Season 6, Episode 7

Today’s Guest: Kristy Snedden, LCSW, has been a Brainspotting enthusiast since 2013 and is a Brainspotting consultant with a specialty endorsement in Brainspotting with children and adolescents. She runs “Brainspotting Through the Poet’s Eye” which is a monthly group for Brainspotting therapists/writers and offers online webinars and writing retreats. 

​Kristy lives in the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia where she maintains a full-time private practice. She specializes in working with trauma, attachment, and creativity, with a special interest in Brainspotting and Creative Writing. 

In her spare time Kristy is a poet, and her poetry appears or is forthcoming in a variety of national and international online and print journals and anthologies. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 recipient of the Small Orange Press Emerging Woman Poet prize. She serves as the Book Review Editor for Anti-Heroin Chic and studies at Phillip Schulz’s Writers Studio. When not working or writing, she can be found hiking or hanging out with her husband listening to their dogs tell tall tales. 

SHOW TOPICS

• How Brainspotting helped Kristy open up her creativity and strengthen her determination to help clients unlock their creativity as well
• Encouraging Brainspotting clients to get curious, compassionate, and nonjudgmental
• What it’s like doing Brainspotting with kids
• Busting myths around what it’s like to work with creative clients

Season 6, Episode 3

Today’s Guest: Tracy Taris is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist who holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific University. She owns a group private practice where she and her team provide individual, couples, and family counseling in person and via telehealth. Tracy is the author of Many Voices One Truth, published by Winged Publications. In the book, Tracy shows readers how to differentiate between voices that compete for our attention. She uses psychotherapy techniques and meditative and prayer practices to teach readers how to calm the mind and tune into the Voice that created them. Tracy also serves as a therapist in the Health Center at College of The Canyons in the Santa Clarita Valley. She enjoys spending time with her husband Michael, their two daughters, son-in-law and granddaughter.

SHOW TOPICS

• How Tracy makes time for her creative pursuits
• How creative brains are different, and the things that can help bring clients back to themselves
• The creativity of using intuitive understanding and devising individualized interventions in the therapy room
• The similarities between journalism and therapy

Season 6, Episode 1

Today’s Guest: Jackie Schuld is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Board-Certified Art Therapist, and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist. She owns a private practice that specializes in late-identified autism (Jackie is autistic and ADHD). She is the author and illustrator of Therapy Private Practice, Grief is a Mess, and Making it Through Chemotherapy. While Jackie values her professional work, what she really wants people to know is that she is a human first. She loves waking up early and writing, taking naps, creating art, venturing into nature, doing puzzles, spending time with her family, and much, much more.

SHOW TOPICS

• Where therapy misses the mark when it comes to autism
• What is the internal experience like for autistics?
• The innovation and inherent creativity of the autistic brain
• The beauty of Jackie’s unique private practice schedule

Today’s Guest: Dr. Eric Maisel is the author of more than 50 books as well as the "Rethinking Mental Health" blog for Psychology Today. He trains creativity coaches and works with clients worldwide. Dr. Maisel’s most recent books include “Redesign Your Mind” (Mango, 2021), “Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists and Clients” (Routledge, 2021), and “Unleashing the Artist Within” (Dover, 2019).

SHOW TOPICS

• The rift between personal creativity and business creativity
• The rebellious nature of creatives and the importance of dedicating a portion of our creative energy to the greater good
• The challenges artists face when building and maintaining community with one another

Season 5, Episode 3

Today’s Guest: Sandy Cohen, NBC-HWC, is a national board-certified health & wellness coach and a writer and podcaster who studies the science of well-being. Her work with The Associated Press has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and hundreds of other newspapers and websites around the world. She is now working toward a Master's degree in Public Health at the University of Alabama. Sandy earned a certificate in health & wellness coaching from the University of Wisconsin and became a national board-certified coach in December 2020. She launched her own podcast, "Inner Peace to Go," in January 2022.

SHOW TOPICS

• Questioning realness and authenticity when working in the world of celebrity journalism
  
• Transitioning from reporting on Hollywood to focusing on health and wellness after facing mental and physical health challenges
  
• The power of journalism to make people feel seen and put complicated topics into accessible formats and terminology
  
• Simple steps we can take to improve our health and wellness
  

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​