Untangled Mind, LLC hosted by Piper Harris

S6 Ep 71: 39 Shifts Toward Hope

As the world counts down to Christmas, many feel excitement, others feel dread, and most never stop to consider what they could be counting toward instead. In this episode, Piper Harris invites you into a different kind of countdown: thirty-nine days of intentional shifts that move you toward clarity, resilience, and genuine hope. Drawing from cognitive-behavioral principles, neuroscience, and deep human insight, Piper walks through thirty-nine practical, grounded shifts, each one designed to interrupt unhelpful patterns and redirect you toward steadiness and growth. These are not affirmations or resolutions. They are small, deliberate pivots that shape the trajectory of your life. The episode concludes with a fortieth shift, pointing to the true source of lasting hope, especially for those who feel they have nothing left to pull from internally. If you’re tired, overwhelmed, or walking through a season where healing feels slow, this episode becomes a guide, a challenge, and a reorientation. Thirty-nine days. Thirty-nine shifts. And one true hope that anchors them all. #untangledmindllc #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounselor #Holidays #countdown #Hope #JesusChrist

S6 Ep 70: The Industry Mirror — Eating Soup with Chopsticks

In this fifth installment of the Empathy Series, Piper Harris turns the focus inward to the counseling profession itself. Our field has long celebrated empathy as its highest virtue, but what happens when feeling becomes the only tool in the box? Through clinical insight, CBT framing, and a touch of Shel Silverstein’s wit, Piper explores how the industry keeps “eating soup with chopsticks”, recycling emotional tools that look noble but leave both clients and clinicians hungry. She traces the historical swing from William James’s pragmatic psychology to Carl Rogers’s humanistic empathy, showing how good intentions evolved into burnout culture. You’ll hear how unmanaged empathy activates the brain’s threat system, why depletion is not proof of devotion, and how ethical, data-driven compassion offers a sustainable path forward. The Industry Mirror challenges counselors and anyone devoted to helping others. to trade performance for precision, sentiment for structure, and to finally pick up the spoon.

S6 Ep68 From Empathy to Ethics: Reclaiming Discernment

In this pivotal fourth episode of the Empathy Series, Piper Harris takes the conversation beyond emotion into the arena of moral reasoning. From Empathy to Ethics challenges the assumption that feeling deeply is the same as being good and asks what happens when conviction outruns discernment. Through clinical insight, philosophy, and faith, Piper examines how empathy must mature into disciplined ethics, the capacity to act rightly even when it’s uncomfortable. She exposes how moral reasoning forces tension, demands humility, and calls every clinician to test their own biases. This episode explores: * Why many therapists conflate passion with ethics—and how bias hides behind conviction. * Real moral-reasoning dilemmas that reveal the clash between empathy and discernment. * The neuroscience of ethical decision-making and the “moral muscles” that strengthen integrity. * How faith and philosophy converge: Marcus Aurelius, Gandhi, C.S. Lewis, and Scripture all urging us to test everything; hold fast to what is good. From Empathy to Ethics : Reclaiming Discernment invites listeners to replace emotional certainty with moral clarity, to choose truth over comfort, and to rebuild integrity where empathy once ruled alone. #untangledmindllc #ethics #empathy #integrativecbt

S6 Ep 69 20+ Things You Should Never Say To Your Therapist

Therapy isn’t always solemn faces and breakthrough moments. Sometimes it’s awkward silences, accidental “love you’s,” and yes… questionable telehealth decisions. In this episode, Piper Harris, integrative CBT clinician and founder of Untangled Mind, explores the humor and humanity of therapy: what clients say, what therapists hear, and why honesty (even the messy kind) always matters. It’s a candid, funny, and deeply human reminder that growth doesn’t always look graceful; sometimes it just looks real. #untangledmindllc #integrativecbt #umpdcast #umpathway #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling

S6 Ep 67: The Courage to Be Seen

What does it really mean to be seen? In this episode, Piper Harris explores the tension between recognition and transformation, what the Greeks called anagnorisis and epignosis. Drawing from her love of studying Greek and Hebrew (and the words she’s literally tattooed on her body at pivotal points of change), Piper shares how understanding these concepts can reshape the way we think about therapy, faith, and personal growth. Through stories from her own life and insights from her Untangled Mind Pathway, she unpacks how we uncover the D.I.B., the Deepest Irrational Belief, that quietly shapes our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. As she says, “Transformation doesn’t have an endpoint. It’s a way of life. It begins, always, with the courage to be seen.” Stay until the end for her announcement about Transformation Week, a lighthearted, meaningful Halloween tradition for clients to celebrate what they’re becoming. Want to learn more about being Seen? Read below: https://www.untangledmind.net/post/_seen #untangledmindllc #UMPodcast #anxiety #trauma #faith #Greek #exposed #therapy #deepestirrationalbelief #dansiegel