# Travis Heath

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Niche Is Normal: Stefanie Goerlich on Kink, Consent, and Sexuality

What happens when a client’s sexuality falls outside a therapist’s experience? In this episode of Therapist Confidential, Travis Heath sits down with certified sex therapist, educator, and forensic social worker Dr. Stefanie Goerlich to explore how clinicians can work more thoughtfully with clien…

What Is Therapy For? Makungu Akinyela on Building Community and Decolonizing Mental Health

What is therapy for? For many of us, therapy has been taught as a way to help individuals adapt to the world around them. But what if its deeper purpose is to help people transform that world together? In this episode of Therapist Confidential, Travis Heath welcomes therapist, educator, activist, …

Patching People Up to Go Back to War: Julie Tilsen on Neoliberalism and Co-Responsibility

What if therapy’s job isn’t to patch you up and send you back into the machine? Julie Tilsen — a longtime narrative therapist with a PhD in social construction and an emphasis in queer and cultural studies — joins Travis Heath to talk about her new book, Personal Responsibility, Inc: How Psychother…

The Therapy Industrial Complex: When Healing Becomes a Market

What happens when healing becomes a market?   In this solo episode, Travis Heath explores what he calls the therapy industrial complex and asks a provocative question: When human suffering becomes economically valuable, what incentives does that create?   Through personal reflection, Tr…

The Shadow of Shared Trauma: Bahareh Sahebi on Authoritarianism, Grief and the Iranian Diaspora

Before Dr. Bahareh Sahebi checks her calendar each morning, she checks the news from Iran, and so do many of her clients. In this episode, host Travis Heath talks with Dr. Sahebi, a clinical psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and co-author of the Integrative Systemic Therapy Hand…

Learning When to Listen: Mauricio Yabar on Intuition and Other Half-Baked Ideas

What do you do when something in a therapy session quietly tells you to pay attention? Mauricio Yabar joins Travis Heath to explore clinical intuition as an embodied, relational form of knowing shaped by lived experience, culture, pattern recognition, and the therapeutic relationship. They discuss…

Charge More, Slow Down: John Clarke on Private Practice and the Value of Presence

What is a therapy session actually worth—and what makes it valuable? In this episode of Therapist Confidential, Travis Heath talks with therapist and private practice expert John Clarke about money, marketing, and building a sustainable life as a therapist. They challenge the idea that helping pro…

Goals Are Overrated: The Value of Processes

What if the goals we chase are quietly working against us? In this solo episode, host Travis Heath admits something that feels almost taboo for a therapist to say out loud: he thinks goals are overrated. He unpacks why the clients and grad students he works with so often hit a wall of “what’s next?…

Off the Fence, Into the Well: Derrick Paladino on Multiracial Identity and the Art of Crisis Counseling

What do you say when a stranger in line at Universal Studios taps you on the shoulder and announces, “We all have a bet going — what are you?” Derrick Paladino, professor of counseling and department chair at Rollins College, has spent decades turning that question into “me-search.” He joins Travi…

Be Yourself, But Which One? Rethinking the Authentic Self

Who are you, really, underneath everything else? In this solo, Travis Heath questions a common assumption in therapy and everyday life: that a true, authentic self is waiting beneath our cultural expectations, family influences, and insecurities to be uncovered. Travis explores why showing up diff…