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Join me for a deeper dive into Neurodiversity as social justice with Dr. Joel Schwartz, an ADHDer psychologist in from Total Spectrum Counselling. We explore how working from a strengths based model can free neurodivergent clients from shame and what each of us can do to help move the neurodiversity paradigm forward. Find out how ADHD may be linked to nomadic culture and how the social model of disability can shift therapists’ approach in ways that can unlock new, healthy paths for our clients. 

Dr. Joel Schwartz is a Clinical Psychologist at Total Spectrum Counseling and owner of Schwartz Neurodiversity Services. He provides therapy and psychological testing for the misunderstood. Dr. Joel goes the extra mile (or twelve) to understand and validate parts of clients they have deep shame about. This involves rediscovering deeply buried strengths and capacities and radically embracing differences. Joel also provides coaching, continuing education, and collaborative services around neurodiversity issues. 

Highlights

ADHD as Hunters in a Farmer’s World
How you can help advance social justice for neurodivergent individuals 
Neuroqueering spaces
Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
Social model of disability
How therapists may fail ADHDers
Ableism and the notion of earning our place in this world
The problem with SMART goals
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)

 Resources

Twitter: @drjoelschwartz
Linkedin: Joel Schwartz, PsyD
Dr. Joel Schwartz website https://totalspectrumcounseling.com/

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Neurodiversity Affirmative Therapists Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2219847184963504 

Schwartz Neurodiversity Services https://www.facebook.com/Schwartz-Neurodiversity-Services-105887057879420

Nick Walker on Neuroqueering Spaces https://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/

 Study about ADHD and Nomadic Tribesmen https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/06/ariaaltribe.html

Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM3azhiOy5E

 How to ADHD https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nPM1_kSZf91ZGkcgy_95Q

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I talk with dance movement therapist, Yael Beth-Halachmi M.A. DMT about parent-child dance therapy and how the power of the relationship may be the key to helping children move through their challenges.

Yael is a Dance Movement Therapist, specialized in Early Childhood and Infant-Parent Mental Health. Recently she has developed an intervention model for ‘Relational Dance-Therapy’ integrating Dance, Dance-Therapy and Dyadic (parent-child) Psychotherapy.   She has been working for many years with young children and their families dealing with developmental and emotional challenges, such as ASD, ADHD and anxiety.  Yael is also a mother of 3 boys, currently living and working in Montreal.

Highlights

• Integrating creative arts therapy and psychotherapy
• Viewing a parent-child interaction from a dancer’s lens
• What is parent-child dance therapy
• What does a relational dance therapy session look like
• The benefits of intervening in early childhood
• How video feedback can be used to improve parent-child mental health
• The various ways attention can look
• The advantage of a “pause”

Resources
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Yael's website https://www.yael-dancetherapy.com/

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In this episode, I talk to therapist, Tiffany McLain about charging premium fees and earning what you're worth in private practice.

Tiffany McLain, MFT is a therapist & consultant whose mantra is, “Full fees are the new black.” Via her program, The Lean In. MAKE BANK. Academy, she helps therapists in private practice overcome their shame about making bank so they can help the clients they are truly passionate about serving without sacrificing their own wellbeing. She’s been featured in Psychology Today Magazine, Psych Central, Huffington Post, KGO Radio, SF Weekly and Forbes. You can find out more by visiting www.heytiffany.com.

Highlights

• What therapists have been taught about setting fees
• The typical money mindset of a therapist
• What gets in the way of therapists charging premium fees
• The real reason many people offer sliding scale fees
• Whether therapists need to give back through their work
• The clinical implications of not addressing the elephant in the room

Resources
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Watch Tiffany's free masterclass- 4 Steps to Raise Your Fee (Guilt Free) where they cover 3 myths that keep therapists broke and how they can identify their unconscious money blocks in order to make bank while making an even bigger impact in the lives of the clients they are passionate about serving.

Link to Class: https://www.heytiffany.com/4-steps-to-raise-your-fees-masterclass-fifty-minutes/

Social media handles:
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FB: https://www.facebook.com/levelupwithtiffany/

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Ever struggle with imposter syndrome? Dr. Emee Vida Estacio shares her journey from self-doubt and perfectionism to a passion for helping others embrace their full potential. Emee describes her TLC technique for challenging your inner critic and how leveraging the PAME code can help people live life to the fullest.

Dr. Emee Vida Estacio is a chartered psychologist and Founder of the PAME Code. Her passion is to help people embrace their true worth, so they can live happy and fulfilling lives. Throughout her academic, coaching, and research career, she has worked closely with individuals and communities to unlock their full potential using simple and easy to apply methods for limitless success in life. She is the #1 best-selling author of the "Psychology in Your Life" book series, including titles such as "The Imposter Syndrome Remedy", "Change Your Life for Good", and "Fear is Not My Enemy". She is also now helping aspiring authors fulfill their lifelong ambition to write and publish their own books with her flagship course, "Self-Publishing Made Simple."

Highlights
What triggered Emee’s passion to help people embrace their true worth
The TLC Technique for challenging your inner critic
Leveraging Emee's PAME Code: Purpose, Action, Momentum, and Energy
Emee's self-publishing program
Reframing performance-interfering thoughts (PITs) as performance-enhancing (PETs)
Changing your relationship with your inner critic

Resources
Connect with Emee and & more info about her programs here:
https://thepamecode.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dr.E.V.Estacio
Facebook Group: http://thepamecode.com/facebook-group https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfpubmadesimple/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emeevida/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emee_estacio/
YouTube: http://tinyurl.com/dremeeyoutube

Emee's books are available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes
Book 1: Change Your Life for Good
Book 2: Imposter Syndrome Remedy
Book 3: Fear is Not my Enemy

Audiobooks:
https://thepamecode.com/audiobook

Print and Kindle versions:
https://thepamecode.com/book-store/

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Dr. Regine Galanti joins me to talk teen anxiety, how our teen clients have managed COVID, and how to engage to reluctant teens in mindfulness practices. Don’t miss Dr. Galanti’s top tips for managing back to school anxiety during COVID. We also discuss our favourite anxiety apps, why cognitive restructuring falls short, and how we are managing our own ethical dilemmas as we debate returning to face to face sessions.

Regine Galanti, PhD is a psychologist with expertise in OCD, Anxiety, Parenting, and Behavior Problems. She specializes in Cognitive Behavior Therapy, a type of short term, research supported therapy, that helps people change their thoughts and behaviors. Specifically, she uses Exposure Therapy to help people face their fears and improve their lives. She is the author of Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress.

Some Highlights
Self-care and teens
Giving your worries boundaries
When to seek help
When medication might be helpful
Apps for teen anxiety
Engaging teens in mindfulness
PANDAS and Body focused repetitive behaviours

Resources
Free Anxiety & Stress Reduction Handout here
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Dr. Regine Galanti twitter @reginegalanti
Dr. Regine Galanti tiktok @dr.galanti
Anxiety Relief for Teens: Essential CBT Skills and Mindfulness Practices to Overcome Anxiety and Stress
Long Island Behavioral Psychology clinic
Anxiety Canada Website

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Trauma specialist, Catherine Mogil PhD shares several key factors in promoting resilience in children and families. We explore how meaning making and finding purpose influence how families move through adversity including COVID 19. Hear how lessons learned from military families can be applied to broader communities and whether snowplow parents impact resilience.

Dr. Catherine Mogil is an Associate Clinical Professor at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior in the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and serves as the Director of Stress, Trauma and Resilience (STAR) Clinic and the Family Development Program. She is also the Director of the Prevention Center of Excellence, which provides training in trauma-informed and resilience-strengthening practices to providers in Los Angeles County. Her research focuses on developing effective interventions for children and families in high-stress environments.

Some Highlights
Meaning making and finding purpose
Emotional Communication in Families
Promoting resilience in families
Lessons from military families
Stable care routines and how they impact families
Working with family systems
Shifting from clinical practice to program development

Resources
https://drtamarasoles.com/
https://www.facebook.com/catherine.mogil
https://www.mhanational.org/blog/re-defining-resilience-perspective-toughness-bipoc-communities
DMH-UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence
https://www.wellbeing4la.org/
UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center
https://nfrc.ucla.edu/
http://www.facebook.com/UCLANFRC
http://twitter.com/UCLA_NFRC
UCLA Division of Population Behavioral Health
http://dpbh.ucla.edu/
FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) for Active Duty Military Families  www.focusproject.org

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Clay Drinko, PhD shares how he found his flow state on the improv stage and turned that passion into an exploration of improv and the brain. We dive into the latest research on improv’s effect on anxiety, aging, creativity and more. Find out how an experiment in saying “yes and…” to his daughter led to a shift in his own parenting and how simple, everyday games can help you with everything from connecting with others to embracing your mistakes.

Clay Drinko is an educator, expert contributor at Psychology Today, and the author of Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition and the forthcoming Simon and Schuster book Play your Way Sane: 120 Everyday Games to Help you Calm Down, Cheer Up, Stop Spiraling, and Embrace Uncertainty. He earned his Ph.D. in drama and theatre studies from Tufts University and has Master’s degrees in education and performance studies. Clay started improvising over two decades ago and experienced firsthand the powerful effects of finding flow onstage. Thus started a lifelong journey to understand how improv affects the brain and how to harness this understanding to improve our everyday lives.

Some Highlights
Not all “yes and’s” are created equally
Holding two realities at once in therapy and in improv
Improv and parenting: How you can “Yes and” your children
Improv as a brain hack
Creative Mortification
Finding the game
Benefits of improv
Everyday improv games

Resources
Pre-order Clay's new book Play your Way Sane: 120 Everyday Games to Help you Calm Down, Cheer Up, Stop Spiraling, and Embrace Uncertainty  here
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Clay on Instagram
Clay on Twitter
Clay on Facebook
https://www.playyourwaysane.com/
Psychology Today Blog "Play your way Sane"
Creative Mortification
Keith Johnstone
Viola Spolin
Dr. Daniel Wiener - Rehearsals for Growth
Truth in Comedy- The Manual for Improvisation

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Psychologist Allison Haynes is with me on the podcast today to talk about neurodiversity in the practice of psychology. Listen now to discover how her personal journey with advocating for her own child led to her thriving, neurodiversity specialized clinic. We talk empathy, alexithymia, and gender diversity, as well as adapting therapy and assessment to meet a client where they are at. Allison shares how her experiences as an Autistic and ADHD psychologist caused her to extend compassion to her own brain and help her connect to her clients in unique and transformative ways.

Allison Haynes, MPsych is a psychologist who runs a Left of Center Therapies, multidisciplinary clinic in North Brisbane, Australia, that caters to anyone that identifies as Neurodivergent. Left of Center Therapies caters primarily to autistic clients, and include psychology, support work and occupational therapy. Left of Centre is also a training hub for provisional psychologists. Allison herself is autistic and ADHD and she shares with us how her passion was born from trying to advocate for her autistic children.
 
 Some Highlights
Treatment modalities that work
The “essential” neurodiversity representation in a psychology clinic
Adaptations to your private practice to support neurodivergent clients
How shifting your lens to view autistic meltdowns with compassion
Gender diversity and autism 
Managing one’s own executive functioning differences in practice
The value of self-disclosure
The myth of empathy and autism
Alexithymia in therapy

Resources
Instagram @drtamarasoles
drtamarasoles.com
Left of Center Therapies Facebook Page
https://www.loctherapies.com/
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Neuroclastic- Guide to Understanding the Autistic Mind

Articles
Identity First Language Article
ABA Controversy Article

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Kadesha Adelakun, LCSW, RPT-S joins me to discuss race, ethnicity, and culture in therapy. We discuss the barriers to therapy, the under-representation of BIPOC therapists, having difficult discussions with children about race, and the steps we can take to become more culturally competent, humble, and inclusive therapists. 

Kadesha is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), in the states of Georgia and New Jersey, and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Morris Brown College and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Georgia. She is eclectic in her approach, using play therapy and many different therapeutic interventions to meet the needs of her clients. She also specializes in working with children and adolescents with behavioral challenges, as well as, parenting support and training. She is passionate about helping people with ethnic, cultural, and racial identity issues and/or trauma, as well as moms adjusting to motherhood. Kadesha is very active in her community for racial and social justice.

Some Highlights
Stigma related to mental health
Underrepresentation of BIPOC people in the therapy profession
Practical changes you can make in your practice such as office decor and forms
How to have difficult conversations about racism and oppression with children
The Canadian perspective

Resources
Instagram @drtamarasoles
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Kadesha Adelakun, LCSW RPT-S
www.journeycounselingllc.com
www.facebook.com/thejourneycounselingservices
www.facebook.com/groups/theebonyjourney
www.facebook.com/groups/theplayjourney
www.twitter.com/kadeshaadelakun 

Tasha Bailey, MBACP https://www.instagram.com/realtalk.therapist/

Materials
Book Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
Book When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson
Podcast: Brené Brown and Ibram X. Kendi on How to be Anti-Racist
Podcast: Janet Lansbury and Kristen Coggins : Raising Anti-Racist Children
Article: How to talk to kids about Race and Racism

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Dr. David Paul joins me to discuss using Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy to treat PTSD. We explore challenges, complications, and therapists' attitudes as they relate to treatment.

Some Highlights
The active ingredients in Prolonged Exposure including imaginal and in-vivo exposures
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Supporting client choice of intervention
Comorbid substance use disorders and PTSD
The use of written trauma accounts
Embracing the resilience of our clients
Recognizing that our roles involve increasing distress tolerance not avoidance of distress

Resources
Instagram @drtamarasoles
drtamarasoles.com
Dr. David Paul's clinic- The Centre for Posttraumatic Stress & Anxiety Treatment
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD 4 day intensive training
Veterans Affairs Canada Operational Stress Injury (OSI) clinics
National Center for PTSD
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS)
Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders with Prolonged Exposure (COPE)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents (PE-A)

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