Mental Work is the podcast about working in mental health for early-career psychologists.
Hosted by psychologist Dr Bronwyn Milkins.
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About the Host
Dr Bronwyn Milkins
Mental Work Host / Psychologist / Mental Health Researcher
Mental Work is hosted by Dr Bronwyn Milkins (PhD, MPsych), an Australian Psychologist and Mental Health Researcher on a mission to help early-career psychologists have sustainable and enjoyable careers from the get-go. Since 2021, Bron has loved hosting Mental Work across 200+ episodes with 100+ guests. She's a bubbly ADHDer who loves dogs, music, and sci-fi.
Recent Episodes
Burnout & self-care Career Complex clinical practice Cultural responsiveness Diverse areas of practice For provisional psychologists Imposter syndrome Listener story Modern therapist dilemmas Neurodiversity-affirming practice Politics Private practice & finances Supervision Therapy skills Therapy with young people
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Nov. 12, 2026
Working well with highly narcissistic clients (with Matthew Jackson)
Bron is joined by returning guest Matthew Jackson (Psychologist) to chat about working well with clients who are highly narcissistic. They unpack the difference between everyday narcissistic traits, vulnerable (covert) narcissism, grandiose narcissism, and narcissistic personality disorder, and ask why therapy and research have neglected this group. They chat about: 👉🏽 Narcissism as a spectrum, and why 'entitlement' isn’t always a negative word 👉🏻 Grandiose versus vulnerable narcissism 👉🏿 Commo
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Nov. 5, 2026
Post-separation abuse in therapy: How to support clients after they leave (with Krasi Kirova)
Bron is joined by Krasi Kirova (Clinical psychologist) about post-separation abuse. Krasi explains how coercive control can continue through mediation, property settlement and family court, why abusers can appear more credible than the people they harm, and how to support clients in therapy after they’ve separated. They chat about: 👉🏽 Why coercive control predicts post-separation abuse, and why it takes an average of seven attempts to leave 👉🏻 Legal systems abuse 👉 Betrayal blindness, self-gasl
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Oct. 29, 2026
Working with affairs and betrayal in therapy (with Marie Vakakis)
Bron is joined by Marie Vakakis (Mental Health Social Worker, Couple and Family Therapist) to unpack how to work with affairs and betrayal in therapy. Using hypothetical cases, Marie walks through what to do when an individual client discloses an affair, and how to support couples after an affair is discovered. They chat about: 👉🏽 Affairs as “turning away” from a relationship, and how to discuss affairs in individual therapy without judgement or shame 👉🏻 The Gottman Therapy model of "Atone, Att
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