What Would Dr. Meyers Do?

There are long-term implications of being raised by Holocaust survivors. Gloria LeBeaux, LCSW reflects on her challenges around vulnerability, safety, and caregiving in her youth. She addresses how she has shifted her identity from being a child of a Holocaust survivors and all that entails to being so much more: a social worker, friend, and mother. The events of October 7th present new challenges to living in a world where safety feels compromised.

Finding a therapist can feel daunting. What is important when seeking therapy? Dr. Meyers and Dr. Brady discuss typical anxieties about starting therapy, and considerations for choosing the right therapist. They address types of therapy and approaches, and the training and credentials that one should consider when entering treatment. Do you want to know what a good fit looks like between a client and a therapist? Tune in to find out and ease the experience of choosing the right therapist for you.

Frustrated with not being able to help his physically ill client feel better, my guest contends with his own history of helplessness with his father who died at a young age. Understanding his countertransference helps the clinician get grounded and set realistic expectations for himself and subsequently his client.

Are you overwhelmed with work, even if you love it? Do you find it hard to balance work and personal life? Is it our human right to disconnect from and NOT engage in work-related electronic communications during non-work hours? How can you create a boundary to advance your personal needs? Join Dr. Meyers and her guests in a lively discussion about the Right to Disconnect Laws. It's time for the U.S. to adopt Euopean laws that protect the well-being of employees.

Join us for another very personal account of sibling abuse as Dr. Meyers speaks with Jennifer, a survivor of sibling abuse. In this poignant episode, learn about how Jennifer navigated her early experience with her brother, how it impacted her intimate relationships, and how she continues to try to grapple with her sibling relationship.

What would you want in a therapist? What does it mean to be a modern therapist? Dr. Meyers speaks with with two dynamic, flexible, and innovative therapists who embrace genuiness in their work and recognize the need to be adaptive in their approach given the world we're living in. If you think therapy should incorporate the trends of our times and acclimate to the needs of a new generation of clients, then tune in! They also cover the very real experience of burnout across all professions and offer practical, sustainable advice on living a more manageable, restorative lifestyle.

How is it for you to provide or receive feedback? So many of us have difficulty doing this: we don't want to create hurt feelings or have hurt feelings. However, feedback is essential to growth. Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) is an evidence-based practice that involves routinely soliciting constructive feedback from clients about the treatment and their experience of the clinician. This week, Elizabeth Irias, an expert in FIT will discuss how this process works, her experience with client responses, and how she manages countertransference.

There is a lot of pressure these days to be "woke"; to be culturally sensitive, culturally competent, and culturally humble. What does this look like as a clinician? Join Dr. Meyers in an exploration of self-awareness and self-reflection and a few simple tools to work towards inclusion and culturally humble practice.

We hear how important self-care is, but how do you take the first steps towards making sure you take care of YOU? Self-care leads to self-compassion, even though you may think that self-care requires self-compassion! A true practitioner of self-care, Alina Haitz, had to become an expert in this area to address her mental health diagnosis, and along the way, she learned self-acceptance and self-love. Who doesn't want that for themselves?!

Being a target of sibling abuse certainly takes its toll. But there are contributing factors that help to mitigate the long-lasting effects. What are they? Some of these protective factors occur during childhood and some require survivors to be pro-active in adulthood to regain their sense of self. There is hope. Take a listen to feed yourself or nourish your clients or friends.