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Conversations about Therapy

The conversations are for therapists, and about therapy. In chronological order, most recent on top.
See also list of ALL podcasts: Chronological and Alphabetical.

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Polyvagal-informed mindfulness: Serge Prengel & Blake O’Connor

How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O’Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.

Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma

This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma

Jeffery Smith: How psychotherapy works

Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.

Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #2: Clinical practice)

This is a continuation of Jeffery Smith’s description of how psychotherapy works

Jeffery Smith: How therapy works (video #3: Q & A)

Q & A session on how therapy works with Jeffery Smith and Serge Prengel

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Cherionna Menzam-Sills: Exploring pre- and perinatal experiences

This conversation starts with a guided, experiential exploration. Then we talk about early developmental experiences, with a perspective informed by trauma therapy and mindfulness.

Jan Winhall

Jan Winhall: Treating trauma & addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal model

Jan Winhall describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.

Peter Afford: A neuroscience perspective on the felt sense

Peter Afford & Serge Prengel we discuss the felt sense as the experience of living (i.e., interacting) from a neuroscience perspective.

Mark Schenker on addiction, part 3: A larger context

Mark Schenker puts addiction and its treatment in a larger context, philosophical and spiritual.

Mark Schenker on addiction, part 2: Treatment

Mark Schenker talks about the treatment of addiction, including assessment, defining recovery, and treatment issues.

Mark Schenker on addiction, part 1: What is addiction

Gregory Kramer

Gregory Kramer about Buddhism & psychotherapy

Michael Changaris: The power of mindful touch

Francesca Maximé: Embodied anti-racism

David Allen: The implicit pressures that shape our clients

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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle, resource-oriented approach to stress & trauma

Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about working with low energy states and our “invisible parts” in the context of Relational Trauma Therapy.

Eric Wolterstorff: Society under sustained stress

Dave Berger & Joshua Sylvae: How COVID-19 is affecting our work as therapists

Stephen Porges

Volunteer to help people support each during the COVID-19 crisis

Karyne Wilner: The plastic body

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