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Podcast Feature from Psychotherapy.net : Forgotten but Not Finished: Psychotherapy with Older Adults

Tom Medlar, LMHC
Dec 30, 2025
1 min read

I was invited to speak with Travis Heath, host of Therapist Confidential to discuss my career of 43 years  spent providing psychotherapy in nursing homes. We explore how these settings have changed, why they’re “very lively, even though they’re often dealing with death,” and what it means to do meaningful therapy with older adults and medically complex younger adults. Filled with vivid stories and nuanced reflections on loss, hope, communication, and meaning, this conversation reveals why nursing homes remain one of the most overlooked—and deeply human—spaces for psychotherapy.


You can listen to the episode in it's entirety on Psychotherapy.net, and here are some brief clips.


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