The AFTA Podcast

Re-Run: In this episode, we revisit an interview between Danna Carter and Kaethe Weingarten. This month is the AFTA Conference in Baltimore - we hope you can join us!

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Saliha Bava about relational responsiveness, how we make meaning together, and the influence of attending to the recursivity of our lives

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Karen Gail Lewis about sibling therapy, the practices of tracking sibling ghosts from early childhood that affect their adult lives, and ways therapists can incorporate this into their practice

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Manijeh Daneshpour about the intersections of the professional, personal, and political, feminism and cultural backdrops, and the influence of international geopolitics on our lives.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Dumayi Gutierrez about the experiences of ethnically, sexually and gender diverse communities, the influence of an intersectional minority stress model, and its hopeful integration into a family therapy framework.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Shawn Giammattei about gender affirming care for youth within the context of family therapy and a broader political landscape, the intersections of the parental experience in their gender journeys and sense of ambiguous loss, and the usefulness of mapping love in families

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Peter Fraenkel about last chance couple’s therapy, and the role of pleasure, culture, and humor in the therapy relationship

Host Navid Zamani interviews guests Karen Quek & Alex Hsieh about the themes that emerged in writing their new book and the intentionality required in supporting faculty of color in higher education

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Patricia Papernow about the gap of knowledge in working with step-families and the limitations of using approaches and maps based off of working with first-time families.

Host Navid Zamani interviews guest Sandra Stith regarding the ways she is navigating multiple ideological perspectives in domestic violence work, negotiating tensions with couples in violence, and how we can maintain a international collaboration while being cautious of colonialism.