Kindred Tree’ple Podcast

As we enter this month of transition from the school year to the summer break, we honor parents and caregivers of children of all ages; whether your school-aged children are in currently in daycare,  summer camp, or home from college, this episode is for you! Pod-host Vanessa Durrant is both a mother and a licensed clinical therapist with over fifteen years of supporting children, parents, and fam...

Join us for a follow-up minisode all about relational attunement! If you haven't had an opportunity to listen to season 2, episode 5, go back and listen to our host and attachment therapist Vanessa Durrant, LCSW-C, share her wisdom about the importance of relational or emotional attunement.  For this episode, Vanessa is sharing the "how-to" of relational attunement in a practical, 3-step process: ...

Get nerdy with us for season 2, episode 5 of the Kindred Tree'ple Podcast! In this episode, pod-host and licensed clinical social worker Vanessa shares her expertise as an attachment based therapist to explain the art of relational attunement.  Vanessa breaks down what relational attunement means, and how it enhances and deepens the human experience. She shares how relational attunement looks in n...

Join us for another episode this season, focused on relationships! Episode four is about examining our relationship to the collective through the lens of the archetypical nature of tarot theory.  Vanessa talks with Kindred Tree therapist and tarot practitioner, Anna See-Jachowski, about the themes of the collective card of the year for 2024: Strength (8). Anna and Vanessa discuss the archetypal ps...

Have you ever wondered how the Myers-Briggs Personality Types Indicator (MBTI) can support you into knowing more about yourself and how you may relate in relationships?  Join our podhost,  Vanessa Durrant, and Kindred Tree Healing Center therapist Daisy, as they take a deeper dive into the MBTI types and how this impacts relationships to self and others.  As a certified MBTI practictioner, Daisy b...

This minisode features a guided meditation by our host, Vanessa Durrant. This meditation serves as a supportive companion  to episode 1 of this new season; if you're open to reflecting upon the feelings you're experiencing as an individual in our collective world, this meditation will help guide you through your thoughts and feelings, by connecting you to self-reflection queries for total mind, bo...

Season 2, episode 1 is here! Join us this season as we discuss all things relationships! Love is complicated, beautiful, and integral to our lives and wellbeing. This week, podcast host, Vanessa Durrant, touches on how critical it is to be in relationships with others, but also with ourselves, and with the collective world. Her expertise as a licensed clinical social worker, trainer and consultant...

Meditación Que Puede Usar La Siguiente Ves Que Esté Caminando Afuera    Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Enjoy these minisodes featuring practical resources for mental health management all brought to you in Spanish by pod-host Vanessa Durrant, and special guest Silvina Ecthegoyen, LMSW.    ¡Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Disfrute de estos minisodios que presentan recursos prácticos para el manej...

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Enjoy these minisodes featuring practical resources for mental health management all brought to you in Spanish by pod-host Vanessa Durrant, and special guest Silvina Ecthegoyen, LMSW.    ¡Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Disfrute de estos minisodios que presentan recursos prácticos para el manejo de la salud mental, todos presentados en español por la presentadora V...

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Enjoy these minisodes featuring practical resources for mental health management all brought to you in Spanish by pod-host Vanessa Durrant, and special guest Silvina Ecthegoyen, LMSW.    ¡Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Disfrute de estos minisodios que presentan recursos prácticos para el manejo de la salud mental, todos presentados en español por la presentadora V...

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! Enjoy these minisodes featuring practical resources for mental health management all brought to you in Spanish by pod-host Vanessa Durrant, and special guest Silvina Ecthegoyen, LMSW.    ¡Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana! Disfrute de estos minisodios que presentan recursos prácticos para el manejo de la salud mental, todos presentados en español por la presentadora V...

Episode 20 is here to support all of us through the end of Mercury retrograde, seasonal shifts, and other big transitions! Our host and Vedic astrology scholar, Vanessa Durrant, guides us through her knowledge of the Vedic sciences to help us understand why we might feel life's difficulties in a more intense way at this time.    Vanessa shares her wisdom of how to truly be with the difficult emoti...

In this episode of the Kindred Tree'ple podcast, host and child development expert Vanessa discusses all the back to school SOS support you will need! She spends some time normalizing how challenging it is to start a new school year for children and parents alike. She discusses 3 important science backed strategies for supporting your children into an easeful back to school transition. If you're a...

Welcome back for Episode 18 and another seasonal deep dive with our certified Ayurveda enthusiast and podcast host, Vanessa Durrant! This episode details specific ways in which we can all welcome a shift in elemental, holistic living.    Vanessa offers her insights on the Pitta dosha, and practical advice around how we can make shifts in our daily living tasks to live rhythmically, rather than in...

Gather 'round, Tree'ple! We're back with an episode for parents and caregivers as they help their children cope with the stress of big transitions that come with summer!    Join our host, Vanessa Durrant, and co-host Anna See-Jachowski as they share an in-depth discussion of how children experience transitions from school to the summer routine of camps, vacations, lessons, and more free time. As a...

Pod-host Vanessa Durrant is joined by fellow psychotherapists and Latinas, Silvina Etchegoyen and Daisy Lopez-Duke. In this episode, they share their stories of immigration, reflecting on the impact this transition has made on their identities and life experiences! Vanessa, Silvina, and Daisy reflect on how their family systems have experienced challenges, have had to cultivate patience when met w...

Licensed psychotherapists Vanessa Durrant and Anna See-Jachowski lend their expertise to a topic that has been requested often by listeners: understanding the Highly Sensitive Person, or, HSP. They're breaking down what it means to be on the sensitivity spectrum, and how we come to understand it as a basic, fixed human trait. This episode discusses the magic and challenges of being, parenting, and...

The Kindred Tree'ple Podcast is so excited to introduce a new person into our community of Tree'ple: Brandon Chapman, dreamer, business owner, and passionate parent! Tune into this episode to hear Brandon in conversation with pod-host and child development and mental health expert, Vanessa Durrant. Together Vanessa and Brandon discuss how to acknowledge and live in mindfulness of our "human-ness"...

Host Vanessa Durrant, LCSW-C, follows up on our last episode about Change by diving deeper into the source of Chaos! She offers beautiful intuitive insights regarding working with  the chaos of our life as the catalyst for deeper healing.  Vanessa invites listeners to reflect on how chaos impacts us, and makes some important distinctions between the chaotic ebb and flow we all experience, versus c...

The paradox of change, and the process of healing are extremely similar. Join our Tree'ple Pod host, Vanessa Durrant, licensed therapist and clinical social worker, as she explores how these concepts work in tandem! Vanessa notes how, despite this being a great time of year to contemplate change and healing, society doesn't necessarily support sustainability in these areas of growth.  Vanessa prov...

Join host Vanessa Durrant and co-host Anna See-Jachowski as they reflect on the challenges of Winter, and how to move forward with ease into Spring! These kindred tree'ple are keeping it real as they share what might be on everyone's minds about Spring: what do I want to carry forward from Winter? What needs to be reborn?  Vanessa shares her wisdom as an Ayurvedically minded therapist and herbal m...

Join us for a discussion on caregiver mental health and support this week on the Kindred Tree'ple Podcast! Host and licensed clinical social worker Vanessa Durrant will provide practical guidance for all caregivers on what areas of caregiver mental health need the most tending to. Her expertise as a therapist lends itself to providing listeners with four specific areas of caregiver mental health t...

This episode features the expertise and wisdom of pod-host Vanessa Durrant! Vanessa is an expert in child development and attachment, and in mental health. Her experience as a licensed clinical social worker and clinical director of Kindred Tree Healing Center, not to mention her deep passion for supporting young people, makes her beyond qualified to share her knowledge on this topic with listener...

New Year, more Kindred Tree'ple Podcast episodes! In Episode 9, our host and KTHC practice owner, Vanessa Durrant, explores time as a social construct. Vanessa digs deep into how ancient civilizations evolved to  measure time and how that impacts us today. With the month of January wrapping up, you may notice that your new year intentions may be fading in the background. Vanessa connects this new...

Happy New Year! We're starting 2023 by bringing something very special to episode 8: kindred conversations around fostering healthy sexuality! Our host is licensed clinical social worker/psychotherapist and expert in children's mental health, Vanessa Durrant. She is joined by staff therapist Sophie Dykstra, who is certified to work with children and adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors. T...