Paula McMillan-Perez is a LCSW is a first-generation Afro-Caribbean Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Social Work Systems & Workflow Strategist, and is the Host of the “Why Don’t We Talk About This?” Podcast. She has been in the field for over 10 years with a diverse area of expertise. Paula has served all age groups with practice specializations in Anxiety, ADHD, forensic social work, school social work, and trauma-informed practices as well as admin specialization in quality improvement and systems/workflow streamlining for mental health clinicians.

Additionally, Paula was one of several dynamic co-authors of the bestseller Latinx in Social Work: Stories that Heal, Inspire and Connect Communities, Vol I. She takes great pride in supporting the education and development of our next generation of social workers into the greatest helping profession.

Instagram:

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Website:

Personalize Your Coaching, LLC

Books:

Latinx in Social Work: Vol. 1

Latinx/e in Social Work: Vol. 2

Blanca Sanchez-Navarro is a Psychotherapist and Mental Health Speaker who has been a therapist & presenter/trainer for 30 years and is passionate about helping people and imparting a message of personal power to change and grow every day and at any point in their life.

The Lacuna - By Kingsolver, Barbara

A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

https://www.blancacounseling.com/

Rebecca Guidera is a Boulder-based somatic therapist & coach. She is trained in perinatal mental health, EMDR, and Somatic Sex Therapy Training for Counselors, and she supports her clients with compassion, directness, and playfulness and their connection with body image, sexual and gender identities, intimacy, and relational dynamics, through Liminality which means the transition from one place to the next…

Poly Secure by Jessica Fern

https://www.amazon.com/Polysecure-Attachment-Trauma-Consensual-Nonmonogamy/dp/B08L6XNM9L/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18WI1194GXHPN&keywords=polysecure&qid=1678184609&sprefix=polysecur%2Caps%2C287&sr=8-1

The Alchemist

https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005/ref=sr_1_1?crid=32L2FB0IWRWM6&keywords=the+alchemist&qid=1678184770&sprefix=the+alchemis%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1

https://www.rebeccaguidera.com/

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Tony Burne lives and works in Taranaki, New Zealand and has been involved in social services for over 20 years running a private practice in New Plymouth. Tony works with adults, trauma, abuse, family harm, couples work and brief intervention.  He is registered as a drug and alcohol clinician, has a strong background in mental health and is also qualified in clinical hypnotherapy, which he mainly uses with trauma.

Book: Breaking the habit of being yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza

You can contact Tony here:

https://x-roads.co.nz/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/counselling/xroads-counselling--new-plymouth-tk/977375

In the second part of this incredible interview, we discuss horses and autism, we go deeper into clean language and metaphors, and their usage in business and leadership, emergence, the troubles in Myanmar, 5th division English rugby and flow state, Manchester United & Scottish rugby, culture and teams, suppressed emotions, chicken and egg problems and solutions and transurfing.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/walkingwithyourshadow

Books: Alan Eastwood: Belonging

John Farrell Part 1 - Part 2 is next week. 

Discussing clean language in therapy - meditation, growth and contribution in the world, tran-surfing and more…

John has been a coach for 20 years, mostly within the UK business environment and has lived and worked in several different continents, Europe, America, Asia and Australia, mostly in management, sales training and leading companies locally and internationally. John spent eight years training in the UK training for his NLP masters and then two years working with the developer of Clean Language and pioneer of Emergent Knowledge therapy. He has been working in Myanmar as it opened to the world after 50 years of dictatorship, and in the last few months, as the country descended into civil war, he’s been dealing with PTSD in the general public.

A man definitely at the front line in world of mental health!

Jessica Clark is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker working in the California Correctional System. She is an outdoor adventurer and dog mom to a 12-year-old Labrador retriever, helping clients reconnect with their values and focus their energy on them. She helps them connect their thoughts, feelings, and emotions and how those impact and influence their own behaviours.

Fave therapy book: Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings - Paul Ekman

https://www.amazon.com/Emotions-Revealed-Second-Recognizing-Communication/dp/0805083391/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ML7F604HZ4J4&keywords=emotions+revealed&qid=1675769835&sprefix=emotions+reveale%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1

Top Tip: Get adequate sleep

Joke: Why is Pavlov’s hair so shiny? Because he conditions it

Web: JessicaClarkTherapyServices.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JessLCSW13

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jclarklcsw/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicaclarklcsw/

Email: [email protected]

Barbara Gustavson is the founder of Discover Next Step and partners with Dr Daniel Amen as Program Director of the Brain Health Licensed Trainer Course at Amen University, helping individuals and organizations integrate brain-based strategies into their work and life. Having spent 11 years in Consulting, Coaching & Leadership and 25 years in Business Management, Barbara’s mission is to share new ways to think, see, respond, and engage so that leaders can set their Inner Bold in motion.

She is the author of Permission to be BOLD: A Guide to Loving Yourself, Living Fully, and Leaving Your Mark in the World - and hosts the Inner Bold Podcast and online events such as her latest Inner Rebellion series.

You can download your own flywheel and connect with Barbara directly by clicking here: DOWNLOAD FLYWHEEL.

Marion Ehrenberg is a psychologist, educator, and writer living on the West Coast of Canada.

She completed her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Simon Fraser University and landed a faculty position at the University of Victoria after a residency year in Ontario. Marion spent many rewarding years as a professor focused on training clinical psychologists. She has offered psychological assessment and psychotherapy services in her private practice for over thirty years. Marion is passionate about mental health awareness, de-stigmatizing mental illness and suicide, engaging awareness and compassion, and finding new ways to help.

And crucially she has a very interesting book that we’re going to be discussing in the show called: The Language of Dreams

Jackie Lynott is a clinical social worker practising therapy in Maryland. She is a trauma-focused therapist and uses EMDR, CBT, and motivational interviewing techniques to help clients build strengths and address the ways their history impacts their current life. She has worked with clients from all walks of life, but tends to focus on teens and adults, and works regularly with members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Her favourite therapy book is The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog by Dr. Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz

Her favourite non-therapy book is The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

She can be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected]