Season 3, Episode 4

Today’s Guest: Reina Lombardi, ATR-BC, ATCS, LMHC-QS, is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC, where she and her small team of therapists provide in-person and technology-facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and national professional conferences. 

Reina is the owner of Creative Clinician’s Corner, LLC , where she hosts and produces the podcast The Creative Psychotherapist and offers practice-building resources and consultation services for creative arts therapists with a desire to build and scale their own private practice. As the host of The Creative Psychotherapist, she interviews successful creative therapists about the tools and strategies they use to grow their dream practices, as well as how they have hustled to create additional streams of income using their knowledge and creativity by developing products and services that enhance their therapy practices.

​In her spare time, she loves to play on and in the ocean with her husband and their dog, explore vast natural landscapes, and get messy in the kitchen creating complex but healthy recipes. 

SHOW TOPICS

• The vital importance of maintaining a creative practice, even through school, training, or work as a therapist
• How to approach every activity with a creative mindset
• Fun examples of creative interventions in therapy
• The importance of allowing for other creative modalities in art therapy, even if they are not the ones we are oriented toward as therapists

Season 3, Episode 3

Today’s Guest: Rotem Brayer, M.Ed., LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, certified EMDR therapist, EMDR consultant, and an advanced EMDR trainer. He is the author of The Art and Science of EMDR—Helping Clinicians Bridge the Path from Protocol to Practice, and the founder of The EMDR Learning Community, which brings EMDR therapists together and provides education on EMDR therapy and its integration with other treatment approaches. As the co-founder of EMDR Denver, a practice that helps clients heal with an “EMDR first” approach, Rotem spends his time consulting on cases, coaching EMDR therapists, and helping his clients heal from the effects of trauma and attachment wounds. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How adding structure can help with writing and other creative pursuits
• How can you be creative with EMDR?
• The importance of interpersonal connection and bringing your full, authentic self into your work as a practitioner
• Incorporating other modalities into EMDR therapy

Season 3, Episode 2

Today’s Guest: Jessica Van der Merwe is a licensed therapist in Oregon and Washington state. She owns a private practice and specializes in complex trauma recovery, PTSD, and relational and betrayal trauma. She also specializes in working with adult ADHD and neurodivergence and the intersection between neurodivergence and trauma experiences. Jessica is a certified Brainspotting therapist and is trained in Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment and Internal Family Systems therapy. She believes counseling should always involve humor, creativity, and transparency, and she will be the first one to make things awkward so you don’t have to. 

​SHOW TOPICS

• What are trauma responses? + examples of how they manifest
• The causes of complex trauma and how trauma recovery can help clients gain connection and creativity
• Detaching trauma responses from shame and helping clients understand how those responses have served to protect them
• Is it possible to build self-trust with clients who have never experienced that type of trust?

Season 3, Episode 1

Today’s Guest: Daryl Chow, PhD, is based in Western Australia and works with a vibrant team of practitioners at the Henry Street Centre in the heart of Fremantle. He also returns to his home country, Singapore, to provide consultations and intensive therapy every few months. Meanwhile, he keeps busy with writing and conducting research, as well as trainings, clinical supervision, consultation, and mentoring.

He is a co-editor and contributing author of a recent book, The Write to Recovery: Personal Stories & Lessons About Recovery From Mental Health Concerns. He is also a senior associate and certified trainer for the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE), which is a worldwide consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral health services.

As part of his PhD, he researched the area of development and practices of highly effective psychotherapists, alongside with his mentor and collaborator, Scott D. Miller, Ph.D. Together they are co-authoring a forthcoming book, Reach: Pushing Your Clinical Performance to the Next Level. 
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SHOW TOPICS

• The “terrible gift” of creativity and the beauty and struggle of living an aesthetic life
• Understanding the risks creative clients face as artists
• The musicality of therapy and working as a “conductor” in the therapy room
• What is the meaning of life? (Because we don’t shy away from the big questions here!)