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When a Parent’s Stress Tells a Bigger Story: Exploring Possible Child Neurodivergence in Adult Therapy, Ep. 278

Lisa Kays, LICSW, LCSW, explores how clinicians can support parents and caregivers when a child’s possible neurodivergence, sensory needs, learning differences, or medica

Disrupting Period Stigma: Recognizing and Responding to PMDD, Ep. 277

Monique Gonzalez, PsyD, explores premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), helping clinicians recognize its cyclical impact on mood, cognition, relationships, and daily fun

Beyond the Blank Slate: Positionality and the Myth of Neutrality in Clinical Practice, Ep. 276

Dr. Wendy Ashley explores how clinicians can move beyond the myth of neutrality by recognizing how identity, power, privilege, and lived experience shape clinical work. S

Safety, Stability, and Support: Trauma-Informed Care for Foster Caregivers, Ep. 275

Trish Yonker, LCPC, explores how foster care, family separation, instability, and disrupted relationships can affect children and the people who care for them. She offers

Supporting Hispanic and Latino/x/e Clients in a Climate of Fear, Ep. 274

Mara Sammartino, LCSW, explores how clinicians can support Hispanic and Latino/x/e clients with cultural humility, curiosity, and respect amid heightened fear and safety

Psycho-Oncology: Supporting Mental Health Across the Cancer Journey, Ep. 273

Boris Kisilev, MD, explores how cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship can affect patients and the people who care for them. He offers practical guidance for addre

When Cognition Changes: Supporting Clients with Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, Ep 272

Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, explores how cognitive impairment and dementia can show up in clinical work. She offers practical guidance for adapting communication, suppo

Supervising with Cultural Humility: Feedback, Ethics, and Clinical Growth (Ep. 271)

Dr. Julia Macaronis explores ethical, culturally responsive supervision practices, offering concrete strategies for addressing power, positionality, feedback, gatekeeping

When Work Stops Working: Helping Clients Navigate Mental Health Leave, Ep. 270

Dr. Londyn Miller, LMFT, examines mental health leave in the workplace, helping clinicians identify how occupational stressors, systemic influences, and functional impair

Motivational Interviewing Today: Adapting to Context and Complexity, Ep. 269

Dr. Kristin Dempsey, LMFT, LPCC, and Ali Hall, Juris Doctor, explore how motivational interviewing evolves in real-world practice, helping clinicians move beyond core ski

Beyond the Label: Reframing Borderline Personality Disorder Through a Trauma-Informed Lens, Ep. 268

Dr. Nancy Grechko explores how stigma, trauma, and emotion dysregulation shape borderline personality disorder, helping clinicians reconsider diagnostic assumptions, reco

Before the Meltdown: Recognizing and Responding to Early Signs of Nervous System Overload in Children, Ep. 267

Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge explores how early nervous system dysregulation shows up in children, helping clinicians recognize signs of overload or shutdown and apply a reg

The Body Before the Behavior: How the Vestibular System Shapes Emotion and Self-Regulation, Ep. 266

Robin Abbott, OT, explores how the vestibular system shapes emotion, attention, and behavior, helping clinicians recognize when dysregulation may be sensory-based and app

AI and the Future of Therapy: Opportunities, Limits, and Staying Human, Ep. 265

Kelly Higdon, LMFT, and Miranda Palmer, LMFT, review the growing use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy and explore both its potential advantages and important e

When Suicide Comes Up: Regulating Therapist Reactivity in High-Stakes Sessions with IFS, Ep. 264

Dr. Beth Mullen-Houser, LPC, and Hanna Soumerai Rea, LICSW, examine how therapist reactions to suicide talk influence clinical care, integrating research and Internal Fam

I Can’t Listen Because My Shirt Is Itchy: When Sensory Input Disrupts Regulation, Ep. 263

Dr. Matt Zakreski, PsyD, examines how clinicians can distinguish sensory overload from behavioral concerns and develop individualized sensory support plans that promote r

The Impact of Growing Up With a Parent With BPD: Paths to Healing in Adulthood, Ep. 262

Daniel Lobel, PhD, discusses the adult impact of growing up with a parent or caregiver with borderline personality disorder, with a focus on mistrust, identity developmen

Brains and Bodies: Neurodivergence and Hormonal Change Across the AFAB Lifespan, Ep. 261

Helen Bennett, counsellor and psychotherapist, explores hormone-aware therapy practices and how hormonal shifts can influence neurodivergent presentations in clients assi

When Sessions Go Sideways: Catching Resistance Early Using Process Coding, Ep. 260

Jordan Harris, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC-S, shares how recognizing resistance as a timing cue, not a clinical failure, can transform therapeutic responsiveness through process cod

Professional Wills: The What-If Scenarios No One Warned You About, Ep. 259

Robyn Miller, PhD, outlines the real-life emotional, legal, and logistical burdens that fall on clients, loved ones, and colleagues when clinicians lack a clear professio