Untangled Min™, LLC hosted by Piper Harris

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Untangled Mind™ is a return to depth in a shallow age. Hosted by Piper Harris, clinical counselor and founder of Untangled Mind LLC, this podcast weaves data-driven integrative CBT, faith, and critical insight into real conversations about trauma, anxiety, and resilience. It’s not therapy talk, it’s therapy that works. Each episode invites listeners back to the roots of transformation through truth, structure, and measurable change. #untangledmindllc

  1. MAR 2

    S7 Ep 79 What is Good Therapy?

    What is Good Therapy? This is a candid, standards-based conversation about what effective therapy actually looks like.In this series, I’m joined by Dr. Emily Ferrara of Simplify Life Counseling and Coaching. Our professional dialogue began around a shared concern: the growing gap between what therapy should be and what many clients are experiencing.Together, we explore:• How to identify a competent, structured therapist• Why some therapy feels vague or stalled• What to do when you’re not seeing progress• Why skepticism toward therapy exists, and how to evaluate it intelligentlyThis series is not about criticizing the field. It’s about elevating it. Therapy should include clear goals, defined methods, measurable progress, and an understanding of when treatment is complete. Clients deserve to know what they are entering into and how to assess whether it’s working.To support that, I’m providing a free listener guide:A structured list of questions to ask during therapist consultations so you can make informed decisions and pursue effective care.https://www.untangledmind.net/how-to-choose-the-right-therapistIf you are considering therapy or are currently in it and unsure whether it’s working, this series is designed to give you clarity, language, and direction.#untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor #umpodcast

    1h 30m

  2. FEB 19

    S7 Ep 78 The Intruder

    In this episode, I examine a subtle but increasingly common boundary violation: when strangers use moral or spiritual language to create unsolicited intimacy. This conversation is not about faith or intention. It is about psychology. I break down the behavioral pattern behind forced significance, why these interactions often provoke disgust rather than fear, and why women experience them disproportionately in public spaces. I also explore the broader cultural forces that enable this behavior, including the erosion of private meaning, the confusion of expression with virtue, and the growing discomfort with restraint. If you’ve ever left an interaction thinking, “That felt off, but I couldn’t explain why,” this episode gives language and psychological clarity to that experience. #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #UMpodcast

    26 min
  3. S7 Ep 77 What Happens After Therapy Works?

    FEB 9

    S7 Ep 77 What Happens After Therapy Works?

    When symptoms resolve, functioning improves, and measurable outcomes indicate success, most people appropriately move on. But for a smaller subset, often those who have resolved trauma and reached psychological stability, progress gives way not to clarity, but to ambiguity. In this episode, Piper Harris, LPC explores the often-unspoken space that can follow symptom resolution. Drawing from developmental theory, integrative CBT, and existential psychology, she examines why this phase is not pathological, why not everyone reaches it, and why clinicians are rarely trained to recognize it. This episode is not about extending therapy indefinitely or searching for new problems to solve. It is about understanding a developmental transition that only becomes possible once survival-driven symptoms no longer organize the mind. If you’ve ever wondered why things can feel disorienting even after you’re “doing better,” this conversation offers orientation without pressure and clarity without forcing answers. #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #UMPodcast

    31 min
  4. S7 Ep 76 Predictions, Presumptions, Assumptions

    FEB 2

    S7 Ep 76 Predictions, Presumptions, Assumptions

    In this episode of the Untangled Mind Podcast, Piper Harris explores a common but often unnoticed cognitive sequence: predictions, presumptions, and assumptions. Rather than treating these as personal flaws, this episode examines them as core functions of how the brain manages uncertainty. Drawing from neuroscience and data-driven CBT, Piper breaks down how the brain uses prediction to reduce cognitive load, how presumptions harden into certainty, and how assumptions quietly replace curiosity and learning. The episode focuses on what happens when the mind prioritizes efficiency over understanding and how this can stall insight, integration, and change. Listeners are guided to recognize when their thinking has moved ahead of evidence, how silence and certainty can feel protective while limiting growth, and what it looks like to reintroduce curiosity in a way that works with the brain rather than against it. This episode is part of the Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking series and is designed for those who want to understand how the mind organizes experience and how awareness can interrupt unhelpful patterns. #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

    25 min

  5. JAN 19

    S7 Ep 75 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part III-What I Missed

    Part III of the Bearing Reality series examines the spaces between the highlights: the ideas I didn’t mark, the comforts I didn’t select, and the sentiment I instinctively bypassed. Using vacation reading from Peterson and Sapolsky as evidence, I explore how omission reveals worldview, clinical orientation, and personal history. What we overlook is not accidental; it is patterned, and therefore instructive. Blog series: https://www.untangledmind.net/blog/categories/bearing-reality #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

    35 min
  6. S7 Ep 74 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part II-Patterns of Attention

    JAN 12

    S7 Ep 74 Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking Part II-Patterns of Attention

    Part II of Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking examines what my highlights revealed about how I tend to think. Reading is never passive; what we attend to discloses our values, fears, and assumptions long before we put them into words. In this podcast, I explore patterns of attention around responsibility, coherence, suffering, sentimentality, and the search for meaning. This isn’t about self-analysis for its own sake, but about modeling a discipline of orientation; learning to observe how thinking forms over time. #untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

    31 min
  7. S7 Ep 73 Bearing Reality

    JAN 5

    S7 Ep 73 Bearing Reality

    Bearing Reality: Thinking About ThinkingThis episode introduces Bearing Reality: Thinking About Thinking, a short series exploring how we examine our own thinking when certainty is tempting, but truth requires more discipline.Rather than offering conclusions or advice, this episode focuses on orientation: how patterns of attention form, how blind spots emerge, and why examining how we think matters as much as what we think. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, theology, and lived experience, this series models a process of reflection I often ask clients to engage in themselves.This episode sets the foundation for the series by explaining how it began, why the raw material is presented without interpretation in the first blog post, and what it means to approach thinking as something that can be examined, tested, and integrated rather than defended.If you’re interested in work that respects human limits without abandoning responsibility, and that values clarity over comfort, this series is an invitation to slow down and orient your thinking more deliberately.#untangledmindllc #premiercounseling #integrativeCBT #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #EMDR #prolongedexposure #PTSD #GAD #therapythatworks #datadriven #Georgiacounselor

    17 min
  8. S6 Ep 72 Reflection Over Resolutions: A Different Way to Close the Year

    12/15/2025

    S6 Ep 72 Reflection Over Resolutions: A Different Way to Close the Year

    As the year comes to a close, many people rush toward New Year’s resolutions without ever pausing to reflect on what actually happened and how they responded to it. In this year-end episode of Untangled Mind, Piper Harris reflects on why honest review matters more than goal-setting and why meaningful growth requires clarity rather than motivation. This conversation explores the balance between self-congratulation and self-flagellation, the value of examining painful or uncomfortable moments, and how reflection can become a formative practice rather than a judgment exercise. Piper also shares a brief year-end review of Untangled Mind and offers a grounded framework for conducting your own reflection with honesty, restraint, and purpose. This episode marks the close of Season 6, landing on Episode 72. If you’d like a structured way to reflect on the year, you can download a complimentary Year-End Reflection Packet here:https://www.untangledmind.net/the-untangled-life#untangledmindllc #integrativecbt #traumatherapist #anxietycounseling #endof2025

    34 min
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Untangled Mind™ is a return to depth in a shallow age. Hosted by Piper Harris, clinical counselor and founder of Untangled Mind LLC, this podcast weaves data-driven integrative CBT, faith, and critical insight into real conversations about trauma, anxiety, and resilience. It’s not therapy talk, it’s therapy that works. Each episode invites listeners back to the roots of transformation through truth, structure, and measurable change. #untangledmindllc

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