Today's guest is Dr. Shairi Turner, the Chief Health Officer of Crisis Text Line-- a global nonprofit organization providing free and confidential text-based mental health support and crisis intervention. Dr. Turner is a Stanford Alum, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine graduate and Harvard-trained internist and pediatrician with a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. As Chief Health Officer, she leads the organization’s external policy, advocacy and partnership initiatives related to mental health. Dr. Turner truly understands the impact of trauma and has an extensive resume that includes over a decade of advocacy on juvenile justice, public health, disproportionate minority confinement, trauma histories of incarcerated women and the neurobiology of trauma. Prior to Crisis Text Line, Dr. Turner was the first Chief Medical Director of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, served as Deputy Secretary for Health and Director of the Office of Minority Health for the Florida Department of Health, served as a faculty consultant for the National Center for Trauma Informed Care, and most recently was Project Co-Lead for the US Office of Women’s Health-funded Trauma Informed Medicine eCase. 

In this episode, we discuss her earlier career experiences working with minority public health policy and juvenile justice, adverse childhood experiences and how those can impact teen mental health, the current teen mental health epidemic and its causes, trends in teen mental health based on Crisis Text Line’s research on millions of teens, how Crisis Text Line works and how it has been able to help so many teens and college students, and what she’d like to see change in the next few years with mental health resources.

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#168 In this week's solo episode, I share some of my favorite DBT skills and dialectics that changed my life! I discuss why DBT is so unique compared to traditional talk therapy, key assumptions to operate under when learning DBT skills, what dialectics are and how to practice a dialectical mindset, my favorite dialectics that completely changed how I think, and how you can learn other life-changing DBT skills including radical acceptance and willingness. If you're looking to learn more about DBT and start practicing DBT skills in your daily life, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

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#167 Today's guest is Dr. Justin Puder— a licensed psychologist who mainly works with teens and young adults around many mental health difficulties including anxiety, depression, trauma, and loneliness. He also creates social media content under the handle @amoderntherapist to reduce stigma surrounding mental health through vulnerability, knowledge, and humor. We discuss advice for people whose siblings are struggling, differences between how millennials and Gen Z view therapy and mental health, the impact of stigma and misinformation, ways that stigma affects men’s mental health, the role of social media when it comes to being vulnerable, tips for teens on starting therapy, how to sert achievable goals in therapy, advice for parents and teens on navigating a parent requiring their teen to go to therapy, and a daily practice teens can do to help their mental health.

Justin's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amoderntherapist/

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#166 Today's guest is Amanda E. White— a licensed therapist and founder of the Therapy for Women Center, a group therapy practice serving clients in 27 states. She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen, the host of the Recovered-ish podcast, and the author of the book Not Drinking Tonight and its corresponding workbook. We discuss her past struggles with mental health and addiction and how that inspired her to become a therapist, what she wishes she knew going into college, navigating substance use in college, how to recognize when substance use is becoming a problem and getting help, how she started her popular Taylor Swift Therapy series on TikTok, what your favorite Taylor Swift songs might mean about you from a mental health perspective, and tips on how to find the right therapist for you.

Amanda's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therapyforwomen

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#165 In this week's solo episode, I share some of the psychology behind behavior and explain exactly how you can change your behaviors! I discuss why changing your behavior is a lot easier than changing your emotions, why acceptance is critical when it comes to changing your behaviors and how to practice radical acceptance, how our behavioral patterns develop, the four methods of behavioral change in DBT, why you might have engaged in problem behaviors and what could have gone differently, strategies for how to increase more successful behaviors and decrease unwanted behaviors, and an exercise you can try at home to practice changing your behaviors. If you're looking to correct your problem behaviors and implement more successful ones but don't know where to start, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

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#164 Today's guest is Gael Aitor— the creator and co-host of Teenager Therapy—the biggest teen mental health podcast in the world. Teenager Therapy has been featured in the New York Times, Teen Vogue, and has had guests like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. He is also the co-founder of Astro Studios, a podcast studio aiming to help Gen Z feel less alone. We discuss what made him want to start Teenager Therapy and why this podcast was so unique, the pressures and responsibilities of being so vulnerable on a podcast with a such large audience, the process of choosing guests, including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, to be on Teenager Therapy, common themes that teenagers are struggling with today and advice he most frequently gives on those topics, how his mental health has evolved from his teenage years until now, what’s next for him after wrapping Teenager Therapy, and his advice for teens who want to start their own podcasts.

Gael's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaelaitor/

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#163 Today's guest is David Alperovitz— an assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the current program director of the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital, where he has worked for over 25 years. We discuss his experiences working with people with trauma, eating disorders, and OCD, the role of courage in those being treated for mental health disorders, his work at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center and what the center’s treatment approach looks like, key things people should look for when seeking evidence-based treatment for an eating disorder, things he wishes the general public knew about eating disorders and OCD, what eating disorders have in common with anxiety disorders and OCD, his advice for someone experiencing an eating disorder who is considering reaching out for help, and tips from his work at Klarman that teens can incorporate into their daily lives.  

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#162 In this week's solo episode, I share some of my favorite psychology facts that you can use to improve your mental health and overall well-being! I discuss shocking statistics on mental health rates in adults and teenagers, why humans are naturally resilient, what happy people have in common and the surprising benefits to our negative emotions, how our moods can affect our judgments about others, positive psychology techniques that you can use to improve your mood and well-being, a life hack on how to get better sleep, and how to rewire your brain to have more optimism and self-efficacy. If you're looking for evidence-based ways to feel happier or just want to learn more about psychology, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

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#161 Today's guest is Ann Coleman— a mom, attorney, educator, podcaster, and an advocate for parenting teens. After her son struggled with ADHD and multiple mental health disorders and behavior issues during his teen years, Ann quit practicing law to study adolescence and help other parents learn what she hadn’t known. We discuss her experiences parenting a son struggling with his mental health and how her emotions affected her parenting, advice to parents who want to understand their role in their teen’s mental health and improve their relationship with their child, what parents can do if their teen asks for help with their mental health, insights for parents who are out of ideas on how to help their teen get better, tips on how parents can maintain their mental health while their teen struggles, daily ways parents can support their teen’s mental health and prevent them from struggling in the future, and research and resources on raising teens that all parents should know about.

Ann's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neurogility/

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#160 Today's guest is Gigi Robinson— a chronic illness and body positivity advocate, Sports Illustrated Swim Search finalist, speaker, and podcast host. We discuss her advice on navigating chronic illness as a student and how to advocate for your health, when it’s time to ask for help and set personal boundaries as a student dealing with stress and burnout, what it’s like being a social media creator and how to create an authentic platform, her experience as a Sports Illustrated model, and her tips on how to share your story via social media in a successful way.

Gigis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsgigirobinson/

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