Real Therapy - With Gijs

I’m Gijs.This is Real Therapy.I speak about what actually happens outside the therapy room.The moments where life doesn’t slow down, and you still have to live inside yourself.No tips.No methods.No fixing.Just real situations, spoken out loud, as they are.

Real Therapy - With Gijs is a health podcast hosted by Gijs van Breugel, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Gijs van Breugel hosts Real Therapy - With Gijs, a health show with 11 episodes published.

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  Myths and truths about institutional abuse

  Mar 19, 202621 minS0

  <p>Myths and truths about institutional abuse</p><p>When “Stress” Isn’t the Right Name</p><p><br></p><p>A professional environment can look respectable and still dismantle someone from the inside.</p><p>In this episode, I examine how institutional abuse often gets misread as stress or burnout. Not because the symptoms are wrong, but because the structure behind them is missed.</p><p>We look at:</p><p>– How harm can occur through procedures, language, and repeated small overrides</p><p>– Why confusion is often built into the experience</p><p>– The myths that keep people doubting the...

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  When “I’m Still Functioning” Misleads

  Mar 13, 202621 minS0

  <p>Still functioning is not the same as Living your full life</p><p><br></p><p>When someone tells me they’re still functioning, that does not reassure me very much.</p><p><br></p><p>It tells me they are still moving. Still managing. Still sounding coherent enough that nobody gets worried.</p><p><br></p><p>But functioning is not the same as health.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I look at the quieter form of depletion that often gets missed: </p><p>When life is still running from the outside, but something underneath ha...

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  Why Asking “Do You Do EMDR?” Is the Wrong First Question

  Mar 4, 202611 minS0

  <p>“Do you do EMDR?”</p><p><br></p><p>It’s one of the most common first questions in therapy.</p><p><br></p><p>It makes sense. When you’re struggling, you want something that works. You want certainty. You want to reduce the risk of wasting time.</p><p>But a method is a tool. And tools come after we understand what we’re dealing with.</p><p>In this episode, I examine why starting with the method can quietly distract from structural assessment. One overwhelming event is not the same as years of adaptive survival patterns — even if both...

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  When the Stages of Grief Mislead You

  Feb 24, 202612 minS0

  <p>“Shouldn’t I be further along by now?”</p><p><br></p><p>The stages of grief are one of the most widely repeated psychological models in modern culture. They promise order. They imply progression. They suggest that mourning follows a recognisable path.</p><p><br></p><p>But structurally, grief is not linear.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I examine what happens when a descriptive model becomes a performance standard. When oscillation is mistaken for regression. When time passing is confused with integration.</p><p><br></p><p>I look at:</p><p><br></p><p>– Wh...

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  What do the phantom of the opera and real therapy have in common

  Feb 10, 202611 minS0

  <p>People come to therapy wanting something gone.</p><p>The anxiety.</p><p>The anger.</p><p>The numbness.</p><p>The noise.</p><p>As if it’s a bad tenant you can evict without touching the building.</p><p>But most of the time, what they want removed is the very thing that’s been holding everything together from below.</p><p>That’s why I sometimes think Real Therapy has more in common with The Phantom of the Opera than with self-help.</p><p>The Phantom isn’t chaos.</p><p>He’s structure.</p><p>He knows the...

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