Season 2, Episode 8

Today’s Guest: Gina Cardillo (she/her) is a licensed professional counselor, board-certified art therapist, and EMDR therapist in private practice in Philadelphia. She brings her training and experience from her first career in the art and design world into her clinical work, and is a practicing artist and musician outside of her role as a counselor. As an art therapist, Gina bases her work on the principle that art is itself a language and that all people are inherently creative. She guides her clients in using imagery and art-making to illuminate their innermost truths. She believes that by nurturing one’s creativity within any given medium, it allows an opportunity to uncover and develop a new side of oneself and to build a sense of mastery and empowerment.

SHOW TOPICS

• How art therapy helps a therapist step into a client’s inner world
• The interplay of different modes of art in art therapy
• Helping clients confront and work directly with their inner critic through art therapy and EMDR
• Discussing how EMDR 2.0 differs from traditional EMDR reprocessing
• How “exiled parts” often hold our wounds and trauma, and how IFS (Internal Family Systems) can address this 
• Therapy as a creative and improvisational art

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.” —Kurt Vonnegut

​Season 2, Episode 6

Today’s guest: Dr. Bobbi Ballard is a clinical psychologist based in Georgia. She has an online therapy practice working with creative professionals in several states. Her clients are dealing with burnout, depression, and anxiety. Dr. Ballard has been a psychologist for over 20 years, and she also has an active creative practice of her own, which includes painting, knitting, and music.

SHOW TOPICS

• The magic of finding which clients are the best fit for you and who you can serve most fully
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and how it can help clients let go of the “bag of crap” they may have been carrying for years
• How sensitivity and creativity go hand in hand
• Facing therapist burnout by creating art for fun and shifting to practicing therapy that energizes you​

Season 1, Episode 2

Today’s guest: Boonie Sripom, MA, is a therapy-informed and gamer-affirmative coach who uses archetype systems to support neurodivergent people and their families. She loves seeing the inner worlds and cognitions of people through their fandoms like video games, superhero culture, and creative interests — It's all meaningful! Boonie started working with preschool and school-aged children, and now most of her clients are college-aged and "failure to launch" gamers/2e gifted young adults. Boonie says it's been an interesting transition, and “it's felt like I've ‘grown up’ with the clients I've served.”

SHOW TOPICS

• How knowing your own archetypes can help uncover your authentic self
• Why it’s a struggle to be a twice-exceptional (2E) gifted person
• Your authentic self might be masked by a persona — and that’s OK!
• Being inspired by Catwoman and Saga
• What’s it like to be a performer and embrace that persona?
• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson​