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Welcome to Friends with (therapy) benefits, where your host, Elizabeth Carr—a licensed professional counselor with over 10 years of experience and her own therapy journey—invites you to explore the wild ride of mental health and self-discovery.
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S2E5: Humor Can Be Medicine Too (opens the original)
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What if healing doesn’t always happen on a therapist’s couch? In this episode of Friends with (Therapy) Benefits , Elizabeth sits down with therapist-turned-stand-up-comedian Matthew Sharpe, LPC to talk about humor as medicine and what happens when the things we usually process privately become material for a room full of strangers. They talk about Matthew’s journey into stand-up, the vulnerability of getting on stage, using humor to make sense of difficult experiences, and why laughter can crea
S2E4: A Solo Episode (opens the original)
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What happens when the person who usually knows what to do…doesn’t? In this deeply personal solo episode of Friends with (therapy) benefits , Elizabeth shares the story of an abnormal Pap smear during the height of COVID-19 that led to a diagnosis of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Grade 2 (CIN 2) , painful testing, multiple procedures, and some of the most frightening moments of her life. But this isn’t really an episode about a cervix. It’s about health anxiety, medical self-advocacy, women’
S2:E3: Therapist Mode: Why Are You Using Your Fake Voice Right Now? (opens the original)
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Some friendships don't just survive change—they grow because of it. In this Therapist Mode episode, Elizabeth is joined by her best friend of 25 years, Greg Wright, for one of the most personal conversations of the season. Together, they look back on two decades of friendship, from high school heartbreaks (and Cherry Garcia ice cream) to adulthood, healing, and the many versions of themselves they've witnessed along the way. They talk about what happens when you stop people-pleasing, why some re
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