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TU138: What if it’s You that’s the Difficult One? Holding Your Own Challenging Personality Traits (6 of 6)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – take away's from our series on staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with challenging personalities - DEDICATED TO OUR PATRONS!! Session 6 of 6 – What if it's you that is the challenging one... and...
TU137: Holding Your Own S5, Malignant Narcissism (5th in a series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities – staying (or becoming) secure in relationship with those with the most severe sort of personality structure - malignant narcissism. Session 5 – Staying safe with those with high psychopathology or malignant narcissism...
TU134: Holding Your Own Session 2, Grandiose Narcissism has Met it’s Match (2nd in a series)
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities - staying secure in relationship with those high in narcissistic, borderline or anti-social traits. Session 2 - Staying secure in connection with one kind of narcissism: grandiose narcissism Co-hosts Ann Kelley and Sue...
TU133: Holding Your Own 1: Messy but Secure Relating
Holding Your Own with Challenging Personalities - staying secure in relationship with those high in narcissistic, borderline or anti-social traits. Session 1 Can my messy and loud relationship qualify as secure functioning? It's not that easy to tell. Most of us have...
TU132: Crisis Exhaustion – Hang in There, it’s Going to Be OK (Eventually) If We Stick Together
Together we can protect our hearts from freezing in bitterness, drowning in sorrow, lashing out in justified rage or worse, disconnecting. Fight the exhaustion that comes with relentless crises surrounding us now. Dr. Ann Kelley & Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP reach...
TU129 – Transformative Psychedelic Experiences With and Without Drugs, with Special Guest, Trey Ratcliff
Skeptical of the buzz about psychedelic-assisted therapy? What if you could get the benefits of therapeutic psychedelics without ingesting any drugs?! Trey Ratcliff may have just the answer to non-drug, mind-expanding experiences that can help us heal. We've been...
TU127 Grandma Heals: Community-Based Mental Health Care from Zimbabwe with Dr. Ruth Verhey
Discover an innovative program that delivers mental health care with proven effectiveness in low-resource settings, the Friendship Bench. It is so effective and deliverable, it has now spread world-wide. Researcher and program director Dr. Ruth Verhey and co-host Sue...
TU126 – What Do We Mean by Modern Attachment? Sue Marriott & Ann Kelley Discuss
Modern Attachment-Regulation Spectrum, a new way of bringing attachment science to real life. Pausing the riches of the guest interviews, Ann Kelley & Sue Marriott are back to discuss what has changed in the attachment field. They share what makes it modern...
TU124 – Hip Hop as Therapy: Beat Making, Lyrics & Community Empowerment
Hip hop heals Our guests Dr. Eliot Gann and Dr. Raphael Travis shed light on how hip hop can help resolve the deep need for self-expression and trauma processing, especially in black and brown communities. Music-makers in hip hop culture are some of the greatest...
TU120: Finding Security and Healing Attachment with Dr. David Elliott
Use a proven mindfulness-based technique of imagery to cope with quarantine and promote healing. Is this pandemic making your nervous system crunchy? Let's work on some healing techniques in the mean time. Find out how to use one of the Elliott and Brown's 3 pillars...
TU117: Resilience Trauma and the Brain W/ Guest Bruce Perry MD, PhD
"Regulate, then relate, then reason" -Dr. Bruce Perry In this episode, co-host Sue Marriott speaks with Dr. Bruce Perry, a renowned neuroscientist, psychiatrist, clinician and researcher on children's mental health. They discuss staging intervention based on brain...
TU116: Fight Flight Freeze … and “Fawn”?? Can People-Pleasing Be a Sign of Trauma?
Freeze Appease Dissociate... Appease is Fawning when it comes to C-PTSD Are you a huge people-pleaser, conflict avoider, peace-keeper? Maybe you are just being nice, but if you are compelled to do it, driven to not take up much space, to not impose... and you don't...
TU114: Take the 30 Day Emotional Health Challenge!
Sue & Ann laughing at themselves, probably at our bumbling efforts on our 30-day emotional health challenge! Enough theory – it’s time to choose JUST ONE emotional health goal to work on for the next 30 days. Let go of what no longer serves you. Join us for our...
TU113: Integrating Self-Defense, Neuroscience and Affirmative Consent to Build Empowerment and Heal Trauma
“Yes means yes is the new no means no!” Often we doubt our gut instinct, question our right to take up space in the world, and live governed by fear -especially when we’ve experienced trauma. Meet the Safety Team, a group of ordinary women doing extraordinary work...
TU112: The Life-Changing Science of Memory Reconsolidation with Guests Bruce Ecker & Tori Olds
Tori Olds with Deep Eddy Psychotherapy Learn to apply the advances in neuroscience to our lives in a real way – we all want to be able to do that, right? This episode delivers on that for sure – memory reconsolidation is changing how therapists practice and explains...
TU110: Story Follows State – Investigating Polyvagal Theory with Guest Deb Dana
When we have an anchor in ventral, we can then go visit sympathetic and dorsal without being hijacked by it. In this episode of Therapist Uncensored, Co-host Sue Marriott explores the intersection of Polyvagal Theory, neuroscience, and attachment with Deb Dana. We...
TU107: What is Somatic Experiencing With Guest Abi Blakeslee
Trauma is not a life sentence. We are rapidly learning what works to reverse the effects of stored injuries and today we will explore one treatment version of that, called Somatic Experiencing. First a shout out to a listener who connected us to our guest today, Ali...
TU106: What Actually Heals in Therapy with Psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams
Learn what actually works in therapy. It’s hard to verbalize the problem with “evidence-based” models of care, but renowned psychoanalyst and psychologist Nancy McWilliams does just that. She further describes what happens in quality depth-oriented therapies such as...
TU102: Finding Neurological Safety through Relationships, with Guest Bonnie Badenoch (Replay)
The Power of Co-Regulation Explore the myth of self-regulation, the natural neurobiology of co-regulation and it’s capacity to engage safety and heal trauma. Learn about using interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB) and Polyvagal Theory to establish safety and security in...