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Dr Mohammadrasool Yadegarfard
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Your Therapy Guide is a podcast series created and hosted by Dr. Mohammadrasool Yadegarfard, a therapist dedicated to making the therapeutic process clear, understandable, and less intimidating. In each short, practical episode, Dr. Yadegarfard answers the most common questions his clients ask when they begin their journey. From understanding what therapy is and how it works to setting goals and navigating the stages of change, this podcast provides you with a trusted guide and valuable tools. This series is a perfect companion to your therapeutic journey, offering insights to empower you both in and out of the therapy room.

  1. Staying Motivated When Therapy Feels Tough — Understanding the Messy Middle

    3월 1일

    Staying Motivated When Therapy Feels Tough — Understanding the Messy Middle

    What happens when therapy starts to feel heavy, slow, or discouraging? What if you feel worse before you feel better — or begin to wonder whether it’s working at all? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores why therapy often becomes most challenging in the middle of the journey. Drawing on psychological science and clinical practice, this episode explains how increased awareness, emotional processing, identity shifts, and effort fatigue can temporarily reduce motivation — without meaning that therapy is failing. You’ll learn how to distinguish between productive discomfort and overwhelm, plateau and stuckness, resistance and misalignment. Most importantly, you’ll learn how to reflect on tough phases in therapy without shaming yourself or jumping to conclusions. This episode is designed for anyone currently in therapy — or considering it — who wants a grounded, evidence-informed understanding of why progress is rarely linear and why tough phases deserve thoughtful reflection, not silent endurance. You’ll learn: • Why therapy can feel harder in the middle • How increased awareness can temporarily increase distress • What the “messy middle” of change looks like • The difference between growth discomfort and overwhelm • How to recognise plateau versus stuckness • Why motivation naturally fluctuates • How self-compassion supports persistence • When tough phases deserve conversation and adjustment ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #TherapyJourney #StayingMotivated #YourTherapyGuide #MentalHealthEducation #TherapyPodcast #EmotionalGrowth #PsychologyExplained #CBTInformed #PersonalDevelopment #DrYadegarfard #MentalHealthSkills

    12분
  2. Action vs Reaction — Building the Pause Between Impulse and Choice

    2월 15일

    Action vs Reaction — Building the Pause Between Impulse and Choice

    Why do you sometimes react before you’ve had a chance to think? Why does insight alone not stop certain patterns, even when you understand them well? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores the difference between reacting and acting from a neuroscience-informed, therapy-focused perspective. Rather than framing reactions as personal failures, this episode explains how fast, automatic responses are driven by the nervous system’s threat mechanisms — and how therapy helps build a pause that makes choice possible. You’ll learn why reactions happen so quickly, why willpower is not enough to change them, and how therapy supports the gradual development of space between impulse and behaviour. This episode is designed to help you understand your reactions with less shame and more clarity, and to see change as a process of increasing capacity rather than forcing control. You’ll learn: • The difference between reaction and intentional action • Why the brain prioritises speed over reflection under threat • Why insight alone does not stop reactive behaviour • What the “pause” really is — and what it is not • How therapy helps widen the space between impulse and choice • The role of self-compassion and acceptance in reducing reactivity • What realistic progress looks like when working with reactions ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #ActionVsReaction #EmotionalRegulation #TherapyPodcast #YourTherapyGuide #MentalHealthEducation #NeuroscienceInformed #CBTInformed #SelfAwareness #ImpulseControl #MentalHealthSkills #DrYadegarfard

    11분
  3. Self-Compassion and Acceptance — Why Change Needs Both

    2월 1일

    Self-Compassion and Acceptance — Why Change Needs Both

    Why do self-compassion and acceptance sound helpful in theory, but feel so hard in practice? And why do they often show up later in therapy rather than at the beginning? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores self-compassion and acceptance from a therapy-informed, science-based perspective — not as positive attitudes you should force, but as internal states that emerge when safety, understanding, and capacity increase. You’ll learn why resistance to self-compassion is often protective, why acceptance does not mean giving up, and why real change tends to stall when people are fighting both their situation and themselves at the same time. This episode explains how therapy helps soften that internal struggle, allowing change to become more sustainable rather than exhausting. Designed for people in therapy, considering therapy, or feeling stuck despite insight and effort, this episode offers a grounded, non-judgemental way of understanding why kindness toward yourself can feel so difficult — and why that difficulty makes sense. You’ll learn: • Why self-compassion and acceptance are often paired in therapy • The difference between acceptance and resignation • Why self-compassion can feel unsafe or uncomfortable • How shame and internal threat interfere with change • Why compassion without acceptance can turn into avoidance • How acceptance without compassion can feel like endurance • How therapy supports regulation so compassion can emerge naturally • Why self-compassion supports long-term change rather than lowering standards ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #SelfCompassion #Acceptance #TherapyPodcast #YourTherapyGuide #MentalHealthEducation #EmotionalRegulation #ShameAndHealing #CBTInformed #PsychologyExplained #MentalHealthSkills #DrYadegarfard

    12분
  4. How Our Minds Rewrite Stories — Memory, Meaning, and Emotional Experience

    1월 17일

    How Our Minds Rewrite Stories — Memory, Meaning, and Emotional Experience

    Have you ever been completely certain about how something happened — only to realise that someone else remembers the same event very differently? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores how human memory actually works, and why our minds don’t simply record events, but actively reconstruct them over time. This episode looks at how memories are shaped by emotion, meaning, and context, and how personal stories formed in moments of stress, fear, or pain can continue to influence how we feel and react long after the event itself has passed. Rather than focusing on whether memories are “right” or “wrong,” the episode explains how therapy works with meaning, interpretation, and emotional safety to help loosen the grip of rigid personal narratives. Designed for people in therapy, thinking about therapy, or curious about how memory and meaning affect mental health, this episode offers a compassionate, science-informed understanding of why certain memories feel so powerful — and how they can soften over time. You’ll learn: • Why memory is reconstructive rather than a fixed record of the past • How emotion shapes what we remember and how we remember it • Why different people can recall the same event in very different ways • How personal stories form around difficult experiences • When memories and stories become emotionally unhelpful • How therapy works with meaning rather than trying to “correct” memory • Why changing a story is not the same as denying pain ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #MemoryAndMeaning #PsychologyExplained #TherapyPodcast #YourTherapyGuide #MentalHealthEducation #EmotionalMemory #SelfAwareness #MentalHealthSkills #TraumaInformed #CBT #DrYadegarfard

    10분
  5. When Awareness Isn’t Enough - Why Insight Alone Doesn’t Create Change

    1월 10일

    When Awareness Isn’t Enough - Why Insight Alone Doesn’t Create Change

    We live in a time of unprecedented psychological awareness. Many people understand their patterns, their triggers, and where their difficulties come from. They’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, and can describe their struggles clearly-yet still feel stuck. In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores a question that comes up repeatedly in therapy: Why isn’t awareness always enough to create change? More importantly, what actually needs to happen for awareness to turn into meaningful, lasting change? This episode goes beyond insight and explains how awareness works, where its limits are, and how therapy helps translate understanding into emotional regulation, behavioural shifts, and real-life change - without self-blame or pressure to “fix” yourself. Designed for people starting therapy, currently in therapy, or feeling frustrated by how much they already know, this episode offers relief, clarity, and a more realistic model of change. You’ll learn: • Why awareness is necessary but not sufficient for change • The difference between insight, regulation, and behaviour change • Why patterns persist even when you understand them • How emotional activation and the nervous system affect change • How awareness can support change when used differently • Why self-help and insight can sometimes increase self-criticism • What therapy adds beyond understanding and information ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #AwarenessIsntEnough #TherapyPodcast #MentalHealthEducation #YourTherapyGuide #PsychologyExplained #EmotionalRegulation #SelfAwareness #BehaviourChange #AnxietySupport #MentalHealthSkills #DrYadegarfard #TherapyJourney

    10분
  6. Socratic Questioning and Reframing— How Therapy Helps You Think Differently

    1월 2일

    Socratic Questioning and Reframing— How Therapy Helps You Think Differently

    Why does your therapist keep asking questions instead of giving answers? Why can changing the way you think feel uncomfortable — even when it’s meant to help? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores Socratic questioning and reframing, two core therapeutic processes that sit at the heart of how psychological change happens. This episode focuses on how therapists work collaboratively with thoughts, not to argue with them or replace them with “positive thinking,” but to gently explore meaning, reduce rigidity, and support emotional regulation. You’ll learn why this questioning style can feel challenging, how reframing expands perspective without denying pain, and how these skills gradually help the nervous system settle. Designed for people starting therapy, currently in therapy, or simply curious about how therapy works, this episode emphasises curiosity, compassion, and psychological flexibility — not self-criticism or pressure to “fix” yourself. You’ll learn: • What Socratic questioning is and why therapists use it instead of giving advice • How questioning thoughts is different from questioning emotions • What reframing really means — and what it does not mean • Why reframing can feel uncomfortable or “fake” at first • How thoughts, meaning, and emotional intensity are connected • How Socratic questioning can support emotion regulation over time • Why learning this skill in therapy is often safer and more effective than doing it alone ⸻ Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community ⸻ Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com ⸻ Hashtags: #SocraticQuestioning #Reframing #TherapySkills #MentalHealthEducation #YourTherapyGuide #CBT #PsychologyExplained #EmotionalRegulation #Overthinking #AnxietySupport #SelfAwareness #DrYadegarfard #MentalHealthPodcast

    12분
  7. Cognitive Bias — Why Your Brain Thinks the Way It Does

    2025. 12. 16.

    Cognitive Bias — Why Your Brain Thinks the Way It Does

    Why does your mind jump to conclusions? Why do certain thoughts feel so convincing, even when they cause distress? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard takes a deep, science-based look at cognitive biases — the mental shortcuts your brain uses to make sense of the world. You’ll learn what cognitive biases are, why every human brain has them, how they influence emotions, relationships, and behaviour, and why they are not a sign of weakness or failure. Most importantly, you’ll learn how therapy helps you recognise and work with these patterns in a way that builds flexibility rather than self-criticism. This episode is designed to help you understand your thinking with curiosity and compassion — and to give you practical ways to pause, reflect, and respond more intentionally in everyday life. You’ll learn: • What cognitive biases are and why the brain relies on them • The difference between cognitive biases and automatic negative thoughts • Common cognitive biases that influence anxiety, low mood, and self-criticism • How cognitive biases show up in daily life, work, and relationships • Whether cognitive biases are always “bad” or sometimes helpful • How awareness of bias supports emotional regulation and recovery • How therapy helps you notice and soften unhelpful thinking patterns Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community Connect with Dr. Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: your.therapy.guide2025@gmail.com Hashtags: #CognitiveBias #MentalHealthEducation #TherapyPodcast #YourTherapyGuide #CBT #PsychologyExplained #Overthinking #EmotionalRegulation #AnxietySupport #SelfAwareness #DrYadegarfard #MentalHealthSkills

    10분
  8. Automatic Negative Thoughts & Core Beliefs — Understanding Your Deep Patterns

    2025. 12. 06.

    Automatic Negative Thoughts & Core Beliefs — Understanding Your Deep Patterns

    Why do our thoughts turn negative so quickly? Why do we jump to conclusions, assume the worst, or speak to ourselves far more harshly than we would ever speak to someone we love? In this episode, Dr. Yadegarfard explores the two powerful forces beneath these struggles: automatic negative thoughts and core beliefs. You’ll learn how these patterns form, why they appear during stress, and how therapy helps you recognise, question, and transform them. Whether you experience overthinking, anxiety, low mood, or self-criticism, this episode will help you understand your mind with compassion — and begin the process of gentle change. You'll learn: • What automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) are and why they happen • How cognitive biases (like catastrophising and emotional reasoning) distort your thinking • What core beliefs are, how they form, and why they influence your emotional reactions • The powerful link between ANTs and deeper belief systems • How CBT works on both “top-down” (thoughts) and “bottom-up” (beliefs) levels • Simple tools to identify, question, and soften unhelpful thinking patterns • A short guided reflection to help you notice your own thought–belief cycles This episode is ideal for anyone who wants to understand their inner dialogue, strengthen emotional regulation, or deepen their therapy work. Listen to the full episode on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music Podcast Index RSS.com Community Connect with Dr. Mohammadrasool Yadegarfard: Website: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/812274 Instagram: Your_therapy_guide X (Twitter): @UrTherapyguide Email: mohammadrasool.yadegarfard@gmail.com Hashtags: #NegativeThoughts #CoreBeliefs #CBTTools #CognitiveBias #MentalHealthPodcast #YourTherapyGuide #AnxietySupport #EmotionalRegulation #SelfCompassion #DrYadegarfard #OverthinkingHelp #TherapyEducation

    11분
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Your Therapy Guide is a podcast series created and hosted by Dr. Mohammadrasool Yadegarfard, a therapist dedicated to making the therapeutic process clear, understandable, and less intimidating. In each short, practical episode, Dr. Yadegarfard answers the most common questions his clients ask when they begin their journey. From understanding what therapy is and how it works to setting goals and navigating the stages of change, this podcast provides you with a trusted guide and valuable tools. This series is a perfect companion to your therapeutic journey, offering insights to empower you both in and out of the therapy room.

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    Dr Mohammadrasool Yadegarfard
  • 방송 연도
    2025년 - 2026년
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    36
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    Your Therapy guide