The Badass Counseling Show

Send us a text In this latest recorded session featuring Sven taking questions live on social media, topics include reconnecting with kids, getting mom's voice out of your head, dealing with the aftermath of doing your healing work, and much more. Please listen in to this Lightning Round! Explicit content.

Send us a text Kenny has been unhappy in his 6-year relationship for the past year. He imagined a better life without his partner and has actually separated but worries about the effect on his kids. Marin is studying to be a counselor but is concerned how her relationship with God seems to be in conflict with the science of psychology. Above all, both are concerned about how others will perceive them. Sven counsels them to embrace their authenticity, and confront the truth about who took away their comfort in being themselves. Explicit content.

Send us a text After the show, Sven checks in with Marin and Kenny to get their reactions and see how they're doing.

Send us a text Sven tackles more intriguing questions from his followers in this Lightning Round. Topics include people pleasing, kids living with exes, inviting family to your wedding, dating while healing, leaving a marriage after age 70, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Steig has cut off his mother and brother after an abusive childhood in which his father left before he was 3. Something is holding him back from healing, and Sven guides him to confront the answer in some ugly truths about his brother. Explicit content.

Topics in this recorded Lightning Round include: Alone at 24 and fear of dating, compassion for our own unhealed parenting, exes ruining your life with your kids, broken trust, AA sponsorship, addiction, and much more. Listen in as Sven takes questions as they come in from TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube. Explicit content.

Charo blames herself for her husband's suicide. She feels like she made him do it. But Sven counsels her to look at the truth of his drug addiction and abuse, and guides her toward a new understanding of her parents' influence on her feelings, and how to pass along the right impression to her own children. Explicit content.

Sven has a heart-to-heart discussion with Charo after the show. Explicit content.

Nothing gets Sven going like rapid-fire questions coming at him from 3 social media platforms at once. In this episode he responds to issues including emotional intelligence, narcs at work, the need (or lack of need) for forgiveness, low self-esteem, loss of family, and much more. Please listen in to this provocative lightning round! Explicit content.

Cheating causes your partner incalculable pain, but in this counseling episode Sven works with Suki, whose pain was multiplied by her husband's decision to become a serial cheater while their young daughter was dying of cancer. Sven helps Suki face the truth of her difficult situation, even as her husband seems willing to change. For another angle on this story, listen to the episode with her husband Jeffrey from December 2023 entitled "Can't Face the Hate." Explicit content.

More unpredictable questions taken live by Sven and recorded for another Lightning Round episode. Topics include: Dealing with paralysis, worrying about screwing your kids up, what if I'm the narc, domestic abuse, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Here's the other side of Cass' story, last week's "Robbed of Normal." Meet Kitty, Cass' wife, who can't get past Cass' drinking and stealing, and wonders if she can stay in the marriage. Childhood trauma figures in, and Sven guides Kitty to confront her honest feelings and the truth about her life...and her marriage. Explicit content.

In this Lightning Round, Sven takes questions and comments on topics including sexual trauma, love bombing, a partner's bad behavior, how to tell the kids about divorce, and much more. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Cass is in serious pain. She wants to save herself and her marriage to Kitty (who Sven counsels in next week's show). Cass knows she must confront her troubled past but hasn't been able to face the whole truth. Fears of abandonment and golden child issues pay a big part. Join Sven and Cass in this inspiring healing journey. Explicit content.

Sven's ready to go for another Lightning Round, taking questions on topics of life and love, hope and despair, marriage and divorce, and so much more. Please listen in as he applies his wit and wisdom to listeners' questions. Explicit content.

Feeling betrayed by her mother for forcing her to have an abortion at age 17, Kiki still feels the pain and anger 25 years later. She's hoping for an apology that will never come. Kiki believes she's hurting her own family and wants to just disappear. Epiphanies and hope await, as Sven goes to work identifying the root of her problem, and the way out. Explicit content.

Sven goes it alone for most of this Lightning Round, as Rob and KC get called away. No worries! He takes on topics including: How to recover post-narc divorce; How to stop feeling guilty after breaking up with a narc; How to build trust in a relationship if you've been hurt before; How to deal with anxious attachment; and many more how-to's in some of the most challenging questions of life. Please listen in! Explicit content.

Della, in her mid-20s, can't figure out what to do with her life. She feels she has to live up to her own rigid expectations that began as early as age 6. What is the source of her fears and the pressure she feels? Sven works closely with Della to get to the root of her problems so she can confidently get on with what she really loves about life. Explicit content.

After the show with Della, Sven chats further with her about her feelings. Explicit content.

The questions are really flying at Sven in this latest Lightning Round. Listen in to this recorded session as Sven goes live on multiple social media platforms and handles topics and questions including: How can I let go of a friend who is using me? My mother is stealing from me and my kids, what can I do? Do you have to be completely healed before you start a new relationship? And much more. Explicit content.