Stephanie Winn
LMFT, writer, host of @some_therapist. 🦎advocacy, healing & justice. See 📌
Appears in 35 Episodes
87. Heather Heying on What Makes Us Human: Culture, Consciousness, Campfire, and Chesterton’s Fences
Today’s guest is very meaningful to me and probably requires no introduction. Dr. Heather Heying is the reason I know about detransitioners and am doing half the thing...
35. Acting on Algorithms: Mental Shortcuts & the Absence of Deep Thought, with Xavier Bonilla
In today’s modern world, we are constantly fed mental shortcuts that can influence our thoughts and ideas. We aren’t required to do a lot of deep thinking into what we...
33. Therapists or Activists? The Ideological Capture of Counseling Education, with Leslie Elliott
Listen as Antioch University whistleblower, coach, and founder of the Radical Center Leslie Elliott describes the disturbing series of events that unfolded over the pa...
32. Building Great Marriages with Dovid Feldman, LPC
In this conversation, we discuss the essential values and virtues that form the building blocks of lasting love, as well as tools for rekindling intimacy when it has b...
31. Corinna Cohn: Post-Trans No Man's Land
“Why don’t you just detransition?” Corinna Cohn is tired of fielding this question, but gracious enough to address it with me on today’s episode. Corinna has lived as ...
30. Surviving Gender Malpractice: Brian’s Detransition Story
Today’s episode addresses the painful topic of gender malpractice. Brian is one of numerous people I have interviewed on this show who has been horrendously mistreated...
29. Corey Drayton: "Cancer Was the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"
Before he reached 40, Corey was told he had a 27% chance of surviving stage 4 prostate cancer. Up until this point, he had been pushing through grueling 15-hour days i...
28. Gay, Disabled, & Gender Dysphoric: Jayme’s Story
Jayme knows better than most people what’s like to feel “born in the wrong body,” and to be treated differently. Born premature with cerebral palsy, she had to grow up...
27. Robin Atkins, LMHC: Two Therapists Debate Abortion
Abortion is a fraught issue many people can hardly step near without turning red. I’m pro-choice, while my colleague, Robin Atkins, LMHC, is pro-life. Yet we’re not at...
26. Mike Belcher: Is Marxism the New Opiate of the Masses?
In this intellectually rigorous discussion, I meet with writer and New Hampshire state legislature candidate Mike Belcher to discuss his heady piece, “A Resolution to ...
25. Ada Akpala: Challenging the Narrative
When our egos become entrenched in our views, life becomes stale, growth stagnates, and we lose out on valuable perspectives. Ada Akpala has made it part of her daily ...
24. Andrew Hartz, PhD: Counseling in a Cluster B Culture
When did it become okay to hate someone based on the color of their skin — as long as that skin is the color deemed the acceptable one to hate? More concerningly, when...
23. James Esses: Gender Updates Across the Pond
Half of our listeners are in the US and more than a quarter are in the UK, while the news on gender matters is rapidly evolving in both countries. So the time is ripe ...
22. Oliver Davies: Healing Through Detransition
Listen as Ollie bravely shares intimate details of his story that breaks and warms the heart all at once. This is one of the most touching conversations I’ve had on th...
21. Marcus Evans: the Gender Crisis: a Psychodynamic Approach
British psychoanalyst Marcus and his wife Susan were among the first whistleblowers at the Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service program. Together, Ma...
20. Dr. Roger McFillin: Mental Health in the Age of Misinformation
How can a culture obsessed with mental health be so unwell? Dr. McFillin and I explore the problems of diagnostic expansion and over-medicalization; secondary gain fro...
19. Adam B. Coleman: Black Victim to Black Victor
Growing up without a father can leave voids to fill. Like so many other disadvantaged young people, Adam and I both struggled in our searches for meaning, safety, wisd...
18. Gurwinder Bhogal: Hubris, Heuristics, and Human Error
We evolved to take time-saving mental shortcuts. Split-second snap judgments can even save lives. But what are the pitfalls and drawbacks of such heuristics? Can ...
17. Lisa Swallow: Crossing Party Lines
Lisa K Swallow is the co-founder and Executive Director of Crossing Party Lines, Inc., a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing toxic polarization by creating open d...
16. Michael DC Bowen: The Wisdom in World-bridging
A lifelong learner, heterodox thinker, and self-taught dabbler in many disciplines, Michael D. C. Bowen brings a wealth of wisdom on the many worlds he has traveled th...
15. Benjamin the Dream Wizard: Dreamwork and the Edges of the Known
During his career working in acute mental health facilities, Benjamin helped people in psychotic states. His professional and personal curiosities led him to developin...
14. Michelle Alleva: The Long Way Home - a detrans journey
Michelle identified as transgender for a period of ten years, during which time she was prescribed testosterone and underwent two medically unnecessary surgeries (mast...
13. Jessie Mannisto: Brains & Bravery: Turning Breakdowns into Breakthroughs
Jessie Mannisto is the founder and editor in chief of Third Factor, a magazine and community for creative, free-thinking individuals trying to chart their unique paths...
12. Jonas Rosen: Psychedelics and the Psyche
In this episode, Jonas shares his wealth of wisdom, derived from research and experience, on this intriguing yet taboo topic.
11. Helen Joyce: Debunking the Myth of Conversion Therapy
I recently emerged victorious from a harrowing battle and successfully defended myself against false allegations of “conversion therapy.” Part of how I got through the...
10. Jane Peterson, PhD: Soma, Systems, and the Social Brain
Jane is a treasure trove of wisdom who I initially discovered through the transformational, participatory, experiential Systemic Constellations workshops she facilitat...
9. Amy Sousa: Emotional Empowerment Through Embodied Awareness
In this interview, Amy and I explore values and virtues, boundaries versus barriers, the wisdom in our sense perceptions, the concept of inner authority — and why you ...
8. Helena Kerschner: Peaking Trans
As an adolescent, Helena identified as trans. But high doses of testosterone led to such extreme mood swings that she was hospitalized twice — yet none of the professi...
7. Cindy Ngar: Baking the Impossible
It’s not every day you come across a person who dreams so big, shines so brightly, and is willing to take such leaps of faith. I wanted to know: how does someone like ...
6. Dirk Van Leeuwen: When Intelligence Becomes Taboo, What Wisdom Do We Lose?
Dirk was raised in a scholarly family, but become curious about the inner worlds of people with 300-word vocabularies. A former special education teacher now working i...