Here are the podcast episodes that explore the process of therapy. They are in chronological order, most recent on top.
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How can we engage political polarization without falling into passive neutrality or extremism? Dr. Kirk Schneider on presence, openness, and discernment as a path forward.
Learn why procrastination is an autonomic freeze response and how everyday somatics helps you move past task avoidance using bottom-up regulation and curiosity.
Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about trauma, systemic shame, and the body’s hidden survival responses, starting from her own experience of female-to-female sexual perpetration at age 14.
Janina Fisher explains what it means to heal your trauma. She describes her trauma-informed parts approach, where these reactions are understood as parts of ourselves that once helped us survive, not as problems to eliminate.
Why doesn’t insight create lasting change? Discover how memory reconsolidation and corrective emotional experiences allow real, embodied therapeutic transformation.
What happens when a somatic question meets silence or intellectualizing? Learn how to track embodied therapy when the client’s body doesn’t answer.
Eric Wolterstorff discusses trauma transference, somatic countertransference, and integrating hidden victim, perpetrator, and bystander roles in therapy.
Steve Hayes is a developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Here, we talk about going beyond the specifics of any given therapy
I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis to have a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.
Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.
Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.
Maia Szalavitz blends personal experience and years of investigative research into an inspiring perspective on addiction. Conversation with Serge Prengel about her perspective on addiction.
We do our best to avoid anxiety, and in so doing, risk missing out on the best of the depth and mystery of existence. We also risk compounding the very anxiety we hoped to avoid and becoming destructive as a result.
How does the Polyvagal Theory affect our understanding of mindfulness? Blake O’Connor, Education Director of the Polyvagal Institute, interviews Serge Prengel.
This conversation with Ken Benau serves as an introduction to shame and pride-informed psychotherapy with adult survivors of relational trauma
Jeffery Smith describes a 5-step pathway to go beyond the fragmentation of the different schools of psychotherapy and define how psychotherapy works.
This is a continuation of Jeffery Smith’s description of how psychotherapy works
Q & A session on how therapy works with Jeffery Smith and Serge Prengel
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 describes how therapists can respectfully understand addiction and treat trauma responses with deep embodied listening.