Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson JD Kalmenson, CEO Montare Behavioral Health

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 24 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson:  New Directions in Couples Therapy with Dr. Dana McNeil, PsyD, LMFT

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dana McNeil to explore the sometimes complex dynamics in a range of different romantic relationships– from hetero and LGBTQ couples, to polyamorous. Understanding the habits of successful couples is key to developing relationship skills that can take yours to the next level of trust, open communication, and longevity.

Dana McNeil, PsyD, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and is the founder of The Relationship Place, a group practice with locations in her hometown of San Diego, California. Dr. Dana's practice specializes in couples therapy and utilizes an evidence-based type of couples therapy known as the Gottman Method. Dr. Dana works with all types of relationship issues from premarital counseling, dealing with the aftermath of extramarital affairs, working with addiction recovery, military deployed families, parents of
special needs children, LGBTQ partners, and polyamorous, ethical non-monogamy clients. Dr. Dana is the resident relationship expert on the Cox Communications Show “I Do” and will be featured in an upcoming documentary on the art of couples therapy. 

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 23 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: A Spiritual Approach to Psychotherapy with Kenneth Pargament, PhD.

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Kenneth Pargament to gain a deeper understanding of the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality. How can psychologists be better prepared to deal with encounters with the sacred dimension of life? How and when is it better to consult a chaplain than a psychotherapist? In what ways can spirituality ease mental health issues like depression? These are some of the questions you will hear explored in this soul nourishing podcast. 

Kenneth Pargament is a professor emeritus of psychology at Bowling Green State University. He has authored The Psychology of Religion and Coping and Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy.  Dr. Pargament is Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality. With Julie Exline, he has authored the recently released Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy:  From Research to Practice. He was Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center.  His awards include the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2009, the first Outstanding Contribution to the Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Award from APA in 2017, and an honorary doctor-of-letters from Pepperdine University in 2013.  He was recently named One of the 50 Most Influential Living Psychologists.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 23 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson:  Is Addiction a Brain Disease? With Dr. Mark Gold, MD

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Mark Gold, MD to understand the history of chemical dependency, and process addictions, seen through the lens of a prominent researcher and medical doctor. Dr. Gold gives the audience an idea of how difficult it was to get proper treatment for any kind of addiction within the hospital system as far back as the 1970’s, and how his work transformed our understanding of addiction from a lack of will power to a brain disease. Discussion of various effective treatments follows. 

Over his 25-year career at the University of Florida, Dr. Mark Gold has been a Professor of Neuroscience, a physician-scientist at UF McKnight Brain Institute, and a university bench-to-bedside leader. He became UF Distinguished Professor, Eminent Scholar & Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry. He was the Founder of the Division of Addiction Medicine & Florida's Recovery Center, UF Psychiatric Hospital, and outpatient centers from Gainesville to Vero Beach. His theories have changed the field, stimulated research, and led to new treatments. With his mentor Herb Kleber, Gold helped change addiction psychiatry to disease management, including evidence-based care that evaluates & treats co-occurring disorders. Gold's work proved that cocaine caused a relative dopamine deficiency along with anhedonia, and pioneered the study of second-hand tobacco, cannabis, and opium smoke. Gold and Kelly Brownell co-chaired the historic Yale Conference on Food and hedonic overeating. This work has led to collaborative research on the drug-like effects of some food and the use of anti-addiction medications in obesity. Since his retirement, Gold has continued his work as a researcher, mentor, and inventor. He is on the Board of Directors of various education, intervention, and prevention organizations, including CADCA and DEAEF. And he has received numerous Lifetime Achievement awards for his pioneering work.

Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 22 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson:  Understanding the Needs of Multicultural Populations in Behavioral Healthcare, with Dr. Norman Kim, PhD.


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JD Kalmenson’s  interviews Dr. Norman Kim, the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, as well as the Diversity chair of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, to discover how innate biases in the healthcare system compromise both the quality and quantity of care provided to marginalized communities. Dr. Kim explains how a deeper understanding of cultural differences, and an increased sensitivity to diverse cultural norms, leads to better outcomes for everyone suffering with mental health challenges.


Dr. Kim is the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer for the Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the NY State Office of Mental Health, and the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, a social justice-focused consultancy. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. Norman has developed an expertise in psychiatrically complex populations, and his primary areas of interest are the application of a transdiagnostic framework for eating disorders, taking an evolutionary approach to shame and anxiety, and minority mental health. He is a regular national and international speaker, educator, and passionate advocate with a particular focus on minority status and barriers to mental health care in marginalized communities. He was the founding co-chair of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Committee of IAEDP, on the inaugural Behavioral Health Taskforce for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, former board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition, and serves on numerous advisory boards. Most recently Norman was the Deputy Director of Ayana Therapy, a tech startup focused on providing culturally intelligent, adapted, and accessible care to marginalized communities, and was the co-founder of Reasons Eating Disorder Center.
 
Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 21 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson:  Facing Addiction with Anna Lembke, MD
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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Anna Lembke about her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, which explores why our relentless pursuit of pleasure ultimately leads to pain. Living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli, how do we resist overconsumption, and find true happiness?


​​Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid litigation, and is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education.


In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018). 


Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives. 


Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times bestseller and explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
 
Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.

Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 20 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: How to Raise Children Who Thrive with Michele Borba, Ed.D

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JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Michele Borba about her latest book, Thrivers, which outlines the character traits most correlated with resilience, and suggests simple every-day things parents can do to develop these in their children. Dr. Borba shares her years of research and hands on experience with humor and wisdom. 

​​Dr. Borba is an internationally renowned educational psychologist, parenting /child expert, a best-selling author, and a sought-after motivational speaker. Dr. Borba has spoken in 19 countries and served as a consultant for hundreds of schools and corporations worldwide, including Sesame Street, Harvard University, and the US Armed Services, to name just a few. Dr. Borba is a regular on the TODAY show, and has appeared on countless other media outlets, including Dr. Phil, The View, and CNN. Her work is featured in major newspapers and journals like TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Dr. Borba’s award-winning 24 books have been translated into 22 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, recognizing her expertise in solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s empathy, and social-emotional intelligence. She offers research-based parenting advice culled from a career working with over one million parents and educators around the world. 

 Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.