Tell Me About Your Mother
Tell Me About Your Mother is a podcast guided by a psychotherapist duo-- Evan Miller and Melissa Martin. If you are a therapist, enjoy learning from experts, or curious as to how therapists conceptualize complex characters, this is your podcast.
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Tell Me About Your Mother
Episode 49: Sexuality, Shame, and Therapist Bias
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Evan Miller and Melissa Martin
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Season 2
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Episode 49
- Evan shares a personal story from a therapy group where power and bias were misused
- How therapists can be abusive — even to other therapists
- The danger of bringing personal values, beliefs, or shame agendas into the therapy room
- Why opacity (not transparency) can be safer and more ethical for clients
- Reader bias and how it distorts perception in clinical work
- The myth of sexuality as a binary on/off switch
- The shame response and how it gets used as a tool of control
- Why many men feel disempowered in therapy
- Concerns about therapists vetting clients based on values, appearance, or assumptions
- Questions around what “aggressive therapy” really means and who defines it
- Reflections on transference, group process, and emotional safety
- Reminder: Therapy is the client’s space, not the therapist’s platform
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