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ShrinkChicks

Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT and Emmalee Bierly, LMFT

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Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 312

Emmalee Bierly, LMFT and Jennifer Chaiken, LMFT, owners and co-founders of The Therapy Group (@thetherapygrp), bring you the ShrinkChicks Podcast. ShrinkChicks is on a mission to make therapy and therapeutic topics more relatable and accessible. Each Monday, Emmalee and Jen will explore different mental health topics and invite you to sit in on their insight, humor, and knowledge, leaving the psychobabble behind.

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🇨🇦 Canada - mentalHealth
28/04/2026
#89
🇺🇸 USA - mentalHealth
09/04/2026
#97
🇨🇦 Canada - mentalHealth
08/04/2026
#80
🇺🇸 USA - mentalHealth
08/04/2026
#78
🇨🇦 Canada - mentalHealth
07/04/2026
#72
🇫🇷 France - mentalHealth
11/02/2026
#92
🇫🇷 France - mentalHealth
09/02/2026
#76
🇨🇦 Canada - mentalHealth
13/01/2026
#91
🇺🇸 USA - mentalHealth
13/01/2026
#91
🇨🇦 Canada - mentalHealth
24/12/2025
#100

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Rewind: People In Our Lives Who Aren't "Doing The Work"

Season 6 · Episode 14

Monday, September 2, 2024 • Duration 47:10

This week's episode is a re-release of one of Emmalee and Jen's favorite episodes. They want to model what they often share, which is the importance of resting and taking breaks in order to continue to show up as the best versions of themselves. The topic is one that constantly receives questions: what to do when the people in your life aren't "doing the work?" Whether that's your family member, friend, co-worker, or partner, Emmalee and Jen are answering your questions about the frustrations that can occur when it feels like you're the only one working on yourself. They discuss tangible tips, firm boundaries, their thoughts on being called "too sensitive," passive aggression, resentment and the emotions underneath it, changing relational dynamics, and so much more. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 6 minutes to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content. Part Two of the "doing the work" episode series: Apple Link Spotify Link Get Matched With One of Our Therapists at The Therapy Group! ShrinkChicks on Instagram Our Know Yourself Grow Yourself Journal!! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: HungryRoot: Go to hungryroot.com/shrinkchicks to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies MasterClass: Get an additional 15% off an annual membership at masterclass.com/shrinkchicks Quince: Go to quince.com/shrinkchicks for free shipping and 365-day returns on your next order Prose: Get 50% off your first subscription order at prose.com/shrinkchicks Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/shrinkchicks

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The Line Between Empathy and Enabling

Season 6 · Episode 13

Monday, August 26, 2024 • Duration 45:23

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are explaining the difference between having empathy for someone vs. enabling someone, as they can feel very similar. They start off the episode by sharing ways to recognize the line between the two and speak on why it can be challenging to shift the dynamic in a relationship where we're enabling. Emmalee and Jen discuss how to apply this same logic to ourselves (i.e. holding self accountable in a gentle way), ways they have enabled one another as well as their partners, what maternal gatekeeping means and how it can lead to resentment, what to do when a family member enables another family member, plus boundaries, boundaries, and more boundaries! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: Fast forward to around 6:30 to skip the intro and get straight to today’s content. Get Matched With One of Our Therapists at The Therapy Group! ShrinkChicks on Instagram Our Know Yourself Grow Yourself Journal!! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: HungryRoot: Go to hungryroot.com/shrinkchicks to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies MasterClass: Get an additional 15% off an annual membership at masterclass.com/shrinkchicks Quince: Go to quince.com/shrinkchicks for free shipping and 365-day returns on your next order Prose: Get 50% off your first subscription order at prose.com/shrinkchicks Shopify: Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/shrinkchicks

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Our 10 Year Anniversary Episode!

Season 6 · Episode 4

Monday, June 24, 2024 • Duration 49:52

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are celebrating 10 years in business together by dedicating the episode to all that they've learned so far! They discuss their journey, the ways their lives have been enriched by one another, things they would change, hard decisions they had to make, and the transition away from pleasing people. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about what they've learned from one another, what they're most proud of the other person for, how they've changed as therapists, and their top 3 moments of vindication for any haters. They end the episode with their advice to new therapists and a Dear Em and Jen about the things that seemed like a good idea and turned out not to be. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! PS: There is no intro for today's episode - join us right away for the content! Get Matched With One of Our Therapists at The Therapy Group! ShrinkChicks on Instagram Our Know Yourself Grow Yourself Journal!! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: HungryRoot: Go to hungryroot.com/shrinkchicks to get 40% off your first delivery and get your free veggies MasterClass: Get an additional 15% off an annual membership at masterclass.com/shrinkchicks Blueland: Get 15% off your first order by going to blueland.com/shrinkchicks Quince: Go to quince.com/shrinkchicks for free shipping and 365-day returns on your next order! Prose: Get 50% off your first subscription order at prose.com/shrinkchicks

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Why Are Friendship Break-Ups So Painful?

Season 3 · Episode 71

Monday, September 12, 2022 • Duration 44:29

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen cover one of their most requested topics: friendship break-ups. They discuss why friendship break-ups hurt so much and the validity of that pain, ghosting in friendships and the lack of closure, friendship break-ups not being as normalized as romantic break-ups in our society, the fear around being truthful with our friends, the challenges of making friends as an adult, and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action. Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Rocket Money: Go to rocketmoney.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling your unused subscriptions today! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/shrinkchicks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features! MixSupps: Our listeners can get 20% off their first purchase at mixsupps.com/SHRINK

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Advice to Our Younger Selves

Season 3 · Episode 70

Monday, September 5, 2022 • Duration 51:24

Today's episode of ShrinkChicks is dedicated to advice for our younger selves. Emmalee and Jen share the advice they would give to their younger selves and also the advice written in by their audience. They start the episode by reminiscing on the early days of The Therapy Group and the amount of anxiety they had while building the business. They talk through how they've grown since then and the advice they had trouble hearing at the time. Emmalee and Jen discuss why they think we can also give this advice to our present selves, their experiences being “the chill girl” in relationships, shifting away from the need for external validation, the regrets they have surrounding dieting, a potential new tagline for ShrinkChicks, and so much more! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Rocket Money: Go to rocketmoney.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling your unused subscriptions today! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/shrinkchicks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features!

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If Couples Therapy Isn't Working with Amelia Innis, LMFT

Season 3 · Episode 69

Monday, August 29, 2022 • Duration 46:13

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amelia Innis, LMFT, one of their amazing clinicians at The Therapy Group. Amelia specializes in working with couples and shares her approach to couples therapy, which is rooted in honesty and direction. She discusses the importance of honesty in romantic relationships as well as the therapeutic relationship and why we can't expect our partners to "just know" what we need. Amelia is now offering Couples Intensives at The Therapy Group and she shares what an intensive looks like (hint: it's intense), why a couple might benefit from it, and how it differs from traditional couples therapy. Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! To book a Couples Intensive with Amelia, you can fill out this contact form and request her as your preferred therapist! You can also get in touch with Amelia via email: amelia@wctherapygroup.com Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Rocket Money: Go to rocketmoney.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling your unused subscriptions today! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/shrinkchicks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features!

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When Strangers Become Family

Season 3 · Episode 68

Monday, August 22, 2022 • Duration 50:23

On today's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by Amy Crichton, LMFT, one of their wonderful therapists from The Therapy Group, and her brother, Josh Weaver! Josh and Amy share the incredible story of how they discovered they were siblings just about three years ago. Spoiler alert: our parents' generation did not anticipate DNA test kits being so accessible! Josh explains how he found out that the father who raised him was not his biological father via Ancestry.com, and Amy shares her perspective on how that news impacted her and her family of origin. Tune in to hear their incredible story, the way everything unfolded, what their relationship with one another looks like now, and so much more. Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Rocket Money: Go to rocketmoney.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling your unused subscriptions today! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/shrinkchicks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features!

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Is There Anything That's TMI in Therapy?

Season 3 · Episode 67

Monday, August 15, 2022 • Duration 50:56

This week on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen discuss a question they asked their Instagram followers: what do you hesitate to share with your therapist in therapy? The responses received were overwhelming, so they made an episode of it! Em and Jen anonymously share responses including: sex, masturbation, suicidal ideation, shame, drug and alcohol usage, not taking the therapist's advice, trauma, financial stress, and so much more! Tune in to find out why they believe nothing is "TMI" in therapy and their advice on how to bring up certain topics with your therapist. Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Rocket Money: Go to rocketmoney.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling your unused subscriptions today! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today! Shopify: Go to shopify.com/shrinkchicks for a FREE fourteen-day trial and get full access to Shopify’s entire suite of features!

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Can I Tell My Therapist I Use Cannabis?

Season 3 · Episode 66

Monday, August 8, 2022 • Duration 46:46

Today on ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen are joined by one of their amazing clinicians, Colton Hott, PC! Colton shares his journey to becoming a therapist plus his experience working in the cannabis industry. He answers some of your questions like: can I tell my therapist I use cannabis, why can cannabis ease anxiety one time and heighten anxiety another time, what if you and your partner have different feelings on usage, cannabis, memory, and the research behind it, signs to look out for when it comes to dependency, and so much more! If you're interested in working with Colton, fill out a contact form for The Therapy Group and request him as your preferred therapist! *Residents of PA only* Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg A special thank you to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Truebill: Go to truebill.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling today - it could save you thousands a year! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today!

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You Don't Have to Like Your In-Laws

Season 3 · Episode 65

Monday, August 1, 2022 • Duration 45:42

On this week's episode of ShrinkChicks, Emmalee and Jen bring you the third and final part of the in-laws series! They start the episode off by discussing some DMs received from mothers-in-law about their daughters-in-law and shed some light on the roles we all play in this complicated dynamic. Emmalee and Jen answer your questions about in-laws using guilt as a form of manipulation, what to do if you simply dislike your in-laws, expectations for vacations, being married to the "non-favorite" child and the resentment it can cause, comparing your childhood and upbringing with your partner's, where to start when trying to split the holidays, and so much more! Tune in to gain insight, awareness, and action! Check out ShrinkChicks on YouTube by subscribing here! https://youtube.com/channel/UCrxuhDqoL4ML3UE8b2J2BBg Thanks to this week's sponsors for supporting ShrinkChicks! We have these exclusive offers for our listeners: Coterie: Get 20% off your order plus FREE shipping when you go to coterie.com/shrink Truebill: Go to truebill.com/shrinkchicks to start cancelling today - it could save you thousands a year! Nutrafol: Go to nutrafol.com and use the promo code SHRINK to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription plus free shipping! Binto: Head to mybinto.com, take the quiz, and enter promo code shrinkchicks for 20% off your first month! Goli: Go to go.goli.com/SHRINK and you will be brought straight to the checkout page with our amazing discount already applied! Dipsea: Sign up for an extended 30 day FREE trial when you go to dipseastories.com/shrink ZocDoc: Go to zocdoc.com/shrink and download the ZocDoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor. Many are available as soon as today!

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