Today’s Guest: Connie Glenn, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Solana Beach, California. She specializes in trauma and EMDR and is an EMDRIA Approved EMDR consultant. She also trains and works with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, including ketamine and clinical trials for psilocybin and 5-MeO-DMT.

SHOW TOPICS

• Breaking down the different types of psychedelics currently used in therapy and clinical trials

• Mystical experiences and striving for a feeling of awe

• The stages of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

• Working with psychedelics at the intersection of clinical psychology and shamanic practice

SHOW LINKS

• Connie Glenn, LMFT

Contact Connie directly at connie(at)connieglennlmft.com

• Clinical trial resources

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov

https://compasspathways.com

• Therapists interested in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy may speak with their liability insurance, personal lawyer, or check out resources from the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapists at www.camft.org

• Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy trainings 

Ketamine-assisted therapy: https://www.polarisinsight.com/

https://www.fluencetraining.com

https://maps.org

https://compasspathways.com

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Today’s Guest: Dr. Kimberly Dwyer, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in suburban Denver, Colorado, and provides telehealth throughout Colorado and other PsyPact states.  She excels at empowering her clients to manage stress and anxiety. Dr. Dwyer works primarily from mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral perspectives, including MB-CBT and ACT. She also works with mental health providers and similar helpers/healers in private practice to launch, build, and refine their businesses through coaching and consultation services.  

Dr. Dwyer’s book credits include Mindful Mondays: Transforming the Everyday to Claim Calm and Decrease Stress, the companion Mindful Mondays Journal, Intentional Private Practice Workbook, and Rocky's Christmas Journey, a children's book with themes of individuation and separation that includes a caregiver talking-point guide. 

When she's not at work, you might find her enjoying the beautiful Colorado outdoors with her husband and three children, playing with her dogs and foster dogs, or with a paintbrush in hand.

SHOW TOPICS

• The human drive to tell stories and the power of stories across mediums to connect, inspire, and heal

• The creativity of applying your therapeutic knowledge to each client as a unique individual

• The ways that laughter shows up in therapy

SHOW LINKS

• Dr.Kimberly Dwyer

Find more info about Dr.Dwyer’s work, her books, and her resources for providers at www.drkimdwyer.com

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Today’s Guest: Jon Steele, LMFT, specializes in the treatment of anxiety, trauma, and grief for athletes and professionals. He runs and operates his own private practice, Jon Steele Therapy. He considers himself an active sports enthusiast and also enjoys the outdoors. He is an avid learner and is currently focused on practicing meditation and grounding. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How both artists and athletes face the challenge of the inner critic

• Breaking down and addressing feelings of shame, guilt, and regret

• Shifting our inner dialogue from self-criticism to self-compassion

SHOW LINKS

• Jon Steele, LMFT

www.jonsteeletherapy.com

https://www.facebook.com/jonsteelelmftsports

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Today’s Guest: Blanca Lucia Bergman is the founder of Mental Wellness for Artists (MWA), a community group of San Diego artists, mental health advocates, and arts leaders. She is also the founder of a local arts business, Art Unites, and co-lead vocalist in the band Poised In The Darkness.

SHOW TOPICS

• Meeting artists where they’re at with mental health resources

• The role that a lack of affordable housing plays in mental health and the ability for artists to live in major US cities

• The importance of community for mental health, especially for artists

SHOW LINKS

• Art Unites

https://www.instagram.com/artunites

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArtUnitesCommunity

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Today’s Guest: Katy MacRae, LCSW, is a psychotherapist based in New Haven, CT.  She has been working in private practice for over a decade, and she also works for the psychiatry department at Yale New Haven Hospital. Katy focuses on using artmaking and creativity to help people learn and remember DBT and CBT skills.  

SHOW TOPICS

• How art-making can help clients remember DBT and CBT skills\

• What do you do with the art your clients create in therapy sessions? What about your own creations?

• Cultivating a private practice that sustains us as therapists 

SHOW LINKS

• Katy MacRae

Contact Katy directly at katy(at)katymacrae.com

Connect with Katy’s private practice at www.mindfulcreativitystudio.com

Learn more about Katy’s mindful creativity courses for therapists at www.katymacrae.com

Watch Katy’s YouTube videos on mindful creativity at https://www.youtube.com/@katymacraelcsw5661

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Today’s Guest: Rebecca Crawford, LMFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Southern California. She has been practicing for over 10 years and specializes in work with children and adolescents. She is experienced with play therapy, sand play and the use of art in treatment. Rebecca is also co-founder of DeTalks, a company created by women to help empower other women to find their voice and care for themselves. She is committed to empowering women and helping them find compassion for themselves.

In treatment with others, Rebecca focuses on helping individuals to again become connected to and be able to hear and know their own bodies. To practice honoring themselves. Throughout her own journey, she has discovered movement and writing as forms of meditation and connection to herself.  When not practicing therapy or chasing her 5-year-old, she can be found dancing, running, practicing yoga, and writing poetry. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How play and creativity help meet the needs of child and adolescent clients

• The power of movement to help us connect to ourselves and identify our needs

• The mind-body connection and the importance of reminding ourselves to truly breathe

• Honoring what we need to do to feel good, even if that means dancing, singing, or creating in a way that isn’t deemed useful or productive by society

SHOW LINKS

• Rebecca Crawford, LMFT

Learn more about Rebecca’s work with Detalks on Instagram

Contact Rebecca at Spring to Autumn Family Counseling: https://springtoautumn.com/staff/rebecca-crawford-lmft/ rcrawford(at)s2afamily.com

• Get more information about Rachel Moore's next Artist’s Way Workshop

www.rachelmoorecounseling.com/the-artists-way-workshop

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Today’s Guest: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS, is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC, where she and her small team of therapists provide in-person and technology-facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and national professional conferences. 

Reina is the owner of Creative Clinician’s Corner, LLC , where she hosts and produces the podcast The Creative Psychotherapist and offers practice-building resources and consultation services for creative arts therapists with a desire to build and scale their own private practice. As the host of The Creative Psychotherapist, she interviews successful creative therapists about the tools and strategies they use to grow their dream practices, as well as how they have hustled to create additional streams of income using their knowledge and creativity by developing products and services that enhance their therapy practices.

In her spare time, she loves to play on and in the ocean with her husband and their dog, explore vast natural landscapes, and get messy in the kitchen creating complex but healthy recipes. 

SHOW TOPICS

• The vital importance of maintaining a creative practice, even through school, training, or work as a therapist

• How to approach every activity with a creative mindset

• Fun examples of creative interventions in therapy

• The importance of allowing for other creative modalities in art therapy, even if they are not the ones we are oriented toward as therapists

SHOW LINKS

• Reina Lombardi

Learn more about consultation with Reina at www.creativeclinicianscorner.com

Connect with Reina’s private practice at www.floridaarttherapyservices.com

Listen to The Creative Psychotherapist podcast wherever you listen to podcasts

• Find art by Monika Urbanska at www.thereelchase.com

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Today’s Guest: Rotem Brayer, M.Ed., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, certified EMDR therapist, EMDR consultant, and an advanced EMDR trainer. He is the author of "The Art and Science of EMDR—Helping Clinicians Bridge the Path from Protocol to Practice," and the founder of The EMDR Learning Community, which brings EMDR therapists together and provides education on EMDR therapy and its integration with other treatment approaches. As the co-founder of EMDR Denver, a practice that helps clients heal with an “EMDR first” approach, Rotem spends his time consulting on cases, coaching EMDR therapists, and helping his clients heal from the effects of trauma and attachment wounds. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How adding structure can help with writing and other creative pursuits
• How can you be creative with EMDR?
• The importance of interpersonal connection and bringing your full, authentic self into your work as a practitioner
• Incorporating other modalities into EMDR therapy

SHOW LINKS

• “The Art and Science of EMDR: Helping Clinicians Bridge the Gap Between Protocol and Practice” https://emdartnscience.com/book/

• Listen to The Art and Science of EMDR podcast wherever you listen to podcasts

• Join The EMDR Learning Community https://emdr-learning.com/

• Check out The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Check out Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

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Disclaimer Beyond Artist's Block represents the opinions of its host and guests and is not meant as a substitute for therapy. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Please reach out to your healthcare provider with any specific questions you may have.

Today’s Guest: Jessica Van der Merwe is a licensed therapist in Oregon and Washington state. She owns a private practice and specializes in complex trauma recovery, PTSD, and relational and betrayal trauma. She also specializes in working with adult ADHD and neurodivergence and the intersection between neurodivergence and trauma experiences. Jessica is a certified Brainspotting therapist and is trained in Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment and Internal Family Systems therapy. She believes counseling should always involve humor, creativity, and transparency, and she will be the first one to make things awkward so you don’t have to. 

SHOW TOPICS

• What are trauma responses? + examples of how they manifest

• The causes of complex trauma and how trauma recovery can help clients gain connection and creativity

• Detaching trauma responses from shame and helping clients understand how those responses have served to protect them

• Is it possible to build self-trust with clients who have never experienced that type of trust?

SHOW LINKS

• Jessica Van Der Merwe www.proteacounselingpnw.com

• Brainspotting https://brainspotting.com

• Internal Family Systems https://ifs-institute.com

• Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment https://janinafisher.com/tist

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Disclaimer Beyond Artist's Block represents the opinions of its host and guests and is not meant as a substitute for therapy. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Please reach out to your healthcare provider with any specific questions you may have.

Today’s Guest: Daryl Chow, PhD, is based in Western Australia and works with a vibrant team of practitioners at the Henry Street Centre in the heart of Fremantle. He also returns to his home country, Singapore, to provide consultations and intensive therapy every few months. Meanwhile, he keeps busy with writing and conducting research, trainings, clinical supervision, consultation, and mentoring.

He is a co-editor and contributing author of a recent book, The Write to Recovery: Personal Stories & Lessons About Recovery From Mental Health Concerns. He is also a senior associate and certified trainer for the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE), which is a world-wide consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral health services.

As part of his PhD, he researched the area of development and practices of highly effective psychotherapists, alongside with his mentor and collaborator, Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. Together they are co-authoring a forthcoming book, Reach: Pushing Your Clinical Performance to the Next Level. 

SHOW TOPICS

• The “terrible gift” of creativity and the beauty and struggle of living an aesthetic life

• Understanding the risks creative clients face as artists

• The musicality of therapy and working as a “conductor” in the therapy room

• What is the meaning of life? (Because we don’t shy away from the big questions here!)

SHOW LINKS

• Daryl Chow

www.darylchow.com

• Listen to the Very Bad Therapy podcast wherever you listen to podcasts

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 Disclaimer

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