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  • Talking Heads: Using Talking Intentionally in the Therapy Space

    Have you ever had that client that “talks at you,” or noticed you yourself “talking at the client?” Do you ever wonder if words in the therapy room may not be the most optimal for healing? Abby and Kellee spend this episode exploring how “talking”, a left brain skill, must be used intentionally to heal our clients. 

    Topics Touched on:
    World Association of Sandtray Therapy Professionals (WASP): https://worldsandtherapy.com
    Lorraine Freedle: http://lorrainefreedle.com/sandplay-therapy/
    Dan Siegel: https://drdansiegel.com
    Bonnie Badenoch: https://www.nurturingtheheart.com
    The Development of a Therapist. Healing Others. Healing Self: Louis Cozolino-https://www.amazon.com/Development-Therapist-Healing-Others-Self/dp/0393713954
    Marshall Lyles: https://www.marshalllyles.com
    Paris Goodyear-Brown: https://www.parisgoodyearbrown.com
    Iain McGilchrist: https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Things-Brains-Delusions-Unmaking-ebook/dp/B09KY5B3QL

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    20 min
  • The Financial Dilemma: A Therapist Journey

    Get ready to talk about money! How do we decide our rates? Abby and Kellee explore their personal relationship with money, and how this impacts their relationship with money as private practice owners. While Kellee and Abby focus this episode on those who have private practices the episode encourages all therapists to become aware of their own relationship with money, and how this lives inside their bodies, their epigenetic story. 

    Topics Touched on:
    Robyn Mourning: https://www.ominiralabs.com
    Dr. Bukky: https://myrelationshiphq.com
    Talking about Race with Dr. Bukky Kolawole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc8b0I36WeQ&t=2003s

    Abby’s contact for EMDR consultation:
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    Kellee’s contact for EMDR consultation: https://anchorcounselingco.com

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    25 min
  • The Uninspired Therapist

    What’s a therapist to do when they feel uninspired? Abby and Kellee use the parallel process of the podcast and being a therapist as they explore the experience of being uninspired. How do we show up for clients when we feel uninspired? Can we trust in our clients’ own process that they will come to therapy inspired and our role is to simply follow them, be with them? 

    Topics Touched on:
    Jaak Panksepp: https://www.asdn.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Motivated-Brain-Excerpt-pgs.pdf
    John O'Donohue: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39025796-walking-in-wonder
    Marshall Lyles: https://www.marshalllyles.com
    Robyn Gobbel: https://robyngobbel.com

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    26 min
  • Grief. Not Just a One Time Topic

    Abby and Kellee touch on grief, and the ways it shows up for therapists in the field. They share the need to welcome grief again and again; it cannot be box that is just “checked off.” Abby and Kellee explore ways to set boundaries as therapists navigate the hard work they do in this field. 

    Topics Touched on:
    Michael Pollan- https://michaelpollan.com
    Kate Bowler- https://katebowler.com

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    24 min
  • Season THREE: Welcoming Clients Back

    Abby and Kellee welcome veteran and new listeners to season 3! They share hopes for season 3, and then move into using the parallel process of welcoming clients into our space for the first time, third time, or 100th time. They challenge listeners to be reflective on how listeners show up for their clients when welcoming them for an intake, after a brief pause, after a rupture, after a planned break, and many more examples

    Topics Touched on:
    Circle of Security: https://www.circleofsecurityinternational.com

    Upcoming Coffee and Chat (2.10.22 6pmMST) 
    Pandemic Parenting: The Alliteration We Didn’t Ask For
    Link to purchase ($11) on the website 

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    20 min
  • Process Over Content

    Abby and Kellee say goodbye to season two this episode. As they reflect on their own process, they move into exploring process over content within the therapy space. Why would we want to focus more on process over content? What cues let you know you or the client are avoiding processing? How do we move clients into processing when they are heavily guarded? 

    Topics Touched on:
    The Keep Going Song- The Bengons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs-ju_L9pEQ
    Epigenetics: Hope and Attachment: https://wholetherapistinstitute.com/store/
    Circle of Security: https://www.circleofsecurityinternational.com
    IG: Teletherapist.network: https://teletherapistnetwork.com
    Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet:
    https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Rainer-Maria-Rilke/dp/0393310396

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    27 min
  • Daydreaming About a New Career

    Abby and Kellee are beginning to wrap up season two and find themselves recording in a rather silly mood. If you are looking for lightness, laughter, and vulnerability join Abby and Kellee as they explore what their careers would be if they weren’t therapists. Of course, they tie in how this relates to our own security and connectedness to our therapist identity. 

    Topics Touched on:
    Rick Hanson- Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/buddhas-brain-the-practical-neuroscience-of-happiness-love-and-wisdom_daniel-j-siegel_rick-hanson/

    Frank Wilczek: https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/frank-wilczek/

    Dr. Dan Siegel- https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/blogs/understanding-and-working-with-the-window-of-tolerance

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    16 min
  • Leaning into Dissociation

    Get ready to ground into this episode as Kellee and Abby explore dissociation. They talk about dissociations being on a continuum, a natural, and normal part of all our lives. They also discuss the brilliance in the body dissociating after trauma and encourage therapist to lean it not run away. Abby and Kellee end the episode offering basic strategies therapists can use to support clients with dissociation in and outside of session. 

    Topics Touched on:
    Janina Fisher: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/healing-the-fragmented-selves-of-trauma-survivors-overcoming-internal-self-alienation_janina-fisher/13534321/?resultid=a934f9b1-41d6-4aab-9c3d-a871b62be645#edition=13201579&idiq=26946741

    Bonnie Badenoch: https://www.nurturingtheheart.com

    Dr. Dan Siegel- https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/blogs/understanding-and-working-with-the-window-of-tolerance

    EMDR Tool Box: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/emdr-toolbox-theory-and-treatment-of-complex-ptsd-and-dissociation_james-knipe/13872979/?resultid=6c3a512d-cefe-4b6d-ae7c-b76da9005609#edition=20900482&idiq=29968511

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    29 min
  • Curiosity in the Therapy Space

    Abby and Kellee talk about curiosity in the therapy room from an IPNB perspective. They explore how compassionate and respectful curiosity looks and feels different in the therapy space versus curiosity where we have an agenda; a path we are wanting to follow. Abby and Kellee go on to discuss how we must know we don’t know something to truly be curious with our clients in the therapy space. 

    Topics Touched on:

    Yalom: https://www.yalom.com

    Hold Me Tight: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2153780.Hold_Me_Tight

    Circle of Security: https://www.circleofsecurityinternational.com

    Bonnie Badenoch: https://www.nurturingtheheart.com

    Dr. Dan Siegle- https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/blogs/understanding-and-working-with-the-window-of-tolerance

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    26 min
  • Growing Clinical Self-Confidence

    Have you ever found yourself in a season reaching too far, too fast, too soon regarding a clinical skill or training? Have you worked in a setting where there wasn’t space for a learning curve, or tolerable doses of new clinical skills?  Using a plant analogy Abby and Kellee explore the impact of reaching too far, too fast, too soon with trainings, with clients, and with supervisees

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    17 min

About The Whole Therapist

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Leaving the theorizing out and exploring this strange phenomenon of being a human and a therapist. Abby and Kellee explore the embodied experience of neuroscience and authenticity in the therapy room.

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