Season 2, Episode 7

​Today’s Guest: Jamie Kohanyi is a licensed psychotherapist practicing in the state of California. She is a graduate of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Counseling Psychology program, with an emphasis in Depth Psychotherapy. Her interest lies in the interplay between the unconscious, the body, and creativity, which began with her experience as a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter and graduate of Berklee College of Music. Singing was Jamie's primary therapeutic modality until she moved from New York City to California in her 20s to initiate studies at The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and Sky Mountain Institute for the Expressive Arts. The following 20 years of education and experience lead to her current expertise in women with eating disorders, perinatal mental health, dreamwork, the expressive arts, and psychedelic psychotherapy. Jamie is currently pursuing a certificate in Jungian Psychology from the CG Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She is married to David Kohanyi, also a psychotherapist, and is a mother of three.

SHOW TOPICS

• The relationship between creativity and transformation, and how psychotherapists can serve as ministers to aid in that transformation
• Bringing mindfulness and beauty into our daily routines
• The importance of leaving time for imagination and not feeling the societal pressure to “produce, produce, produce” as a creative

Season 2, Episode 2

Today's Guest: Nattan Hollander, LMFT, was an artist first and became a psychotherapist along the way. He made art as a child in Israel, where he grew up, and later moved to the US to train in art and get his fine arts degree at CalArts in California. He was living in a Zen Center during that time, where he spent many hours meditating and learned to cook great soups for Zen retreats with a woman who soon became his wife. He earned his MA at Pacifica Graduate Institute, a school that emphasizes care of the soul as being central to mental health. This aligned with his own sensibilities as an artist. For Nattan, art and spirituality are inseparable. When he works with artists as a therapist, he treats their creative life as sacred.

SHOW TOPICS

• Wrestling with creativity and making within an institutional space
• Reconnecting with creation through writing an experiential thesis centered around meditation and imagination
• The importance of treating a client’s creative life as sacred and helping them find value in creation in a society that doesn’t always lift it up
• How lacking opportunity for expression and creativity can be a matter of life and death​

Season 1, Episode 8

Today’s guest: Ann Taylor McNiece is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Southern California. She comes from a family of creatives and loves using out-of-the-box methods to help people with different kinds of minds find success and healing. Ann hosts the Soul Grit Podcast, which covers faith and mental health. She is an extrovert who loves tacos and the beach.

SHOW TOPICS

• Finding new modes of expression as we become busy adults
• How the artist’s brain functions differently 
• Adapting common therapeutic methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for creative clients (with a demonstration of how it works!)
• The 4 C’s of where we want to be 
• Discussing the advantages of having a creative background when working with creative clients​

Season 1, Episode 5

Today’s guest: Morgan Myers, LPC, is a therapist in East Dallas, Texas, with her own private practice. Her favorite clients are postpartum women, people working through spiritual hurt from the church, and creatives. She has begun to use horticulture therapy in her practice as a way to help people work through grief. She also plans to use horticulture therapy in her community to help with chronic depression, anxiety, and grief from the effects of COVID. Morgan has two daughters and has been married for 13 years.

SHOW TOPICS

• Art as a spiritual practice
  
• What is horticulture therapy?
• How gardening can help people find understanding in their current season of life
• Morgan discusses her own experience of spiritual hurt
  
• Why postpartum women need special care and often feel misunderstood