Therapists Next Door

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

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Episode summary: Johanna explores bathrooms. Sarah picks leaves. They both discuss the possibilities of becoming a cheesemonger and the history of college mental health. Guest, Yuliya Golubev, talks about working with the college population and so much more!

Guest Bio: Yuliya Golubev is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York. She is a seasoned bilingual-bicultural psychotherapist who has been seeing clients for over 14 years. She has been running her private practice since 2017. Prior to starting her private practice, Yuliya worked with a diverse set of clients in a variety of clinical settings: college counseling, outpatient substance abuse program, crisis call center, and hospitals.  Yuliya also provided a spectrum of clinical services: individual, group, family therapies, crisis intervention, and supervision. 

Yuliya is passionate about professional advocacy and teaching. She served one term as the Professional Development Chair and Vice President for the NYC Chapter of the New York Mental Health Counseling Association. Yuliya is a part-time adjunct Professor at St. Francis College. She teaches undergraduate classes of General Psychology and Child and Adolescent Developmental.

Yuliya also enjoys volunteering to decrease the stigma of mental health. 

Yuliya lives with her family in Brooklyn. When not in the office, she enjoys discovering new hiking trails, strolling NYC neighborhoods, going to the theater, and trying new recipes.

Resources: Abortion Resources; “Don’t hesitate to reach out to [college] counseling centers”; Yuliya’s Website

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

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Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas.

TW: Mention of Suicide, Chronic pain, infertility and medical racism.

Episode summary: Johanna plays a new instrument. Sarah gardens. They both discuss what their “heat anger”. Guest, Anyana Ali, talks about working with women of color, racism and anxiety, infertility and pregnancy loss, experiences with medical racism and so much more!

Guest Bio: Ayana Ali is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Coach with 22 years of professional experience. Having worked with a diverse client population and in a variety of settings, she now specializes in the treatment of women living with debilitating anxiety. Ayana also works intensively with women suffering from the trauma experienced as a result of infertility and pregnancy loss. She is committed to providing a safe space for women not only to grow in, but to heal and thrive in as well.

Resources: Abortion Resources; CDC information on Racism and Health; Organizations like Black Women’s Blueprint; Ayana’s website

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Mention of Suicide, Chronic pain, infertility and medical racism. 

Episode summary: Johanna plays a new instrument. Sarah gardens. They both discuss what their “heat anger”. Guest, Anyana Ali, talks about working with women of color, racism and anxiety, infertility and pregnancy loss, experiences with medical racism and so much more!

Guest Bio: Ayana Ali is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Coach with 22 years of professional experience. Having worked with a diverse client population and in a variety of settings, she now specializes in the treatment of  women living with debilitating anxiety.  Ayana also works intensively with women suffering from the trauma experienced as a result of infertility and pregnancy loss.  She is committed to providing a safe space for women not only to grow in, but to heal and thrive in as well.

Resources: Abortion Resources; CDC information on Racism and Health; Organizations like Black Women’s Blueprint; Ayana’s website  

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Or visit our website: 

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: None

Episode summary: Johanna plays a lot of D&D. Sarah has a gathering. They both discuss the history of online and distance therapy. Guest, Dr. Nikki Lacherza-Drew, talks about reading books, providing telehealth before, during and after the pandemic, insurance and social justice and so much more!

Guest Bio: Dr. Nikki is a Licensed Psychologist and telehealth private practice owner. She is physically located in NJ, and provides mental health services to individuals throughout NJ, NY, FL, and VT. Dr. Nikki sees children, teens, and adults with a variety of mental health-related symptoms and diagnoses. Outside of the therapy room, she teaches undergraduate and graduate psychology courses. Dr. Nikki is a bookworm at heart, and dog mom. In her free time, you can find her with her nose in a book and spending time with her husband and two furbabies.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: The History of Online Therapy by Joseph Rauch via talkspace.com

Resources: Abortion Resources; Ask questions; Clinicians - stay connected with local organizations; Dr. Nikki’s Instagram and Website.

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Or visit our website: 

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Criminalization, abuse and neglect of the mentally ill

Episode summary: Johanna has an interesting encounter. Sarah plants a garden. They both discuss the history of community mental health. Guest, Kathy Dickson, talks about being a clinical director, supporting therapists within the community mental health system and so much more!

Guest Bio: Kathy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked in mental health since the 90's, specializing in trauma, especially in children and adolescents. Kathy is currently the Clinic Director of a community mental health center. Kathy also has a podcast discussing pop culture and mental health. She's a wife, a dance mom and her cat tolerates her. She has an extensive collection of Wonder Woman paraphernalia, loves crafting, spooky stuff and rhinos.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: University of North Dakota via onlinedegrees.und.edu; “Lessons learned in developing community mental health care in North America” by Robert E. Drake and Eric Latimer via National Library of Medicine; “The History of Community Mental Health Care” Shannon Bradford via Chicago Policy Review; “Chlorpromazine, the first antipsychotic medication: history, controversy and legacy” by Peter Haddad, Robert Kirk and Richard Green via British Association for Psychopharmacology 

Resources: Abortion Resources; Mental Mages Podcast, Facebook, Instagram; 211 is the national number for Mental Health Services

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Discrimination against fat people, BI&POC

Episode summary: Johanna makes her labor playlists. Sarah changes her morning routines. They both discuss the history of the fat acceptance movement. Guest, Emily Richman, talks about how a background in performance has impacted her therapy practice, crying during therapy, anti-fat bias in healthcare and so much more!

Guest Bio: Emily Richman is a counselor, artist, and speaker working in Eastern Washington State on the unceded land of the Yakama, Palouse, Walla Walla, and Cayuse people. She is an anti-diet fat liberationist and works with clients to heal trauma, set boundaries, and find an authentic way of living within systems of oppression. She also seeks to connect with others through her first love of theatre, and her newer outlets of stand up comedy and visual art.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: “The Rebellious History of the Fat Acceptance Movement” by Linda Gerhardt; How Fatphobia is Rooted in Racism and is a Social Justice Issue via thepangeanetwork.org; “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings

Resources: Abortion Resources; “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat” by Aubrey Gordon; “Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia” by Sabrina Strings; Maintenance Phase Podcast; joyn.co; emilyrichman.com; Emily’s teepublic page

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Reproductive Rights, mention of generational, family and collective trauma

Episode summary: Johanna purchases candy. Sarah sustains. They both discuss recent news about reproductive rights and the history of psychodrama and experiential family therapy. Guest, Karen Carnabucci, talks about psychodrama, tarot, family constellation therapy and so much more!

Guest Bio: Karen Carnabucci, MSS, LCSW, TEP, has a lot of letters after her name! She is a licensed clinical social worker; a nationally board-certified trainer, educator and practitioner in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy and the founder of the Lancaster School of Psychodrama and Experiential Psychotherapies in Lancaster, Pa.

She also practices and teaches Family and Systemic Constellations and most recently was part of the team organizing the 2022 national conference of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama. Professionally she enjoys mentoring younger helping and healing professionals and passing on knowledge she has learned from her own mentors and teachers.

She’s also a career changer, author, Tarot teacher, gardener, and yard sale and thrifting enthusiast, and is interested in creativity and cute cat videos.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: “A brief history of psychodrama” from Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama; psychologytoday.com; wikipedia.org; American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama; carlwhitakerhome.wordpress.com

Resources: Abortion Resources; asgpp.org; psychodramacertification.org; Karen’s Youtube Channel; realtruekaren.com

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Mention of working with traumatized clients

Episode summary: Johanna hates the stairs. Sarah sips and paints. They both discuss the history of EMDR and Art therapy. Guest, Jocelyn Fitzgerald, talks about art therapy and EMDR, group psychotherapy, creativity and so much more!

Guest Bio: As a board-certified art therapist and an EMDR* therapy consultant with a thriving therapy practice, Jocelyn helps her clients and workshop participants work through past trauma using a combination of art therapy and EMDR. Jocelyn directs her clients to tap into their own creativity and healing.

Empowering youth is one of Jocelyn’s greatest passions. She ran a variety of healing-centered group art projects and led guided visualizations on creativity with schools and nonprofits. One of her most transformative experiences centered around training paraprofessionals to help traumatized Eritrean youths in an Ethiopian refugee camp recover using art therapy. Amid the pandemic to help kids find calm using mindfulness and art, Jocelyn coauthored and illustrated “Colorful Place: Mindful Story and Art,” a Kindle bestseller. She co-edited and wrote a chapter for EMDR Creative Art Therapies, a pioneering textbook exploring the healing power when creative art therapy and EMDR are integrated; Routledge is releasing the book summer 2022. A clinical supervisor, Jocelyn also creates art tools that teach mental health concepts, distributed through her Etsy shop, Colorful Therapy Tools.

When she’s not working or creating art, you can find Jocelyn hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest mountains or enjoying dance parties with her little family.

*EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. 

Sources for today’s History Lesson: EMDR Institute Inc, emdr.com; wikipedia.org; adelphipsych.sg

Resources: Window of Tolerance by Dan Siegel; jocelynfitzgerald.com; breatheartcalm.com; Jocelyn’s Etsy Store at Colorful Therapy Tools

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Where can you find Sarah and Johanna:

Sarah: website; blog; etsy shop; instagram

Johanna: website; instagram

Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: Mention of Suicide and Self Harm, Gross Foods

Episode summary: Johanna gives her opinion on musical theater. Sarah waits to see if she will get sick. They both discuss disgusting food they have eaten and the history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). No guest this week! Johanna and Sarah talk about the changes to the new DSM-V-TR.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: “A brief historicity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Issues and implications for the future of psychiatric canon and practice” by Shadia Kawa and James Giordano; “DSM: A History of Psychiatry’s Bible” by Allan Horwitz

Sources for today’s Episode: “What the New DSM-5 Updates Could mean for Your Mental Health” by Taneasha White for PsychCentral.com; “Impact of Culture, Race, Social Determinants Reflected Throughout New DSM-5-TR” by Mark Morgan for psychaitriconline.org; “Facts About DSM-5-TR” from psychiatriconline.org

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Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas. 

TW: None

Episode summary: Johanna watches wizards. Sarah no longer uses paper towels. They both discuss the history and diagnosis of selective mutism. Guest, Stephen Quinlan, talks about his journey as a therapist, building his practice and so much more!

Guest Bio: Stephen has spent more than 20 years as a therapist. He started out his career in New York City where he worked in the East Harlem housing projects for 5 years. It was an extremely difficult environment.  There were shootings, poverty, drugs, and unimaginable suffering all around.  But he learned a lot about himself as a therapist there. He learned that he was good at connecting with children and teenagers. He learned that he was good at thinking outside of the box on how to help people. Perhaps most importantly though, he learned that there was only so much trauma he could expose himself to and not be profoundly affected by it.  As he and his new wife moved to greener pastures in New Hampshire in 2005, he found himself hoping that a change in scenery and the kind of clients that he would be working with would help him to avoid some of those nagging feelings that he had been having around his career choice. How would this be sustainable? Could he really continue to do this kind of intense work for the rest of his life? What if he made some kind of a mistake getting into this field? He knew he had to turn things around. 

Today he works with clients that he loves, his job as a therapist takes about 15 hours a week, and his income is six figures every year. He gets to spend his free time taking care of himself and working on side projects such as coaching other therapists, his podcast, and writing books.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: Selective Mutism: A Review of Etiology, Comorbidities, and Treatment by Priscilla Wong, MD; wikipedia.org;

Resources: “Self care doesn’t have to cost money.”

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