In this episode, Dr. Sarah Gray joins Matt Bennett to discuss how HRV informs and supports her work as a psychologist.

Website:http://www.integrativepsychology.com

Email:[email protected]

Bio for Sarah Gray, Psy.D.
Dr. Sarah Gray is an Instructor of Psychology of Harvard Medical School, and
a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine
Training in the Behavioral Medicine Program at Massachusetts General
Hospital. She previously worked for close to a decade as a Clinical Health
Psychologist I the FRP pain program and the Director of Outpatient
Rehabilitation Psychology with the Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
She is the Founder and Director of Integrative Psychology, PC, a private
practice in Arlington, Massachusetts where she leads a team of talented
clinicians and provides innovative and evidence-based therapy, consulting,
and presentations.
Dr. Gray studied psychology as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College
in New York, and Oxford University in Oxford, England. She earned her
doctorate in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional
Psychology (MSPP; now William James College), as well as completing
MSPP’s specialized concentration in health psychology.
Dr. Gray’s clinical training included providing psychotherapy, outreach, and
stress-management groups for the health and counseling service centers at
Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the University of Southern
Maine. She received specialized training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
(CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) while training at Harvard
Medical School-affiliated Massachusetts Mental Health Center Partial and
Intensive Outpatient hospital programs. She also completed behavioral
medicine3 internships, including training towards certification in biofeedback
and clinical hypnosis, at Boston Behavioral Medicine in Brookline, MA, and
the Health Psychology Center in Portland, Maine. Her post-doctoral fellowship
was completed at the University of Rhode Island Counseling Center where
she provided psychotherapy, facilitated groups, provided crisis interventions,
and performed psychological assessments.

Dr. Gray’s current clinical and research interests involve health psychology
and behavioral medicine, chronic pain interventions, mindfulness for brain
injuries, evidence-based integrative and complementary alternative medicine
(CAM) approaches to wellness, stress-management interventions, such as
mindfulness, biofeedback, neurofeedback, and clinical and gut-directed
hypnosis, EMDR, CBT for Insomnia, and subjects related to creativity and art
therapy, and the role of nutrition in mental health.

Dr. Richard Gevirtz joins Matt to discuss interoception research and how it impacts our nervous system and mental health.

Dr. Richard Gevirtz is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology for the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in San Diego. He has been in involved in research and clinical work in applied psychophysiology and biofeedback for the last 30 years and served as the president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 2006-2007. His primary research interests are in understanding the physiological and psychological mediators involved in disorders such as chronic muscle pain, fibromyalgia, and gastrointestinal pain. In this vein, he has studied applications of heart rate variability biofeedback for anxiety, pain, gastrointestinal, cardiac rehabilitation, and other disorders. He is the author of many journal articles and chapters on these topics. He also maintains a part time clinical practice treating patients with anxiety and stress related disorders. https://www.alliant.edu/faculty/richard-gevirtz

In this episode, Hannah Brinkman joins Matt to discuss her research and clinical work with substance use and heart rate variability biofeedback. 

In this episode, Rabeea Maqsood joins Matt to discuss her research on Ultra-Short-Term Heart Rate Variability and Combat-Related Traumatic Injury.

Learn more about Rabeea's work: https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/rmaqsood

In this episode, Dr. Nate Ewigman returns to the podcast to discuss interoception with Matt. We learned about the connection between interoception, heart rate variability, and mental health. 

Nate Ewigman: [email protected]

In this episode, Matt interviews Parker McKasson and Hannah Hornberger on their research into heart rate variability and religiosity. 

In this episode, Lieven Van Linden joins Matt to discuss his work, book, and personal journey with heart rate variability. 

Lieven loves to explore and experience all the internal and external boundaries of our human existence. His curiosity for human optimization and exploration has led him to run ultra distances in the deserts of Morocco and the jungles of Brazil. He covered snowy mountains wearing nothing but swimming shorts and dived into the ocean on nothing but a single breath.

After completing an Executive MBA and spending 10 years in a corporate environment, Lieven founded his own company, Built For Endurance, aimed at helping leaders optimize their energy, health, and performance. In their programs, they use biometrical data (HRV) and immersive experiences to drive lasting behavioural change.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lieven-van-linden-7866035/

In this episode, Stephanie White nerds out with Matt about the differences between two popular heart rate variability biofeedback forms: coherence and resonance frequency breathing. 

Web:        www.measurableresilience.com

In this episode, Sigrún Þóra Sveinsdóttir joins Matt to discuss her research on integrating Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback with Police in Iceland.

As we approach the 4th of July in the US and the peak of summer vacation, we thought it was a great time to revisit one of our most popular episodes on planning a healthy (and fun) HRV-friendly vacation.