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Chris McDonald is a Licensed Holistic Therapist with a group virtual practice, “Path to Hope Counseling” in North Carolina. She is a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and offers gentle yoga to clients in session, workshops and private yoga sessions.

She specializes in treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma and grief in young adults in transition. She teaches clients  trauma informed yoga, meditation and Brainspotting.   Chris also offers Therapy for Therapists and wrote the book “Self-Care for the Counselor” and the Companion Workbook.

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Vanessa Holliman, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, founder of BEing Wholistic and practices Integrative Mind-Body-Spirit Social Work. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing trauma, especially the niche of adult sexual trauma, requires addressing the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. With training in psychotherapy, holistic nutrition, functional movement, astrology, and energy modalities like Usui & Holy Fire Reiki, she’s developed an integrated approach to help beings reconnect with their true self.

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Emily is a psychospiritual therapist whose therapy practice is rooted in an integrative clinical framework that honors Transpersonal, Psychodynamic, Attachment/Family Systems, Trauma-Informed, Existential-Humanistic, Epigenetics, Ecopsychology, Experiential, and Energy Psychology—woven together to create a multidimensional and deeply personal healing experience. She is also an Akashic Records Reader, Tarot Card Reader, Cacao Ceremony facilitator. Additionally, she teaches Emotional First Aid classes to groups, organizations, and curious individuals seeking to hold space for their loved ones.

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Dr. MAC and Léa Fae discuss the clinical gray area of defining altered states of consciousness. Many of the holistic therapists we've interviewed this season utilize modalities that drop their clients into altered states of consciousness. We discuss some theory behind this from the post-Jungian perspective. 

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Katie Fields is the creator of CounSouling, a psycho-spiritual model of developmental psychology that focuses on the dynamic between ego and soul. Inspired by Internal Family Systems therapy and infused with psycho-spiritual assessments, including Numerology, Human Design, and the Enneagram, CounSouling helps clients appreciate their lived experiences and reclaim their true, authentic Selves. 

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Dr. Arnd-Caddigan and Léa Fae discuss the difference between theory and modality, and delve deeper into different theories that can support holistic psycho-therapy practice.

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In this episode we interview Dr. Tina Vitolo, a licensed clinical social worker, educator, and thought leader in the ethical integration of unconventional practices within mental health care. She is the founder of The Black Sheep Therapist platform and the Innovative Practitioner Accelerator (IPA) Program, which supports clinicians in aligning holistic, spiritual, and energy-based modalities with clinical theory and professional standards.

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Welcome back to Season 5 listeners! This season we are talking about Holistic Psychotherapy, a post-materialist perspective on alternative spiritual practices and their place in therapy. We have interviewed several therapists who incorporate spirituality into their therapy practice, and we have a variety of discussions on the ethics, theory, legality, and cultural responsibility of this type of therapeutic practice. 

Your hosts are Dr. Margaret Arnd-Caddigan (she/her) LCSW and author of Holistic Psychotherapy from a Post Materialist Perspective. Léa Fae (they/he/she/fae), filmmaker and producer, follow them on instagram.

Our artwork is by Ray Gonzalez and music by Anton Ashmere.

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It's our last episode of the season! Our guest Niki talks about her harrowing journey of family, love, and leaving Evangelicalism to find a new relationship with the Divine. You can find her on instagram @Niki_corcoran_nc and @Phoenix_uncaged. Her podcast is Tales of a Trailblazer: Uncaged, check it out! 

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We have another special guest! Our friend Justin discusses his life growing up in a conservative Evangelical environment and how it was not an easy road to accept his gay identity and reconcile his faith. In this season about spiritual trauma, we've discussed how it is rooted in one's fear for their immortal soul. Justin's story is a beautiful tale of his dark night of the soul and recovering with a beautiful relationship to his God, and community.