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Oct 2024
46m 45s

ENCORE: Lying to your therapist

Jake Ernst & Simon Paluck
About this episode

This Isn't Therapy... it's the pinocchio-inspired epi about lying to your therapist. In this episode, Jake and Simon use a case scenario as a study about lies, fibs, and fairytales in the therapy room. They talk about what may lie beneath our lies (hehe) and can what happen when a therapist may suspect a lie is being told.

P.S. The notes we were singing are Bb and A! ;)

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Contact: thisisnttherapypodcast@gmail.com

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Hello, hi! Follow us on Instagram: @notatherapypodcast⁣
Jake Ernst: @mswjake
Simon Paluck: @directedbysimon
Episode mixed by Jordan Paluck
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