In honor of the first week of Mental Health Awareness Month, I gathered clips from past episodes with mental health professionals focused on different mental health diagnoses and their misconceptions. 

The topics range from exploring depression, understanding ADHD in young girls, identifying OCD symptoms, addressing mental health stigma in immigrant families, and more. You can find the list of episodes below.

In order played:

• 97: Sadness vs. Clinical Depression - with Dr. Kojo Sarfo, Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner & Entrepreneur
• 119: Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - with Amanda Petrik-Gardner, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
• 131: Bipolar Disorder & Mania - with Colleen King, Licensed Psychotherapist
• 132: ADHD in Women & Girls - with Christina Crowe, Psychotherapist & Founder of Dig A Little Deeper
• 139: Immigrant Mental Health & Unresolved Trauma - with Valeska Cosci, Licensed Psychotherapist & Owner of Renew Thru Therapy
• 148: Mental Health Stigma & Shame in Families - with Dr. Jenny Wang, Clinical Psychologist & National Speaker
• 159: Anxiety & Procrastination - with Amanda Landry, Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Owner of Caring Therapists
• 178: Decolonizing Therapy & Mental Health Care - with Dr. Lawrence Jackson, Psychotherapist & Sports Performance Coach in the NBA & NFL
• 212: Misconceptions About Depression - with Dr. Scott Eilers, Clinical Psychologist

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Joelle Maletis is a world renowned international speaker, psychotherapist, PTSD and trauma expert. Her passion is mentoring, coaching, and supporting people while overcoming struggles that are keeping them from living a meaningful and balanced life full of fulfillment, joy, and contentment.

Joelle started JRM&A Inc. to help others discover their hopes, dreams and abilities to thrive through adversity, trauma and mental challenges. Her career highlights include being a guest speaker on ABC’s 60 Minutes: Beyond the Headlines, Switch YouTube Live host, HIRE Vets Medallion Award recipient, and several Outstanding Achievement Awards for Top Female Executive. She has also recently published a self love workbook available for purchase on Amazon.

In this episode, we explore the concept of self-love, people pleasing and perfectionism that can come from trauma, and more.

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In this solo episode, I talk about some personal updates and share my experience with going through a hard time. I share some coping skills I have been using and open about my experience setting emotional boundaries, both personally and professionally.

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Jackie Garcia is a bilingual Spanish Speaking Licensed Therapist who is passionate about destigmatizing mental health among the Latinx community. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from California State of San Bernardino. After completing her B.A., she attended California State University of Fullerton where she earned a Master's Degree in Social Work. 

She grew up in Tijuana, Baja California until the age of 12. Her parents migrated to the U.S. to seek a better life for the family. As a teen, she struggled adjusting to a new culture, language, friends, trends, you name it! However, these years made a huge impact in her life and led her to the path of becoming a therapist.

She is the founder of Therapy Lux, a telehealth based private practice in CA, assisting individuals break intergenerational cycles and heal within.

In her work, she believes in creating a safe therapeutic space to facilitate insight and understanding while laying the groundwork for healing and growth. 

Jackie loves to embark on new adventures and create magical experiences. She is very community driven and stands by her life motto “we can’t heal alone, we heal together.”

In this episode, we touch on the topics of breaking cycles as a child of immigrants, guilt that can come with boundary setting, finding one's personal values as a people pleaser, and more.

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Sara Stanizai is a sought-after speaker, business coach and a licensed therapist who founded Prospect Therapy to create a queer-and trans-affirming practice that focuses specifically on serving first-generation American and immigrant communities.

As a queer first-gen herself, Sara’s clinical and professional work focuses on serving the Afghan diaspora, specifically fellow Afghan-American women, through retreats and group experiences that help participants find community and reconciliation with self, culture and ancestry. Her latest offering is the Eldest Daughters group, which invites sisters of all backgrounds to finally receive the kind of support they give to everyone else. 

In this episode, we discuss expectations placed on eldest daughters, the impact of sibling relationships, growing up as a child of immigrants, how gender and cultural roles and birth order impact sibling dynamics, and more.

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Does anyone else feel like they're roleplaying as an adult? In this episode, I share a lot of feelings that have especially come up for me more recently. I discuss feelings of imposter syndrome, starting new jobs, my role as a therapist, reflecting on childhood memories, my fear of getting in trouble, and more.

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Sharing a revisit of the most listened to episode of Trust & Thrive!

Mandy Saligari, MSc, BACP, SMMPP, NCAC, is a Therapist, author, broadcaster and the Co-Founder of Charter Harley Street.

Mandy came into addiction recovery in 1990, opening her own therapy practice in 1998, along with co-founding Charter in 2008 using her pioneering model of care outlined in her book 'Proactive Parenting,' a bestseller in its category (Published by Orion Spring and available on Amazon).

Mandy's enthusiasm for early intervention and prevention is infectious, leading her to extend her therapeutic work into family relationships, addressing issues relating to communication and poor self-esteem before they gather dangerous momentum.

Along with being an experienced presenter to students, teachers, and parents, Mandy's TEDx presentation ‘Emotions: handle them or they will handle you’ has received over 1 million views.

In this episode, Mandy defines and explains the importance of proactive parenting, reparenting, exploring our wounds as a part of recovery, dealing with addiction, forgiving yourself, and more.

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BOOK: Proactive Parenting
TEDx Talk: Feelings: Handle them before they handle you

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Denisse Silva is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Spiral Process Therapy, the founder of my platform Ancestral Therapy, and a child of immigrant parents from Mexico & El Salvador. She has actively shared her journey of connecting to her roots, culture, and ancestral medicine when moving to Mexico.

Through her work, Denisse aims to educate people on the protective nature of culture when living within the Western society and how leaning onto our cultural practices can be a resource for us.

In this episode, we discuss our connection with ancestral wisdom, how our culture connects with our healing, plant medicine, healing generational wounds and using the strength of past generations to move forward, and more.

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Hi all! In this solo episode, I share some personal and professional updates. I also discuss my experience dealing with my inner critic, reframing my negative thoughts, and being open to new challenges.

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Dr. Raushannah Johnson Verwayne, also known as Dr. RJ, is a corporate burnout strategist and licensed clinical psychologist. She helps high performers, particularly people of color and first generation executives, eliminate stress, anxiety, and burnout so they can have the time and energy to live their best balanced lives while maintaining productivity.

As the author of Executive Burnout: 7 Reasons Why High Performers Crash and Burn Before They Reach Their Full Potential, Dr. RJ has helped companies meet their short and long term DEI goals through customized executive coaching and training programs.

Dr. RJ’s system helps companies increase productivity and employee engagement, retain high performing talent, and protect the bottom line from the costly effects of burnout.

What makes Dr. RJ unique is her commitment to educating people of color, globally, about wellness, self-care, and the science of mental health. Dr. RJ also appears on docucrime series like “For My Man," "Fatal Attraction," "Killer Kids," and "Snapped Behind Bars." She provides insightful commentary as an expert on human behavior.

When she's not helping others achieve success, Dr. RJ enjoys traveling and spending time with her two beautiful children and with her husband who she describes as a perpetual father of the year.

In this episode, we explore workplace burnout, the importance of sleep and boundaries, creating your own version of self-care, unlearning parts of hustle culture and perfectionism, and more.

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