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Laura Westmoreland, LMFT identifies as a white woman living in a larger body, cisgender, straight, and able-bodied; her pronouns are she/her. She acknowledges that she has white privilege. She holds an MBA from Lindenwood University and a Masters in Clinical … See more

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WebImprove access to mental health care without requiring sacrifice, financial instability, and burnout from therapists. Let’s reimagine therapy for the modern age – creatively, authentically, ethically, and with respect for the amazing diversity in our communities. Through our podcast, workshops, and continuing education, we’re exploring

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What Therapists Need to Know About Menopause and …

WebAn Interview with Dr. Sharon Malone, author of Grown Woman Talk. Dr. Sharon Malone is a nationally known expert in women’s health and the author of Grown Woman Talk.She is the Chief Medical Advisor at Alloy Women’s Health, a telehealth company that focuses on women over 40.Before joining Alloy, Dr. Malone was a partner …

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How to Navigate Shifts in the Mental Health Field and Your Career …

WebYeah. I mean, I feel like I know that the investment into mental health in Silicon Valley. I think that’s like a something I think a lot of therapists are thinking about, right. I do feel like there are tools now available now, if you’re a clinician getting started out, and that wants to kind of go into solo practice, I don’t think that

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Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: An Interview with Dr.

WebAn Interview with Dr. Barbara Stroud. Barbara Stroud, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with over three decades worth of culturally informed clinical practice in early childhood development and mental health.She is a founding organizer and the inaugural president (2017-2019) of the California Association for Infant Mental Health, a ZERO TO …

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Fixing Mental Healthcare in America, An Interview with Dr.

WebMental Health education in K-12 curriculums, standards for mental health education, and promising places to start “Health [education] can’t be isolated as one piece of you, as certain systems in your body and not other systems.” — Dr. Nicole Eberhart. Mental Health First Aid – the problem one-time events and short-term effects

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Exploring Trauma and the 12 Steps

WebIn this episode we talk about: Jamie Marich’s return to the podcast. The Revised and Expanded Trauma and the 12 Steps. The large variation in the programs for substance abuse treatment in whether they are able to include a trauma-informed lens. What it looks like to actually interweave the trauma-informed structure to substance …

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Private Practice Planning for the Future of Mental Healthcare: An

WebSpecial considerations for Group Practice Owners in 2023. The concerns related to large group therapist mills taking employees. Focus on people, culture, and innovation. Intentionality related to values, mission, vision. Avoiding divisiveness and conflict between employers and employees. The importance of transparency and clarity on how …

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Therapists Struggling with Darkness

WebHow we are struggling during the pandemic. Sitting with client’s darkness and how that impacts therapists even before the pandemic. The impact client material can have on therapists. The stigma around therapists having mental health concerns. Anxiety contagion, energy drain of working with depression. Impacts on libido, mood, suicidality.

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Speaking Up for Mental Health Awareness: An Interview with …

WebThe role of history and the impact of slavery on mental health of generations of Black people; The number of friends who are incarcerated; The role of “chemical imbalance” in the mental health landscape and the family members who have dealt with more serious mental illness; Metta’s desire to give back to the mental health community

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Asian American Mental Health, An Interview with Linda Yoon, LCSW

WebAn interview with Linda Yoon, LCSW, on specific mental health needs of Asian American clients. Curt and Katie talk with Linda about what therapists often get wrong when working with Asian clients and colleagues. We explore the model minority myth, fetishization of Asian women, and the complexity of the heterogeneous group that falls …

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Oklahoma Bureaucrats Want Your Mental Health Records

WebOklahoma Bureaucrats Want Your Mental Health Records. Curt and Katie chat about some Oklahoma legislation about health information exchange. We talk about what a health information exchange is, the concerns with Oklahoma’s legislation related to health information exchange, and how therapists can advocate effectively (as modern …

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Decolonizing Therapy: A Movement

WebDecolonizing Therapy catalyzes a growing movement of practitioners who are unlearning colonial methods of psychology. They are co-creating a new liberatory model of mental health. Dr. Jennifer Mullan received ESSENCE Magazine’s 2020 Essential Hero Award in Mental Health, and was featured on The Today Show, Vox, Cosmopolitan, …

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I Just Graduated, Now What

Web– Career Advice for New Mental Health Clinicians. Curt and Katie discuss how clinicians can decide what types of jobs to pursue when they first graduate from their clinical program. We look at whether you should go into a community mental health organization or a private practice. We also dig into what you might want to consider when …

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The Power and the Peril of Pop Psychology

WebThe third and last group that Haslam described is targeting people with mental health problems. And kind of like the second group, it’s significantly different. It offers practical guidance, but rather than for kind of general everyday life improvement kinds of things, it’s more geared towards specific mental health problems with the aim to

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What Modern Therapists Should Know About Law Enforcement …

WebThe stigma of mental health prevents people from reporting their own struggles with mental health. So it’s the changing of the guard that has to happen. My husband, like I said, was the crusty curmudgeon. He was the one that was like, he and I would argue about mental health. And so it’s, as people are coming in new individuals …

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An Interview with Joy Alafia, CAE, Executive Director of CAMFT

WebCurt and Katie interview Joy Alafia, Executive Director of CAMFT, on the journey for MFTs and Counselors to become eligible to be Medicare providers. We look at the high-level tasks that every therapist needs to take. We also talk about the decision-making process for whether you should opt in or opt out, providing some basic guidance …

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Why Men Don’t Stay in Therapy

WebSo a lot of the men’s health campaigns, even things like Men’s Health Month have done a better job of promoting the kinds of things that men should reach out for, as far as health care providers. A lot of this month tends to focus on physical things like go to your doctor, get prostate screenings, those kinds of nice, tangible, like

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An Interview with Dr. Sidney Stone Brown, LPC

WebIn 1989 she shifted her career emphasis from administration to clinical services receiving 3 years of clinical supervision at a community mental health center and a residential treatment center to obtain licensure (LPC and NCC-MAC). Later she was mentored to be a CQI coordinator when employed at a JCAHO certified facility in …

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Want to Fix Mental Health Workforce Shortages

WebIn this podcast episode, we talk about how the mental health workforce shortages are exacerbated by licensing boards. Curt and Katie decided to invite Dr. Ben Caldwell back onto the podcast to talk about how licensing board inefficiencies are exacerbating mental health workforce shortages.

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Now Modern Therapists Need to Document Every F*cking Thing in …

WebThis is a 300 page PDF that’s available on the BBS website, we’ll include a link to that in the show notes as well. Now through the magic of computers, we control F, and put in the words and put in the word notes, out over 300 pages in four different disciplines, notes came up 10 times in this document. Wow.

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Therapists on the Hostage Negotiation Team and Supporting …

WebThe benefit of having a mental health provider on a hostage negotiation team. Training the team on mental health concerns; Improving “batting average” on successful outcomes; The importance of a well-trained team; Our Generous Sponsor for this episode of the Modern Therapist’s Survival Guide: Thrizer

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