Yoga in the Therapy Room: Tips for integrating trauma informed yoga

How can you navigate the many holistic healing modalities and find the right therapist for you? What must you know when seeking a holistic therapist that resonates with you and your unique needs?

In this holistic short, I will discuss how you can find a holistic therapist. I will go over resources that you can use to begin your research in finding a holistic practitioner and what you should look for in a holistic therapist to best fit your needs.

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Why is building a supportive network of mental health therapists so crucial for your professional growth, self-care, and overall well-being? What are the key steps to establish and maintain a supportive community?

MEET Lisa Savinon

After completing her bachelor's in psychology, Lisa worked as an elementary teacher while completing her master's in counseling. After completing her master's, Lisa initially worked as an elementary school counselor and then transitioned to secondary school counseling. During her time as a school counselor, Lisa began working as a play therapist in an agency setting and decided to take the leap into full-time private practice. Years before the pandemic, Lisa moved her in-person practice to full telehealth and has never

gone back. Through her work with children and families, she noticed the need for trauma counselors. Lisa began working with adult survivors of childhood abuse, neglect, and abandonment, and sexual trauma survivors. Lisa is trained in EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Trauma Therapy, Polyvagal, and attachment theories. She is also certified in DBT and a Registered Yoga Teacher. Lisa is licensed in Texas, Colorado, and Nevada, and is a Florida Out of State Registered Telehealth Provider. Because of her passion for continuing

education, Lisa began learning about the continuing education field and recently bought Therapeutic Perspective a podcast and NBCC-approved continuing education provider.

Find out more at Vibe Counseling and Wellness and connect with Lisa on, Instagram & Facebook

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• Addressing the issue of isolation in private practice 5:27
• Self-care when dealing with difficult cases 10:41
• Resources for therapists to stay more connected 18:00

• Finding non-traditional methods of networking
• Why is it so important to be a part of a community when you are in private practice?
• Learning and growing in a community
• Ways to cultivate connection

• What is somatic therapy?
• How to set strict boundaries with work-life balance

• What is The Therapeutic Perspective?
• How to find in-person groups
• Creating your own community with like-minded people
• The importance of making time to connect with others

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What are the steps you need to take to become a holistic therapist? What skills, knowledge, and credentials do you need to acquire to become a holistic practitioner?

MEET Nicole Osborne

Nicole Osborne is a Honolulu-based licensed holistic mental health therapist and owner of Milk & Honey Therapy, Milk & Honey Coaching, and Milk & Honey Merch. She has over 10 years of combined experience serving as a coach, mentor, teacher, and counselor to individuals of diverse backgrounds. Nicole loves to use creative and holistic approaches to help her clients overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, athlete concerns, low self-esteem, life transitions, and identity development issues. In all of the work she does, her deepest desire is to empower people to show up as their authentic selves and remind people that they have a unique purpose.

Find out more at Milk & Honey Therapy and connect with Nicole on Instagram, Facebook & TikTok

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is holistic therapy? 5:08
• What are the steps to becoming a holistic therapist? 17:02
• How to decide which area of holistic therapy you want to go into 35:35

• Incorporating mind, body, and spirit and layering holistic techniques
• The importance of learning awareness and connecting with yourself
• What is the goal of holistic therapy?
• Holistic therapy vs. traditional therapy

• What are the education requirements to become a holistic practitioner?
• Graduate school program comparisons and requirements
• Structured learning experiences through practicum and internships
• What does the licensing process look like?
• How much does it cost to receive training in other holistic modalities?

• The importance of research and self-study
• Putting holistic practices into your everyday life and finding what works for you
• Where to find resources when becoming a holistic therapist
• The importance of mentorship

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What is the importance of slowing down and embracing the present moment? How can you integrate practical strategies and mindfulness techniques into your everyday life?

IN THIS PODCAST:

• Why do we need to slow down and embrace the present moment? 2:44

• What is a Type-A personality?
• The importance of keeping track of our physical response to moving too quickly through our daily routines
• What are the negative impacts of not slowing down?
• What are the benefits of slowing down and embracing the present moment
• Techniques for slowing down and being mindful
• Overcoming obstacles when making ourselves a priority

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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How do the Divine Masculine and Feminine energies interplay within ourselves and our relationships? How do we begin to recognize, honor, and integrate these energies into our everyday lives?

MEET Vanessa Grace

Vanessa Grace is helping women steep in their innate Divine Feminine. She is a Radiance Coach and Licensed Social Worker who transformed through the fires of becoming UnCodependent and having a Spiritual Awakening. She loves to talk about epigenetics, chakras, and why your menstrual cycle is the secret to everything. Her expertise, kind heart, and a dash of light humor help her clients heal the life experiences and trauma that created their heartache, to begin with. Vanessa joins mental health, spiritual practices, and life aspirations to help women create the lives they really want for themselves. Her private coaching, group coaching, and retreats help you truly transform from the inside. If you want to heal your soul to become a strong self, she's got you covered!

Find out more at Soul Amplified and connect with Vanessa on Instagram, Facebook & LinkedIn

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• What do the terms "divine feminine" and "divine masculine" mean? 2:25
• What are the traits of the wounded feminine & wounded masculine? 10:53
• How can parts work be applied to understanding masculine & feminine energy? 27:37

• Energy vs. gender when discussing divine feminine and masculine
• Understanding the concept of wounded feminine and masculine
• What are the "core" needs of the divine feminine and masculine
• How do the divine feminine and masculine work together in all of us

• A look at the psychological framework of gender roles and when there is an imbalance
• What is our Core Essence?
• Recognizing these traits as a therapists
• What does the term "fawning" mean?

• The importance of taking a look at your inner child
• How to be more in your divine feminine and masculine
• Educating clients about healing wounded feminine or masculine
• How do these dynamics work in relationships?

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What are binaural beats? What are the benefits of using binaural beats for you and your clients?

MEET Wayne Altman

With a strong desire to make a difference to the people around him, Wayne Altman has worn many hats during his 54 years of life on planet Earth. Born in California but raised in Texas, Wayne grew up knowing he wanted to serve others. U.S. Army Veteran, Death Row Correctional Officer, Corporate Sales Trainer, and Author of 6 books on Mortgage and Credit.

Wayne has traveled to 19 countries and visited 49 States teaching Credit to consumers and Loan Officers in the Mortgage Industry. He currently owns multiple (14) online businesses all designed to enrich the lives of his customers and his community.

His latest business is Melody Clouds, a subscription relaxation website and app. With 8000 hours of Solfeggio, Binaural Beats, Guided Meditation, and 17,000 + Audiobooks all designed to relax and educate its subscribers at a price point other services just will not touch.

Wayne has determined that the healing and beneficial effects of this technology should be available to everyone who wants it. So, Melody Clouds is translated into over 100 different languages, and its membership spans across the globe. Wayne is married to the love of his life Traci, and together they are raising three incredibly beautiful and talented daughters. Cassidy, Reagan, and Morgan.

Find out more at Melody Clouds and connect with Wayne on Facebook & Instagram

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What are binaural beats? 3:41
• What research has gone into the effectiveness of binaural beats? 9:20
• How do binaural beats work for chronic pain? 17:23

• How do our brains process binaural beats?
• What does it mean to block grief with binaural beats?
• Can binaural beats help you sleep better?
• What are solfeggio frequencies?

• Using sound to manipulate emotions
• How do different frequencies affect different emotions?
• How to get our brain to recreate frequencies on its own
• What are some of the benefits of these different frequencies?

• Finding the right frequencies for each individual
• Are binaural beats safe for patients with PTSD?
• What is Melody Clouds?
• How to use binaural beats and solfeggio frequency

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The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What is grief yoga and how can it help individuals experiencing grief and loss? How can you use Compassionate Transformation when working with clients dealing with grief?

MEET Paul Denniston

Paul Denniston is the founder of Grief Yoga® and the author of Healing Through Yoga: Transform Loss into Empowerment.

The mission of Grief Yoga is to use movement, breath, and sound to release pain and suffering to connect to empowerment and love.

Grief Yoga combines many different forms of yoga to channel and release anger and allow unresolved grief a compassionate space to breathe and move. His gentle work creates a safe space of movement, transformation, and healing to connect to the resilient loving warrior within.

Paul has taught and trained this practice to thousands of therapists, counselors, and healthcare professionals around the world

Find out more at Grief Yoga and connect with Paul on Facebook & Instagram

IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is the importance of combining sound, movement & breath? 5:44
• How to overcome grief in a safe way 9:06
• What are the benefits of using grief yoga?14:03

• What are the many ways that we suppress grief?
• Creating intention when using yoga movement for dealing with grief
• What are some challenges of moving through grief by only using talk therapy?
• Understanding how grief can be trapped in our bodies

• Why it is essential to find what we have to support us when dealing with grief
• Ways to find balance and center yourself
• How to encourage breathwork in grief
• How to introduce grief yoga to clients

• What is compassionate transformation?
• A movement walkthrough to get into the body and deepen the breath
• Identifying where you are holding pain in your body
• The importance of keeping movement simple and embodying what you are doing at the moment
• Is grief yoga trauma-informed?

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Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

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What is your soulful self? How can you access your divine nature and move towards self-healing?

MEET Dr. Shannon South

Dr. Shannon D. South, aka the "Joy Doctor", is an award-winning therapist, an Amazon best-selling author, and an inspirational speaker. As an expert in the field of spirituality and healing trauma for over 25 years, she knows how to assist people in finding wholeness and joy naturally. In 1994, Shannon had a spiritual experience during meditation that healed her debilitating anxiety and depression permanently. Since this transformative experience, Shannon has helped thousands of clients connect to their most loving, abundant, and joy-filled selves. Shannon is the founder of the Ignite Your Life! programs, Heal Your Way to Success course, and the Grow Your Business by Growing You Breakthrough Day!

She is a sought out, international trainer and coach helping spiritually-minded entrepreneurs break through what is standing in their way from abundance, joy, and success! Her recent book, Grow Your Business by Growing You: The spiritual entrepreneurs guide to maximum joy, abundance, and success, is a roadmap to this unique, healing process. She also trains other clinicians on how to bring Spirit and Soul into their practice for deep and lasting healing for their clients. Shannon loves dancing, being in nature, and a rowdy game of volleyball.

Find out more at Dr. Shannon South and connect with Dr. Shannon on Facebook & Instagram

For a free discovery call to see how she can help align you with your highest potential, go to www.drshannonsouth.com

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• What does the word "soul" really mean? 2:55
• What is the Higher-self? 10:31
• What Is The Protective Personality? 16:15

• What are the common themes of the soul?
• What is stopping us from accessing our souls?
• The importance of embodying our strength
• What are some of the factors that can block us from truly embodying our soul?
• Do you have to be religious to believe in a soul?

• Why soul-embodiment is unique to each individual
• Practices that people use to connect with their higher self
• What does it feel like to disconnect from our soul?
• Opening up the channels of the soulful self to begin healing

• How do we instinctively protect ourselves?
• The importance of being in the present
• Recognizing your soulful, wisest self?
• What does it mean for your soul to be aligned?
• Resources for self-healing

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

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How can you combine multiple strategies and modalities into your practice to address mental health concerns? How can integrative solutions help connect mind, body, and spirit and start focusing on holistic well-being?

MEET Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge

A mental health trailblazer, media personality, and founder of The Global Institute of Children's Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC, who is on a mission to change the way we view and treat mental health, showing people it's gonna be ok with science-backed tools that calm the brain. With her trademarked BrainBehaviorReset™ Program, she has helped thousands address the most challenging conditions affecting kids and families today, including PANS/PANDAS, OCD, anxiety, mood/behavior, and ADHD/executive functioning.

Find out more at Dr. Roseann and connect with Dr. Roseann on Facebook & Instagram

It's Gonna Be OK! Podcast

IN THIS PODCAST:

• The importance of integrating holistic solutions into your practice 6:48
• Focusing on the mind, body, & spirit connection 15:14
• What is layering in therapy? 19:37
• Types of holistic modalities to get started with 30:09

• Helping your clients understand how their nervous system responds to trauma
• The importance of calming the brain before beginning talk therapy
• Why is psychoeducation a crucial component of therapy?
• What is qEEG Brain Mapping?

• What do integrative solutions mean in therapy?
• Finding brain techniques that will work best for each individual's clinical condition
• What is the best approach to teaching your clients about how their brain works?
• Focusing on therapeutic relationships

• The importance of educating your patients and establishing boundaries
• How to start using integrative holistic modalities as a clinician?
• What are your ethical boundaries when practicing holistic integrative therapy?
• Finding modalities that align with you

• The importance of sleep and the types of foods we consume
• Giving your clients options and the autonomy to choose what they are comfortable with in order for treatment to be more sustainable
• Resources for discovering new holistic modalities
• How to recommend supplements to your clients

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

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What does it mean to be a holistic therapist? How can you start to embrace being a holistic practitioner?

In this holistic short, I will discuss the difference between traditional and holistic therapy. I will go over why a holistic approach can benefit your clients in connecting all parts of themselves and the importance of connecting with other holistic therapists.

Download the Free guide: How to build confidence and competence bringing yoga into the therapy room

The Yoga in Therapy Collective —where therapists learn, grow, and get support with yoga-informed practices

Explore the Yoga Basics for Therapists course—designed to help you confidently and ethically integrate yoga into therapy

Yoga Basics: The Therapist's Guide to Integrating Trauma-Informed Yoga into Sessions

Instagram: @chris_mcdonald58

Join the Free Bringing Yoga Into the Therapy Room Facebook group

Leave a review and subscribe to this podcast

Self-Care for the Counselor: A Companion Workbook: An Easy to Use Workbook to Support you on Your Holistic Healing and Counselor Self-Care Journey ... A Holistic Guide for Helping Professionals)