSW, therapist and author of The Process of Unbecoming: A Different Relationship to Being Human. Lacey didn't arrive at this work from theory — she'd felt an existential ache since she was a kid and spent years working through self-help books, trainings, and her own therapy practice before landing on the question underneath all of it: what if the thing we keep trying to fix was never actually broken?

    The two of them work through the core premise of Lacey's book — that we're all born whole and worthy, and that the patterns we hate about ourselves are evidence we once protected something valuable, not proof something's wrong. They get into how adaptation and personality form together in childhood, why that makes our protections feel like identity, and why capacity isn't a skill to build but something we already have and just lose access to. Lacey talks through how she brings this premise to clients who are deep in shame without invalidating what happened to them, why shame can actually be a doorway into feeling connected to other people, and what she tells clients who relapse and feel like they're back at square one. Sindee and Lacey also get into something bigger — the loss of a shared "third" that used to hold some of this weight for us, and what's filled that gap instead.

    Lacey closes with a message for therapists and helpers specifically: watch for the urge to fix the person in front of you, because it quietly reinforces the very belief you're trying to undo. Her bigger point lands simply — nothing is missing from you, and remembering that is the whole practice.

    00:48 - Meet Lacey Kelly

    04:18 - The Therapist as Eternal Seeker

    06:46 - A Universal Belief in Brokenness

    08:47 - How Adaptation Teaches Us to Forget Our Wholeness

    13:12 - The Premise: You Are Born Worthy

    17:17 - When Protection Becomes Identity

    19:41 - Capacity Was Never Something to Build

    26:53 - Shame as a Doorway Home

    33:31 - Holding Multiple Truths at Once

    38:26 - The Myth of the Finished Self

    44:57 - For the Burned-Out Helper

    50:27 - Where to Find Lacey

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    Website: https://www.theunbecominghub.com/

    Book: https://www.theunbecominghub.com/thebook

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    54 min
  • 132: Walking Alongside: Authentic, Justice-Oriented Therapy with Katie La

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky welcomes Katie La, a licensed professional counselor and supervisor whose work is grounded in trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and justice-oriented care. Katie came to therapy not by design but by what felt like destiny—a near-full scholarship tucked inside her graduation diploma pulled her into a field she hadn't planned to enter. What grew from that unexpected beginning was a deep, decades-long commitment to meeting clients where their histories actually live: in culture, in survival, in the parts of themselves they were taught to dismiss.

    Sindee and Katie cover what it really means to bring your whole self into the therapy room. Katie shares openly about growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in Houston — the shame of feeling not American enough, a household where emotions were never named, and a culture built around physical survival rather than feelings. That background shapes everything about how she works with clients today, especially those from minority and marginalized communities who carry guilt just for having a mental health struggle at all. The conversation moves through validation as the only real starting point, the difference between projecting your lived experience onto a client and letting it make you more attuned, and why curiosity is a more powerful clinical tool than any certification. Katie also pushes back on the self-regulation-only model most therapists learned in grad school, making a quiet, convincing case for co-regulation — community, culture, karaoke with friends — as equally necessary for healing.

    This one is for any therapist who has felt the pull between their training and their humanity. Katie's perspective is expansive but her delivery is grounded and real, and what stays with you is something simple: the most important thing you can offer a client isn't a technique. It's the willingness to walk alongside them — not ahead, not behind — and not look away from what's true.

    00:49 - Meet Katie La

    02:40 - Growing Up Vietnamese in Houston: Assimilation, Shame, and Survival

    06:32 - Why So Many Minority Cultures Deprioritize Mental Health

    09:38 - Holding Your Own Culture While Sitting With a Client's

    13:00 - Walking Alongside, Not in Front

    17:08 - Radical Honesty in the Therapy Room

    21:12 - Collective Care and Justice-Oriented Care

    25:04 - Co-Regulation vs. Self-Regulation

    28:50 - What We Need to Unlearn from Grad School

    34:11 - Concrete Ways to Be More Culturally Attuned

    40:27 - Where to Find Katie and Cognitive Revival

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    Website: https://cognitiverevival.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cogrevpllc

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    46 min
  • 131: Keep Those Feet Moving: Grief, Fatherhood, and Starting Over with AJ Coleman

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky welcomes AJ Coleman, author of Keep Those Feet Moving: A Widower's Eight-Step Guide to Coping with Grief and Thriving Against All Odds. When AJ was in what he thought was the prime of his life, his wife Cory lost her battle with brain cancer at just 33-years-old, leaving him a single father to their one-year-old daughter, Zoey. What followed was a crash course in grief, single parenthood, and the quiet, relentless work of rebuilding a life. Rather than stay silent, AJ turned his journey into a book—one that became unexpectedly therapeutic, forcing him to confront insecurities and hard truths he hadn't planned to share with the world.

    Sindee and AJ trace the full arc of his story: the whirlwind romance with Cory, the devastating diagnosis, and the tender, often unglamorous reality of raising Zoey alone—forms with no "widower" box, school letters addressed to a mother who wasn't there, and the quiet overcompensation of a dad determined not to fail. AJ speaks with candor about the guilt of eventually moving on, the conversation with a nine-year-old Zoey that cracked him open, and what it took to finally say yes to love again. Woven throughout is the insight that his whole life—the hearing impairment, the anxiety, the job loss—had been preparing him for this. That nothing was wasted. That the hardest setbacks signal the greatest rewards waiting on the other side.

    This is a conversation for anyone sitting inside a loss they can't see their way through—therapists and clients alike. AJ's framework is practical and his delivery is warm, but what lingers is something harder to name: the quiet insistence that mourning is not the enemy of healing, it's the beginning of it. His invitation is simple and earned—stop waiting to feel ready, accept the mourning, find your closure, and keep those feet moving.

    00:49 - Meet AJ Coleman

    03:06 - Cory: The Love Story

    06:40 - The Decision to Start a Family

    09:06 - Raising Zoey: Keeping Her Mother's Memory Alive

    11:31 - The Invisible Obstacles of Widowed Parenthood

    14:58 - Resilience Forged Before the Loss

    17:17 - The Keep Those Feet Moving Philosophy

    18:08 - Closure: Why It Matters and How to Find It

    23:37 - The Book, the Healing, and Going Deeper

    31:21 - What It Means to Touch a Life

    37:53 - Letting Go of the Past Without Erasing It

    47:07 - Guilt, Remarriage, and Learning to Love Again

    50:19 - First Steps for Anyone Feeling Stuck

    51:58 - Where to Find AJ and What's Next​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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    Website: https://keepthosefeetmoving.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/keepthosefeetmoving

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    56 min
  • 130: How to Break Trauma Bonds and Create Secure Love | Nima Rahmany

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky sits down with Nima Rahmany to explore how to break trauma bonds, heal codependency, and create secure love. Together, they unpack the roots of relationship triggers, the anxious-avoidant dynamic, the often-overlooked fawn response, and how unresolved trauma shapes adult relationships. Nima shares his personal healing journey and explains what it really means to become trigger-proof—not avoiding triggers, but learning to regulate, repair, and respond differently. This conversation is especially valuable for therapists and anyone working to heal attachment wounds, stop toxic relationship patterns, and build emotionally safe, secure connection.

    00:49 - Meet Nima Rahmany

    05:03 - How a Trauma Bond Begins: The Co-Rescuing Operation

    10:45 - The Drama Triangle and the Anxious-Avoidant Trap

    15:00 - A Note for Therapists Who Won't Touch It

    20:48 - The Fawn Response: The Most Insidious Attachment Strategy

    22:43 - The Villain's Journey and Integrating Shame

    25:54 - Writing the Book for His Son

    28:00 - Trauma Is Not What Happened—It's What Happens Inside

    31:17 - Triggers as Portals: The Trigger-Proof Model

    32:56 - What to Do If You're Stuck in Your Relationship

    36:27 - Find a Guide Who's Living It

    40:22 - Connect With Nima at becometriggerproof.com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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    https://www.instagram.com/nimarahmanyofficial/

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    https://www.youtube.com/user/chironimz

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    42 min
  • 129: Empathy Fast-Track: How MDMA Therapy Is Rewiring Relationship Connection – Jonathan Robinson

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky welcomes Jonathan Robinson M.A., M.F.T., former psychotherapist, bestselling author of 16 books, and one of the earliest pioneers of MDMA-assisted therapy. Since conducting groundbreaking research on MDMA in 1984, Jonathan has guided over 700 individuals and couples through structured MDMA-supported experiences—healing trauma, reducing anxiety, and creating the kind of deep connection that traditional therapy can take years to build. His brand-new book, Ecstasy for Couples, reveals how a single guided session can unlock breakthroughs that often surpass decades of conventional couples work.

    Together, Sindee and Jonathan explore what makes MDMA so uniquely powerful in the couples' therapy room—how it quiets the amygdala, dissolves ego defenses, and creates a felt sense of safety and empathy that no amount of communication skills training can replicate on its own. Jonathan opens up about his own journey with the medicine, from his early research in the 1980s to guiding his own parents through a session, to the moment he realized he could create two years of therapeutic progress in a single day. He shares why he now conducts almost no couples therapy without MDMA—and why, in his experience, understanding your partner on this level can change everything.

    This conversation is packed with wisdom for therapists and couples alike—from how MDMA compares to other psychedelics and why it works over Zoom, to navigating mismatched buy-in, working with trauma in the room, and the Acknowledgement Formula: a simple fill-in-the-blank tool that de-escalates conflict and validates feelings in seconds. Jonathan reminds us that romantic relationships are the gymnasium where we learn to love under pressure—and that with the right tools, that growth doesn't have to take as long as we think.

    00:49 - Meet Jonathan Robinson

    02:41 - Why Couples Therapy Can Be a Long, Slow Slog—And What Changes That

    05:05 - What MDMA Does to the Brain

    12:42 - The Predictability of MDMA

    14:28 - Is It Illegal? The FDA, Big Pharma, and What's Next

    16:39 - Why Sessions Work Better Over Zoom

    20:20 - Inside a Five-Hour Journey

    25:39 - Blame, Ego Defenses, and What Never Works

    26:03 - The Acknowledgement Formula

    30:30 - Working With One Traumatized Partner

    34:08 - Into Me See: Intimacy, Curiosity, and Spiritual Paths

    39:50 - When Only One Partner Takes the Medicine

    44:06 - What to Discuss Before a Journey

    46:29 - A Note for Therapists Who Are Curious

    48:40 - Connect With Jonathan at xtcforcouples.net

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    Jonathan Robinson

    Email: [email protected]

    Ecstasy for Couple

    Ecstasy as Medicine

    MDMA Training

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    52 min
  • 128: The Intimacy Shift: How One Therapist's Hardest Lessons Became His Greatest Tools with Dr. Dan Sneider

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky welcomes Dr. Dan Sneider—EDD, LCSW, couples therapist, educator, and founder of Growth and Gratitude Therapy. With over 15 years of clinical experience and training in emotionally focused therapy and the Gottman method, Dan has created his signature program, the Intimacy Shift, a blueprint for helping couples move from conflict and emotional distance to deeper, lasting connection.

    Together, Sindee and Dan explore what it truly means to be a wounded healer—how Dan's own avoidant attachment style, shaped by childhood emotional abuse, followed him into his marriage, his divorce, and ultimately into his clinical work. Dan opens up about infidelity, the collapse of emotional intimacy, and how those hard-won lessons became the foundation for the tools he now teaches couples every day. Drawing on Gottman research and EFT, Dan shares the skills he uses with his couples alongside the deeper relational work that creates real and lasting change.

    This conversation is packed with wisdom for therapists and couples alike—from the power of scheduled check-ins and the 5-to-1 positivity ratio, to navigating blocks in the therapy room, addressing physical intimacy directly, and maintaining a growth mindset when sessions don't land the way you hoped. Dan reminds us that showing up, even imperfectly, is an act of bravery—and that small steps toward connection matter more than we think.

    00:49 - Meet Dr. Dan Sneider

    03:18 - The Wounded Healer: Dan's Origin Story

    08:23 - Tools Influenced by His Experience

    12:07 - Looking Outside the Relationship

    15:53 - The Power of I Language

    17:33 - Bridging Emotional and Physical Intimacy

    18:47 - Getting Unstuck with EFT

    22:45 - Working Through Blocks in the Room

    32:12 - Blind Spots Couples Therapists Miss

    35:17 - Staying Regulated When It Gets Heated

    38:37 - The Growth Mindset Every Therapist Needs

    40:30 - Connect With Dan at intimacyshift.com

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    43 min
  • 127: From Fear to Delight: Healing the Roots of Public Speaking Anxiety with Linda Ugelow

    In this episode of A Simple Therapy Podcast, Sindee Gozansky welcomes Linda Ugelow—speaking confidence and vocal coach, podcast host, and author of Delight in the Limelight. Once paralyzed by public speaking fear herself, Linda now helps therapists, entrepreneurs, and professionals transform their relationship with visibility from dread to genuine delight. Drawing on her master's degree in expressive arts therapy and four decades performing with the women's world music group Libana, Linda brings therapeutic insight and embodied practice to help people reclaim the joy of speaking.

    Together, Sindee and Linda explore why public speaking anxiety isn't random—it's rooted in past experiences of being silenced, compared, ridiculed, or made to feel unsafe in the spotlight. Linda shares her personal story of being kicked and called stupid by her sisters whenever their mother praised her, revealing how she learned that visibility meant danger. She introduces her "reveal and heal" framework: investigating root causes, doing the deeper healing work through EFT tapping and forgiveness practices, and preparing like a performer with vocal warm-ups and embodiment.

    This conversation is full of permission to stumble, practical tools for warming up your voice and befriending the camera, and a powerful reminder that speaking is our birthright—we're designed to express ourselves with delight. Linda reminds us that perfection isn't the goal, that we can pick one tiny thing to practice, and that the joy of self-expression is waiting on the other side of our fear.

    00:48 - Meet Linda Ugelow: Speaking Confidence Coach and Author of Delight in the Limelight

    03:16 - Why Public Speaking Fear Isn't Random—It's Rooted in Past Experiences

    09:21 - Linda's Story: Racing Heart Teaching and Performing for Decades

    16:00 - Reveal and Heal: Linda's Framework for Overcoming Speaking Fear

    19:57 - Healing Modalities: EFT Tapping, Forgiveness, and Creative Visualization

    27:38 - Root Causes vs. Management Techniques

    33:54 - Facing Camera Fear: Techniques and Practices

    41:26 - Why This Matters for Therapists: Visibility and Building Your Practice

    45:35 - Permission to Stumble and Not Find the Perfect Words

    49:07 - Connect With Linda at lindaugelow.com

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    Linda Ugelow

    LinkedIn

    Delight in the Limelight Book

    Delight in the Limelight Podcast

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    51 min

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