After the Session: Two Therapists Telling It Like It Is

Do You Want Me, or Just Need Me?

In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, we explore the tension between wanting a partner and needing a partner in couples. When emotional desire blends with dependency, relationships can become pressured and unclear. We also consider how couples can recover curiosity and connection as a path back toward healthier attachment and emotional presence.

The Circle Keeps Moving: Music, Meaning, Memories, and Mortality

Before listening to this episode, take a few minutes to listen to the song Circle by Harry Chapin and then return to it again afterward. The song serves as a companion to this conversation and captures much of the heart behind what we explore here. In this episode of After the Session, we reflect on how music, memory, loss, meaning, and mortality shape the human experience. We discuss the emotional circles we revisit throughout life, the stories we carry, and how growth often means learning to move forward while honoring what remains behind.

Unfinished Notes: The Other 167 Hours.

In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, we explore the other 167 hours after therapy ends and real life begins. Growth is not confined to the counseling room. It happens in ordinary moments, difficult conversations, quiet reflections, setbacks, choices, and the slow practice of becoming different over time.

Are You Grown Up Without Growing Up?

Why do intelligent, capable adults sometimes react emotionally like wounded children? In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, we explore the “inner child,” family systems, emotional development, and how unresolved experiences from early life continue shaping relationships, conflict, anxiety, and connection long after childhood officially ends.

Unfinished Notes: How to Deal With "Jerky" People

Some people drain every room they enter. In this episode of After the Session: Unfinished Notes, we talk about how to deal with difficult personalities without losing yourself in the process. We explore boundaries, emotional regulation, conflict, manipulation, and the difference between compassion, avoidance, and healthy self respect in everyday relationships.