Mental Health + Aging with Dr. Regina Koepp

#061- How Growing Up in Poverty Inspired My Career in Mental Health and Aging


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Today, I launch the Center for Mental Health and Aging website. As I unveil this exciting website and resource hub, I realize that despite pouring so much of myself into this website, you don’t know much about me.  

So, today as I celebrate the launch of the Center for Mental Health and Aging, I’m sharing a little bit more about myself, and some of the very personal experiences in my own life that have led me to creating the Center for Mental Health and Aging. 

Here’s a peek inside the episode: 

  • [01:39] I share about my experience being raised by a single mom with no dad.
  • [02:40] Learn how school and a local food bank shaped my view of the world.
  • [06:27] Stigma and shame about poverty and mental illness resulted in secrecy and hiding my true self. 
  • [08:49] I did therapy with an older adult who abandoned his children and worked in therapy to process remorse, grief, and loss. As I was helping him, I found healing in my own experience of being abandoned by my “bio dad.”
  • [12:40] Learn what keeps older adults out of mental health care and how I aim to change it with the Center for Mental Health and Aging: the “go to” place online for the mental health care of older adults and families. 
  • [17:54] Calling all licensed mental health providers (therapists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists). Claim your profile here


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DISCLAIMER: The material on this site is for informational and educational purposes only. Any comments Dr. Koepp may make on the TV Show, blog, or in response to an individual’s story or comments should not be construed as establishing a psychologist-patient relationship between Dr. Koepp and the individual. None of Dr. Koepp's show, website, social media, comments, or group information should be considered a substitute for individualized medical or mental health assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. Dr. Koepp is only representing herself in her TV Show, blogs, and on her website.

 

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