#185: Your Mind is Powerful with David Laramie
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David Laramie, PhD is a health psychologist who strongly believes in systemic and integrative approaches to healing and wellness. He draws on psychoanalytic, emotion focused, psychedelic, energetic, and somatic approaches in his psychotherapy work. In both his personal life and professional work, he finds considerable value in mind-body practices such as breath and energy work, biofeedback, meditation, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. He is a long time board member and past-president of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association. We discuss topics...
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#184: Eating Disorder Group Therapy with Carolyn Karoll and Adina Silverman
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Adina Silverman, MS, RD, LDN is a Registered Dietitian specializing in the treatment of eating disorders. She is passionate about helping adolescents, teenagers, and adults heal their relationships with food and their bodies. She supports her clients to have the courage to cultivate the relationship with food that feels best to them and reject mainstream diet culture messaging. Her thorough and compassionate approach has impacted many individuals and families and distinguished her as a leader in her professional community. Carolyn Karoll, LCSW-C, CEDS-S, is a highly regarded therapist...
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#183: What Did My Body Do For Me Today with Anne Poirier
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Having struggled with her own eating, food, weight and body image challenges, Anne Founded Shaping Perspectives, A Woman’s Way to Joy, created the Body Joyful Solution and wrote the book The Body Joyful: My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance. She is the leader of the Body Joyful Revolution Community, a global online source of support, encouragement and inspiration for women of all sizes, shapes and weights so that they can say No to diets, reject society’s thin ideal and heal from diet culture. By feeling more comfortable and confident in their bodies and selves they inspire...
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#182: Understanding MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) with Amy Isabella Chalker
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Amy Chalker, RDN has a private practice and specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, disordered eating behaviors and child/family feeding. She also provides support for clients with co-occurring gastrointestinal disorders. We discuss topics including: What is Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) Understanding histamine and its role in MCAS How MCAS is evaluated The overlap between eating disorders and MCAS Nutritional recommendations The problems with a low histamine diet and MCAS Understanding the elemental diet SHOW NOTES: ...
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#181: Overcoming Chronic Pain with Shira Hefter
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Shira is a passionate and dedicated therapist who excels in her field. With a unique blend of skills, she helps individuals overcome chronic pain and illness, guides athletes and performers to achieve their highest potential, and supports people on their journey to recover from trauma. Shira also specializes in leading transformative Ketamine therapy sessions. In addition to her therapeutic expertise, Shira is a professional dancer, certified yoga instructor, and a former nationally ranked rhythmic gymnast. If you're seeking to enhance self-love and personal growth, Shira is your go-to expert....
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#180: Understanding Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Cheryl Arutt, Ph.D.
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Dr. Cheryl Arutt is a licensed clinical & forensic psychologist, Certified EMDR Therapist & EMDRIA Consultant based in Los Angeles. A specialist in the nexus between creativity & mental health, Dr. Cheryl offers EMDR Intensives and Adjunct EMDR via telehealth. She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA and holds a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree from CSPP-LA, where she was awarded Outstanding Clinical Dissertation for “Healing Together: A program for couples”. She earned a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from WILA and participated in study groups with Dr. James...
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#179: Adultish with Dr. Charlotte Markey
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Charlotte Markey, Ph.D., is a world-leading expert in body image research, having body image and eating behaviors. She is passionate about understanding what makes us feel good about our bodies and helping people to develop a positive body image. Charlotte loves to share her body image wisdom with others, and is an experienced book author, blogger, and professor at Rutgers University, Camden. We discuss topics including: The reasons Adultish was written Body image being central is to all of us Body image impacts self care, sexual relations, activities, and how it’s...
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#178: Speaking with Transgender and Nonbinary clients with Grace O’ Connor
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Grace O’Connor is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the Vice-President of Gender Wellness of Los Angeles. Grace specializes in working with the Transgender and Non-binary populations. She obtained her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University with a specialization in LGBTQ+ identity, and completed her training at the Antioch University Counseling Center and Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center. Prior to working at Gender Wellness of LA, Grace led the LGBTQ+ program at Westwind Recovery, a dual diagnosis treatment program in West Hollywood California,...
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#177: Adoptees and Eating Disorders with Rebecca Berg
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Rebecca Berg, MS, RDN (she/her/hers) is a Los Angeles-based Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and adoptee who specializes in eating disorders, mental health, and body image! She is passionate about helping adoptees learn how to connect to and care for their bodies. Alongside you, she gently explores food and body coping mechanisms with curiosity and compassion to cultivate understanding of how they’ve been protecting you and keeping you safe. Rebecca uses a collaborative, weight-inclusive, trauma-informed approach infused with humor and authenticity. Rebecca is also a domestic, same-race,...
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#176: Disordered Eating in the Church with Leslie Schilling
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Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDRD-S owns a Las Vegas-based coaching practice, specializing in nutrition counseling for families, those of all ages with disordered eating concerns, and professional athletes and performers. In addition to running her practice, Leslie serves as a performance nutrition consultant for Cirque du Soleil® and as an expert contributor for US News & World Report health and parenting columns. Leslie is passionate about educating ministry, military, health, and fitness professionals about the harms of typical dieting behaviors. You may know Leslie best as the...
info_outlineAnita Avedian is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (License # LMFT 38403) and has been practicing psychotherapy since 1996. She is the Executive Director of Avedian Counseling Center and has offices in Sherman Oaks, Glendale, Woodland Hills, and Pasadena. Her specialties include working with relationships, anger, social anxiety, and general anxiety. She also has been certified as a Thought Field Therapist (TFT) and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), both which she integrates into her practice. Outside of therapy, Anita offers a monthly anger management certification program to counselors. Anger Management Essentials is an approved National Anger Management Association (NAMA) model which is used for anger management certification.
Moreover, Anita is an Authorized NAMA Trainer and Anger Management Supervisor for certifying anger management specialists. She authored Anger Management Essentials, a workbook for aggression, which has been translated into Spanish, Armenian, and Hebrew, as well as the teen’s workbook which has been translated into Spanish. Anita is the co-Founder of the California Chapter of the NAMA which is the California Chapter of Anger Management Providers, and the Founder of Toastmasters for Mental Health Professionals.
We discuss topics including:
- Understanding anger management
- Teaching people how use their anger and communicate
- The “buy in”
- Tips to manage anger
- Grounding Techniques
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www.angermanagementessentials.com
Anger Management Essentials: A Workbook for People to Manage Their Aggression: https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Management-Essentials-Workbook-Aggression/dp/0615964001
Anger Management Essentials: A Workbook for People to Manage Their Aggression Teen Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Management-Essentials-Aggression-Workbook/dp/0998733318
https://www.instagram.com/Anitaavedian
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