Everyday Therapy

By Brett Cushing, Dr. Karin Ryan

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Do you find therapy overwhelming? It doesn’t have to be. The concepts in therapy are simple and practical, and you can use them to change your life today! Hosts Brett Cushing, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Dr. Karin Ryan, Licensed Psychologist, bring the life-changing concepts of therapy into your daily life. To learn how to apply therapy to your everyday life and become the best version of yourself, subscribe to “Everyday Therapy” wherever you get podcasts!

Episode Date
Postpartum Anxiety: A Real Story of Intrusive Thoughts, Shame, and Getting Help
Feb 26, 2026
Relationship Anxiety: When Worry Shows Up in Your Closest Connections
Feb 12, 2026
Dry January: What Taking a Break From Alcohol Can Teach You
Jan 29, 2026
Mindfulness in Everyday Life: How to Slow Down, Tune In, and Feel Better
Dec 23, 2025
Finding ADHD Strengths, Strategies, and Self-Acceptance | Featuring Nathaniel Alin-Churchill, LPCC
Nov 24, 2025
Managing ADHD in Everyday Life: Focus, Work, and Relationships
Nov 20, 2025
Parenting Teens: Practical Advice for Navigating Teen Mental Health and Social Pressure
Oct 23, 2025
Parent Smarter, Not Harder: Practical Parenting Tips for Teens
Sep 25, 2025
Therapy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next?
Aug 21, 2025
Breaking the Stigma: Why Mental Health Medication Isn’t Weakness
Jul 24, 2025
The Therapy Room Full of Strangers That Changed Everything
Jun 19, 2025
We Didn’t Think Online Therapy Would Work—Until It Did
May 22, 2025
Understanding Abuse: How to Recognize, Heal, and Break the Cycle
Apr 24, 2025
Breaking Free: Understanding Substance Use Disorder & the Path to Recovery
Mar 27, 2025
The Truth About Depression: What It Feels Like & How to Cope
Feb 27, 2025
Simple Strategies to Manage Anxiety and Reclaim Your Calm
Jan 30, 2025
Everyone is Doing Their Best: The Four Agreements, Part 4 (Recast)
Dec 17, 2024
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The Four Agreements, Part 3 (Recast)
Dec 10, 2024
It's Not About You: The Four Agreements, Part 2 (Recast)
Dec 03, 2024
Avoid a "Should-y" Holiday with The Four Agreements (Recast)
Nov 26, 2024
Building an Aptitude for Gratitude
Nov 19, 2024
Can Gratitude Really be a Game Changer?
Nov 12, 2024
This Time WILL Be Different: Part 2
Oct 29, 2024
This Time Will Be Different: Part 1
Oct 22, 2024
Exploring Sleep Issues in Women: Part 2
Oct 15, 2024
Exploring Sleep Issues in Women: Part 1
Oct 08, 2024
Cannabis Use Disorder: Is Marijuana Actually Addictive? (Recast)
Sep 24, 2024
What We Know About Addiction
Sep 17, 2024
Anger: Be Angry for a Change
Sep 10, 2024
Anger: Unexpected Ally
Sep 03, 2024
Anger: Enemy or Ally?
Aug 27, 2024
Seriously Funny! Part 2
Aug 20, 2024
Seriously Funny! Part 1
Aug 13, 2024
Hope and Healing for Sexual Trauma: Part 3
Aug 06, 2024
Hope and Healing for Sexual Trauma: Part 2
Jul 30, 2024
Hope and Healing for Sexual Trauma: Part 1
Jul 23, 2024
Trauma: Truly Triggered or Tricked?
Jul 09, 2024
Driven to Distraction
Jul 02, 2024
Why Isn't Therapy Working?
Jun 25, 2024
Myths About Addiction
Jun 18, 2024
6 Tips for Managing Your Emotions
Jun 11, 2024
The Gottman Method: Part 3
Jun 04, 2024
Is there hope for our relationship? Part 2
May 28, 2024
What do I want from my partner? Part 1
May 21, 2024
You Both Can Win: Resolving Partner Conflict
May 14, 2024
Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine? (Recast)
May 07, 2024
IMPROVE Every Moment
Apr 30, 2024
Empowerment on the Go
Apr 23, 2024
STOP!
Apr 16, 2024
Improve the Moment: Reduce Negative Emotions
Apr 09, 2024
TIPP Skill: Learn to Manage Intense Emotions
Apr 02, 2024
Mindfulness
Mar 26, 2024
Accessing Our Wise Mind
Mar 19, 2024
The 100th Episode: Defending Dignity
Mar 12, 2024
Why Do We Gossip?
Mar 05, 2024
How to Make Friends: Part 2
Feb 27, 2024
How to Make Friends: Part 1
Feb 20, 2024
How to Get What You Want in a Relationship: Part 2
Feb 13, 2024
How to Get What You Want in a Relationship: Part 1
Feb 06, 2024
The FAST Skill: Interpersonal Effectiveness
Jan 30, 2024
What is Biosocial Theory?
Jan 23, 2024
Exploring Dialectical Thinking, Part 2
Jan 16, 2024
There's More to The Story... Exploring Dialectical Thinking
Jan 09, 2024
Everyone is Doing Their Best: The Four Agreements, Part 4
Dec 26, 2023
Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The Four Agreements, Part 3
Dec 19, 2023
It's Not About You: The Four Agreements, Part 2
Dec 12, 2023
Avoid a "Should-y" Holiday with The Four Agreements
Dec 05, 2023
Go Toward What You Want To Avoid
Nov 28, 2023
Enjoy The Holiday YOU Want
Nov 21, 2023
Empowered To Be The Best Version of You
Nov 14, 2023
Am I Too Nice?
Nov 07, 2023
Someone I Love Is In Crisis
Oct 31, 2023
How Can Trust Affect Our Work Environment and Mental Health?
Oct 24, 2023
Yoga and Trauma: The Power of Choice
Oct 17, 2023
I Am Not My Diagnosis
Oct 10, 2023
Sleep Aids, Part 2! Why Sleep is Essential, What Interferes, and How to Have Healthy Sleep.
Oct 03, 2023
Sleep Aids, Part 1! Why Sleep is Essential, What Interferes, and How to Have Healthy Sleep.
Sep 26, 2023
"I Take Offense at That!"
Sep 19, 2023
Veteran Mental Health with Kaylie Willprecht
Sep 12, 2023
Can I Talk About Suicide?
Sep 05, 2023
Am I Allergic to Uncertainty? Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Aug 29, 2023
Group Therapy Part 2: Why Talk About My Feelings?
Aug 22, 2023
Mental Health and High School Hallways, Part 2
Aug 15, 2023
How Memories are Like Flowers in Bloom
Aug 08, 2023
How Expectations Turn Into Resentments
Aug 01, 2023
What Should I Expect for Therapy?
Jul 25, 2023
Mental Health and High School Hallways
Jul 18, 2023
What is Wrong with Me?
Jul 11, 2023
PLEASE Take Care of Yourself
Jul 05, 2023
Does My Therapist Have a Therapist?
Jun 27, 2023
Taking a Look at Porn
Jun 20, 2023
Why Group Therapy?
Jun 13, 2023
Tools to Transform Any Relationship
Jun 06, 2023
Therapy with Kids, Part 2: Early Childhood Mental Health
May 30, 2023
Therapy with Kids, Part 1: What It Is and Why It Matters
May 23, 2023
Adolescent Suicide: What We Need to Know
May 16, 2023
Do I Have to Talk About My Childhood?
May 09, 2023
The Importance of People and Purpose
May 02, 2023
Better Thinking For Better Living
Apr 25, 2023
Why in the World Would I Want to do Couples Therapy?
Apr 18, 2023
Can I Forgive?
Apr 11, 2023
Try Change For a Change
Apr 04, 2023
Ruminate on This
Mar 28, 2023
How to Get What You Want
Mar 21, 2023
Personality Testing for Dummies
Mar 14, 2023
Why Won't You Listen to Me?!
Mar 07, 2023
Using Invalidation Effectively
Feb 28, 2023
The Superpower of Validation
Feb 21, 2023
The Psychology of Goodbye
Feb 14, 2023
Rebel With a Cause
Feb 07, 2023
The Fork and Spoon Theory
Jan 31, 2023
EMDR Explained
Jan 24, 2023
How to Change Behavior (Letting Go of the Log)
Jan 17, 2023
The Wounded Healer
Jan 10, 2023
Anti-New Year's Resolutions
Jan 03, 2023
Mythbusters!
Dec 27, 2022
Stories of Recovery and Hope: Vicky
Dec 20, 2022
Your Guide to Boundaries for the Holidays
Dec 13, 2022
Managing Holiday Expectations
Dec 06, 2022
Understanding Domestic Violence
Nov 29, 2022
The Link Between Toxic Diet Culture and Eating Disorders
Nov 22, 2022
What an Attitude of Gratitude Will Do For You
Nov 15, 2022
A Way Out of Suffering Through Radical Acceptance
Nov 08, 2022
Election Stress is Real, but Here's How to Deal
Nov 01, 2022
The Psychology of Fear
Oct 25, 2022
Making a Case for a Trauma-Informed Workplace
Oct 18, 2022
Joy to the Workplace!
Oct 11, 2022
Hypnotherapy: Using Hypnosis To Unlock the Unconscious Mind
Oct 04, 2022
Understanding Hoarding: What You Should Know
Sep 27, 2022
4 Most Misunderstood Disorders You Should Know About
Sep 20, 2022
Why Won't You Listen to Me?!: Bias and Our Brains
Sep 13, 2022
Rotten Tomatoes: Therapy in Movies
Sep 06, 2022
What Do You Want to Know About Borderline Personality Disorder?
Aug 30, 2022
Time to Stop Letting Your Emotions Drive Your Life
Aug 23, 2022
Psychosis: Movies vs. Reality
Aug 16, 2022
Cannabis Use Disorder: Is Marijuana Actually Addictive?
Aug 09, 2022
The Controversy with Co-dependency
Aug 02, 2022
Whose Feelings Am I Responsible For?
Jul 26, 2022
What Do You Want to Know About Depression?
Jul 20, 2022
What Do You Want to Know About Anxiety?
Jul 12, 2022
Perinatal Mental Health - It's Not Just Postpartum Depression
Jul 05, 2022
Why We Should Embrace Boredom (you might be surprised, but definitely not bored)
Jun 28, 2022
Self-Esteem: How Do You Want to Slice the Pie?
Jun 21, 2022
What You Didn't Know About Stress
Jun 14, 2022
Pride and the LGBTQIA+ Community
Jun 07, 2022
Have a Good Night (tips for better sleep)
May 31, 2022
4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (and of our relationships)
May 24, 2022
Is Laughter Really the Best Medicine?
May 17, 2022
You Are Who You Choose to Be
May 10, 2022
The Problems with Perfectionism
May 03, 2022
The 5 Love Languages
Apr 26, 2022
Are You Ready for Change?
Apr 19, 2022
The Benefits of Vulnerability
Apr 06, 2022