We All Wear It Differently - A Podcast for Early Career Psychologists

Dr Suzanne Barrett and Dr Fiona Zandt are both clinical psychologists with over 30 years experience combined working with children, adolescents, parents and families.

In addition to their clinical work, Suzanne and Fiona run popular Creative Child Therapy Workshops including: 1) Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Emotions & Playful; 2) Practical and Purposeful Approaches to Childhood Anxiety.

More recently they published their first book, Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Big Feelings: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children. The essence of the book is about using play to introduce therapeutic concepts to children and provide a space in which they can explore these ideas.

Visit the website for all the links related to this show and Suzanne and Fiona's best self-care tip!

Dr. Sarah Cotton is an Organisational Psychologist specialising in helping individuals and organisations navigate the challenges of modern work. Sarah co-founded Transitioning Well™ in 2011, which a which focusses on supporting management and employees to navigate Parental-Leave, Work-Life and Mature-Age transitions.

Sarah has over 15 years experience as a coach, trainer and consultant, and her background spans across the university, corporate and not for profit sectors, in addition to private practice. Her academic background includes a PhD in the area of work-stress, and specific training in political and policy related psychology.

In her early career Sarah worked at Psychology Beyond Borders, and as a project Manager at World Vision. She was also an Associate at Issues Deliberation Australia/America for 10 years - (IDA) a not-for-profit, non-partisan political psychology and public policy think tank.

Having both published and presented widely, Sarah's research experience strengthens her profile and motivates her to get research to where it is needed most – real life!

For the show notes and links Sarah spoke about check out the website!

Dr Anthony Dillon (Phd) is actively involved in research into the areas of mental health and Aboriginal well-being. He is proud of both his Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry, and is an active social commentator on Aboriginal issues.

Dr Dillon is currently a post doctoral research fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney Australia and lectures university students and different community groups on Aboriginal issues.

Anthony believes that Aboriginal affairs is everyone's business and that for as long as Aboriginal people are diminished, Australia is diminished. He further believes that political correctness is killing Aboriginal people as fast as drugs and alcohol. His writings can be found at www.anthonydillon.com.au

For all the links Anthony spoke about and his self-care tip check out the show notes!

Russ Harris, author of the international best-selling self-help book 'The Happiness Trap', is an world-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). Russ's background is in medicine. As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and increasingly disenchanted with writing prescriptions. Ultimately this interest led to a total career change - from medicine to therapy and coaching.

Since 2005, Russ has run over 500 workshops and provided ACT training for over 22,000 health professionals, including therapists, coaches, counselors, doctors, and psychologists. He has authored two ACT textbooks (including ACT Made Simple), and four ACT-based self-help books (including The Reality Slap). The Happiness Trap, is now the most widely-translated ACT book in the world, with over half a million copies sold worldwide, and editions in over 30 languages.

Visit the website for all the links Russ spoke about and his best self-care tip!

This is Episode 10 of the Q and A series with psychologist Moshe Lang. Moshe is one of Australia's best known family therapists, a renowned author and teacher. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over 52 years and is insatiably curious, and wonderfully wise.

This week's series of questions are from me, on the topic of using humour in therapy.

For more info on Moshe Lang check out the show notes on the website!

Dr Richard Chambers is a clinical psychologist and internationally-recognised expert in mindfulness. He has authored books on the topic including The Art Of Mindful Origami and co-authored Mindful Learning and Mindful Relationships. Richard was also one of the developers of Smiling Mind (mindfulness app), and co-founder of Recharge.

Richard provides clinical psychology sessions in his private practice for individuals and couples. These emphasise the transformative effects of mindfulness combined with a range of other effective, evidence-based therapies including CBT, ACT and Gottman Couple's Therapy.

Richard provides mindfulness presentations, workshops and courses for organisations and the general public that are designed to teach you how to be more present and engaged in every area of your life. His goal is to teach mindfulness in a practical evidence-based way so it can be easily grasped and seamlessly integrated it into one's personal life or workplace.

At Monash University, Richards is leading an initiative to create the world's first mindful university, embedding mindfulness in the core curriculum for all students.

For over 15 years Richard has helped a growing number of individuals, educational institutions, businesses, professional sporting teams and community organisations use mindfulness to improve their wellbeing and performance.

He regularly features in mainstream TV, radio and print media, discussing how mindfulness, wellbeing, productivity and positive psychology can enhance our lives.

Check out the website for the show-notes and all the links that Richard spoke about.

This is Episode 9 of the Q and A series with psychologist Moshe Lang. Moshe is one of Australia's best known family therapists, a renowned author and teacher. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over 52 years and is insatiably curious, and wonderfully wise.

This weeks questions are WAWID listeners are:

• What should a psychologist do if they experiencing issues (e.g. depression) that they speak to their clients about? If the self-implemented strategies that would be employed by a possible treating psychologist have not helped, what then? Pete (Australia)
• Moshe, have you seen many adult survivors of family csa (sexual abuse) disclose this to their family and if so what have you seen unfold. What do you advise those victims to do if they have always wanted to tell someone who they love. There may be implications and consequences. Any advice would be most appreciated. Jane (Victoria)

For more information on Moshe check out the show notes and post a question under the episode or send me an email. We'd love to hear your feedback and questions!

Debbie Hsu is a Clinical Psychologist and the Executive Officer at the Australian Psychological Society (APS). She was originally enrolled in a Bachelor of Medicine with a plan of becoming a Psychiatrist. Her plan did not go as "planned" and Debbie became a psychologist instead!

Debbie's esteemed career began in Child Protection, where as a fresh graduate she was catapulted into a senior position, following the departure of her supervisor and the senior psychologist. Debbie took this in her stride, and not only worked as a clinician but as a supervisor, trainer, researcher, writer and liaison with community organisations. It was here she also developed a strong interest in systems. My sense chatting to Debbie is that she has been courageously rolling with the punches ever since and has had an incredibly successful career as a result!

Some of Debbie's previous roles include:

• Non-executive Board Director (APS) Executive Director, CAMHS, Child and Adolescent Health Service (Western Australia)
• Program Manager at North Metropolitan Area Health Service
• Visiting Clinical Psychologist (i.e. fly in fly out) at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community Mental Health Service
• Senior psychologist at the Swan Valley Cild and Adolescence Mental Health Service
• Senior psychologist and then Clinic Coordinator at the Bentley Health Service Family Clinic
• Clinical Psychologist at the Institute for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia

If you're interested in learn more about the workings of the APS and roles for psychologists beyond traditional clinical roles, you will love this interview with Debbie Hsu.

Visit the website for all the links related to this show and for Debbi's best self-care tip!

Jane Faulkner is a psychotherapist who uses Gestalt and Equine Assisted Therapy in her practice. She currently works at the Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat as an Equine Assisted Psychotherapist and retreat facilitator. She is the Director at Equine Assisted Therapy Australia, an RTO providing Nationally recognised training in Counselling and Equine Assisted Therapy.

Jane uses the following to support her clients:

• Gestalt Therapy
• Equine Assisted Therapy
• mindfulness techniques
• Art therapy
• Yogic philosophy; and
• horsemanship to support her clients.

Her clients include corporate CEO's seeking career coaching and support, victims of trauma, adoptees with attachment difficulties, autistic individuals, people with anxiety and depression, families, couples and teens feeling stuck, frustrated, and lost.

Jane was diagnosed with PCOS and had severe acne, low self-esteem, and chronic fatigue syndrome throughout her teenage years. This led to an exploration of many different modalities of healing, travelling around the world in search of health and wellness. Jane started her career as a Registered Nurse and worked in the hospital setting and community both here and overseas.

As a result of her own ongoing health difficulties she attended a therapist, and it was this experience that lead her to begin her journey into becoming a therapist herself. Jane found her home working with horses!

For all the links Jane spoke about and her recommended reading list check out the show notes!

This is Episode 8 of the Q and A series with psychologist Moshe Lang. Moshe Lang is one of Australia's best known family therapists, a renowned author and teacher. He has been practicing psychotherapy for over 52 years and is insatiably curious, and wonderfully wise.

Every fortnight WAWID listeners send me questions that Moshe generously answers. These questions can be be about anything to do with his journey, therapy or the field of mental health ore generally. If you have a question we'd love to answer it!

This weeks questions from WAWID listeners are:

• Developmental trauma is currently at the forefront of research with better understandings of how trauma can effect childhood development. In your experience as a family therapist, what is the most important focus for families who are dealing with a child with complex trauma? Terra (Canada)

• Moshe, what do you think about guilt? Is it real, is it useful? Should one have it? How is it enabling or impeding? And what's it's relationship to shame, particularly in a family context? Any thoughts on this? Emily (Germany)

For more information on Moshe Lang check out the show notes or listen to his 3-part episode on We All Wear it Differently.

This episode was sponsored by the ANZ ACBS 2016 Conference in Melbourne between 5-9th November . If you're interested in Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion and Mindfulness check out their website for further details!

This year they have pre-conference workshops that will appeal to a broad range of practitioners:

• Dr Dennis Tirch - a world expert on compassion-based therapies
• Dr Matt Villatte - an intensive training on values work to foster meaning and motivation, using clinical Relational Frame Theory principles (for background: http://drericmorris.com/2016/05/02/mtccreview/)
• Dr David Gillanders - an international expert in health psychology, presenting on acceptance, mindfulness and values applied to medical problems.

All three pre-conference workshops are suitable for beginners and those on training courses, with a very competitive student rate to register!