This week Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST and Amanda Johns, LCSW talk with special guest Miranda Fort. She is a parent of a child who has been on a journey of finding authenticity in their identify. Miranda offers insight and wisdom in the challenges that both parent and child may face. She provides real world examples of her experience with her trans child. 

In this episode, Amanda Johns, LCSW and Ryan Lynch LCSW, M.Ed, CST discuss how to navigate the shift that occurs in relationships when your child returns home from college. This transition can be exciting, and challenging for both parents, and their adult children. As always Amanda and Ryan bring in clinical and practice insight, and present it with their own brand of humor. 

In this episode, Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST and Amanda Johns, LCSW, again provide answers to some of the top relationship questions asked on the interwebz. They use their clinical insight to give straight answers, with some humor mixed in. 

Did you know that men can experience postpartum depression? Did you know that postpartum depression can occur months after the birth? In this episode, Amanda Johns, LCSW and Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST, talk with Joyce G Cooney, LPC about issues of postpartum depression. Joyce shares her practice insight and experience as it relates to the experience of the "baby blues". 

In this episode Amanda Johns, LCSW and Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST answer the top relationship questions asked on the interwebs. They provide real life responses to real life relationship challenges, with solid therapeutic education and insight.

In this Episode, Amanda Johns, LCSW and Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST explore the relationship between teens and their parents. There are legitimate reasons your teen is acting the way they are, and there are ways you as a parent to strengthen the relationship (or at the very least survive this phase!). Join Ryan and Amanda as they talk about what's normal, what's not developmentally appropriate, and when to seek out support and help from a professional.

In this episode Amanda Johns, LCSW and Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST discuss the importance of clear, open and honest communication with your partner about sex and intimacy. Ryan and Amanda share their clinical insight and even provide an example of direct communication through a role play.

This episode contains frank discussion about how to openly talk about sex within partnered relationships. Factual wording is used. 

Each episode Amanda and Ryan talk about issues related to mental health. They work to reduce the stigma around seeking and getting support. Ryan and Amanda use humor, life experiences, clinical practice experience and education to teach others. 

This week Ryan Lynch, LCSW, M.Ed, CST and Amanda Johns, LCSW talk about the keys to a healthy relationship. They discuss the importance of trust, honesty, openness, vulnerability and empathy in relationships. They provide solid descriptions of what these terms means, and how they impact intimacy.