Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist
Episode: 204. Why Young Men Are Struggling and What Therapists Are Getting Wrong with Ryan Malphrus
Description: In this episode, I sit down with Ryan Malphrus, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in private practice who works with adolescents and adults — particularly boys and men. Ryan spent 15 years working in level-five special education schools before transitioning to private practice, and he brings a grounded, refreshingly honest perspective on the struggles facing young men today.We dive into how boys communicate through behavior and aggression, and why the instinct to shut those impulses down often backfires. Ryan shares his own experience of internalizing societal messages that told him his natural masculine traits — his driv...