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58 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
30 episodes
since April 8, 2025
episodic

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This week on Therapist Unchained host Sivie Suckerman and Candice Thompson discuss the ethical dilemmas and potential dangers of integrating artificial intelligence into the therapy profession. Candice explains how venture capital and the tech industry are aggressively commercializing mental health…

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In this podcast interview, Sivie Suckerman speaks with Megan Ellow, a licensed clinical social worker and the creator of Therapist CEU. They discuss the growing corporatization of mental health, specifically how large entities and private equity firms have taken over the field of continuing educati…
In this episode of Therapists Unchained, Sivie Suckerman interviews Dr. Lauren Lawson, a licensed marriage and family therapist, coach, and founder of Hope Counseling Center. They discuss the financial and operational pressures facing private practice owners including corporate tax burdens, widespr…
Tell us what you think! You could be featured on a future show! In this episode of Therapists Unchained, Sivie Suckerman interviews Michael Desposito, a counselor and advocate leading the Insurance Accountability Committee in Ohio. They speak about the systemic challenges facing mental health profe…
Tell us what you think! You could be featured on a future show! Content Warning: This episode of Therapists Unchained features a deeply honest and vulnerable conversation regarding severe depression, systemic burnout, and suicidal ideation among mental health professionals. In this episode of Thera…
Tell us what you think! You could be featured on a future show! This podcast episode of Therapists Unchained, hosted by Sivie Suckerman, features MediSprout founders Dr. Samant Virk and Ben Putland, who discuss their mission to provide an ethical technology alternative for mental health clinicians.…
Tell us what you think! You could be featured on a future show! This podcast episode of Therapists Unchained, hosted by Sivie Suckerman, features Meg Curtin Rey-Bear, MA, LPCC, LMHC, NCC, a veteran therapist and advocate from Eastern Washington. As the finance task force chair and co-creator of the…
Tell us what you think! You could be featured on a future show! Host Sivie Suckerman, LMHC, ACS  and “Psych Billing Coach” Susan Frager, MSW, clarify key administrative and regulatory shifts impacting mental health clinicians.  Susan explains the technical differences between Medicare's "…
In this episode of the "Therapists Unchained", host Sivie Suckerman interviews Susan Frager, MSW, widely known as the "Psych Billing Coach". Susan shares her journey from working as an MSW in a high-stress managed care environment to building a business that helps therapists nav…
In this episode, host Sivie Suckerman, LMHC welcomes her guest, Jessica Frick, LPC.  Drawing on her background in community mental health, Jessica shares vital updates on her macro-level advocacy work within the Mental Health Insurance Reform Task Force and the Pennsylvania Counseling Association. …
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