Ep 16 - Healing in Real Time: Lucy Bichsel on Bringing Parents Into the Room

I Hate You. What's For Dinner? · Aug 6, 2026 · 1h 3m

There are deep biases embedded in the literature and therapist training for how therapy is supposed to be done. Some of those norms have evolved and some of the rules still feel very rigid.

Old school rules say that an adult who is working on issues from their childhood might talk about their mother every week for five years, but a therapist would never suggest the client bring their mom to a session.

But if both the adult child and parent are willing, why couldn’t we do things differently?

Today we’re talking with clinical psychologist Lucy Bichsel, who has been doing some unorthodox and…