Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t

ABOUT THE SHOW: DR. LISA GIVES A SHIT

Dr. Lisa is fixing the planet one person at a time.

Tired of sanitized self-help and textbook therapy? Dr. Lisa cuts through the noise with raw, unfiltered conversations about the mental health challenges you're actually facing.

As a self-proclaimed psychotherapist unburdened by institutional constraints, Dr. Lisa delivers straight talk on everything from relationship dynamics to societal pressures with zero sugar-coating and maximum impact.

What sets this show apart? Dr. Lisa wields truth through humor, making even the heaviest topics accessible, entertaining, and surprisingly funny. Her sharp wit and irreverent takes transform traditional therapy talk into can't-miss radio that's as entertaining as it is enlightening.

This isn't your standard "how does that make you feel?" therapy hour. It's an honest, sometimes uncomfortable, always laugh-out-loud exploration of psychological truths mainstream practitioners are too cautious to touch.

Join our growing community of Brooklyn listeners who prefer their mental health wisdom served straight up, not watered down—with a generous side of humor that makes the medicine go down easy.

Listen to new episodes every Thursday 2-3pm on Radio Free Brooklyn. Over 300 episodes on the archives.


How Dr. Lisa was born: Dr. Lisa has been practicing unlicensed therapy since 2001. She’s worked with over 1,000 clients including artists, comedians, musicians, politicians, writers, actual shrinks, celebrities and complete strangers.In 2001, she added Self-Proclaimed Psychotherapist to her busy schedule as an art director and conceptual artist. As an art project, she conceived and produced a live show where she invited audience volunteers to have a quickie therapy session on a couch on stage with her, making fun of the fact that she had no experience, and showing off her forged diploma.Within a year she had a regular show, Psychotherapy LIVE! and a ton of press to go with it from places like, The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice and pretty much any NYC paper with a theater section. She started her radio show, Dr. Lisa Gives A Shit in 2015, and before the pandemic, continued to perform therapy live in front of audiences.With her lightning quick read of people and her forthright insights, she can get to the essence of what people are trying to communicate quickly, and her sense of humor keeps everyone out of trouble.Due to her genuine curiosity, thoughtful questioning and quick wit, Dr. Lisa’s guests/patients reveal themselves whether they are planning to or not. It takes either a willingness to divulge or a bit of courage to be on Dr. Lisa’s couch. In Dr. Lisa’s world, everyone can sit for a therapy session and anything can seem like a therapy session. https://listentodrlisa.com/ #jencatron #pauloutlaw More about Lisa HERE:

Comedy
Personal Journals
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DLG1820_Did you know artist/writer, Chris Bors ...
Did you know artist and writer, Chris Bors trained with Olympic Wrestlers? I’ve known Chris Bors ...
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DLG1818_Frontwoman Heather Lee Martin was going...
Heather was a hoot. She's a successful musician, singer and writer of songs for her band, Crowd T...
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DLG1817_Dr. Lisa tries to find the mystery behi...
Have you heard of the Fireside Mystery Theater? It's this incredible monthly performance that get...
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DLG1815 Marcellus Hall is an adorable A+ Perfec...
Check out Marcellus' reaction after listening to this recording of our session: "Omfg. Just fin...
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DLG1814 A session with Oliver Wasow that isn't ...
Oliver Wasow is an accomplished and highly original talent. Very sophisticated but almost self ta...
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DLG1812 Karen Marston is well adjusted enought ...
This session with artist Karen Marston illuminated my thinking of the discussion around whether y...
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DLG1810 Celeste Rogers on winning CHOPPED on TV...
Celeste combines her science interest (pre-med at one point!) with her food and recipe developmen...
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DLG1809 Dr. Lisa coaches Ed Kish to be more sel...
In this full on psychotherapy session, Dr. Lisa uncovers Ed Kish's childhood conditioning has tau...
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DLG1808_Thurston Ray sings LIVE plus 'splains h...
Thurston Ray http://www.thurstonray.com/ is an incredible musician and I got him to sing A Capell...
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DLG1807 Comedian Kevin McCaffery is not coasting.
Kevin talks about how you can never take making a living in comedy for granted. He's made a livin...
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DLG Dr. Lisa talks to Holly Strange and Charlot...
Holly has conceived of and is directing a play that Charlotte is acting in. Our conversation star...
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DLG1805 An annoymous female talks about why she...
I learned a lot here. I learned a new view of marriage. There's a lot of intense stuff in here so...
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DLG1803 Leigh Celent of Castle Black impresses ...
From LA Music Critic: "Hop on the bandwagon now cause this band is going places. Rush out and ge...
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DLG1802_Musician Pat Daugherty is emotionally r...
I've known Pat from the days when the East Village was a dangerous place. It seemed to me that Pa...
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DLG1801_Sean J. Patrick Carney interviews the c...
I've know Sean J. Patrick Carney a few years now, but I haven't sat down with him before in this ...
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DLG1736_ Miss Subways 1st Runner Up, Glace Chac...
One of the absolute best parts of The Miss Subways experience for me was getting to meet the love...
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DLG1735 Dr. Lisa digs into excavating Noah Beck...
I had a great time with Noah Becker - an amazing artist and founder/editor in chief of https://wh...
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DLG1734_BOS17 SPECIAL EDITION Dr. Lisa worms he...
Four curator/artists that do their work at Brooklyn Fire Proof, 119 Ingram St. come to the studio...
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DLG1733_Yael Ayb Baron shares brave thoughts on...
Yael is a phenomenal writer, singer, artist and creative force in general. She talks openly about...
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DLG1732_Dr. Lisa checks for angst in an atypica...
Courtney Frances Fallon calls herself a writer, but that doesn't nearly cover it. Right now her f...
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DLG1731_Michelle Levy and Dr. Lisa investigate ...
Michelle does this interesting work that is so original it is hard to describe-it's both visual a...
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DLG1730_Uluç Ülgen's trip to Turkey changes him...
Uluç Ülgen has a well-known podcast: http://www.podcasts.com/murmur.com-podcast Uluc solicits str...
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DLG1729_Patient/Comic Lisa Kaplan Makes Great P...
I've managed to turn comedian/storyteller into a regular client. She reports on the progress she'...
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DLG1728_Comedian/Artist Grant Lindahl is findin...
Grant Lindahl is super-talented and wonderfully honest. He has just started therapy for real when...
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DLG1726_Ben Curtis and Full Moon Party are more...
Do you remember Ben Curtis from "Dude You're Getting A Dell?" Well it really doesn't matter, beca...
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