Therapy Chat

Thank you to this episode's sponsor, TherapyNotes. Get a 2 month free trial of TherapyNotes by going to www. TherapyNotes.com and using the promo code TherapyChat. Welcome back to Therapy Chat! Today host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C revisits her conversation with Gretchen Schmelzer, PhD about her book Journey Through Trauma: A Trail Guide to the 5-Phase Cycle of Healing Repeated Trauma. Gretchen Schm...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In today's podcast host Laura Reagan revisits an earlier episode speaking with  Deirdre Fay, MSW, LICSW, who integrates trauma and attachment theory with yoga and meditation in embodimen...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor, TherapyNotes. Get a 2-month free trial of TherapyNotes by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code TherapyChat.  Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In today's podcast host Laura Reagan revisits an earlier episode speaking with  Sharon Martin, LCSW. Sharon is a licensed therapist, counselor, and mental health and wellness writer based in San...

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In today's podcast host Laura Reagan revisits her conversation with Dr. Veronique Mead on chronic illness and trauma.  Dr. Veronique Mead integrates the research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), attachment trauma and additional types of adversity as risk factors for autoimmune disease and other chronic illnesses. She shares this emerging new paradigm of di...

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In today's podcast host Laura Reagan revisits an earlier episode speaking to Dr. Gabor Maté. Dr. Maté is the co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a new non-profit that focuses on addiction. He is also an advisor of Drugs over Dinner. As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Enc...

Welcome to episode 241 of the Therapy Chat Podcast with host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. This week's episode features two previous fascinating conversations with Amy Sugeno, LCSW, PLLC. Amy explains that Eco Therapy can take many forms, including animal-assisted (for example, canine and equine) therapies, wilderness therapies, walk and talk therapy, horticulture therapy and clinical eco-therapy in a...

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C revisits two of her favourite conversations with Dr Jonice Webb.  Dr. Webb has been a licensed psychologist since 1991, and has worked in a variety of different settings over the course of her career, including a psychiatric emergency service and substance abuse programs.  She has been the Director of several large...

Welcome back to Therapy Chat! In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C revisits two of her favourite conversations with Tim Desmond. Tim Desmond is a mindfulness teacher, therapist in private practice, and co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in Alstead, NH. He is the author of Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy (W.W. Norton, 2015) and offers training and consultation to therapis...

In episode 238 host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Casey Hersch, LCSW about how energy healing can be a helpful part of healing trauma, chronic pain and chronic illness - when practiced in an ethical manner. Casey shares how consumers can identify safe and unsafe energy healing practices, some of the advantages and pitfalls of using these practices, and how to find an energy worker who is part of...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In today's episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews the co-authors of "The Tough Standard: The hard truths about masculinity and violence," Dr. Ronald Levant and Shana Pryor. In this conversation you&#39...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Welcome back! In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LC SW-C interviews an expert on workplace culture and its influence on employees. Rajkumari Neogy, the author of "The WIT Factor: Shifting the Workplace Par...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Welcome back! In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews an expert on workplace culture and its influence on employees. Rajkumari Neogy, the author of "The WIT Factor: Shifting the Workplace Para...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In today's episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Jodie Skillicorn, a holistic psychiatrist and author of the new book, "Healing Depression Without Medication: a psychiatrist's guide to balancing m...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   233: Tolerating Discomfort As A White Person Confronting Racism & White Supremacy In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C discusses how the Window of Tolerance and Polyvagal Theory play a role in white p...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Episode 232: Confronting Structural Inequality & White Supremacy   I. I am a white person, and I have my own internalized biases, including racism. I am continually working to confront my own biases and to do better...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Welcome to episode 231 of the Therapy Chat Podcast. In this week's solo episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C shares her observations of the reactions many of us are having to the pandemic. She touches on the following...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   Welcome to episode 230 of the Therapy Chat Podcast. In this weeks episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Kyle Davies on the subject finding your true self whilst coping with Covid-19. Kyle Davies is a wellbeing and...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews eating disorders specialist Jennifer Rollin, LCSW-C about how the current pandemic can bring up issues from those who are in recovery from eating disorders....

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In this week's episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren a professor and researcher and Sara Showalter Van Tongeren, a clinical social worker. Together they authored the new book, The Coura...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In today's episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews a guest who is an expert on grief. Claire Bidwell Smith is a therapist and the author of the new book, Anxiety: the Missing Stage of Grief. Here's what was...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor,  TherapyNotes . Get a 2 - month free trial of  TherapyNotes  by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code  TherapyChat .   In this week's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Patricia Young, LCSW, a clinical social worker and coach specializing in working with Highly Sensitive People (HSP). Patricia is also the host of the Unapol...

In this week's episode, host Laura Reagan LCSW-C interviews guest Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill. Odelya is a highly experienced trauma therapist and trainer who has worked with survivors of trauma all over the world. In this discussion you will hear: - What we must do for self-care during a time like this - tips we can share with our clients as well - When to do trauma therapy and when to do cris...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor, TherapyNotes. Get a 2-month free trial of TherapyNotes by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code TherapyChat.  In today's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Brandon Welch, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Medical University of South Carolina about how technology, including telehealth, can help make therap...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor, TherapyNotes. Get a 2-month free trial of TherapyNotes by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code TherapyChat.  In today's episode, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C talks with an associate from her practice, January Roberts, LGPC about how to help children and ourselves self-regulate during stressful times such as the current Coronavirus outb...

Thank you to this episode's sponsor, TherapyNotes. Get a 2-month free trial of TherapyNotes by going to  www. TherapyNotes.com  and using the promo code TherapyChat.  Welcome back to Therapy Chat! On today's episode host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C flies solo to talk about support for coping during the outbreak Coronavirus.  Link to the Crisis Kit, including an audio download recording of the Eye...