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Transcripts, Notes & Reflections from The CBT Dive Video Podcast

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What does CBT look like when it’s not mechanical?

What does it sound like when the therapist isn’t acting like a thought-police officer—when the work is relational, culturally humble, emotionally real, and grounded in lived experience?

Transcripts, Notes and Reflections from The CBT Dive Video Podcast is a unique clinical and personal learning text built from real therapy-style sessions and interviews from The CBT Dive—a video podcast exploring how cognitive-behavioral therapy can be practiced with depth, warmth, and anti-oppressive intention.

This is not a textbook of “perfect” CBT. It is a collection of real conversations: messy, human, layered, and often deeply moving. Across dozens of sessions, Rahim Thawer demonstrates how CBT tools can be used without bypassing grief, culture, identity, power, sexuality, trauma, and the nervous system.

What makes this book different

Each chapter includes:

  • A full session transcript (drawn from the video podcast and additional previously unpublished sessions)

  • A contextual preface to orient the reader

  • Reflections on technique, showing how CBT is being used in real time and why

  • Cultural and relational notes exploring identity, positionality, and power

  • Reflection questions for learners, clinicians, and readers doing their own inner work

  • QR codes to watch or listen to the original sessions for tone, pacing, and relational rhythm

Throughout the book, Rahim explains common CBT tools—like thought records, behavioral experiments, exposure work, and behavioral activation—while also naming their limitations. The work consistently emphasizes that CBT should never be used to minimize lived experience, erase systemic harm, or force premature reframing.

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at CBT as it is actually practiced: relational, imperfect, culturally complex, and alive.

What does CBT look like when it’s not mechanical?

What does it sound like when the therapist isn’t acting like a thought-police officer—when the work is relational, culturally humble, emotionally real, and grounded in lived experience?

Transcripts, Notes and Reflections from The CBT Dive Video Podcast is a unique clinical and personal learning text built from real therapy-style sessions and interviews from The CBT Dive—a video podcast exploring how cognitive-behavioral therapy can be practiced with depth, warmth, and anti-oppressive intention.

This is not a textbook of “perfect” CBT. It is a collection of real conversations: messy, human, layered, and often deeply moving. Across dozens of sessions, Rahim Thawer demonstrates how CBT tools can be used without bypassing grief, culture, identity, power, sexuality, trauma, and the nervous system.

What makes this book different

Each chapter includes:

  • A full session transcript (drawn from the video podcast and additional previously unpublished sessions)

  • A contextual preface to orient the reader

  • Reflections on technique, showing how CBT is being used in real time and why

  • Cultural and relational notes exploring identity, positionality, and power

  • Reflection questions for learners, clinicians, and readers doing their own inner work

  • QR codes to watch or listen to the original sessions for tone, pacing, and relational rhythm

Throughout the book, Rahim explains common CBT tools—like thought records, behavioral experiments, exposure work, and behavioral activation—while also naming their limitations. The work consistently emphasizes that CBT should never be used to minimize lived experience, erase systemic harm, or force premature reframing.

This book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at CBT as it is actually practiced: relational, imperfect, culturally complex, and alive.

 

  • This book is designed to be nonlinear: you can read straight through, or open to the theme that feels most relevant to your life, practice, or learning. The structure is intentionally reflective—more like a spiral than a syllabus.

    Themes explored across the book

    The sessions are grouped into six thematic parts, including:

    • Living with the Inner Critic

      • Self-criticism, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, conditional self-worth, and the internalized voices that shape identity.

    • Regulating Emotions

      Frazzled nervous systems, emotional overwhelm, grief, insomnia, control, and compassion-based shifts.

    • Queer Identity and Belonging

      The ongoing psychological labor of being queer, navigating belonging, and holding identity in environments that challenge it.

    • Love, Sex, and Relational Traps

      Attachment fear, jealousy, rejection sensitivity, poly dynamics, ghosting, intimacy, and shame in sexual culture.

    • Caretaking, Identity, and Generational Ties
      Family roles, boundaries, disappointment, the hero role, grief over time, and the emotional weight of caretaking.

    • Culture, Power, and Resistance
      Capitalism, poverty, activism fatigue, cultural contradiction, moral injury, and the psychological toll of survival under systemic strain.

  • This book is for anyone who has ever felt like the tools they were given in therapy didn’t fully hold their complexity.

    It is for the overthinkers, the perfectionists, the identity-questioners, the people who’ve been told they’re “too sensitive” or “too much.” It is also for clinicians, students, peer supporters, and educators who want to see CBT practiced in a way that is emotionally attuned, culturally literate, and grounded in real human struggle.

    CBT as a tool—not a weapon.

 
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Author: Rahim Thawer, MSW, RSW

Publisher: The Politicized Practitioner™

Publication Date: January 2, 2026

Language: English

Print Length: ~415 pages

ISBN-13: 979-8-90155-715-0

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Series: The CBT Dive

Edition: First

Format(s): Paperback; eBook (TBD)