Join Valerie and co-host Dr. Todd Frye as they take a deeper dive into many topics that emerged in the Valerie’s interviews with Tiffany these past several weeks including their conversation about how much bravery it takes to not blame our spouses for unresolved struggles that come up in marriage and strategies that we might […]

Tiffany and Valerie conclude their interview with a conversation about how much Tiffany learned in the process of her therapy experience. She came to understand that her childhood experiences embedded in her certain ‘safety protocols’ that she reflexively moved into when she felt threat and that in her marriage, she need no longer do this, […]

Valerie and Tiffany explore more deeply into Tiffany’s life story to help Tiffany understand the nature of her deep fear around her husband’s faith transition. Her commitment to her (their) faith and their love for each other both helped her feel safe. If he changed, could she still feel safe and protected? They talk about […]

Join Valerie and Todd as they open up this series of interviews with Tiffany, who begins to share the challenges that she experienced when her husband decided to leave the faith tradition that they had shared since childhood.

Join Valerie Hamaker and Dr. Todd Frye as they dive deeper in the dynamics of Tera’s journey. Highlights include a discussion of how Tera was able to navigate the ending of her marriage peacefully, feeling confidence that she had truly given it her best efforts and allowed him opportunities to do the same.

Tera’s final efforts in saving the marriage and her concluding thoughts many months following their divorce. Her feelings of peace that have come and fortified her in their transition.

In this episode Valerie and Tera explore her many attempts to become accountable for her own part of their marital struggles. Tera’s battle to discern what was best for their children in this difficult situation.

Valerie is joined by Tera, a brave woman and mother of four, who courageously enters into counseling to better understand how to find emotional connection in her marriage of 20 years. She desperately hopes that by changing herself, she can change the course of her marriage.

In this interview, Dr. Todd Frye interviews podcast creator and host Valerie Hamaker, who shares her story about becoming a therapist, some background on her inspiration to start this podcast, and a little about her love of being a small part in the healing of others and how this blesses her own life in many […]

Deeper Dive Episode. Valerie is joined by co-host Dr. Todd Frye in a discussion of a few key issues brought up in the past several weeks interviews with Jeffrey including a fuller explanation of the attachment theory and some thoughts on faith integration in their clinical work.