Inside a Trauma Therapist’s Mind with Glenn Fleisch
Step inside a therapist’s process for an immersive look at how decoding physical posture heals developmental trauma from the inside out.
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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Somatic therapy without body mindfulness?
Struggling when a therapy client has low body awareness? See how shifting to a relational process transforms stuck somatic moments.
Presence Over Polarization: Discovering the Vibrant Center with Kirk Schneider
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.
Procrastination as a freeze response: Everyday Somatics with Jennifer Tantia
Learn why procrastination is an autonomic freeze response and how everyday somatics helps you move past task avoidance using bottom-up regulation and curiosity.
Systemic shame & trauma healing: From isolation to connection: Merete Holm Brantbjerg
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: Healing Trauma & Unblending From Our Fragmented Selves
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.
Memory Reconsolidation: How Real Therapeutic Change Happens
Why doesn’t insight create lasting change? Discover how memory reconsolidation and corrective emotional experiences allow real, embodied therapeutic transformation.
When embodied experience is missing from somatic therapy
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: The Unconscious Drama of Trauma Transference
Eric Wolterstorff discusses trauma transference, somatic countertransference, and integrating hidden victim, perpetrator, and bystander roles in therapy.
Steven C. Hayes: A process-based approach to therapy
Steve Hayes is a developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Here, we talk about going beyond the specifics of any given therapy
Active imagination: Leslie Ellis & Serge Prengel
I invited my friend and colleague Leslie Ellis to have a conversation about Active Imagination in therapy and in life.
Peter Levine reflects on his life and work
Peter Levine talks with Serge Prengel about his personal journey through trauma and how he came to develop Somatic Experiencing.
Raja Selvam: Embodying emotions
Serge Prengel talks with Raja Selvam about developing the capacity for emotions by making more room for them in the body.
Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction
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.
Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety
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.
What is Polyvagal-informed Mindfulness?
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