In Episode 3, we talk to Dr. Florian Ruths about mindfulness and mindfulness based therapies. Florian explains how mindfulness itself is not a therapy, but a practice which can invite us to change how we react to challenges and suffering. Nevertheless it has been co-opted into psychotherapeutic interventions like mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT), the effectiveness of which depend on the degree to which we continue to practi

There are a lot of different psychological therapies. Some of these differ greatly, some of them are essentially variations of the same approach. We have talked to lots of people who have had experience - and have both had experience ourselves - of finding this all quite baffling. The language of psychological therapy is also full of jargon. How would you choose between therapists who call themselves existential, Jungian, cognitive behavioural, or humanistic? We thought we wo

We won't be releasing weekly episodes. Behind the Psych Sheds isn't that type of pod. As of May 2026, we have made six episodes, five of which are interviews with experts. The sixth is a discussion in which we evaluate what we have learnt about the therapies so far. We will most likely drop one episode every month to begin and record some more towards the end of the year. Our hope is to build up a audio library of episodes which you can come back to. We are not expecting the