S2E5: Humor Can Be Medicine Too

What if healing doesn’t always happen on a therapist’s couch?

In this episode of Friends with (Therapy) Benefits, Elizabeth sits down with therapist-turned-stand-up-comedian Matthew Sharpe, LPC to talk about humor as medicine and what happens when the things we usually process privately become material for a room full of strangers.

They talk about Matthew’s journey into stand-up, the vulnerability of getting on stage, using humor to make sense of difficult experiences, and why laughter can create the kind of connection we don’t always associate with “therapy.”

Because healing can look like crying in your car. It can look like sitting across from a therapist with a tissue box. And sometimes? It can look like standing under a spotlight, telling a joke about the thing that used to hurt.

This conversation is about expanding our definition of what healing looks like and remembering that sometimes laughing about it isn’t avoiding the hard stuff.

Sometimes, the laughter is part of the healing.

🎙️ Friends with (Therapy) Benefits explores mental health, relationships, self-care, and the messy reality of being a human—with a therapist who is also very much still figuring some shit out.

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