RT Dialogue

RT Dialogue
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Welcome to the RT Dialogue with your co-hosts Lance Ahl & Rhett Smith | Sound and Video Engineer RO Smith In this podcast we desire to make connections, build community, and learn and practice the model of Restoration Therapy. More at: https://rtdialogue.substack.com/ Note:The podcast is labeled with an explicit rating because some episodes contain topics that are distressing to individuals, or inappropriate for minors (i.e. trauma, abuse, sexuality, substance use, etc.)

  1. 1d ago

    Season 2 | Episode 90 | Restoration Therapy Summit Breakout Sessions

    Welcome to Episode 90 of the RT podcast. We appreciate you joining us and for all your support. In this episode we wanted to take some time to talk about the breakout sessions at the ⁠⁠Restoration Therapy Summit⁠⁠ coming this March at ⁠⁠Pepperdine University⁠⁠. We are close to 50% capacity at this point already, which is really amazing. And we expect to sell out the event in the next couple of months. So don't forget to ⁠⁠register⁠⁠ if you have not yet. Below is a list of the breakout sessions. So tune in and take a listen about those sessions. Bridging the Divide: Navigating Estranged Relationships Dee Dee Mayer & Sharon Hargrave It Starts With Us: Emotional Regulation in Teens with Practical tools and techniques for the Adults in their lives Michael Cox Heated Moments, Healing Moves: Interventions that Stick Tanner Hargrove Healing Where There is No Cure: An Integrated Approach of Restoration Therapy and Medical Family Therapy Miyoung Yoon Hammer A Practical Theology for Navigating Anxiety Rhett Smith Stewarding Our Pain: A Restoration Therapy Approach to Spiritual Integration Nicole Zasowski Coaching Innovations in RT Meghan Eaken Standing Up in the Room: Experiential Techniques for all Phases of RT Lance Ahl & Michael Piciucco Healing Across Generations: Promoting Emotional Regulation within Korean American Families Migum Gweon An RT Conceptualization of Sexual Addiction: When Escaping Becomes Compulsive Cori Page & Clint Davis Empowering Supervision: A Restoration Therapy (RT) Approach to Clinical Growth Hatty Lee & Stephanie Lievense Staying Present in the Pain: Helping Clients Regulate, Grieve, and Stay Connected Through Medical Complexity Jason Wilkinson From Pain to Peace Across Cultures: Applying Restoration Therapy with Latino Clients Noe Rivera & Juana Rivera The Restoration of Men: How Restoration Therapy Helps Men Reliably Connect in a Disconnected World Steven Perez Making RT Playful: Interventions for Working with Kids Jennifer Smith & Lorenzo Cantoja Understanding the Single Adult: What People Uniquely Face in Modern Dating JJ + Kait Tomlin & Sharon Hargrave Becoming a Shame (and More!) Informed Mental Health Professional Richard Shaw Beyond the Therapy Room: Equipping Churches to Address Emotional and Relational Health Luke Wilkerson From Insight to Embodiment: Integrating Artistic Mediums into Restoration Therapy Joanne Russell & Rose Walsh-Gratta Leading From Peace: Building a Thriving Counseling Practice Through Self-Regulation, Healthy Leadership, and Connected Culture Clint Davis & Lance Ahl RT and Attachment Jessica Romero Extending Our Reach: Equipping Therapists to Partner with Faith Communities Katie Beauchamp Using The Four Steps to Bring Our Best Self To the Daily Grind of Caregiving Brad & Karen Thompson Coming Home to Yourself: Restoring Internal Safety Using Restoration Therapy Heather Cawthon & Brandi M. Smith We are so excited to gather together in March and spend time with everyone. We hope to see you there, so don't forget to ⁠⁠register⁠⁠. About RT Dialogue Welcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources: You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ pages. Connect with the hosts: ⁠⁠Rhett Smith⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Lance Ahl⁠⁠ Learn more about: ⁠⁠Restoration Therapy⁠⁠ Listen and subscribe on: ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠.

  2. 1d ago

    Season 2 | Episode 89 | Restoration Therapy Summit Plenary Talks

    Welcome to Episode 89 of the RT podcast. We appreciate you joining us and for all your support. In this episode we wanted to take some time to talk about the plenary talks at the ⁠Restoration Therapy Summit⁠ coming this March at ⁠Pepperdine University⁠. We are close to 50% capacity at this point already, which is really amazing. And we expect to sell out the event in the next couple of months. So don't forget to ⁠register⁠ if you have not yet. The summit consists of 4 plenary topics (5 sessions), and 24 different breakout sessions, that are spread out over Thursday, March 4 and Friday, March 5. The plenary sessions are where the whole community gathers together in the auditorium to hear a speaker(s) discuss a specific RT topic, and the breakout sessions are opportunities for you to choose among different ones you want to attend during the break out time. It's going to be a great couple of days of learning, as well as lots of time to just hang out and network and mingle with friends and colleagues. Stay tuned for more info about formal/informal gatherings on Wednesday evening and through the rest of our time together. Below is a list of the plenary talks. So tune in and take a listen about those sessions. Forgiveness in the Restoration Model Terry and Sharon Hargrave Grief in the Restoration Model Ron Deal Anxiety in the Restoration Model Rhett Smith and Meghan Eaken The Restoration Model in Action Therapist Live Demonstration (2 sessions) We are so excited to gather together in March and spend time with everyone. We hope to see you there, so don't forget to ⁠register⁠. About RT DialogueWelcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources: You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our ⁠Spotify⁠ and ⁠Substack⁠ pages. Connect with the hosts: ⁠Rhett Smith⁠ and ⁠Lance Ahl⁠ Learn more about: ⁠Restoration Therapy⁠ Listen and subscribe on: ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, and ⁠Substack⁠.

  3. Oct 26

    Season 2 | Episode 88 | Lance Shares His Insight Into the 5 Roles We Play as an RT Therapist

    Welcome to Episode 88 of the RT Dialogue Podcast. We so appreciate you joining us. In this episode we do something a little different than usual. Lance discovered some things in his supervision meeting that shed some light on the varying roles we play as Restoration Therapy therapist -- and he wanted to share them with me (Rhett). So I went into this conversation blind to the subject matter, which made it entertaining and insightful to see where we ended up on the same page in this conversation. I won't share those roles in this post, so you are going to have to tune in. We hope you enjoy. About RT DialogueWelcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources:You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

  4. Oct 21

    Season 2 | Episode 87 | Lance and Rhett on What They are Learning, Reading, and More

    Welcome to Episode 87 of the RT Dialogue podcast. In this episode we (Lance and Rhett) spend some time talking about some things we are learning and wrestling with. While also talking about the importance of reading fiction and how that impacts our work as therapists, pastors, and ministry leaders — really, it impacts how we show up in relationship to other people. We hoped you enjoy just listening in on to these things, and we hope that it is not only helpful, but resonates with many of the things all of you are wrestling with and experiencing as well. About RT DialogueWelcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources:You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

  5. Oct 14

    Season 2 | Episode 86 | Technology, AI, and What it Means to Be Human with John Dyer, Ph.D.

    Welcome to Episode 86 of the RT Dialogue. Thank you for joining us on this journey and tuning into this episode. I (Rhett) have been looking forward to this conversation for a long time with my good friend John Dyer, who is Vice President for Enrollment Services and Educational Technologies/Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, author, and coder/deep thinker on technology and our relationship to it, -- that's how I would describe him in many ways -- but most importantly he is not only one of the smartest people I know, but he is a really thoughtful and loving friend. I first met John via Twitter back in 2008 when my family and I first moved to Dallas from Los Angeles (remember those days of connecting on Twitter?). We connected over a lot of shared interests, mostly our curiosity and engagement around the intersection of theology/technology. We were part of a group of other like minded people who started gathering regular online and in person to discuss this topic, and we quickly started hosting events like #churchtechcamp, and eventually John and I partnered up to lead parenting workshops at the intersection of technology and psychology for churches. John is the author of From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology (and it's updated version), People of the Screen: How Evangelicals Created the Digital Bible and How it Shapes Their Reading of Scripture, Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal, et cetera. He is also the creator and translator of the Y'all version of the bible (not many of my friends have translated the entire bible!). You can check out some of his other projects as well, like Best Commentaries. I think this gives you a feel for what type of thinker John is, and why I thought it was so important to have him on the podcast to talk about technology, AI, and how that is impacting us, our relationships, and more specifically how we should be thinking about it as therapists. I also appreciate how John thoughtfully engages the integration of all of this with the Christian faith. I know you will enjoy this episode, and it's important topic that we are going to be dealing with more and more in our therapy rooms and personal lives. Mentioned in the Episode Jacques Ellul Marshall McLuhan Neil Postman Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam About RT Dialogue Welcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources: You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

  6. Oct 7

    Season 2 | Episode 85 | Kamusta ka? -- Cultural diversity in therapy, athletic performance, and all things RT with Marriage and Family Therapy Associate, Kim Agramon-Bai

    Welcome to Episode 85 of the RT Dialogue, with special guest, Kim Agramon-Bai. Kim is a Marriage and Family Therapist Associate at Table Family Therapy, providing therapy in person in Pasadena, CA and online throughout California and San Francisco. This was a really great conversation as we explored her journey to Restoration Therapy through Fuller Theological Seminary, and some of the things that make her unique in her therapist role -- Filipino heritage and working with client in English, Tagalog and Taglish. As well as her passion for sports and helping athletes as they navigate success, failure and questions of identity. I (Rhett) met Kim and her husband at a Relate Strong event at Pepperdine in June, and so it was fun to reconnect on the podcast and learn about her, and from her. Mentioned in the Episode Situated: Find the People and Places that Bring Out Your Best by Angela Duckworth The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World by Brad Stulberg U2 -- Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan Rah and Brenda Salter McNeil Absolute Truths by Susan Howatch (i.e. use of intermingle) About RT DialogueWelcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources:You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

  7. Sep 29

    Season 2 | Episode 84 | Noe Rivera, RT Therapist & Director of Relate Strong at Pepperdine

    Welcome to Episode 84 of the RT Dialogue. Thank so much for joining us. We really appreciate all of your continued support. This is an episode and conversation we have been looking forward to for awhile, as it felt like a bit of coming full circle moment. In this episode we welcome the new Director of Relate Strong, Noe Rivera. As many of you are aware of, Relate Strong is built on the principles of Restoration Therapy, and Sharon Hargrave served as its first director. Followed by Dee Dee Mayer, who is now the new Chaplain at Pepperdine University. The roots of RT and Relate Strong are deep and intertwined. Noe is a Level II Restoration Therapy therapist, and wears many different hats from solo practitioner, to a passion for helping missionaries with mental health (Missionary Mental Health⁠⁠), as well as helping ministry leaders navigate transitions (Ministry Transitions⁠). Noe has a fascinating story about his journey to Fuller Theological Seminary and his entry into Restoration Therapy -- he also shares a great Terry Hargrave story. Relate Strong Relate Strong Workshops and Trainings Boone Center for the Family Ministry Transitions Missionary Mental Health About RT Dialogue Welcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources:You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

  8. Sep 27

    Season 2 | Episode 83 | Associate Marriage and Family Therapist Sammy Chaves

    Welcome to Episode 83 of the RT Dialogue. We appreciate your joining us. On this episode we welcome Sammy Chaves, who is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Fuller Psychological and Family Services. Sammy grew up in Colombia, Uruguay, and the United States, and brings a rich diversity to his work, and into this conversation. He is bilingual both in that he speaks Spanish and English, but also in the sense of what my mentor and Fuller professor Ray Anderson used to discuss -- bilingual in one's ability to integrate theology and psychology into theory and practice -- that is, into praxis. We enjoyed getting to talk about his experience growing up, and the journey to therapy, and into Restoration Therapy. We also had a rich discussion on vocation. Thanks for the conversation Sammy, and thanks for being a part of this amazing RT community. Mentioned in the Episode What it Means to be a Man: God's Design for Men in a World Full of Extremes by Rhett Smith Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina by Jonathan Wilson The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients – A Classic Psychotherapy Text on Mental Health by Irvin Yalom The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri Nouwen Gracias! A Latin American Journal by Henri Nouwen Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You (Embark on the Path to Authentic Manhood and Discover the True Meaning of Masculinity) by John Eldredge Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker Palmer About RT Dialogue Welcome to RT Dialogue with co-hosts Lance Ahl and Rhett Smith, LMFT. This podcast is about making connections, building community, and learning and practicing the model of Restoration Therapy together. Each episode features conversations with Restoration Therapy practitioners, leaders, and friends of the RT community about how the model shapes therapy, coaching, leadership, and everyday relationships. Episode links and resources:You can find all links mentioned in each episode on our Spotify and Substack pages. Connect with the hosts: Rhett Smith and Lance Ahl Learn more about: Restoration Therapy Listen and subscribe on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Substack.

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Welcome to the RT Dialogue with your co-hosts Lance Ahl & Rhett Smith | Sound and Video Engineer RO Smith In this podcast we desire to make connections, build community, and learn and practice the model of Restoration Therapy. More at: https://rtdialogue.substack.com/ Note:The podcast is labeled with an explicit rating because some episodes contain topics that are distressing to individuals, or inappropriate for minors (i.e. trauma, abuse, sexuality, substance use, etc.)

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    2025 - 2026
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