What Your Therapist Is Reading ‪®‬ Jessica Fowler

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler, interviews Jennifer Mullan, PsyD about her book Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice.
It is hard to pick just a few highlights as we discussed so much in this episode, but here are a few:
6:03: Learning and unlearning concept.
9:06 Defining what decolonizing therapy is.
14:12: Challenging the language that we use.
19:50: DSM and (lack of) multicultural classes in our education.
25:00 Beginning to talk about how the history of mental health is important.
25:56: How things are beginning to shift.
27:29: Why Dr. Mullan decided to write the book
29:00 This book is for practitioners.
31:32: Discussion around a shift in mental health treatment and exploring the history and how it applies to today. In addition, how as therapists we need to metabolize the energy we take on.
38:32: Practitioners are leaving mental health and the toll the work takes on people.
50:00: Gatekeeping
 
 
 
 
 

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler interviews Arielle Jordan, LCPC about her book Holding Space: My Story of Grief, Remembering, and Thriving After Traumatic Loss.
*There is a trigger warning for the book because it does talk about parental loss, child loss and divorce.
Highlights from this episode include: 
3:23 Although Arielle shares about pain in her book, she shares about resilience.  
5:03 Arielle shares about types of therapies she discusses in the book including DBT, EMDR and IFS.
7:02 Arielle shares what holding space means and how we can hold space for ourselves.
10:19 We discuss part of the book that shares Arielle's experience in the military.
13:22 Types of loss discussed in the book include parental loss, child loss, divorce and more.
About the author:
Arielle Jordan, LCPC runs Mindset Quality, a unique counseling service that's proud to be black-owned, veteran-owned, and woman-owned. She's a former Army soldier who's studying hard to earn her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision. With a solid background in psychology and clinical mental health, Arielle specializes in helping people deal with tough stuff like PTSD, trauma, and loss, using therapies like EMDR, IFS, and DBT. She's all about making sure everyone from different backgrounds feels welcome and understood. Besides her counseling work, Arielle speaks out about mental health issues, teaches others, and writes books to spread hope and help people heal. She's committed to empowering people to overcome mental health challenges.

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler interviews Helena Vissing, PsyD., SEP, PMH-C about her book Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health.
 
During this episode, we take a deep dive into Dr. Vissing's work that she presents throughout this work. We explore somatic experiencing, maternal mental health and trauma. 
About the author:
Helena Vissing is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) in private practice in California. She practices trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is experienced as Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions, has taught Child and Adolescent Development, Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Psychodynamic Theories, and Maternal Mental Health. As Training Faculty for Maternal Mental Health NOW, Dr. Vissing also provides trainings and consultations for providers.

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler interviews Tian Dayton, PhD about her book The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: The Impact of Childhood Pain on Adult Relationships.
Highlights from this episode include: 
5:18 We discuss the term ACoA.
6:27 Grandchildren of alcoholics and CPTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder).
11:25 Psychodrama
16:01 RTR Sociometrics 
24:59 The ACoA dilemma
29:27 Discussing trauma
35:16 12-step programs
Book
Workbook
Website
RTR Sociometrics
About the author:
Dr. Tian Dayton is a senior fellow at The Meadows and Director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute, author of fifteen books including
, Neuropsychodrama in the Treatment of Relational Trauma, The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: How Childhood Trauma Impacts Adult Relationships, Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance, Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy, Heartwounds : The Impact of Unresolved Trauma and Grief on Relationships, The Living Stage: A Step by Step Guide to Psychodrama and Experiential Therapy, The Magic of Forgiveness
….she is a Huffington Post blogger and creator of innerlook.com.
Films and Videos include:
The Process: A 73 Minute award winning docudrama that uses Psychodrama to tell stories of Addicts and ACOAs
Psychodrama and Trauma Resolution Training Tape, a compressive psychodrama training tape illustrating the effect of unresolved trauma on the personality and its resolution through psychodrama and sociometry available through tiandayton.com. Tian Dayton has a masters in educational psychology and a PhD in clinical psychology and is a board certified trainer in psychodrama and a licensed Creative Arts Therapist. She is also a certified Montessori teacher. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute where she runs training groups in psychodrama, sociometry and experiential group therapy. She is a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in psychodrama, trauma and addiction and has served as their director of program development for eight years. Dr. Dayton was on the faculty at NYU for eight years teaching psychodrama. Dr. Dayton is a fellow of the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy ASGPP, winner of their scholar’s award, the President’s award and editor in chief of the Journal of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy and sits on the professional standards committee. She is also the winner of The Mona Mansell Award and The Ackermann Black Award. Dr. Dayton has been a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Montel, Rikki Lake, John Walsh, Geraldo. For further information log onto tiandayton.com
 

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In this weeks episode, Jessica Fowler interviews Dr. Joy Malik-Hasbrook about her book A Kids Book About Nervous System Regulation.  
Highlights from this episode include:
2:43 Dr. Joy shares about what the nervous system is made up of and what it is like when we are in a regulated place.
3:4: Dr. Joy shares about polyvagal theory.
7:11 Dr. Joy shares about how this book is meant to be read together, parent and child.
10:19 Dr. Joy shares about the importance of empathy.
10:55 Parents responsibility to regulate their own nervous system.
11:42 Compassion
About the author:
Dr. Joy Malik-Hasbrook, PsyD (she/her), is a licensed clinical psychologist who helps children feel seen and grownups heal. She provides regulation and resiliency-based parenting support, specializes in neurodiversity assessments with kids, and presents on nervous system regulation and neurodiversity-affirming assessment. She is a mama of 2, a highly sensitive human, and biracial of South Asian Indian/white descent. She values integrating both Asian contemplative practices and contemporary psychology into her work and is committed to anti-oppressive practices. Dr. Joy understands how challenges with dysregulation create more distress. She believes that understanding nervous system regulation leads to compassion and resiliency and that all families should have access to this information—this book is a start!
You can connect with Dr. Joy on her website here and on instagram here.

Ruth Fearnow, LMHC shares about her method to teach people to learn how to heal through guidance in her book. Ruth shares about her approach to therapeutic mindfulness and how it is different than mindfulness. Ruth provides an example of what therapeutic mindfulness looks like and who would benefit from it.