Season 3, Episode 9

Today’s Guest: Dr. Kimberly Dwyer, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in suburban Denver, Colorado, and provides telehealth throughout Colorado and other PsyPact states.  She excels at empowering her clients to manage stress and anxiety. Dr. Dwyer works primarily from mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral perspectives, including MB-CBT and ACT. She also works with mental health providers and similar helpers/healers in private practice to launch, build, and refine their businesses through coaching and consultation services.  
 
Dr. Dwyer’s book credits include Mindful Mondays: Transforming the Everyday to Claim Calm and Decrease Stress, the companion Mindful Mondays Journal, Intentional Private Practice Workbook, and Rocky's Christmas Journey, a children's book with themes of individuation and separation that includes a caregiver talking-point guide. 
 
When she's not at work, you might find her enjoying the beautiful Colorado outdoors with her husband and three children, playing with her dogs and foster dogs, or with a paintbrush in hand.

SHOW TOPICS

• The human drive to tell stories and the power of stories across mediums to connect, inspire, and heal
• The creativity of applying your therapeutic knowledge to each client as a unique individual
• The ways that laughter shows up in therapy

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 1, Episode 9

Today’s guest: Dr. Miriam Torres Brinkmann was born and raised in Spain, where she worked as a journalist for several years. Eager to reinvent herself, she moved to San Diego, California, where she now resides, and studied for her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy and her Doctorate in Psychology, with a specialization in Expressive Art Therapy. She has completed advanced training in the field of couples therapy and has written two books for couples. Miriam also is trained in and uses EMDR and hypnotherapy with her individual clients. Miriam considers herself a multi-passionate, multicultural person. Apart from her online private practice as a couples therapist and relationship coach, Miriam also consults with clients as a life coach and organizes workshops for couples and individuals in different parts of the world, in both English and Spanish. Her career is devoted to helping couples and individuals achieve flourishing relationships and their best possible selves. She enjoys traveling, animals, friends, family, music, books, movies, sailing, nature, good food, and learning new things. She lives with her husband, Peter, as well as their Chihuahua, Bebe, three American quarter horses, and three parakeets.

SHOW TOPICS

• Transitioning into a career in therapy after a career in journalism
• Integrating the spirit of creativity into couples therapy
• Helping couples find inspiration in themselves, their partner, and their relationship
• Nurturing creativity and encouraging expression in everyone​