The NAMI Radio Hour

By NAMI Tennessee

What's The NAMI Radio Hour about?

The NAMI Radio Hour features conversations with guests weekly exploring the topic of mental health, mental illness and recovery. The show is live Wednesdays at 10 AM CST on www.radiofreenashville.org or podcast on PodOmatic. The NAMI Radio Hour is hosted by Jeff Fladen, MSW, Executive Director of NAMI Tennessee.

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The NAMI Radio Hour episodes:

03.08.2019
Ketamine: Treatment for Depression
This episode of the NAMI Radio Hour features Clint Fletcher, CRNA and owner of Complete Ketamine, located in Brentwood, Tennessee. Clint opened Complete Ketamine Solutions in Sept 2018. He tells us about Ketamine and how he has administered treatments...
02.18.2019
NAMI Radio Hour Presents: In Our Own Voice with Lori Branigan
NAMI In Our Own Voice presentations change attitudes, assumptions and ideas about people with mental health conditions. These free minute presentations provide a personal perspective of mental health conditions, as leaders such as our guest, Lori Branigan talks openly about what...
02.09.2019
Developing Healthy Brains: Early Child Well-Being/Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) with TCCY Jennifer Drake-Croft, Director of Early Childhood Well Being
Jennifer Drake-Croft, MSSW | Director of Early Childhood Well Being Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) is the guest on this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour. TCCY has intensified its advocacy of and collaboration for Early Child...
02.03.2019
Peers and Recovery: Dave Hodges and the Lifeline program
Vic Moore is guest host on this episode with guest Dave Hodges from the Tennessee Peer Lifeline program. Originally broadcast in 2015, this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour looks at peer involvement with recovery. The Tennessee Lifeline Peer...
01.27.2019
Tony Cowan on NAMI affiliates, caregiving, and advocacy.
Social worker, NAMI member, and mental health advocate, Tony Cowan in relatively new to the NAMI world but he has been working to help people for many years both personally and professionally. He shares his story as a care giver...
01.19.2019
Advocacy, MH Parity, and CIT with Jake Coffey, MPH, MA Director of Advocacy and Planning for NAMI Tennessee
This podcast features Jake Coffey, MPH, MA, Director of Advocacy and Planning for NAMI Tennessee discussing NAMI's role with advocacy. Learn about NAMI Tennessee's efforts with Mental Health and Addiction parity, efforts to expand and enhance CIT (Critical Incident Training)...
01.17.2019
Learn about peer support with Certified Peer Support Specialists Marta B. Hernandez and Paul Fontenot
Marta B. Hernandez is Supervisor at Turning Point Peer Support Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She is joined in the Radio Free Nashville studio by her husband Paul Fontenot who is also a Certified Peer Support Specialist and clergy member. The...
11.19.2018
Introducing In Our Own Voice, a NAMI program for mental health awareness and stigma reduction
Bonnie Hyler, Coordinator of In Our Own Voice for NAMI Tennessee and Denise Stewart, NAMI TN Volunteer Education Coordinator appear on the NAMI Radio Hour to discuss the NAMI In Our Own voice and upcoming presenter training now scheduled for...
11.07.2018
Expanding Medicaid in Tennessee
Mary Falls and Sally Smallwood have been championing Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee for several years. Hear how grassroots advocates are making a difference and why hope for Medicaid expansion in our state stays alive. Original broadcast 10/24/18 on WRFN,...
05.01.2018
Beauty and the Brain: Music and Mental Health Awareness Showcase
Preview of Beauty and the Brain Beauty and the Brain is a musical event hosted by Jay and Jeshiqua White to raise awareness of mental illness. The event gathers a group of powerful artists voices on stage to spread...
04.19.2018
Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro on Mental Health, Religion, Meditation and Spirituality
Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro, commonly called "Rabbi Rami", is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker on the subjects of liberal Judaism and contemporary spirituality. He joins NAMI Tennessee Executive Director Jeff Fladen on the NAMI Radio Hour to explore paths...
04.15.2018
Learning About Art Therapy with Brianne Burgoon, President, TATA
Brianne Burgoon, M.Ed., ATR, RYT-200 President,Tennessee Art Therapy Association (TATA) visits with Jeff Fladen to discuss art therapy and its role in our mental health treatment system.
04.04.2018
Learning About Support Animals with Brenda Dew
In this episode of the NAMI Radio Hour, we learn about service animals. After retiring from a career of teaching and counseling, Brenda Dew, Ph.D., began working with pet therapy and training of service dogs with Retrieving Independence in Tennessee. Learn...
03.18.2018
Telemedicine and the Future of Psychotherapy
Tom Hunter, CEO of iHope Network, joins NAMI Executive Director, Jeff Fladen, to discuss telemedicine and its use as in psychotherapy over the internet. Is this the future of psychotherapy?
03.06.2018
Resources for Disability
In this episode, NAMI TN Director Jeff Fladen visits with Megan Hart and Cecilia Melo-Romieof Tennessee Disability Pathfinder. Tennessee Disability Pathfinder is a statewide, comprehensive information and referral for services and resources for all types of disabilities and all ages. Pathfinder...
02.14.2018
Kelly Dorsey on Peers, Recovery, and Self Care
Kelly Dorsey is an employee of the Volunteer State Health Plan/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee and a licensed massage therapist. She will be sharing "Her story it's, my story, it's our story" which chronicles her journey toward recovery and...
02.14.2018
What happens at a community mental health center with psychotherapist Richard Gillespie
For many, it can be confusing to understand what happens behind the doors of a community mental health center. Richard Gillespie, LMFT is a psychotherapist and marriage and family therapist with Mental Health Co-op in Cookeville, Tennessee. He joined NAMI...
01.26.2018
NAMI Radio Hour: Grassroots advocacy and the NAMI Basics Class with Holly Burrow and Clenetta Perry
Holly Burrow and Clenetta Perry are two mothers of children with disabilities. Listen as they share how they learned to become grassroots advocates in rural America. Hear two mothers talk about their grassroots advocacy as they learn how to raise...
01.19.2018
Lisa Ragan on the NAMI Radio Hour: What is Peer Support?
Peer support programs provide an opportunity for consumers who have achieved significant recovery to assist others in their recovery journeys. Peer specialists model recovery, teach skills and offer supports to help people experiencing mental health challenges lead meaningful lives in...
01.19.2018
Mental Illness and Correction Reform
Legislators, law enforcement, and mental health advocates including NAMI have been concerned about the number of persons with mental illness who end up in our jails an prisons. On this episode, Jeff Fladen, NAMI Tennessee Executive Director looks at corrections...
11.18.2017
Sally Reid: Coaching Your Truth
NAMI Radio Hour guest Sally Reid, author of the "Finding Health, Finding Truth," shares her approach to healing. She describes her work as her work as "a customized blend of Intuitive reading, spirit guided quantum level healing, coaching and teaching...
11.03.2017
NAMI Radio Hour: Michelle Chalfant "The Adult Chair" an approach to healing
Nashville coach and psychotherapist Michelle Chalfant explains the Adult Chair, a model that is a psychological understanding of our three primary selves, the inner child, the adolescent, and the adult. The goal of the Adult Chair approach is to lead...
10.27.2017
On the NAMI Radio Hour: Linda Manning of the Vanderbilt Osher Center
Linda Manning, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and currently serves at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Vanderbilt. As a clinical psychologist she provides mind-body therapy and integrative health consultations for adults who...
09.19.2017
Life Coach and Hypnotist Steve Roehm in the studio on the NAMI Radio Hour
Steve Roehm is a Master Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner, and Life Coach. This show looks at hypnosis and how it helps people with personal problems and issues including smoking cessation, weight loss, and much more, sometimes as quickly as in...
09.19.2017
NAMI Radio Explores Acupuncture and Mental Health
The NAMI Radio Hour explores acupuncture as a treatment for symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety or depression. Our guest, Sepideh Kohanim is a Licensed Acupuncturist who holds a Master's of Science degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She...
09.05.2017
Child Abuse, ACES, and Mental Illness Prevention
Trevor Crowder, M.A., Regional Program Manager, Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee discusses the importance of developing healthy brains through the work of child abuse prevention and education.
08.31.2017
Alternative Ways to Heal: Elysabeth Benedict on Cranial-Sacral, Emotions, and Health
Elysabeth Benedict holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy from the University of Tennessee and is credentialed as a massage therapist through the International Professional School of Bodywork. Originally broadcast 8/9/17 on the NAMI Radio Hour hosted by NAMI...
05.17.2017
Jason DeShaw and Jill's Veranda
Preview of the live filming of Jason DeShaw for Swedish TV show Jill's Veranda which takes place May 24 in Nashville. Contact [email protected] for free exclusive tickets to the concert/filming. Hear the story of Doug Seegers from last visit of...
11.15.2016
Mental Illness and our Veterans: Introducing NAMI Homefront
Many of our warriors come back from their service with mental illness. While many recover others continue to struggle which take an immense toll on the veteran as well as their families and caregivers. NAMI Homefront is a peer taught...
11.15.2016
Former Tennessee Titan Gerald McRath talks about his journey through a mental illness and recovery
Former Tennessee Titan, Gerald McRath is interviewed by NAMI Tennessee Executive Director, Jeff Fladen, on the NAMI Radio Hour, a weekly radio show that examines mental illness and recovery.
11.07.2016
Nashville Rapper & Mental Health Advocate Amarii Davu
Nashville Rapper & Mental Health Advocate Amarii Davu joins host and Director of NAMI Tennessee, Jeff Fladen, in the studio. We hear his track "Helpless" and why Davu speaks out on this important issue.
11.02.2016
Vista Point's Darlene Kemp and Special Needs Trust
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS ABOUT A MINUTE AT THE BEGINNING OF A PREVIOUS SHOW. STAY TUNED TO LEARN ABOUT SPECIAL NEEDS TRUST. What is a Special Needs Trust? What assets can be protected when government benefits are needed...
10.19.2016
NAMI TN Prez Leslie El-Sayad visits the NAMI Radio Hour
NAMI Tennessee President Leslie El-Sayad is in the studio for a wide ranging discussion about NAMI, mental illness, and recovery.
10.30.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 10/21/15 First Psychotic Episode Advancement
NAMI Tennessee Executive Director discusses new research findings of how to better treat a first psychotic episode.
10.17.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 10/14/15 with Amber McDonald
NAMI Radio welcomes guest Amber McDonald to the Radio Free Nashville studio. McDonald is the Director of Government and External Affairs for the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board where she works with 911. She is also an active board member with...
08.06.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 8/5/15 Wellness with Carrie Churchill
Carrie Churchill is the owner of Back in Touch Wellness Center, located in Nashville, Tennessee. Churchill discusses non-traditional approaches to help reduce symptoms of mental illness including Intuitive Counseling, energy work, acupuncture, nutrition, and essenetial oils.
07.22.2015
NAMI Radio Hour - Basics Parent Education
NAMI Basics Education Program is a signature education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illnesses. The NAMI Basics course is taught by trained teachers who are the parent or caregiver of individuals who...
07.18.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 7/15/15 The NAMI Family Perspective
Vicky and Russell Rowland join host Jeff Fladen on the NAMI Radio Hour to discuss mental illness from the family perspectives. The Rowlands are NAMI With Hope in Mind teachers and are leaders with their local affiliate, NAMI Dickson in...
07.01.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 7/2/15 with Daisy Jabas and Amy Ross of DBSA Tennessee
Join Daisy Jabas, State Director of Depression Bipolar Support Alliance, (DBSA) Tennessee and Amy Ross, Chapter Leader of DBSA Franklin on the NAMI Radio Hour Podcast. DBSA works to improve the lives of those who live with depression(bipolar) through...
06.25.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 6/24/15 Adam Graham discusses psychiatric emergancies
Adam Graham, LPC/MHSP, Supervisor of Emergency Psychiatric Diversion Services at Mental Health Cooperative in Nashville is this week's guest on the NAMI Radio Hour. Join guest hosts Vik Moore and Roger Stewart as we discuss steps that can be taken...
06.17.2015
NAMI Radio Hour June 17 "What is a Family Support Specialist?" with Wendy Sullivan, Tennessee Voices for Children, and Roger Stewart, NAMI Tennessee
Wendy Sullivan from Tennessee Voices for Children joins Roger Stewart from NAMI Tennessee. Hear how to become a Family Support Specialist (FSS) and help families that have a child with mental illness.
06.10.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 6/10/15 CODE Movie Premier, Tom Insel, Murphy Act, and NAMI IOOV
This week, NAMI Tennessee Executive Director Jeff Fladen is alone on the mic. He shares recordings of the new NAMI TN mental illness in prison movie, CODE, which premiers June 18 at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville, Tom Insel's Ted...
06.03.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 6/3/2015 Mental Illness in Prison
This episode is about mental illness in prison. Mental Health Administrator and former NAMI Tennessee president Elliot Garrett discusses mental health treatment and correctional officer training within the Tennessee prison system. We explore CODE, the movie about mental illness in...
05.20.2015
NAMI Radio Hour with Lauren Ruth Martin - May 20, 2015
Lauren Ruth Martin is a therapist with Psychē PLLC, a boutique outpatient practice in Nashville, Tennessee specializing in unique customized CBT and DBT based treatments for adolescents and adults. Topics covered: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Environmental Interventions, Boot Camp for teens, and the...
05.11.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 5/6/2015 with Sexologist Steven Davidson
NAMI Radio Hour from 5/6/15 with Steven Davidson, licensed clinical social worker and certified sex therapist and host Jeff Fladen, NAMI Tennessee Executive Director.
04.29.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 4-29-15 Learn About Eating Disorders with Courtney Grimes
Learn about Eating Disorders with today's guest, Courtney Grimes, Private Practice Therapist and Clinical Director of the Eating Disorder Coalition of Tennessee recorded live on Radio Free Nashville with host Jeff Fladen, Executive Director of NAMI Tennessee.
04.23.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 4/22/2015 with Bishop William Young, Sr. Pastor and Dianne Young, Pastor of the Healing Center, Memphis Tennessee
Bishop William Young, Sr. Pastor and Dianne Young, Pastor of the Healing center in Tennessee discuss emotional wellness, spirituality, the Suicide and the Black Church and much more on the NAMI Radio Hour. Listen live Wednesday's at 10 AM CST...
04.16.2015
NAMI Radio Hour with Greg Bennett Of Centerstone ReConnect 4-15-15
Greg Bennett, Regional Coordinator with Centerstone ReConnect discusses his journey from addiction to becoming a helper of others.
04.09.2015
NAMI Radio Hour 4/8/2015 Marlie & Vik share about life with mental illness
Two courageous people talk about their mental illness from the days when symptoms first became apparent through their struggles to cope and recover. This is a rare opportunity to hear what life is really like living with severe mental illness.

What's The NAMI Radio Hour about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The NAMI Radio Hour episodes:

Ketamine: Treatment for Depression

NAMI Radio Hour Presents: In Our Own Voice with Lori Branigan

Developing Healthy Brains: Early Child Well-Being/Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) with TCCY Jennifer Drake-Croft, Director of Early Childhood Well Being

Peers and Recovery: Dave Hodges and the Lifeline program

Tony Cowan on NAMI affiliates, caregiving, and advocacy.

Advocacy, MH Parity, and CIT with Jake Coffey, MPH, MA Director of Advocacy and Planning for NAMI Tennessee

Learn about peer support with Certified Peer Support Specialists Marta B. Hernandez and Paul Fontenot

Introducing In Our Own Voice, a NAMI program for mental health awareness and stigma reduction

Expanding Medicaid in Tennessee

Beauty and the Brain: Music and Mental Health Awareness Showcase

Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro on Mental Health, Religion, Meditation and Spirituality

Learning About Art Therapy with Brianne Burgoon, President, TATA

Learning About Support Animals with Brenda Dew

Telemedicine and the Future of Psychotherapy

Resources for Disability

Kelly Dorsey on Peers, Recovery, and Self Care

What happens at a community mental health center with psychotherapist Richard Gillespie

NAMI Radio Hour: Grassroots advocacy and the NAMI Basics Class with Holly Burrow and Clenetta Perry

Lisa Ragan on the NAMI Radio Hour: What is Peer Support?

Mental Illness and Correction Reform

Sally Reid: Coaching Your Truth

NAMI Radio Hour: Michelle Chalfant "The Adult Chair" an approach to healing

On the NAMI Radio Hour: Linda Manning of the Vanderbilt Osher Center

Life Coach and Hypnotist Steve Roehm in the studio on the NAMI Radio Hour

NAMI Radio Explores Acupuncture and Mental Health

Child Abuse, ACES, and Mental Illness Prevention

Alternative Ways to Heal: Elysabeth Benedict on Cranial-Sacral, Emotions, and Health

Jason DeShaw and Jill's Veranda

Mental Illness and our Veterans: Introducing NAMI Homefront

Former Tennessee Titan Gerald McRath talks about his journey through a mental illness and recovery

Nashville Rapper & Mental Health Advocate Amarii Davu

Vista Point's Darlene Kemp and Special Needs Trust

NAMI TN Prez Leslie El-Sayad visits the NAMI Radio Hour

NAMI Radio Hour 10/21/15 First Psychotic Episode Advancement

NAMI Radio Hour 10/14/15 with Amber McDonald

NAMI Radio Hour 8/5/15 Wellness with Carrie Churchill

NAMI Radio Hour - Basics Parent Education

NAMI Radio Hour 7/15/15 The NAMI Family Perspective

NAMI Radio Hour 7/2/15 with Daisy Jabas and Amy Ross of DBSA Tennessee

NAMI Radio Hour 6/24/15 Adam Graham discusses psychiatric emergancies

NAMI Radio Hour June 17 "What is a Family Support Specialist?" with Wendy Sullivan, Tennessee Voices for Children, and Roger Stewart, NAMI Tennessee

NAMI Radio Hour 6/10/15 CODE Movie Premier, Tom Insel, Murphy Act, and NAMI IOOV

NAMI Radio Hour 6/3/2015 Mental Illness in Prison

NAMI Radio Hour with Lauren Ruth Martin - May 20, 2015

NAMI Radio Hour 5/6/2015 with Sexologist Steven Davidson

NAMI Radio Hour 4-29-15 Learn About Eating Disorders with Courtney Grimes

NAMI Radio Hour 4/22/2015 with Bishop William Young, Sr. Pastor and Dianne Young, Pastor of the Healing Center, Memphis Tennessee

NAMI Radio Hour with Greg Bennett Of Centerstone ReConnect 4-15-15

NAMI Radio Hour 4/8/2015 Marlie & Vik share about life with mental illness