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- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 246
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Seeing Clearly: The Basics of Supporting Clients Experiencing Vision Loss, Ep. 112
Deb Marinos, CRC, offers helpful and easy-to-apply guidance for best supporting legally blind and visually-impaired clients, from how to create a welcoming, safe environment to supporting safe and af…
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Thu 14 Jan 2021
The Violence of Advice: Helping Without Overpowering, Ep. 111
Stephen Andrew, LCSW, LADC, discusses the power differential in therapy, and sheds light on how therapists can approach therapeutic conversations in a more compassionate and Motivational Interviewing…
01:00:37 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Narcissist: The Skilled Abuser, Part II: How Narcissistic Personalities Affect Family Dynamics, Ep. 110
Dr. Catherine Barrett breaks down the impact of narcissism on the family system and offers guidance about working with children and families affected by significant others with NPD traits. Presentati…
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Thu 03 Dec 2020
Will My Client Hurt Someone?: A Primer on Risk Assessment, Ep. 109
Risk assessment expert Robert Scholz, LMFT, discusses critical approaches for evaluating whether a client may become violent, including identification of red flags and discussion of a clinician's rol…
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Thu 19 Nov 2020
Providing Inclusive, Respectful Care to Your Gender Questioning, Transgender, & Nonbinary Clients, Ep. 108
Trans awareness expert Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC, dives into the ins-and-outs of important clinical considerations for providers who are wanting to support and best serve their trans and nonbinary client…
01:01:06 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
The Brain's Route of Survival: Complex Trauma and Personality Development, Ep.107
Shari Simmons, LCSW, gives a unique and eye-opening look at how traumatic experiences shape personality development and the creation of strategies to ensure survival despite challenging circumstances…
01:01:28 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
When Client/Therapist Values Clash: The Diversity Training EVERY Clinician Needs Right Now, Ep. 106
Diversity expert Lambers Fisher, LMFT, offers a shame-free, centering approach to approaching values disagreements with clients. How do we maintain our values AND maintain rapport? This course cove…
01:01:13 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Coming Out On A Continuum: Recognizing the Lifelong Process for LGBTQ People, Ep. 105
LGBTQ expert therapist John Sovec walks through the stages of LGBTQ+ coming out, and explores how the coming out process involves a continuous stream of coming out moments across a lifespan. Coming …
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Thu 08 Oct 2020
Are We What We Eat? Linking Nutrition to Behavioral Health. Ep. 104
In this must-listen episode, Registered Dietician David Wiss dives deep about the gut microbiome, variations in diet, and their profound impact on mental health and addiction. Interview with Elizab…
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Thu 01 Oct 2020
Couple Therapy: Yes, You Can Bill Insurance For It… Here’s How, Ep. 103
Insurance expert Barbara Griswold, LMFT, busts myths about billing insurance for couple therapy, and discusses coding considerations, legal/ethical concerns, and approaches. Interview with Elizabe…
01:01:50 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
Minding the Gap: Connecting Trauma Work With The 12 Steps, Ep. 102
Dr. Jamie Marich, an expert on addictive disorders and trauma treatment, gives helpful insight about how to effectively bring a trauma-informed side to traditional 12 Step work. Presentation.
01:01:49 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
Understanding The World that Shaped Us: Where Diversity Meets Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapy, Ep. 101
La Shanda Sugg, LCP, provides a helpful overview of Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapy (DARTT), including application to transgenerational dynamics and cultural, racial, and other traumas. …
01:01:55 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Free Gottman CE Course: Healing Invisible Wounds: Working Through Past Sexual Trauma in Relationships, Ep. 100
In this intimate, graceful interview, Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman, PSY shares perspectives and interventions to support couples in which one or both/all members are sexual trauma survivors. WARNING: …
01:04:47 |
Wed 19 Aug 2020
Turning the Frown Upside Down: TMS and the Treatment of Depression, Ep. 99
Dr. Shashita Inamdar, a psychiatrist specialized in depression and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), helpfully discusses the application, risk, and benefits of TMS for people with 'treatment-r…
01:01:48 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
College During Coronavirus: Clinically Navigating Decisions and Challenges, Ep. 97 (Not eligible for CE credit)
Dr. Mark Stevens, PSY discusses the challenges faced by young adult clients and their families who are making hard choices about what to do during the 2020/2021 academic year due to the pandemic. He…
01:05:57 |
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Lifting LGBTQIA Voices of Color: Racism Among Gender & Sexual Minorities, Ep. 96
Dr. Frank Sanchez, PSY, LMFT, and Luna Malbroux, MSW, join trans advocate Jazzmun Crayton in discussing their clinical and lived experiences as multiple minority individuals... their thoughts on what…
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Tue 30 Jun 2020
Lifting Black Voices: Therapy, Trust, and Racial Trauma, Ep. 95
Clinicians La Shanda Sugg, LPC, L.J. Lumpkin, LMFT, & Dr. Tiffany Crayton, LPC discuss the theme of therapeutic mistrust in the Black and African community, and offer insight about how the lived expe…
01:01:06 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Supporting Loved Ones Through COVID-19 Deaths: Critical Clinical Considerations, Ep. 94 (Not eligible for CE credit)
Jill Johnson-Young, LCSW, an expert on grief and loss, sheds a powerful light on how deaths caused by the pandemic are different than from other deaths, like lack of goodbyes and delayed/canceled fun…
01:02:10 |
Thu 11 Jun 2020
Excelling at Telehealth with Children and Teens: The Structure, Interventions, and Legal/Ethical Considerations, Ep. 93
Ariel Landrum, LMFT, an expert in the arena of online child and adolescent therapy, gives some great and practice guidance about how to keep sessions interesting, engaging, and effective. Important …
01:02:04 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Hey, White Therapist, Here's Where We Start, Ep. 92
Frank Baird, LMFT, LPCC, gives a primer about the themes white therapists can begin exploring to be more aware of their own racial identity, cultural conditioning, and the effects on clients of Color…
01:05:01 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
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