The Inner Solutions Podcast

Clinical Director Jessica Heil and Associate Director of DBT Services and DBT Clinician Travis Hauck continue their series on the Mindfulness 'What' Skills. This episode features the Participate skill, which helps to teach us how to simply be in the moment. If you haven't yet listened to the previous two 'What' Skills, please head to episodes 16 and 17 to catch up.

This episode features a conversation on birth trauma and perinatal mental health between Inner Solutions' Clinical Director Jessica Heil and Christie Orr-Brown, Co-owner of Encircled Therapy & Wellness (https://www.encircledtherapy.ca/).

Christie is a registered nurse and clinical counsellor who has been practicing in Calgary for 17 years. Encircled Therapy and Wellness provides therapy services to pregnant, postpartum, and parenting individuals who need support with mental health. In addition to a decade of acute and community mental health experience, Christie has also practiced in labour and delivery, pediatric intensive care, and pediatric emergency. Christie completed her masters degree in Nursing in 2016, and is a certified clinical counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Christie has advanced training and certification in perinatal mental health and EMDR. She incorporates mindful self compassion, CBT, DBT and narrative therapy in her work with clients.

Christie’s interest in perinatal mental health was sparked after working as a registered nurse in labour and delivery, and after having her two children. After experiencing postpartum depression, anxiety, and intrusive thoughts firsthand, Christie sought additional training and experience in order to help others experiencing the same distress.  

Clinical Director Jessica Heil and Associate Director of DBT Services Travis Hauck continue their series of episodes on the DBT Mindfulness Skills. Today's focus is on the describe skill, which is the second of the mindfulness 'What' skills. If you haven't listened to the previous episode, we recommend going back and listening to it first before diving into this one.

Inner Solutions' Clinical Director Jessica Heil speaks with Associate Director of DBT Services & Clinician Travis Hauck about the 'why' of Mindfulness. Also as a bonus in this episode, Travis and Jessica discuss a bit about the 'What' and 'How' DBT Skills and go into more detail about the 'What' skill: Observe.

DBT Clinician Sharon Ng and Jessica discuss the use of Diary Cards in therapy and how they are helpful for treatment.

Inner Solutions' Clinical Director Jessica Heil and DBT Clinician Cheska Vanderburg discuss the process of healing Trauma through EMDR and Parts Work.

Cristofer Chan (DBT Clinician and Inner Solutions' Associate Director of Operations) provides information on how to acquire, strengthen, and generalize DBT skill use. He also discusses how phone coaching can be used to generalize DBT skills.

Inner Solutions' DBT Clinician Adriana Fernandez discusses why New Years Resolutions have a tendency to go awry a couple of months into the New Year. She offers ideas about how to use DBT skills and hacks from behavioural therapy in order to increase the likelihood of consistency with working towards goals.

We provide an overview of EMDR - an evidence-based treatment used to treat symptoms related to past adverse experiences and/or traumatic incidents.

We go through the treatment protocol for Prolonged Exposure, an evidence-based therapy used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).