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The Radical Therapist

This is the Radical Therapist Podcast. A space where we explore the intersections of collaborative therapy, psychology, philosophy, art, and science & technology.

Podcast · By Chris Hoff PhD(c), LMFT · English · Official site

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  1. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    The Radical Therapist #150 – Would Therapy Shock Us Anymore? Mark Fisher, Hauntology, and the Lost Futures of Psychotherapy (opens the original)

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    In this episode of The Radical Therapist, Chris Hoff draws on Mark Fisher’s idea of hauntology to ask a deceptively simple question: If we could show today’s psychotherapy to a therapist twenty years ago, would anything about it genuinely shock them? From psychoanalysis and family systems to postmodern therapies, trauma, somatics, neuroscience, psychedelics, and AI, psychotherapy has changed enormously. But Chris wonders whether all this innovation has occurred within a surprisingly stable idea

  2. Episode · Jul 19, 2026

    The Radical Therapist Podcast #149 - Personal Responsibility, Inc. with Julie Tilsen, PhD (opens the original)

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    What if therapy has become too good at helping people adapt to conditions that should never have been accepted in the first place? In this episode of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with narrative therapist, author, and educator Julie Tilsen, PhD to discuss her provocative new book, Personal Responsibility, Inc.: How Psychotherapy Turns Society's Problems into Yours. Together we examine one of the most pressing questions facing the mental health professions today: When does therap

  3. Episode · Jul 7, 2026

    The Radical Therapist Podcast #148 Poetry, Therapy, and the Art of Paying Attention with Tobin Kriwel (opens the original)

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    In this episode of The Radical Therapist, Chris sits down with narrative therapist and poet Tobin Kriwel for a conversation at the intersection of poetry, therapy, metaphor, and human attention. Together we explore what poetry can teach therapists, not as a technique, but as a way of being with people. We talk about why poetry refuses efficiency, how metaphor opens new possibilities for living, and what gets lost when therapy becomes preoccupied with outcomes, explanations, and quick solutions.

  4. Episode · Jul 3, 2026

    The Radical Therapist #147 – Michael White Revisited: Decentred, Influential, and Uncertain w/ Dr. Kelsi Semeschuk (opens the original)

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    What does it actually mean to practice from a decentred position? Has narrative therapy's commitment to being non-expert unintentionally softened its political edge? And what might we have misunderstood about Michael White's work over the past three decades? In this episode, Chris sits down with narrative therapist and researcher Dr. Kelsi Semeschuk to discuss her important new work examining Michael White's therapeutic practice through hundreds of hours of archived video recordings and her rece

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