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Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, Psychotherapist, Burnout Prevention Consultant and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator interviews guests to discuss holistic and alternative approaches used in psychotherapy, counseling, coaching and healing sessions. Be a fly on the wall as therapists discuss the practice of psychotherapy and how they implement self care into their own lives to prevent therapist burnout. Conversations about mindfulness, self compassion, The Daring Way™, EMDR, art therapy, Sensorimotor Ps ...
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Welcome to the Trauma Chat Podcast with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. This is a show for anyone who wants to learn about trauma - what it is, how it shows up in our lives and how to heal. Trauma is prevalent across the world, yet so often people don't even realize they are affected by trauma. Trauma Chat is here to remind you that you are not alone, healing is possible, and help is out there for you.
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374: Embodiment + Fitness: Lifting Heavy Things With Laura Khoudari
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Laura Khoudari, author of Lifting Heavy Things: Healing Trauma One Rep At A Time. In this conversation, you'll hear the two Lauras discussing trauma-informed strength training; dissociation and disembodiment within fitness culture; and how the culture of the fitness world…
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373: Ethics, Integrity, Trust + Harm In Context Of The BetterHelp Settlement Proposal
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Welcome back to TherapyChat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C speaks out about a major issue affecting those who use online mental health platforms like BetterHelp and others, and how this breach of public trust is likely to impact trauma survivors and anyone who has been abused or marginalized particularly deeply. Laura reminds listeners that …
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372: The Secret Of High Achieving Entrepreneurs with Kasey Compton
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Kasey Compton, LMFT, author of the recent book, "Fix This Next for Healthcare Providers: Your Business Is Like A Patient, You Just Have to Treat It That Way," psychotherapist, group practice owner, consultant, coach, mother, and human. Laura and Kasey had a deep conversati…
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371: How To Do The Inner Work Of Parenting With Dr. Shefali Tsabary
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Shefali, Tsabary. Dr. Shefali received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University. Specializing in the integration of Western psychology and Eastern philosophy, she brings together the best of both worlds for her clients. She is an expert in family …
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370: Connecting To Self Through Herbalism With Dr. Elizabeth Guthrie
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Elizabeth Guthrie, author of "The Trauma Informed Herbalist," about how we can use herbs and nature to improve self connection and self care. Elizabeth Guthrie is a board certified wellness practitioner who holds a PhD in Natural Medicine with a focus in Naturopathic …
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369: Breathwork + Trauma With Alicia Barmon
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Alicia Barmon, LCPC, a Baltimore area yoga therapist and psychotherapist, about breath work. Alicia combines Somatic Experiencing with breathwork to build a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind - the implicit and the explicit... allowing trauma energy to eme…
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368: Helping Someone Who Has Suicidal Thoughts - With Dr. Stacey Freedenthal
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews an esteemed guest, Dr. Stacey Freedenthal on the important subject of how to support someone who shares with you that they're considering suicide. In this episode you'll hear Stacey normalizing the common experience of having suicidal thoughts and clarify what happens whe…
Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews returning guest Keri Nola. Keri is an Intuitive Entrepreneur, expressing her medicine as a Former Psychotherapist, Best-Selling Author, Podcaster, Oracle Card Creator and Founder of the Abundance Activator for Healing Entrepreneurs, a membership community oriented to alig…
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366: Perfectionism Isn't Always A Bad Thing - With Katherine Morgan Schafler
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! We have talked a lot on Therapy Chat about perfectionism, and this week’s guest brings a slightly different perspective. Our guest today is a former onsite therapist at Google who proposes that it’s not always necessary to let go of being a perfectionist, because there are many positive aspects of this characteristic. …
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365: Regaining Mindful Attention When The Therapist's Trauma History Is Activated With Dr. John Briere
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! Following up on last week's conversation on therapists and dissociation, this week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C welcomes a guest who is an expert on complex trauma therapy and mindfulness. Dr. John Briere, a trauma and abuse survivor, has spent his 30 year career doing therapy with survivors of torture, sex trafficking a…
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364: Speaking Of Dissociation - With Dr. Jamie Marich
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! As we welcome the New Year, we are welcoming new perspectives. This week's episode is all about reconsidering what you've always thought about dissociation (if you've thought about it at all!). This week's guest is Dr. Jamie+ Marich. Jamie/Dr. Jamie uses she/they pronouns, identifying as a bisexual woman in recovery fr…
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363: How + Why To Set Boundaries In Relationships with Dr. Sharon Martin
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, continuing our theme of coping with holiday and family stress, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, revisits a recent Therapy Chat episode with frequent guest Dr. Sharon Martin, LCSW. Last week Sharon shared strategies to help us feel empowered when interacting with family and during the holidays in general. This week…
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362: How To Find Joy + Peace When The Holidays Are Hard For You - With Dr. Sharon Martin
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, continuing our theme of holiday stress, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, revisits a classic Therapy Chat episode with frequent guest Dr. Sharon Martin, LCSW. Last week Sharon shared some of the family of origin dynamics that can make our holiday gatherings feel more stressful and disappointing than fun. This week,…
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361: Why Do I Feel So Uneasy During The Holidays With Family? With Dr. Sharon Martin
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, revisits a classic Therapy Chat episode with frequent guest Dr. Sharon Martin, LCSW. After the November holidays, as we move into the winter holiday season, we may find ourselves feeling a sense of dread, unease, anxiety, or other feelings that are hard to name. We might find oursel…
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360: Embodying Anti-oppression In Human + Equine Relationships - With Julia Alexander
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week we continue the conversation on decolonizing therapy as host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews social justice educator Julia Alexander. Laura and Julia first met in Fall 2016 at an equine retreat for therapists. Laura and Julia share deeply held values around respect for the dignity and autonomy of another bein…
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359: Complex Trauma, The Freeze Response + Somatic Therapy - With Dr. Arielle Schwartz
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C shares a replay of a past interview with Dr. Arielle Schwartz. Listen in on this interview with this knowledgeable, warm and compassionate therapist as she shares about her work with survivors of Complex PTSD. Dr. Arielle Schwartz shares how she uses yoga and other somatic practices…
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358: Justice + Mindfulness In Social Work Education - With Dr. Loretta Pyles
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C revisits a previous interview from 2018 with Dr. Loretta Pyles. In this discussion you'll hear Loretta and Laura speaking about the process of social work education. To the listener - please keep in mind that this episode originally aired 4 years ago, many aspects of the educational …
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357: Caring For Self As A Social Justice Imperative For Helpers with Dr. Rebecca Eldredge
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, in the first of a series on social justice, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Rebecca Eldredge, a licensed psychologist who guides fellow therapists, healthcare professionals, and socially conscious leaders on how to support social justice, navigate courageous conversations, and expand emotional well-…
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356: Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy with Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! Today's episode is a deeper exploration of plant-based medicine, specifically Psilocybin, also known as "magic mushrooms." Host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Jahan Khamsehzadeh, the author of The Psilocybin Connection: Psychedelics, the Transformation of Consciousness, and Evolution of the Planet—An Integral Appr…
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355: Purity Culture + Religious Trauma with Dr. Quincee Gideon
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C welcomes Dr. Quincee Gideon, a psychologist who specializes in religious trauma and cult abuse. Quincee shared information about purity culture and the harm it can cause. She described how she works with survivors of religious trauma and cult abuse in her California-based psychothera…
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354: Healing Developmental Trauma Using NARM - With Brad Kammer
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C again dives into the topic of developmental trauma. Today's guest is Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC, a California Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor. Brad trained as a Somatic Psychotherapist and has worked in the field of trauma for over 20 years, spe…
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353: Bioenergetic Analysis + Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Vincentia Schroeter
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, continuing the themes of embodiment and intergenerational trauma, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C interviews Dr. Vincentia Schroeter about Bioenergetic Analysis. Vincentia gives an overview of what Bioenergetic Analysis is, explains how it can be used to connect the presenting issue in therapy to the client's hist…
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352: Trauma + Advocacy After Breast Cancer With Dr. Christina Hibbert
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week, host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C speaks with Dr. Christina Hibbert, a clinical psychologist who was diagnosed with Triple Negative breast cancer with the BRCA-1 mutation and is now cancer-free, 3 years and 13 surgeries later. She shares her experience of having past trauma come to the surface while she was dealing …
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351: Family Secrets + Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Galit Atlas
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C shares an interview from Spring of 2022 with Dr. Galit Atlas, author of Emotional Inheritance: A therapist, her patients, and the legacy of trauma. Dr. Atlas shared how family secrets affect families for generations. Listen in for a warm and engaging discussion with this fascinating …
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350: Burnout As A Trauma Response - With Kelly Higdon + Miranda Palmer
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Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C welcomes back guests Kelly Higdon and Miranda Palmer, therapists and coaches who help therapists in private practice build businesses they don't need to recover from. Today's conversation was focused on burnout. Kelly and Miranda explained how burnout mirrors a trauma response. They …
