Transcripts, Notes and Reflections from ‘The CBT Dive’ Video Podcast

What does CBT look like when it’s not mechanical?

What does it sound like when the therapist isn’t acting like a thought-police officer—when the work is relational, culturally humble, emotionally real, and grounded in lived experience?

Transcripts, Notes and Reflections from The CBT Dive Video Podcast is a unique clinical and personal learning text built from real therapy-style sessions and interviews from The CBT Dive—a video podcast exploring how cognitive-behavioral therapy can be practiced with depth, warmth, and anti-oppressive intention.

This is not a textbook of “perfect” CBT. It is a collection of real conversations: messy, human, layered, and often deeply moving. Across dozens of sessions, Rahim Thawer demonstrates how CBT tools can be used without bypassing grief, culture, identity, power, sexuality, trauma, and the nervous system.

Each chapter includes:
– A full session transcript (drawn from the video podcast and additional previously unpublished sessions)
– A contextual preface to orient the reader
– Reflections on technique, showing how CBT is being used in real time and why
– Cultural and relational notes exploring identity, positionality, and power
– Reflection questions for learners, clinicians, and readers doing their own inner work
– QR codes to watch or listen to the original sessions for tone, pacing, and relational rhythm

This book is designed to be nonlinear: you can read straight through, or open to the theme that feels most relevant to your life, practice, or learning. The structure is intentionally reflective—more like a spiral than a syllabus.