Chat with Dr. Kat
by Dr. Kat Derrig-Palumbo
Latest episode
Why People Stay Single Now (and How AI Makes It Worse)
Why People Stay Single Now (and How AI Makes It Worse)
About this podcast
With over 25 years of experience as a licensed psychologist, Dr. Kat was one of the pioneers of online therapy. She launched one of the first virtual platforms, MyTherapyNet.com, long before telehealth became the norm.
She is the author of Online Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to Expanding Your Practice, and has taught thousands of therapists through her lectures for AAMFT, CAMFT, and other national and international psychological associations. She has also served as a consultant for The Dr. Phil Show, bringing her expertise to a national audience.
Now, through Chat with Dr. Kat, she shares the moments that spark the kind of clarity people have been searching for — sometimes for years. Her gift is helping people finally “get it” — to break through in ways they never have before. Whether it’s parenting struggles, relationship dynamics, emotional healing, communication challenges, or what’s happening in the world around us, Dr. Kat brings insight, compassion, and real talk that leads to real change.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 66 episodes
- Why People Stay Single Now (and How AI Makes It Worse) · 21 minDating can feel like a string of promising conversations that disappear the moment you meet in person. When profiles, texts, and even video chats are shaped by AI, it’s easy to…
- How to Get the Most Out of Therapy: The Mistake · 9 minTherapy can start to feel frustrating when you keep showing up but nothing in your life seems to change. Maybe the assignments feel uncomfortable, you avoid practicing new coping…
- 5 Signs You’re in a Roommate Marriage (One Looks Healthy) · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 64If your marriage feels like a roommate relationship with your husband or wife, this episode is for you. Dr. Kat Derrig-Palumbo, licensed psychologist, walks through the 5 signs…
- 6 Signs You're Emotionally Disconnected Even If You Don't Fight · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 63Living with someone who seems physically present but emotionally elsewhere can leave you lonely, devalued, and questioning what changed. The phone scrolling, flat answers…
- Jay Paterno on NIL, Anxiety, and the Lesson Joe Paterno Taught Him · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 62When performance, money, and public opinion are all on the line, there may be nowhere to put the anxiety. College athletes are expected to compete, build a brand, handle…
- Ontological Shock: A Psychologist on UAP Disclosure and Fear · 16 minWhen the truth feels unclear, your mind starts filling in the blanks—and often with the worst-case scenario. As questions about UAPs, UFOs, and possible disclosure keep…
- Mary Cosby's Son and the Shame That Keeps Families Silent · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 60When a child is struggling with drugs, fear and shame can make families go quiet—especially when a parent is trying to help without pushing their child further away. Mary Cosby’s…
- How to Rebuild Your Life After Trauma — Survival Wasn't the End · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 59Surviving addiction, grief, illness, or loss doesn’t automatically make life feel better. Sometimes you make it through the crisis only to find yourself exhausted, grieving…
- Who Pays on the First Date? The Bill Isn't the Whole Cost · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 58Splitting the bill can sound fair—until you notice that the cost of a date often starts long before anyone reaches the restaurant. Women are navigating pay gaps, pressure to look…
- Ketamine Therapy With a Therapist: When Talk Therapy Stalls · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 57When you’ve tried therapy, medication, and all the usual advice but still feel stuck, it can be hard to know what else is worth considering. Dr. Kat talks with Myriam Barthes…
- Why Do I Repeat Toxic Relationships? The Pattern You Can’t See · 7 min · Season 1 Episode 56When someone betrays or humiliates you, forgiveness can feel like being asked to pretend it never happened. But holding onto the anger can keep you tied to the person long after…
- No Intimacy in Marriage? The Cow Theory Explains the Distance · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 55When intimacy fades in a marriage, it can feel like being “put out to pasture”—still carrying the daily responsibilities, but no longer touched, noticed, or treated like a…
- Why Adults Cut Off Their Parents — We're Blaming the Wrong Thing · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 54When someone you love pulls away — a grown child, a partner, a parent — the easy explanation is to blame a therapist who told them to leave, or call someone a narcissist because…
- How to Coparent with a Narcissist: They're Not Going to Change · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 53When someone knows exactly how to get under your skin — especially through your kids — co-parenting becomes less about logistics and more about survival. Simi Krishnan, a data…
- Resentment in Marriage After Kids Starts Long Before You Notice · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 52Somewhere along the way, one person in the relationship kept going — to the gym, to golf, to lunch with friends — while the other quietly stopped. Not because they wanted to, but…
- You're Not Failing — Parenting a Child with ADHD Is Just This Hard · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 51Parenting a child with ADHD can feel like you're failing every single day — the meltdowns, the walking on eggshells, the guilt at bedtime — even when you're trying everything…
- Numbing Grief with Alcohol Until a Dog Changed Everything · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 50When you lose someone to sudden violence, the mind doesn't know what to do with that much pain — so sometimes you just try to drown it. LaShawnda lost her 21-year-old son Tyshawn…
- Is Long Term Care Insurance Worth It? Most Families Get This Wrong · 52 min · Season 1 Episode 49Most people don't think about long-term care until they're already in the middle of a crisis — a parent who can't bathe alone, a spouse recovering from surgery, a sibling who…
- Why Doesn't My Partner Listen to Me (Make Them Watch This) · 17 minYou've done everything you thought was kind — and somehow it still isn't what they asked for. That's the friction at the center of this episode: the gap between doing *something*…
- 7 Menopause Symptoms No One Talks About — Are You Missing Them? · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 47Many women reach menopause already exhausted — from decades of managing everyone else's needs — and then find themselves blindsided by symptoms they never connected to hormones…
