About Us.
Two therapists. Two generations of practice.
One ongoing conversation.
We are two psychologists brought together by a shared fascination with what actually happens in psychotherapy—the uncertainty, intuition, mistakes, humor, judgment, and moments of connection that shape the work.
Our conversations grew out of years of thinking together about patients, clinical dilemmas, and the questions therapists often carry quietly.
The People Inside the Consulting Room
Inside the Consulting Room brings together Richard Raubolt and Shelley Dennis—two psychologists united by curiosity about what happens in psychotherapy, and by a belief that our best clinical thinking rarely happens alone.
Shelley Dennis, PhD, ABPP
Shelley has spent more than two decades fascinated by relationships, human behavior, and the complicated moments in psychotherapy that resist easy answers. She brings creativity, humor, and an enduring curiosity to the room—along with a belief that therapists often do their best thinking in conversation with one another.
Richard Raubolt, PhD, ABPP
Richard brings nearly five decades of psychotherapy, teaching, writing, and psychoanalytic thought to the room—along with insatiable curiosity, mischievous playfulness, and a wicked sense of humor. After all these years, he remains fascinated by the questions that refuse to be neatly answered.
How the Conversation Began
Some conversations take a while to become public.
Ours began years before there was a microphone involved.
Over time, we found ourselves returning to the same territory—the cases that stay with us, the moments that surprise us, the things experience teaches that textbooks sometimes don’t, and the questions that remain questions even after decades of practice.
We come to the work from different generations, different experiences, and sometimes different points of view. That’s part of what makes thinking together interesting.
Inside the Consulting Room grew out of those exchanges and a simple idea: perhaps some of them were worth opening the door to.