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The Joy and Pain of Being Imperfectly Perfect with Tamika Christy Mar 24, 2025

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Tamika Christy is an insightful author whose stories delve into complicated relationships and family dynamics. Her fiction captures the essence of personal growth amidst life's challenges, resonating deeply with readers. Tamika infuses her stories with authenticity and a sense of place, making her characters come alive and her readers feel seen.
More than just a writer, Tamika is a dedicated advocate for women's empowerment. She firmly believes in the transformative power of storytelling and actively supports aspiring women writers through her courses and resources. Her commitment to this cause is not only inspiring but also a call to action for all women to turn their pain into purpose and make their voices heard.
Tamika's life was profoundly affected when she lost her daughter to suicide. This heartbreaking experience has further fueled her focus on healing through writing and it adds layers of emotional depth and empathy to her work.
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From the archives: Open-Hearted Awareness with Loch Kelly Mar 20, 2025

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Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW is an author, a licensed psychotherapist and recognized leader in the field of meditation. He is the founder of the non-profit, Effortless Mindfulness Institute, and has worked in community mental health, established homeless shelters and counseled family members of 9/11 victims.
Loch has studied in Sri Lanka, India and at Columbia University. Loch collaborates with neuroscientists at Yale, UPenn and NYU in the study of how awareness training can enhance compassion and wellbeing. Loch is the author of, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life, a book which Dr. Richard Schwartz, Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), says “brilliantly weaves together meditation, neuroscience and psychotherapy to truly support a compassionate awakening."
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Guest Host: Veronique Mead, MD interviews Tony Madrid, PhD. Reversing Asthma in Kids Mar 18, 2025

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In this episode, Veronique Mead, MD, MA, SEP, founder/consultant at Chronic Illness Trauma Studies interviews Psychologist Tony Madrid, PhD of Russian River Counselors on his work reversing asthma in children by helping their mothers heal from bonding disruptions. Childhood asthma can be cured if the child is not bonded with their mother. That occurs when babies are removed too soon from their mother or when the mother has suffered some terrible thing in her life, like divorce or death in the family. When the trauma is healed and a new birth is created in the mother’s mind, the child’s asthma will improve.
Veronique Mead, MD, MA was a Dartmouth-affiliated assistant professor of family medicine and obstetrics. She retrained with a Master’s degree in somatic psychotherapy from Naropa University and additional specialty training in pre and perinatal and other forms of trauma. For the past 25 years she has explored the scientific literature on how effects of trauma from the prenatal and other periods in a person’s life can influence risk for autoimmune and other chronic illnesses. She shares the research on her blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies https://chronicillnesstraumastudies.com
Tony Madrid, PhD has a Doctorate from Washington State University and completed a Fellowship in Medical Psychology at University of California at San Francisco. He ran California’s licensing board for four years and was a lecturer at the University of San Francisco for 11 years. He’s been a staff psychologist at Sonoma County for 3 years and a member of Russian River Counselors for 25 years. Madrid has over 30 papers published on Bonding Therapy and its cure for childhood asthma. https://mibsonoma.weebly.com
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Contact Tony:
- Website
- Email: madrid@sonic.net
- Russian River Counselors' phone: (707) 865-1200

JotPsych: Making Time for Presence and Creativity For Behavioral Health Clinicians with Nathan Peereboom Mar 17, 2025

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Nate Peereboom is the CEO of JotPsych. JotPsych is a best-in-class AI-scribe for behavioral health clinicians. The software reduces documentation time by ~90% for psychiatrists, PMHNPs, psychologists, counselors, and therapists. Since its commercial launch 16 months ago, JotPsych has scribed for over 700,000 patient encounters across the US, Canada, EU, Australia, and New Zealand.
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JotPsych.com

From the archives: Occupational Therapy & Early Psychosis with Tracy Morgan-Queen Mar 13, 2025

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Tracy Morgan is a breath of fresh air. Tracy is an occupational therapist with 15 years experience, practicing for the last 10 in early intervention in psychosis in the UK Midlands. In this interview you can hear the passion Tracy has for her work and the clients she helps who are experiencing early symptoms of psychosis. Tracy has experienced fairly significant trauma herself and now she works with young people experiencing first episode psychosis.
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Tracy’s Facebook Group
Unshame: healing trauma-based shame through psychotherapy, by Carolyn Spring
Recovery is my best revenge, by Carolyn Spring

What is Soul Health with Pam Buchanan Mar 10, 2025

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Pam Buchanan founded Quantum Sense in May of 2023 with the goal of pioneering Soul Health innovations. She has 40 years of self-optimization experience along with a career that includes introducing mutual funds to banking and serving 15 years as Managing Director at Nasdaq.
Pam has elevated her own energy to excel in the new paradigm, leading with positivity, and letting go of the shame associated with the old ways of thinking. By recognizing that Soul Health encompasses more than just mental and physical well-being, she has created an approach that is set to transform the way we understand and achieve overall health.
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thequantumsense.com

Relational Healing of Trauma with Kerry J. Heckman, LICSW Mar 06, 2025

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Kerry Heckman is a freelance writer and clinical social worker in private practice in Seattle. After ten years as a high school social worker in the Chicago area, she followed her intuition to the Pacific Northwest in 2018. There she was introduced to a therapeutic modality called Somatic Transformation created by Dr. Sharon Stanley.
This life-changing lens through which to understand trauma and the nervous system taught Kerry how to manage her own complex health issues, as well as, help clients who have experienced trauma. Kerry is now inspired to bring this information to as many people as possible to work towards a more embodied world.
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Guest Host: Sarah Peyton interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The Trauma-Healing Power of Poetry Mar 04, 2025

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Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around her town of Placerville, Colorado. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon prize. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is also co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal); and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle.
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Sarah’s Website
- Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing, by Sarah Peyton
Rosemerry's website
- The Unfolding: Poems, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

The Inner World of the Therapist with Stefanie Klein, LCSW Mar 03, 2025

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Stefanie Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) Master Therapist. She is the Assistant Training Director and Faculty for the Complex Trauma Training Center, and is very passionate about the need for helping professionals to be trauma informed and for mental health providers to be trained in effective approaches for working with Complex Trauma.
Stefanie has found NARM to be a game changing approach to working with Developmental and Complex Trauma and has devoted the last decade of her career to mentoring and training psychotherapists in the model. That journey has led to her leadership role in the new Complex Trauma Training Center, a professional home for psychotherapists working with Complex Trauma to receive training and mentorship while building community.
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Complex Trauma Training Center

From the archives: Unpacking Race, Class, Gender & Trauma with Silvia Dutchevici Feb 27, 2025

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Silvia M. Dutchevici, MA, LCSW is the Critical Therapy Institute (CTI) founder and president.
With more than 20 years of experience in social services and a passion for psychotherapy, Dutchevici (pronounced “doot-KAY-vitch”) created CTI when she perceived the need to expand psychoanalytic praxis to reflect how race, class, gender, and religion intersect with psychological conflicts. Silvia has an intensive background in psychoanalytic theory and trauma, with a particular focus on torture.
However, after seeing that traditional psychoanalysis was not able to adequately transform and heal her patients, she embarked on an extended period of research and training. Drawing on liberation psychology and critical pedagogy scholarship and combining them with her real-life experience as a practicing psychotherapist, she founded CTI in 2012; it focuses on teaching, research, and the application of critical therapy in advisory, consulting, and educational services.
Unlike traditional therapists, critical therapists work from the premise that the personal is political. To be more effective, psychotherapy must therefore interrogate the patient’s as well as the therapist’s worldview. Engaging in power analysis, critical therapists explore deeply how power affects the patient’s and therapist’s identities as well as their relationship with one another. CTI offers a four-year training program for psychotherapists, as well as workshops on various clinical issues.
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Critical Therapy Institute
Silvia’s book: Critical Therapy: Power And Liberation in Psychotherapy.

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