Deb Dana: The Polyvagal Theory in psychotherapy
Deb Dana talks about using the Polyvagal Theory in clinical practice, and how it helps to creatively involve clients in their healing process.
Therapy Podcast
Here are the podcast episodes that explore the process of therapy. They are in chronological order, most recent on top.
See also list of ALL podcasts: Chronological and Alphabetical.
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Seth Zuiho Segall: Mindfulness in context
We talk about putting mindfulness and Buddhism in context — the contexts in which they evolved, and in which they are currently practiced in the Western world.
Alaine Duncan & Kathy Kain: Restoring inner balance
Combining Eastern and Western trauma physiology, Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain introduce a new map for body-oriented clinicians to help restore balance in their clients.
Terry Marks-Tarlow: Embodied creativity & the courage to face uncertainty
Terry Marks-Tarlow specializes in deep transformation and issues surrounding creative production and believes that all effective psychotherapy is inherently creative.
Janina Fisher: Integrating somatic approaches to trauma with ‘parts’ language
Trauma often inculcates fears of body awareness and incapacitating shame that complicate the use of somatic approaches
Nancy Eichhorn: Somatic Psychotherapy Today
Nancy Eichhorn talks about the magazine she founded 8 years ago, Somatic Psychotherapy Today
Steven Hayes: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Steven Hayes talks about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) within the broader context of the human condition.
Alice Ladas: Early coping strategies: another kind of addiction
Alice Ladas describes a workshop focused on identifying coping strategies in a way that respects people’s humanity instead of pathologizing them.
Michael Soth on the therapeutic relationship
Conversation with Michael Soth about the therapeutic relationship as a body-mind process between two people who are both wounded and whole.
Rae Johnson on Embodied Activism
Rae Johnson talks about how the body is implicated in social justice work, and how to engage our bodies in the process of activism.
Susan Rudnick about sexual abuse, the need for connection & power
Susan Rudnick’s comments about the sexual abuse of women by powerful men derive from Karen Horney’s formulation of the Real Self, as she articulated it in Neurosis and Human Growth.
