ENCORE: How I’m Thinking About YouTube as a Podcaster (and Dad)

ENCORE: How I’m Thinking About YouTube as a Podcaster (and Dad)

From Selling the Couch by Melvin Varghese, PhD

March 5, 2026 · 32 min

About this episode

Melvin Varghese discusses his decision to start using YouTube as a platform for his podcast and shares insights for aspiring therapist podcasters.

Since the beginning of this podcast in 2015, I’ve thought a lot about how I can use YouTube to maximize the impact of STC. I’ve pondered many questions about the sustainability of this endeavor and whether I should be creating separate content on YouTube or simply repurposing these podcast episodes on YouTube. As a result of coaching, taking courses, and obsessively (nerdily) studying YouTube, I have decided to finally leap into YouTube in 2024. In today’s session, I’ll share what went into this decision for me and what you should consider as a current or aspiring therapist podcaster. You’ll Learn: How our fears are usually rooted in some sort of trauma or feeling unseen or unheard Top considerations for me in starting out on YouTube: YouTube is intentionally appealing to podcasters and is becoming an ever more popular podcast platform. Putting a video editing team in place makes the jump to YouTube much easier. YouTube (owned by Google) is very beneficial for discoverability and SEO. I plan to use the best of both playlists (podcasts, YouTube) and feed platforms (Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn). I plan to use “Walden months” to prioritize self-care and big projects. (My…

People in this episode

Host: Melvin Varghese

Topics covered

  • YouTube for podcasters
  • content creation
  • self-care
  • discoverability
  • mental health

Keywords

  • YouTube
  • podcasting
  • self-care
  • content strategy
  • mental health

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Organizations: YouTube, Google, STC

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