Season 3, Episode 8

Today’s Guest: Jon Steele, LMFT, specializes in the treatment of anxiety, trauma, and grief for athletes and professionals. He runs and operates his own private practice, Jon Steele Therapy. He considers himself an active sports enthusiast and also enjoys the outdoors. He is an avid learner and is currently focused on practicing meditation and grounding. 
 
​SHOW TOPICS

• How both artists and athletes face the challenge of the inner critic
• Breaking down and addressing feelings of shame, guilt, and regret
• Shifting our inner dialogue from self-criticism to self-compassion

Today’s Guest: Blanca Lucia Bergman is the founder of Mental Wellness for Artists (MWA), a community group of San Diego artists, mental health advocates, and arts leaders. She is also the founder of a local arts business, Art Unites, and co-lead vocalist in the band Poised In The Darkness.

​SHOW TOPICS

• Meeting artists where they’re at with mental health resources
• The role that a lack of affordable housing plays in mental health and the ability for artists to live in major US cities
• The importance of community for mental health, especially for artists

Season 3, Episode 6

Today’s Guest: Katy MacRae, LCSW, is a psychotherapist based in New Haven, CT.  She has been working in private practice for over a decade, and she also works for the psychiatry department at Yale New Haven Hospital. Katy focuses on using artmaking and creativity to help people learn and remember DBT and CBT skills.  

SHOW TOPICS

• How art-making can help clients remember DBT and CBT skills
• What do you do with all of the art your clients create in therapy sessions? What about your own creations?
• Cultivating a private practice that sustains us as therapists 

Season 3, Episode 5

Today’s Guest: Rebecca Crawford, LMFT, is a Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Southern California. She has been practicing for over 10 years and specializes in work with children and adolescents. She is experienced with play therapy, sand play and the use of art in treatment. Rebecca is also co-founder of DeTalks, a company created by women to help empower other women to find their voice and care for themselves. She is committed to empowering women and helping them find compassion for themselves.
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In treatment with others, Rebecca focuses on helping individuals to again become connected to and be able to hear and know their own bodies. To practice honoring themselves. Throughout her own journey, she has discovered movement and writing as forms of meditation and connection to herself.  When not practicing therapy or chasing her 5-year-old, she can be found dancing, running, practicing yoga, and writing poetry. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How play and creativity help meet the needs of child and adolescent clients
• The power of movement to help us connect to ourselves and identify our needs
• The mind-body connection and the importance of reminding ourselves to truly breathe
• Honoring what we need to do to feel good, even if that means dancing, singing, or creating in a way that isn’t deemed useful or productive by society