The AFTA Podcast

This episode was recorded at the 2024 AFTA Conference in Denver, CO. Host Navid Zamani interviews multiple attendees of the conference

We discuss the therapist's state of mind as shaped by the relational field of the psychotherapy and fluid shifting between wordless awareness and language understanding

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Arthur Nielsen about different approaches to couples therapy, the challenges of asking for things in relationships, and couples' education.

Host Kern Haug interviews guest Navid Zamani about the challenges of the domestic violence field and the critical inclusion of family therapy as a road to healing in domestic violence.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Vicki Dickerson

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Eman Tadros about incarceration and family systems work, practices of necessary resistance, and an invitation to MFTs to join

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Judith Landau about intergenerational and community resilience, the application of transitional family theory and therapy, and the centrality of hope and relational connection.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Tatiana Glebova about contextual therapy and its application to sociocultural trauma and transgenerational trauma, and the necessity of geopolitical knowledge in our work.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Aaron Kirkwood about the practices of integrating neurobiology with Narrative therapy and the contemporary political landscape of this work

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Carmen Knudson-Martin about her contributions to developing socio-emotional relationship therapy and how to work with the confluence of power, emotions and social discourse in therapy