A Therapist Who Worked at Rikers Island Breaks Down the 10 Signs Your Friend Isn't Actually Your Friend

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Mar 3, 2025 · 38m

Allison Guilbault has worked in a New York City ER, inside Rikers Island solitary confinement, and with the FBI — and what all of those experiences have in common is teaching her to read people with extraordinary precision. As a licensed therapist and expert in women's mental health she now applies that same precision to one of the most underexamined sources of emotional drain in women's lives — fake friendships. What she shares with Stacey Chillemi about the ten specific red flags that signal someone in your circle is an energy vampire, manipulator, or user rather than a genuine friend, why…