About / Podcast guest kit
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One-line intro
A licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience, and the author writing plainly about what mental-health care has quietly become.
Bios
Short (≈ 50 words)
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years in practice and the author of A Practical Response to Gender Distress and the children's book Froggy Girl. She writes and speaks as The Truthful Therapist.
Long (≈ 100 words)
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, LCSW, has practiced clinical social work for twenty-five years across community mental health, hospitals, schools, and private offices. She is the author of A Practical Response to Gender Distress and the children's book Froggy Girl. Writing as The Truthful Therapist, she has been featured in three documentaries and interviewed across The Epoch Times, PragerU, The Daily Signal, the Christian Post, Tomi Lahren Show, Newsmax, Salem radio, and more.
Suggested questions
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What first made you decide to write publicly under the name The Truthful Therapist?
You often say that affirmation isn't real therapy; can you expand on that?
What do parents most misunderstand about their role in their child's therapy?
How has the language of your field changed in the last decade, and what has that cost the people you treat?
Where are clinicians going quietly wrong right now, even the well-intentioned ones?
What does family-centered care actually look like, in practice?
How does the emphasis on systemic oppression hinder people's resilience?
Should a parent immediately bring a child to therapy when they notice their child struggling? Why or why not?
How are mainstream therapists becoming more political and how does this harm their quality of work?
What should parents do when they are concerned that their child has gotten immersed in gender ideology?
Show-notes blurb
Pamela Garfield-Jaeger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, therapist, author, and founder of The Truthful Therapist. After more than two decades working with children, families, and adults, Pamela has become a leading voice challenging the assumptions shaping today's mental-health profession. She brings a clinician's perspective to difficult conversations about childhood development, therapy, parenting, gender distress, and the medicalization of children. Known for her candid, common-sense approach, Pamela believes therapists have a responsibility to look beyond the latest cultural narratives, ask difficult questions, and put children and families before ideology. Her message is simple: compassion and truth are not opposing forces, and good therapy requires both.
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Where to link
Website
thetruthfultherapist.orgX
@pgarfieldjaegerSubstack
pamthetruthfultherapistYouTube
@thetruthfultherapist