Continuing Education for Mental Health Counselors: Therapy Show with Lisa Mustard

For many talk therapists, the pace of working in community mental health can be stressful. You're seeing back to back clients, you're dealing with a mountain of paperwork, you have quotas to meet and you may be working with some very intense issues and situations. Rose Skeeters knows this environment all too well as she spent many years working in an agency setting.  And in this week's episode, Ro...

🫐Sponsored by Berries: Use code  TherapyShow50  for $50 off your first month -  CLICK HERE .🫐 PURCHASE THIS PODCOURSE HERE What do you know about gut health? Honestly, I didn't know very much. I had heard for years that mental health can be tied to what's going on in our guts and I finally decided to ask an expert. This week's interview is all about how gut health affects mental health and we ge...

This week's episode is an interview with Elizabeth Cush, a Psychotherapist in Annapolis, Maryland and Host of the Woman Worriers Podcast. She talks about why she started a podcast, her fears of getting started, the obstacles she faced, and how podcasting has opened her up to new opportunities. Elizabeth specializes in helping adults manage stress and anxiety using mindfulness, compassion, and laug...

Kym Tolson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor, and a Certified Hypnotherapist and she's taken her business completely online. Kym knew she wanted to travel more so she figured out how she could see clients while visiting countries all over the world. And nowadays she has a thriving online, insurance-based, therapy practice. Yet she is the first to admit learn...

After about 10 years of being a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I started to dream about using my skill set in differently. I was curious about other ways I could bring in an income. My first idea was to be a contractor for an online therapy company. I applied and was accepted went through the training and orientation. And when I was finally on-boarded, the clients started to come in. I qu...

Bridget Boursiquot is a LICSW in Massachusetts with over 12 years in the field. She has worked with a wide range of clients including those experiencing depression, anxiety, self-esteem concerns, life threatening illness, relationship issues (family, friendship, couples, etc), stress, parenting concerns, life stages and transition, trauma and abuse, loss, and infertility and pregnancy. She has coa...

David Waltenbaugh is a Cofounder and the CEO of Root VR, a platform of therapeutic and educational virtual reality tools to promote and support pediatric, adolescent, and young adult mental health; helping children from adverse home environments to better adapt to change and ultimately become well-adjusted and highly contributing community members while also training and educating parents and care...

Sherry Joy Collier is a Life and Business Consultant who has been licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and Expressive Arts Therapist for over 25 years. She is a wife, mother, and expressive artist who provides guidance and support for fellow-creatives and folks who want to re-design their lives, relationships, and/or life's work. She uses a variety of tools like expressive art, cognitive th...

Whitney Owens is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Private Practice Consultant. She lives in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns a group private practice, Water's Edge Counseling . In addition to running her practice, she offers individual and group consulting through Practice of the Practice . Whitney places a special emphasis on helping clinicians start and grow faith-based practices . Whitney...

Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone , which is being adapted as a television series with Eva Longoria. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The Atlantic's weekly "Dear Therapist" advice column and contributes regularly to The New York Times and many other publications. She is also a TED speaker , a ​member of the...

Happy New Year! Are you excited for 2020? I want to wish a happy and healthy new year. So much has happened for me in one year and as I reflect on where I am today vs. where I was one year ago, I realize just how far I have come. In January 2019 I began getting the nuts and bolts together of this podcast and have learned a ton along the way.  And in this episode, I'm sharing my podcast journey pro...

Sarah Leitschuh is a therapist whose mission is to help you simplify and manage your clinical practice with more ease. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices in Eagan, Minnesota. Through her work with her company, The Vibrant Therapist Consulting, Sarah supports other therapists in discovering how to do their work in a way that energizes them and doesn't leave them depleted...

If you're wanting to start your private practice, you may have heard of these 2 clinicians. Kate Campbell, PhD, LMFT and Katie Lemieux, LMFT are the co-owners of The Private Practice Start Up. They both built their 6-Figure private practices in less than 2 years from the ground up and inspire other ambitious mental health professionals to brand themselves, grow their dream private practices and li...

🫐Sponsored by Berries: Use code  TherapyShow50  for $50 off your first month -  CLICK HERE .🫐 PURCHASE THIS PODCOURSE HERE. More than 427,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme Disease in the U.S. each year. This is more than Hepatitis C, HIV, colon cancer, and breast cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Need continuing education contact hours? If so, then be sure to...

As a total nerd herself, Cassidy Russell, MA, LMFT, likes to say that her niche is nerds. Cassidy is able to use her knowledge on various fandoms whether it be Harry Potter, Pokemon, My Hero Academia, or Star Wars, to connect with people who often have a difficult time connecting with others. Nothing is "too nerdy" a topic for Cassidy. Through these topics Cassidy is able to gain a better understa...

This episode is really more like a virtual coffee talk between friends, who also happen to be talk therapists. Jonathan Van Viegen currently resides in Japan and I live in South Carolina and while we may be miles apart, we've been able to grow a friendship and professional relationship. We connect on many levels as we're both parents, spouses, talk therapists and we're also entrepreneurs who have...

Are you a talk therapist with many interests? Well if so, welcome to the club! Pull up a chair and get comfortable. Today's episode is dedicated to our peers who enjoy what they do yet also feel called to other things. My guest, Dr. Bryan Fox, shares his story and how he has carved out a career in addiction recovery and performance consulting. He also gives practical tips for getting started in pu...

There are so many incredible things to let you know about today's guest, Dr. Vince Ward.  I first met him when I was a graduate student in the Counselor Education program at the University of South Carolina and over the years we have run into each other at workshops and seminars. He always has a warm smile on his face and a kind word to offer. When I saw him last month at a VA event, I jumped at t...

Would you like to explode your brand on social media? If so, let me share what has worked truly worked the best for me!  It's Facebook live and it has been the game changer.  However when I first started, I was horrible.  Yet I wanted to grow my personal brand so I kept at it. I began to create better content. I began to share more value. And when we have better content,,,we have better engagement...

Ernesto Segismundo is not your typical Psychotherapist. Yes, he's a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Southern California as well as a group practice owner however he is also a Videographer, Conference Creator, Financial Coach, Professional Connector and Networker.  He loves to help therapists think outside of the typical 4 walls of the therapy room when it comes to pivoting their skill se...

Today's episode is all about Binge Eating Disorder. Brandi Stalzer of the Eating Recovery Center  gives us an overview of the guidelines, helps us understand treatment options and shares a variety of evidence based approaches to treating eating disorders. Brandi Stalzer, LIMHP, LPC is the Clinical Manager for Eating Recovery Center, The Carolinas. Her role focuses on providing clinical direction t...

🫐Sponsored by Berries: Use code  TherapyShow50  for $50 off your first month -  CLICK HERE .🫐 PURCHASE THIS PODCOURSE HERE. Today's episode is all about adoption. Jill Corrigan is a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Supervisor who has been in practice for over 20 years in the areas of adoption, mental health and traumatic brain injury.  She has also testified in court on adoption related ma...

Today's episode is dedicated my talk therapists friends who have experienced or are experiencing burnout and compassion fatigue. (This is a topic I know too well as I hit it about 18 months ago.) I seriously don't think we talk enough about it in our profession, so when I connected with Sherry Collier and we began chatting, I was excited to learn she too had been through this and she was very open...

On today's episode, I am talking with Joe Sanok about big ideas, growing a private practice, and how to work less hours and make more money. Joe Sanok is a keynote and TEDx speaker, business consultant, and podcaster. Joe has the #1 podcast for counselors, The Practice of the Practice Podcast . Joe is a writer for PsychCentral, has been featured on the Huffington Post, Forbes, GOOD Magazine, Reade...

Today on the show, Reese and Valisa Palmer talk about their paths to becoming Marriage and Family Therapists, the models and frameworks they use in therapy, what it's really like to work together and how they separate the professional from the personal and vice versa. Reese is a clinical psychotherapist specializing in marriage and family therapy, a Christian counselor, an entrepreneur, a family l...