How Can I Help? - with Dr. Gail Saltz

How Can I Help? is a listener-question advice show centered on the problems people often carry quietly. Dr. Gail Saltz brings a clinical lens to grief, anxiety, relationships, sexuality, memory fears, and self-defeating habits, but the episodes stay close to everyday language. A question about losing custody becomes a discussion of traumatic loss, identity, withdrawal, depression-like grief, and how family support can matter. A question about returning to social life after the pandemic becomes a way to understand why avoidance can linger even after danger feels reduced. The show is practical. It does not rush past pain, but it keeps asking what a person can do next. Relationship episodes are especially concrete, moving from jealousy and possessiveness to the difference between destructive fighting and necessary conflict. Anger is not treated as the enemy. Buried anger can be worse. The show also handles aging fears with perspective, using dementia and Alzheimer's concerns to separate common worry from more serious warning signs. Procrastination is framed less as laziness than as a pattern that creates stress, rumination, second-guessing, and missed opportunities. Sex and intimacy episodes bring in Ian Kerner for conversations about desire mismatch, erotic curiosity, kink, masturbation, compromise, and updating fixed assumptions about a partner. Those segments are frank but not lurid. The show's rhythm is reassuring: identify the problem, explain the psychology, normalize what can be normalized, and point toward healthier action. It suits listeners who like advice that is compassionate but not vague. It also fits people who want mental health discussion without celebrity gossip, memoir sprawl, or therapeutic buzzwords standing in for actual guidance.