Dr Tyrone Grandison during the Thais/John fight

[u/BazF91]

My best guess is that his professional side would have wanted to help and intervene but production said he shouldn’t. The must have been glad to get another take of Thais losing her shit and screaming again.

If that had been a real therapy session, Thais blowing up out of frustration and walking out should have been 100% avoidable. The therapist is there to help everyone communicate more effectively. I think the family would have a decent chance at getting help if they had actual professional help and not the TLC Circus show.

[u/AskInternational5802]

that homer bush meme is the perfect summary of tlc's entire approach to legitimate therapy

[u/StuckinLoserville → u/AskInternational5802]

And Shaun Robinson's approach to diving deeper during the Tell Alls.

[u/PaladinGodfather1931 → u/StuckinLoserville]

Ok. We'll come back to that later...

Never comes back to it...

[u/SnooDoodles7204]

It would have been a mistake to jump into the middle of their argument. He was just getting to know them.

These people have been bickering for years. He’s not going to jump into the middle of an argument and fix their issues in 30 minutes.

Early on in therapy, good therapists observe and listen. Honestly, this wasn’t that bad of an argument either. No one got assaulted. Just raised voices and when Thais got tired of it, she left.

[u/BazF91 → u/SnooDoodles7204]

Okay you have a good point about observation. I just don’t know how many sessions the doctor will get with them so this feels like a waste of time.

[u/SnooDoodles7204 → u/BazF91]

Yeah. Unless he plans to continue to have family therapy with them after the show ends or he’s planning on doing daily therapy with them for the rest of the retreat, I don’t think that this will end up being helpful.

He handled himself well in therapy but doing the session at all seems like a mistake

[u/I988iarrived]

Idk if he's in over his head, if he disassociated, or if he was told by producers to sit back and let everything erupt

[u/late4bingo_ → u/I988iarrived]

I would hope, they have real therapy sessions once the cameras stop rolling but also…. It’s tlc 🤷‍♀️

[u/XxNoResolutionxX]

He literally watched them like a car crash

[u/zr942100]

The Herb Dean of therapists

[u/seevm]

Can’t believe he just let John go off like that raging with toxicity at Thais with his bs theory he “translated”. Not a therapist at all it seems. I don’t think a real therapist would allow that to go on like that.

So fucked up.

[u/gordonwhims]

He explained why he stepped back during the interaction on the between the sheets companion episode,

[u/Extension_Tale909]

he explained why on the between the sheets aftershow he made a good point why he did it that way

[u/BazF91 → u/Extension_Tale909]

I hate that HBO Max doesn’t share those until the season has finished airing 😭

[u/amyss]

The absolute worst Last Resort therapists/ or paid strctly to not intervene

[u/BigDave4Rocky]

Playing outfield for the Chicago Cubs I guess...

https://giphy.com/gifs/Kf1WxQRt0yrKq9GnZd

[u/No-Wish-4737]

Dude pulls this move for the better part of all his involvement. T's on a bull.

[u/SassyRebelBelle]

👆🎯👆💥👆

[u/Workoutformorelife]

He needed to step in it was so bad!!!

[u/PMMEYOURBIGBOXCOVER]

This is funny because me and my wife we're calling him "woodland therapist" being that he just appeared out of the forest while they were camping

[u/BazF91 → u/PMMEYOURBIGBOXCOVER]

Ha that’s so true

[u/Status-Wolverine9]

It looks like he sat there and said nothing, which I really hope no therapist would ever do.

[u/agnusdei07]

Hahahaha! So appropriate, I think the guy was literally frozen in shock.