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Religion, Sex and Trauma with Natasha Helfer, LMFT, CSTS Jan 13, 2025

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Natasha Helfer is the owner and founder of Symmetry Counseling. She is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in Kansas and Utah, and also an American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) certified sex therapist and sex therapist supervisor.
Natasha has been in practice as a mental health professional for over 20 years, primarily working with a Mormon clientele around issues of relational health, faith transitions and journeys, and sexuality. She hosts The Natasha Helfer Podcast and has a membership platform providing resources, groups, and training.
Natasha is an international speaker and presents in both professional and public settings. She has been invited as a guest speaker at several national events and is available for speaking engagements. Natasha has been interviewed for many podcasts, TV news programs, and newspaper articles.
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The Live Bookstore Interview: You Lied To Me About God with Dr. Jamie Marich Jan 08, 2025

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Dr. Jamie Marich is the author of over fifteen books and manuals in the field of trauma, recovery, and expressive arts. With her work increasingly appealing to wider audiences than just her clinical colleagues, Jamie seeks to create material that facilitates transformation for the reader.
She currently has many projects in the works with her primary publisher, North Atlantic Books, and she also generates many of her own outside-the-box publications through her own company, Creative Mindfulness Media.
Dr. Marich is particularly excited about her latest release, You Lied to Me About God–A Memoir. In this project, she shares her lived experience with spiritual abuse and how she found a path to recovery and healthy spirituality.
Learn more about the book: You Lied To Me About God, by Jamie Marich PHD
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From the archives: Full Human-Beingness & Trauma with Manuela Mischke-Reeds Jan 08, 2025

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT is a licensed Somatic Psychotherapist. She is an International teacher of psychology and trains health professionals in California, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Europe, and China.
Manuela co-directs and teaches at the Hakomi Institute of California that hosts her trauma training: From Trauma to Dharma. This training integrates current neuroscience of trauma theory, somatic and mindfulness-based interventions with dharmic teachings and embodied meditation practices. In addition Manuela has trained in various methods of working with trauma (e.g. Somatic Experiencing) and counseled survivors of political oppression, torture and trauma for the past 25 years.
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8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Wellbeing

Guest Host: Julie Stevens interviews Sarah Knapik. Sister Spirits: Collaborating with Psychedelics for Growth and Healing Jan 07, 2025

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Julie Stevens grew up in Southern California and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at 13 to live with her two moms during a time of profound social change, marked by the Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and LGBTQ movements. Amidst this vibrant atmosphere, Julie struggled with her identity and turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with early family turbulence. However, her community, including her moms, grandmother, and mentors, played a crucial role in helping her find confidence and purpose.
Sarah Knapik is a student and teacher of spirituality. She teaches yoga, she is a medicine woman, and a mother to 2 boys.
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The Urban Retreat Center (URC)
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The Role of Therapists in Leadership with Ryan Drzewiecki, PsyD, LP Jan 06, 2025

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Ryan is an experienced leader with over 20 years of experience in behavioral health administration. He currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer of Sierra Tucson, a residential and outpatient treatment center which provides care to adults ages 18 and older of all genders who are struggling with addiction and mental health disorders.
In addition, Ryan is a consultant with the Mara Group, which focus on organizational efficiency, company morale, leadership training, and clinical excellence.
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Sierra Tucson

From the archives: Mary Jo Barrett, MSW Jan 02, 2025

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Mary Jo Barrett is the Executive Director and co-founder of The Center for Contextual Change, Ltd.
She holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Illinois Jane Addams School of Social Work and is currently on the faculties of University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, The Chicago Center For Family Health, and the Family Institute of Northwestern University. Previously, Ms. Barrett was the Director of Midwest Family Resource and has been working in the field of family violence since 1974.
Ms. Barrett has authored the book, Treating Complex Trauma: (Psychosocial Stress Series), and has coauthored two books with Dr. Terry Trepper: Incest: A Multiple Systems Perspective, and The Systemic Treatment of Incest: A Therapeutic Handbook.
She co-created the Collaborative Change Model (CCM), a highly successful contextual model of therapy used to transform the lives of those impacted by abuse and/or traumatic events.
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Center for Contextual Change

The Live Bookstore Interview: You Are Not Alone In This with Sophie Scott Dec 31, 2024

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Sophie Scott is a practicing transpersonal psychotherapist and the founder of Balance, where she was also the Editor-in-Chief for seven years, bringing mindfulness and mental health topics to the mainstream.
She has written for Forbes, Wired, Sheer Luxe and Thrive Global, as well as speaking at a variety of events and festivals, including Live Well Festival.
Whether you’re worrying about a partner struggling with depression or witnessing a friend spiral into addiction, many of us feel helpless when someone we love faces mental health challenges.
In her groundbreaking book, You Are Not Alone In This: Supporting a Loved One’s Mental Health Without Losing Your Own, Sophie draws on moving client stories, proven therapeutic techniques and her own personal journey to help you navigate the emotional complexities of caring for someone with mental illness – while still taking care of yourself.
Learn more about the book: You Are Not Alone In This by Sophie Scott
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The Trauma Lens of Addiction with Resh Joseph Dec 28, 2024

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Resh Joseph is the Clinical Director of Highlands Recovery, and he specializes in the treatment of complex psychological trauma, PTSD, addictions and other trauma-related disorders.
Resh commenced his career as a Doctor in the UK, ceased practicing medicine in 2005, and then fully retrained as a counseling psychotherapist obtaining a Masters in Psychology and the Neuroscience of Mental Health (MSc) from prestigious Kings College in London. For the past 15 years he has practiced exclusively as a psychological professional working in Singapore, Indonesia, Switzerland and now, Australia.
Resh's trauma related work experience includes working within the criminal justice system in Singapore as part of the prison psychiatric team, treating individuals with a wide range of serious psychiatric illnesses and severe personality and behavioral disorders. More recently, he has spent time working in the private sector with The Cabin Addiction Services Group as a substance abuse and trauma therapist at Asia’s largest inpatient rehabilitation center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Resh set up The Cabins’ outpatient facility in Singapore as Head Counsellor in 2015 which included the only fully dedicated intensive outpatient program for psychological trauma in Asia.
Resh’s experience in the field of addiction and psychological trauma also extends to teaching, speaking at international conferences and lecturing on addiction medicine and trauma-related subjects. In 2022, he published his first book, “Trauma a Beginners guide” to enable Trauma sufferers and their families to understand the psychological and neurological impacts of trauma, and how to recover from these.
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www.highlandsrecovery.com.au

From the archives: Staci Haines Dec 26, 2024

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Staci K. Haines is the developer of generative somatics, and the Somatics and Trauma courses. Her work emerges from the Somatics tradition of Richard Strozzi Heckler, integrating Polarity Therapy, Gestalt, Vipassana meditation, and Aikido.
She is a senior teacher in the field of Somatics and leads courses in Somatics and Leadership, Somatics and Trauma, and Somatics and Social Justice. In addition she is the founder of generationFIVE, a social justice organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children, and the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma.
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Staci's website

Guest Host: Alisa Zipursky interviews Emi Nietfeld. What The Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong. Dec 24, 2024

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Alisa Zipursky is a keynote speaker, CSA survivor advocate and the author of Healing Honestly a survivor-to-survivor book to support people healing from childhood sexual abuse. She is the founder of HealingHonestly.com an online community of over 500,000 survivors from around the world. Alisa works with universities, nonprofits, and medical organizations to provide support to survivors and the people who love them.
Emi Nietfeld is the author of Acceptance (Penguin Press ‘22), a memoir of her journey through foster care and homelessness, interrogating the true meanings of resilience, ambition, and success. After graduating from Harvard in 2015, she worked as a software engineer, an experience she wrote about in her viral New York Times essay, “After Working At Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again.”
Emi is passionate about mental health, helping young people navigate their careers, and the connection between engineering and creativity. A dynamic, sought-after speaker, she can be found on podcasts, leading conference keynotes, and speaking at universities and companies alike. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, and other publications, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, noted in The Best American Essays, and taught in classrooms from high schools to MFA programs.
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