Therapy Café® Podcast

Kathleen Tallent, Ph.D.
Therapy Café® Podcast Podcast

Welcome to the Therapy Café® Podcast, a new kind of podcast for therapists and other health care professionals where we have real, deep conversations about holistic mental wellness topics. This podcast is hosted by Dr. Kathleen Tallent, licensed psychologist, and Allison Stenson, business/marketing expert/ordained minister, and includes conversations with expert clinicians, researchers, and first-hand accounts of those with lived experience of mental illness to shed light on current issues and solutions. We strive to apply psychological research to solve real-world problems and "think outside the box" when it comes to mental health to help you bring about real, lasting change in your community. Topics include engaging underserved populations, reducing the stigma of mental illness, holistic approaches, and how to care for ourselves so we can show up for clients and be our authentic selves. We’ll be bringing you these conversations every week starting in 2021. Join us for Season 1, where we focus on First Responder Mental Wellness and how to develop cultural competence when working with firefighters, police officers, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and other public safety personnel. Be sure to subscribe on YouTube and follow us on Facebook to be the first to know when a new episode is out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. 12/03/2021

    Episode 6: Sgt. Renee Plumb, Roadmap to Cultural Competence

    Sgt. Renee Plumb is a 26-year veteran of the police department.  Sgt. Plumb currently serves as the liaison with the Prince George’s County Police Department, Psychological Services Division in Maryland, which is responsible for the mental health of employees, retirees, and their immediate family members.  She also coordinates the department's Peer Support Program, where she helps to train police officers on mental health/wellness topics and connect them with behavioral health services.  Join me for a conversation with Sgt. Plumb as she describes the unique stressors and challenges facing the law enforcement community.  She candidly describes the work that police officers do on a daily basis, emphasizes the resiliency of police officers, and how the job affects their daily lives.  Sgt. Plumb provides a roadmap of what it looks like to be a culturally competent clinician and how therapists can be a resource for the law enforcement community.    In this Episode: Prince George’s County Police Department https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/345/Police Blue Help:  Honoring the Service of Law Enforcement Officers Who Died by Suicide https://bluehelp.org Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast to help get the word out.  We thank you for your support! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/therapy-cafe-podcast/donations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 0m
  2. 22/02/2021

    Episode 4: Sherri Martin, Mental Wellness Priorities for Law Enforcement

    We are thrilled to welcome Sherri Martin to the podcast who serves as the National Director of Wellness Services for the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the largest representative organization of law enforcement officers in the United States, with over 355,000 members. A career police officer, Sherri has extensive experience in crisis negotiation and intervention, serving most of her law enforcement career as a patrol supervisor and lead crisis negotiator. While a member of the Charleston Police Department in South Carolina, where she served the bulk of her career, she achieved the rank of Lieutenant, and was responsible for the development of programs in the areas of officer wellness and crisis intervention within the community.    Sherri earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina and a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Counseling Psychology from the Citadel, where she was chosen by faculty to receive the J. Patrick Leverett Award presented to the most outstanding graduate student in the Psychology program. Additionally, Sherri has experience in clinical therapy, having worked with clients suffering from PTSD and Clinical Depression during research conducted at Ralph H. Johnston Veterans Affairs Hospital in South Carolina. She is licensed as a Professional Counselor Associate in the State of Connecticut. While pursuing a Postgraduate Certificate in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Sherri led the Fraternal Order of Police National Officer Wellness Committee in a landmark survey of police officers on topics focused on mental wellness. Some of many accomplishments focus on critical stress, stigma, and use of wellness services for police officers.   In this Episode   International Association of Chiefs of Police https://www.theiacp.org   See this article in which Sherry discusses the police officer suicide epidemic: https://lris.com/2019/10/22/police-suicide-epidemic-spurs-soul-searching-you-may-love-the-job-the-job-will-never-love-you/   Rate, review, and subscribe to this podcast to help get the word out. We thank you for your support.   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/therapy-cafe-podcast/donations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    53 min
  3. 04/02/2021

    Episode 2: Mike Wells, Mental Readiness and the Role of Peer Support

    Mike Wells is a 14-year veteran career firefighter working in Prince Georges County, Maryland. His love of the fire service began as a young boy riding along with his dad, a former volunteer captain in their hometown of Wallingford, CT, where Mike later became a Junior Volunteer. Moving for college to College Park, MD, Mike joined College Park Volunteer Fire Department as part of the live-in program while taking classes before coming to work for PGFD full-time. In 2016, Mike was one of the founders of PGFD’s labor union’s peer support team. He has served as coordinator for the program and has been a Master Instructor for the IAFF’s Peer Support Program since 2018, teaching and consulting internationally. Through the IAFF, Mike has deployed across the United States following natural disasters and line of duty deaths, supporting his brothers and sisters of the fire service in their time of need. Currently, Mike has broadened his work beyond the IAFF Local, working full-time for PGFD to ensure that the peer support program and behavioral health are accessible to all of its 3,000 members. In this Episode:   IAFF Local 1619 Peer Support Team website https://www.pgfdpeersupport.org   International Association of Firefighters (IAFF), Behavioral Health Program https://www.iaff.org/behavioral-health/   Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/therapy-cafe-podcast/donations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    48 min

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Welcome to the Therapy Café® Podcast, a new kind of podcast for therapists and other health care professionals where we have real, deep conversations about holistic mental wellness topics. This podcast is hosted by Dr. Kathleen Tallent, licensed psychologist, and Allison Stenson, business/marketing expert/ordained minister, and includes conversations with expert clinicians, researchers, and first-hand accounts of those with lived experience of mental illness to shed light on current issues and solutions. We strive to apply psychological research to solve real-world problems and "think outside the box" when it comes to mental health to help you bring about real, lasting change in your community. Topics include engaging underserved populations, reducing the stigma of mental illness, holistic approaches, and how to care for ourselves so we can show up for clients and be our authentic selves. We’ll be bringing you these conversations every week starting in 2021. Join us for Season 1, where we focus on First Responder Mental Wellness and how to develop cultural competence when working with firefighters, police officers, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and other public safety personnel. Be sure to subscribe on YouTube and follow us on Facebook to be the first to know when a new episode is out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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