Are the Therapy Sessions on Reality TV Shows Even Remotely Legit?

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Are the Therapy Sessions on Reality TV Shows Even Remotely Legit?
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Reality shows like “The Real Housewives” regularly feature cast members meeting with therapists. SELF asked experts whether these on-screen sessions actually help.

If you’re a Bravo fan, then you know reality TV therapy is a whole thing. The phenomenon started over a decade ago, when Bethenny Frankel, one of the original cast members of The Real Housewives of New York City, began regularly meeting with her therapist Xavier Amador, PhD, a clinical psychologist and former professor at Columbia University, on her spin-off show Bethenny Ever After. During her sessions with Dr.

a law that requires providers to keep patient health info private, is such a big deal these days, she says, so castmates would presumably need to grant their permission to the therapists and the shows before taping on-screen sessions. The way she sees it, signing away their rights to privacy isn’t necessarily in the cast members’ best interest. Because of that, Capalbo worries that the choice to practice on screen could be, at least partially, self-motivated.

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