The Other Couch Stephanie & Jessica

Shereen Bar-or MPS, LCAT, ATR-BC is founder of Art Therapy Collective, a private practice based in Brooklyn, New York and serves as Social Action Chair on the Board of the New York Art Therapy Association. Shereen designs opportunities to engage in creative social justice endeavors and promotes the importance of expression, healing, and community engagement. As the daughter of Iranian Jewish immigrants, Shereen is an active activist, an avid gardener, and emphasizes the importance of self-car...

Janeen Chasan and Alexa Inserra joins us this week on The Other Couch to discuss their personal and professional experiences with grief. "Being the therapist you wish you had" is a major takeaway from this episode, as well as understanding what the grief process looks like from a realistic point of view and not rigid stages. Janeen offers her perspective as an art therapist who works with hospice and has worked through her own complicated grief. She shares her original arche...

Steph & Jess are back for a brief discussion on their respective fields and what it means to be a therapist and a human being. "You can't teach how to be a human being in a textbook".

Hi, this is Jess. So this is an article that I wrote for the mighty.com called "Confessions of a therapist with an anxiety disorder". And this was one of the topics of the beginning burgeoning conversations that Steph and I had about creating a podcast.I guess you could say this was kind of our inspiration.It's pretty vulnerable. And it's pretty honest about the struggles that I have, and continue to have as a human with anxiety, and also as a human who happens to be a therapist.So I wanted t...

Lynn Min joins us on the other couch this week to discuss money, clients and therapy. She shares her journey to becoming a therapist, pastor and coach. Lynns bio: I believe every dysfunction, disorder, and pain was somehow born to cope with life and protect the best parts of us. In the journey towards wholeness, we all need a power greater than ourselves (call it God, love, or family...) to provide acceptance, support, and a safe place to unravel. I invite you to that space to com...

Andrea Brognano, LMHC