Mariska and I were guests on the social work bubble podcast to talk about ESAs.

Mariska and I were overjoyed to have Team Maigler Hall of Famer DaMonique back on the show. She works for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in helping to connect children and families with resources. This was a really enlightening conversation about the help DCFS can provide as opposed to the negative cliches that people think of when they hear about Child Protective Services.

In this episode Mariska and I cover some of the ethical challenges a therapist faces when deciding whether or not to report a case to DCFS. I review a situation a young therapist I am supervising shared with me.

This is my segment on the Trevor J. Brown show where we respond to questions from his listeners about mental health challenges or dilemmas. Don't worry, Mariska is still by my side even when I record with Trevor.

Audrey Grunst from Simply Bee and I partnered up to answer some questions about Emotional Support Animals. Mariska wasn't present for this one, which may explain why I may be less than perfect in my delivery. We realized there was one question we didn't answer so we tacked it on at the end.

In this episode Mariska and I talk about the power of taking risks in a therapy session by trusting your therapist with emotional challenges that are hard to talk about.

In this episode Mariska and I discuss how to deal with the odd grief feeling we get when we think we might be experiencing our last time with a place, activity, relationship, etc....

In this episode Mariska and I talk about how different siblings mental health presentation can be, the book No Cure for Being Human by Kate Bowler, and whether or not we should go out of our way to clean up misunderstandings with friends and co-workers if we were not the one that cause the issue.

In this briefest of episodes I share a question raised in my own therapy session about whether my pro-stoicism mindset can have some negative repercussions and lead to creating anxiety.

Mariska and I also encourage you to watch the movie Emilia Perez. This is a strange but powerful film which is worth watching but hard to describe without giving too much away.

In this episode Mariska and I reflect on the year gone by and the changes we hope to see in the year to come. We discuss existential angst and the ethics of when therapists should and shouldn't do with "secret" information they learn about their clients from other sources.