ShrinkChicks

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking about the challenges that can come when people in our lives - a friend, partner, family member - are struggling with their mental health. They dive right into your feedback and answer your questions about ways to suggest therapy to someone who is unwilling to try and the nuances that can exist, having hard conversations, setting firm boundarie...

Today on ShrinkChicks, one of The Therapy Group's amazing clinicians, Vlada Rultenberg, LSW, is hosting and interviewing Emmalee and Jen! She is taking your questions, combined with a few of her own, and sitting down with Em & Jen to ask them anything and everything. We learn the one thing that people would be surprised to know about each of them, their mottos for life, when they realized they...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are answering your questions about silencing the outside noise and expectations to figure out what it is you really want when it comes to relationships, career path, having kids (or not), and other life decisions. They discuss how this relates to people pleasing, the difference between being a people pleaser and compromising, how to know when it's time to qui...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are talking all about intergenerational patterns AKA the things that get passed down from generation to generation in our families of origin. They start the episode off by giving examples of intergenerational patterns and trauma and share some of the patterns that exist in both of their families. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions like, are divorce and...

On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the cycle of overthinking, why we do it, and what we could be avoiding in doing so. Em and Jen both share personal scenarios in which they've engaged in overthinking and the tactics they've implemented to help with it. They answer your questions about overthinking social interactions, what it means to acknowledge and "f...

Today Emmalee and Jen are joined by Todd Baratz, LMHC, the face behind one of their favorite Instagram accounts @ yourdiagnonsense ! Todd shares his humor and insight with Em and Jen as they answer your questions and discuss many topics like why attachment style isn't the be-all-end-all, the fundamental uncertainty of relationships, why being clingy gets such a bad rep, how we’re all striving for...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen sit down to talk about the pain and challenges of romantic break-ups. They discuss their most challenging break-up stories, sitting in the deep pain of a break-up, breaking up with someone as a people pleaser, grieving the future we had envisioned, how long to wait before moving on, healing, and so much more. Tune in to gain insight, awareness and action!...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen talk all about change and why it can be so hard. They share how they each process change, individually, and why it works for them. They then discuss how to move through the fear of change, the loss of control that comes with change, why we need time to adjust to change, the fear of changing a good thing or disrupting the status quo, their most ch...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen dive into part two of people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." They continue to answer listener questions such as how to enjoy these people, when is it "too much," and how to respond to manipulation. They discuss ultimatums and setting the hard boundary, how it can be so hard to receive what we've asked for, grieving the fact that some people in o...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen present part one of their two-part series about the people in our lives who aren't "doing the work." Whether that's your mom, partner, friend, sibling, dad, cousin, etc., they answer listener questions about the frustrations that can occur when it feels like you're the only one working on yourself in your interpersonal relationships. They discuss...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen cover one of their most requested topics: friendship break-ups. They discuss why friendship break-ups hurt so much and the validity of that pain, ghosting in friendships and the lack of closure, friendship break-ups not being as normalized as romantic break-ups in our society, the fear around being truthful with our friends, the challenges of making frien...

Today's episode of ShrinkChicks is dedicated to advice for our younger selves. Emmalee and Jen share the advice they would give to their younger selves and also the advice written in by their audience. They start the episode by reminiscing on the early days of The Therapy Group and the amount of anxiety they had while building the business. They talk through how they've grown since then and the ad...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amelia Innis, LMFT, one of their amazing clinicians at The Therapy Group. Amelia specializes in working with couples and shares her approach to couples therapy, which is rooted in honesty and direction. She discusses the importance of honesty in romantic relationships as well as the therapeutic relationship and why we can't expect our partne...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amy Crichton, LMFT, one of their wonderful therapists from The Therapy Group, and her brother, Josh Weaver! Josh and Amy share the incredible story of how they discovered they were siblings just about three years ago. Spoiler alert: our parents' generation did not anticipate DNA test kits being so accessible! Josh explains how he fo...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen discuss a question they asked their Instagram followers: what do you hesitate to share with your therapist in therapy? The responses received were overwhelming, so they made an episode of it! Em and Jen anonymously share responses including: sex, masturbation, suicidal ideation, shame, drug and alcohol usage, not taking the therapist's advice, trauma, fin...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their amazing clinicians, Colton Hott, PC! Colton shares his journey to becoming a therapist plus his experience working in the cannabis industry. He answers some of your questions like: can I tell my therapist I use cannabis, why can cannabis ease anxiety one time and heighten anxiety another time, what if you and your partner have diffe...

On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen bring you the third and final part of the in-laws series! They start the episode off by discussing some DMs received from mothers-in-law about their daughters-in-law and shed some light on the roles we all play in this complicated dynamic. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about in-laws using guilt as a form of manipulation, what to do if...

*Trigger Warning:* We discuss suicidal ideation in today's episode. If you are dealing with suicidal thoughts, please know that you're not alone. There are so many options and resources out there for you.  Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Dial or Text 988 Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen have the pleasure of sitting down with Jenny Weinar, LCSW! Jenny is trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychother...

On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are taking us through the different stages of romantic relationships: from the beginning stages of dating, to the end of the honeymoon phase, to moving in together, getting married, having kids, to becoming empty nesters. They discuss the insecurity that comes with the early stages of dating, the worry about being seen as “needy” at the start...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen dive into part two of their in-laws series! The focus this week is all about setting boundaries with in-laws and where to begin when doing so. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about  HOW  to set healthy boundaries, what to do when your partner still consults their parents about big life decisions, how to discuss in-law issues with your significant other,...

This week on ShrinkChicks, we present part one of our multi-part in-laws series! Emmalee and Jen kick off the series by answering your questions about conflict & confrontation with your in-laws. They answer questions like: why are mothers-in-laws so triggering? They also speak on how to prepare for in-laws, what to do when your partner won't speak up to their parents, how to handle a deceitful...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their amazing clinicians, Natalia Addona, LPCC! Natalia is a therapist at The Therapy Group and works with clients residing in California and Florida. The three of them dive into the term "people pleasing," their own experiences in "recovery" from being people pleasers, and answer your questions about it! They touch on topics...

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen break down the buzz term "the mental load" AKA cognitive labor! They discuss gender roles and how the mental load has historically fallen on women, the overfunctioning/underfunctioning dynamic in relationships and what these terms mean and look like, the mental load falling onto the person who cares more, being the default parent and how to divide the mental...

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen have the honor of sitting down with the brilliant Dr. Alexandra Solomon! Dr. Solomon is a therapist, author, teacher, fellow podcast host and relationship expert! They start the episode off by talking about the challenges and nuances of Instagram and TikTok therapy. They then ask Dr. Solomon about the class she teaches at Northwestern University ...

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are thrilled to have a listener favorite guest, and one of their mentors, Terry Real, back on the podcast to tell us all about his new book:  Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship.  Terry shares some stories and concepts from the book, how Bruce Springsteen writing the forward of "Us" came to be, the difference between “us” vs. “...