Season 6, Episode 4

Today’s Guest: Dr. Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey is a multi-passionate creative (abstract artist, transformational coach, author, podcaster, and organizational psychologist). The heart of her work beats at the intersection of leadership development, creativity, and wellness. Through her 5-step framework, she empowers individuals to "paint their path."
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SHOW TOPICS

• The 5 steps to Painting Your Path
• Clarissa’s experience with spasmodic dysphonia and how the voice condition has affected her sense of identity
• The power of staying curious and continuing to learn

Season 6, Episode 3

Today’s Guest: Tracy Taris is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. She owns a group private practice where she and her team provide individual, couples, and family counseling in person and via telehealth. Tracy is the author of Many Voices One Truth, published by Winged Publications. In the book, Tracy shows readers how to differentiate between voices that compete for our attention. She uses psychotherapy techniques and meditative and prayer practices to teach readers how to calm the mind and tune into the Voice that created them. Tracy also serves as a therapist in the Health Center at College of The Canyons in the Santa Clarita Valley. She enjoys spending time with her husband Michael, their two daughters, son-in-law and granddaughter.

SHOW TOPICS

• How Tracy makes time for her creative pursuits
• How creative brains are different, and the things that can help bring clients back to themselves
• The creativity of using intuitive understanding and devising individualized interventions in the therapy room
• The similarities between journalism and therapy

Season 6, Episode 2

Today’s Guest: For 39 years, Dr. Ericha Scott has treated people struggling with substance and behavioral use disorders, mental illness, trauma and dissociation. She has also worked with victims of torture and sex trafficking. As a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and certified Creative and Expressive Arts Psychotherapist, Dr. Scott has dedicated her life to health, wellness, and art as medicine. This work has included academic and experiential teaching for clinicians, doctors, the public, and herself, relevant to her own personal health journey. She describes herself as “a healer who walks the fine line between mysticism and evidenced-based psychotherapy.” As an artist, author, therapist, and keynote speaker she advocates for disempowered populations by collaborative cultural exchange around the world. This year she was the keynote speaker for the first scientific expressive arts therapy conference in Cairo, Egypt, and she has been invited to return in 2024.

SHOW TOPICS

• Walking the fine line between mysticism and evidence-based therapy
• The importance of treating the effects of all memories, even those that may be not be remembered exactly
• Techniques for working through artist’s block
• Real-life examples of the power of using art to work through artist’s block and trauma​

Season 6, Episode 1

Today’s Guest: Jackie Schuld is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Art Therapist, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. She owns a private practice that specializes in late-identified autism (Jackie is autistic and ADHD). She is the author and illustrator of Therapy Private Practice, Grief is a Mess, and Making it Through Chemotherapy. While Jackie values her professional work, what she really wants people to know is that she is a human first. She loves waking up early and writing, taking naps, creating art, venturing into nature, doing puzzles, spending time with her family, and much, much more.

SHOW TOPICS

• Where therapy misses the mark when it comes to autism
• What is the internal experience like for autistics?
• The innovation and inherent creativity of the autistic brain
• The beauty of Jackie’s unique private practice schedule