A podcast from Pivot Counseling

The Choose Better Podcast

Dr. Timothy Yen sits down with one Pivot clinician at a time and works through the decisions that don’t have a clean answer. Five episodes per clinician. Watch or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
10 episodes published · 2 series · new episodes most weeks
How the show works

One clinician. Five conversations. Then the next one.

One clinician at a time

Every series is five conversations with the same Pivot clinician, on the problems they actually work with all day.

Real problems, not theory

Screen time. Co-parenting. A parent who wants a different life for you than the one you want. The stuff without a clean answer.

The same way of thinking

Choose Better is how this practice thinks about decisions. Each clinician brings their own specialty on top of it.

The series

Every clinician, every conversation

Newest series first. Open one to see its episodes, or go straight to the clinician’s page.
Dr. Virginia Arlene Suarez
Series 2

Dr. Virginia Arlene Suarez

When family expectations and your own values stop agreeing

Five conversations on guilt, culture, loyalty, and choosing your own life without losing the people in it.

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01
Family Expectations vs. Your Own Values31:07 · 2026-08-28
02
Vacation Is Just Babysitting With Less Resources29:21 · 2026-09-09
03
The Sunday Scaries, Explained by a Psychologist (and Disney)25:37 · 2026-09-10
04
A Psychologist on Mom Guilt and Returning to Work26:43 · 2026-09-18
05
When Motherhood and Work Collide30:20 · 2026-09-25
Dr. Virginia Arlene Suarez · Psychologist Meet Dr. Arlene
Dr. Hadi Yassin
Series 1

Dr. Hadi Yassin

Parenting, when nobody handed you the manual

Five conversations on guilt, screen time, the fights worth having, and what co-parenting costs when you are not careful.

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01
Parenting Through Summer Without Guilt, Burnout, or Unrealistic Expectations28:35 · 2026-07-31
02
The Parenting Mistake That Creates Lifelong Insecurity25:13 · 2026-08-03
03
How Screen Time Is Affecting Your Kids20:50 · 2026-08-10
04
Win the Fight, Lose the Kid15:59 · 2026-08-19
05
Co-Parenting Without Losing Each Other26:07 · 2026-08-23
Dr. Hadi Yassin · Psychological Associate Meet Dr. Hadi
Everything else

Or watch the whole thing in order

Every episode, oldest to newest, in one playlist.
Free

Still second-guessing yourself?

Stop Second-Guessing. Start Choosing Better. is a free eBook that walks through the same framework these conversations run on.

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