In this episode I speak with Lisa, an accredited mental health social worker, psychotherapist, and author of Finding My Invisible Sun: Overcoming Trauma. Lisa has lived experience of trauma, mental illness and institutionalised discrimination and has practised therapy for a combined 15 years within a domestic and family violence prevention service and then as an accredited mental health social worker.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

• Lisa’s Points of Resistance Theory webinar on eiseEducation - https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1209211

• Janina Fisher (and her book The Fragmented Self) - https://janinafisher.com/

• Pat Ogden - https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/therapist-directory/pat-ogden-phd/

• Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy - https://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4317035

• Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps The Score - https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score

• EMDR Association of Australia - https://emdraa.org/

• Lisa’s book Finding My Invisible Sun - https://australianselfpublishinggroup.com/finding-my-invisible-sun/

This episode's transcript can be viewed here: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tDX4X9nDpOkKhOf8gVPdcU5rPElTM1p36wnp7IR3iDk/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.