Untangled Mind™, LLC hosted by Piper Harris
Episodes
91 episodes
S7 Ep86 Holding Hope Stage 3 Triphasic Trauma Model-Reconnection & Integration
The final installment of the Holding Hope trauma series, where Piper Harris educates clinicians and survivors on how the triphasic model works within trauma therapy. Listen in or start from the beginning.#untangledmindllc #UMpodcast
Season 7 Ep 85 Holding Hope: Stage 2 Triphasic Trauma Model Remembrance & Mourning
Once a foundation of safety is established, many survivors feel ready to face what happened. This is Stage 2 of the triphasic model: Remembrance and Mourning.In this in-depth episode, Piper explores the purpose, science, and caref...
S7 Ep 84: Holding Hope: Stage 1 Triphasic Trauma Model Safety
Safety is not a warm-up stage. It is the essential foundation of all trauma recovery.In this deep dive into the first phase of the triphasic model, host Piper explores why genuine safety, both external and internal, must come before any deeper ...
S7 E83 Holding Hope: Understanding Trauma and Why the Triphasic Model Matters
What if your body still believes you’re in danger long after the threat has passed? What happens when “just talk about it” or jumping straight into processing memories actually makes things worse?In the premiere episode of Holding Hope: Trauma,...
S7 Ep 83 Holding Hope: Understanding Trauma and Why the Triphasic Model Matters
What if your body still believes you’re in danger long after the threat has passed? What happens when “just talk about it” or jumping straight into processing memories actually makes things worse?In the premiere episode of Holding Hope: ...
S7 Ep 82 Offended: Your Secret Superpower for Real Growth
What if the sting of criticism or feedback wasn’t something to avoid, but your greatest tool for personal growth? In this episode, I share how a single piece of honest feedback from a recent counselor training (that could have derailed me years...
Season 7 Ep 81 Part TWO with Dr. Emily Ferrara Comfortable but Not Changing: The Three Signs You’re in Stalled Therapy
You like your therapist.The sessions feel safe and supportive.But deep down, you know nothing is really changing.If you’ve ever left therapy thinking “I feel heard… but why am I still stuck?” this next episode is for you.Th...
S7 Ep80 The Filter at the Table
You've done the deep work in therapy: unpacked trauma, rewired thoughts, set boundaries, and felt real growth. So why do those old, nagging beliefs ("I'm not enough," "I don't belong," "They're just being nice") still sneak in and tint how you ...
S7 Ep 79 What is Good Therapy?
What is Good Therapy? This is a candid, standards-based conversation about what effective therapy actually looks like.In this series, I’m joined by Dr. Emily Ferrara of Simplify Life Counseling and Coaching. Our professional dialogue began arou...
S7 Ep 78 The Intruder
In this episode, I examine a subtle but increasingly common boundary violation: when strangers use moral or spiritual language to create unsolicited intimacy.This conversation is not about faith or intention. It is about psychology. I br...
S7 Ep 77 What Happens After Therapy Works?
When symptoms resolve, functioning improves, and measurable outcomes indicate success, most people appropriately move on. But for a smaller subset, often those who have resolved trauma and reached psychological stability, progress gives way not...
S7 Ep 76 Predictions, Presumptions, Assumptions
In this episode of the Untangled Mind Podcast, Piper Harris explores a common but often unnoticed cognitive sequence: predictions, presumptions, and assumptions. Rather than treating these as personal flaws, this episode examines them as core f...
S7 Ep 75 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part III-What I Missed
Part III of the Bearing Reality series examines the spaces between the highlights: the ideas I didn’t mark, the comforts I didn’t select, and the sentiment I instinctively bypassed. Using vacation reading from Peterson and Sapolsky as evidence,...
S7 Ep 74 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part II-Patterns of Attention
Part II of Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking examines what my highlights revealed about how I tend to think. Reading is never passive; what we attend to discloses our values, fears, and assumptions long before we put them into wor...
S7 Ep 73 Bearing Reality
Bearing Reality: Thinking About ThinkingThis episode introduces Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking, a short series exploring how we examine our own thinking when certainty is tempting, but truth requires more discipline.Rather than offeri...
S6 Ep 72 Reflection Over Resolutions: A Different Way to Close the Year
As the year comes to a close, many people rush toward New Year’s resolutions without ever pausing to reflect on what actually happened and how they responded to it.In this year-end episode of Untangled Mind, Piper Harris reflects on why ...
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: t...
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 ...
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 be...
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 foun...
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 ...
S6 Ep 66: Empathy as a Cognitive Trap
In Episode 3 of the Empathy Series, I move beyond the emotional and physiological effects of empathy to examine its cognitive distortions, the ways empathy can quietly reshape how we think, reason, and define morality.Empathy feels virtu...
S6 Ep 65 Projecting Shadows: Why Therapy Must Confront Its Own Defenses
In this episode of the Untangled Mind Podcast, Piper Harris unpacks Carl Jung’s famous quote: “The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”Drawing from a recent dialog...
S6 EP 64 When Empathy Hurts the Brain
This is Episode 2 in my Empathy Series. In this conversation, I explore what happens when empathy doesn’t just drain us emotionally, but actually hurts the brain and body.We’ll look at what neuroscience reveals about empathic di...
S6 Ep 63 The Empathy Trap
This is Episode 1 in my new Empathy Series. In this opening conversation, I explore what I call the empathy trap: how unchanneled empathy can paralyze us, reinforce hidden payoffs, and keep both clients and clinicians stuck.We’ll look at where ...
