Margaret Moore

Margaret Moore on Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. In this podcast, Margaret Moore talks about the book, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life that she co-authored with Harvard psychiatrist Paul Hammerness. Coach Meg said that one of the simplest distinctions that she borrows from her colleague who is the director of our Institute of Coaching is that coaches follow the trail of dreams and therapists follow the trail of tears. Coaches are not in the business of healing. They are not there to fix problems, remedy pathology or really heal from a deep place. Coaches are all about where do I want to go that seems kind of challenging.

Margaret Moore on Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. In this podcast, Margaret Moore talks about the book, Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life that she co-authored with Harvard psychiatrist Paul Hammerness. Coach Meg said that one of the simplest distinctions that she borrows from her colleague who is the director of our Institute of Coaching is that coaches follow the trail of dreams and therapists follow the trail of tears. Coaches are not in the business of healing. They are not there to fix problems, remedy pathology or really heal from a deep place. Coaches are all about where do I want to go that seems kind of challenging.

Margaret Moore on Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life

Paldrom Catharine Collins

Paldrom Catharine Collins on Sexual Addiction.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. In this podcast, Dr. Van Nuys talks with author and counselor Paldrom Catherine Collins about her book A Couples Guide to Sexual Addiction: A Step-by-Step Plan to Rebuild Trust and Restore Intimacy. Paldrom Catherine Collins helps couples work through their sexually addicted relationships at Compulsion Solutions, an outpatient counseling service. Previously a Buddhist nun, she is married to coauthor and recovering sex addict George N. Collins, M.A., director of Compulsion Solutions and member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.

Paldrom Catharine Collins on Sexual Addiction.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. In this podcast, Dr. Van Nuys talks with author and counselor Paldrom Catherine Collins about her book A Couples Guide to Sexual Addiction: A Step-by-Step Plan to Rebuild Trust and Restore Intimacy. Paldrom Catherine Collins helps couples work through their sexually addicted relationships at Compulsion Solutions, an outpatient counseling service. Previously a Buddhist nun, she is married to coauthor and recovering sex addict George N. Collins, M.A., director of Compulsion Solutions and member of the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health.

Paldrom Catharine Collins on Sexual Addiction

George Lough

George Lough, PhD on Somatic Experiencing.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. Clinical psychologist Dr. George Lough talks about an approach to trauma known as Somatic Experiencing. Dr. Lough says that Somatic Experiencing is not therapy, as it is not really talk oriented. He explains that you do talk, but it is not story oriented, where you are telling the linear narrative of what happened to you in a particular experience and because you back off as soon as there are signs of emotional arousal, and to bring the client back into their body, back into their breath, and to let their nervous system calm down. There is a release of tension and the psychologist lets them have that experience.

George Lough, PhD on Somatic Experiencing.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D. Clinical psychologist Dr. George Lough talks about an approach to trauma known as Somatic Experiencing. Dr. Lough says that Somatic Experiencing is not therapy, as it is not really talk oriented. He explains that you do talk, but it is not story oriented, where you are telling the linear narrative of what happened to you in a particular experience and because you back off as soon as there are signs of emotional arousal, and to bring the client back into their body, back into their breath, and to let their nervous system calm down. There is a release of tension and the psychologist lets them have that experience.

George Lough, PhD on Somatic Experiencing

David Remmert

David Remmert, Ph.D. on Forensic Psychology.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

David Remmert, Ph.D. on Forensic Psychology.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

David Remmert, Ph.D. on Forensic Psychology

Gerti Schoen

Gerti Schoen on The Gentle Self.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Gerti Schoen on The Gentle Self.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Gerti Schoen on The Gentle Self

Peter Flom

Peter Flom, Ph.D. on Nonverbal Learning Disorder.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Peter Flom, Ph.D. on Nonverbal Learning Disorder.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Peter Flom, Ph.D. on Nonverbal Learning Disorder

Robert Santulli

Robert Santulli MD on The Alzheimers Family.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Robert Santulli MD on The Alzheimers Family.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Robert Santulli MD on The Alzheimers Family

Gregory Murray

Gregory Murray, Ph.D. on The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Gregory Murray, Ph.D. on The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Gregory Murray, Ph.D. on The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual

Brenda Knight

Brenda Knight on The Gratitude Power Workbook.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Brenda Knight on The Gratitude Power Workbook.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Brenda Knight on The Gratitude Power Workbook.

Dan Rhema

Dan Rhema on Trauma and Art.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Dan Rhema on Trauma and Art.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Dan Rhema on Trauma and Art

Interviews on topics in Psychotherapy and Mental Health

Interesting and thought provoking... Thank you, Dr. Dave, for continuing to bring relevant topics and unbiased interviews.

Thanks Dr. Dave!

Found transcript of your podcast on web.

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All I can see is interview with ...
Maybe lastname or some category guest fall in would be best.

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Wise Counsel Podcasts

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Jeffrey Young, Ph.D. on Schema Therapy", posted February 22, 2007.  For years, psychotherapy has been split into various camps or schools, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy and person-centered or humanistic therapy.  Each therapy school has different ideas for what therapy should accomplish, and how to go about doing therapy.  Faced with this complexity, many working therapists have become eclectic, meaning they try to use techniques from multiple schools at once.  Eclecticism can become very confusing and muddy for therapists and patients, however, when it is done inexpertly.  Originally trained as a cognitive-behaviorist, Dr. Jeffrey Young is the founder of Schema Therapy, which represents an effort to systematically and coherently integrate techniques from the various therapy approaches.  Though a general purpose therapy, Schema Therapy has been designed with the goal of helping personality disordered and otherwise treatment-resistant patients find relief.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Jeffrey Young, Ph.D. on Schema Therapy", posted February 22, 2007.  For years, psychotherapy has been split into various camps or schools, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy and person-centered or humanistic therapy.  Each therapy school has different ideas for what therapy should accomplish, and how to go about doing therapy.  Faced with this complexity, many working therapists have become eclectic, meaning they try to use techniques from multiple schools at once.  Eclecticism can become very confusing and muddy for therapists and patients, however, when it is done inexpertly.  Originally trained as a cognitive-behaviorist, Dr. Jeffrey Young is the founder of Schema Therapy, which represents an effort to systematically and coherently integrate techniques from the various therapy approaches.  Though a general purpose therapy, Schema Therapy has been designed with the goal of helping personality disordered and otherwise treatment-resistant patients find relief.

Jeffrey Young, Ph.D. on Schema Therapy

An Interview with Joel Paris, MD. on Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  BPD involves a chronic pattern of unstable relationships, impulsivity and emotional instability often accompanied by cutting (self-harm behaviors) or suicide attempts.  The causes of BPD are not completely understood, but likely involve a complex inter-relationship between inherited biological vulnerability and life circumstance.  Dr. Paris' message is one of optimism: Good treatments specifically targeted to BPD now exist that been demonstrated effective with clinical trials.  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is one, and Mentalization Therapy is another.  These treatments involve talk-therapy with a strong educational componant (designed to help patients learn coping skills), the validation of patients' inner experience, and a push to engage work and social relationships.  Drugs are not generally helpful when treating this diagnosis and in some cases can be harmful.  Most people who receive these treatments will experience an improvement in their functioning within a year, and across the lifespan, many people with BPD tend to improve with age anyway.

An Interview with Joel Paris, MD. on Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  BPD involves a chronic pattern of unstable relationships, impulsivity and emotional instability often accompanied by cutting (self-harm behaviors) or suicide attempts.  The causes of BPD are not completely understood, but likely involve a complex inter-relationship between inherited biological vulnerability and life circumstance.  Dr. Paris' message is one of optimism: Good treatments specifically targeted to BPD now exist that been demonstrated effective with clinical trials.  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is one, and Mentalization Therapy is another.  These treatments involve talk-therapy with a strong educational componant (designed to help patients learn coping skills), the validation of patients' inner experience, and a push to engage work and social relationships.  Drugs are not generally helpful when treating this diagnosis and in some cases can be harmful.  Most people who receive these treatments will experience an improvement in their functioning within a year, and across the lifespan, many people with BPD tend to improve with age anyway.

An Interview with Joel Paris, MD on Causes of Borderline Personality Disorder

Leslie Greenberg

An Interview with Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. on Emotion-Focused Therapy.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  Dr. Van Nuys interviews Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. with regard to Dr. Greenberg's Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy.  Dr. Greenberg is not so interested in promoting yet another name brand psychotherapy but has felt complelled to package his work in this fashion so as to get it out there, in the face of the dominant cognitive-behavioral mode of therapy which deemphasizes the importance of what he wants to talk about.  His therapy is focused squarely on helping patients to experience and comprehend their emotional process through the communication of an intellectual framework for understanding emotion, and the direct experience of emotion in the therapy.  It is the conceptual framework and the large base of research it sits upon that differentiates this therapy from older emotion-focused therapies such as gestalt therapy, Rogerian client centered therapy, and (shudder) Janov's primal scream.  The approach recognizes emotions as action-tendencies motivating behavior, and as people's most fundamental synthesis of their understanding of their situation.  It seeks to put people back in touch with avoided fundamental emotions as without awareness of avoided emotions, people are rudderless and disoriented.  Multiple research studies of this Emotion-Focused therapy have been conducted, resulting in firm support for the efficacy of the approach.

An Interview with Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. on Emotion-Focused Therapy.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  Dr. Van Nuys interviews Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. with regard to Dr. Greenberg's Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy.  Dr. Greenberg is not so interested in promoting yet another name brand psychotherapy but has felt complelled to package his work in this fashion so as to get it out there, in the face of the dominant cognitive-behavioral mode of therapy which deemphasizes the importance of what he wants to talk about.  His therapy is focused squarely on helping patients to experience and comprehend their emotional process through the communication of an intellectual framework for understanding emotion, and the direct experience of emotion in the therapy.  It is the conceptual framework and the large base of research it sits upon that differentiates this therapy from older emotion-focused therapies such as gestalt therapy, Rogerian client centered therapy, and (shudder) Janov's primal scream.  The approach recognizes emotions as action-tendencies motivating behavior, and as people's most fundamental synthesis of their understanding of their situation.  It seeks to put people back in touch with avoided fundamental emotions as without awareness of avoided emotions, people are rudderless and disoriented.  Multiple research studies of this Emotion-Focused therapy have been conducted, resulting in firm support for the efficacy of the approach.

An Interview with Leslie Greenberg, Ph.D. on Emotion-Focused Therapy

Judith Beck

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Judith Beck, Ph.D. on Cognitive Therapy applied to Weight Loss"  In this episode of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys speaks with Psychologist Judith Beck, Ph.D. on the topics of Cognitive Therapy and the application of Cognitive Therapy to the problem of weight loss.  Cognitive Therapy is a time-limited psychotherapy based on the cognitive model - a set of assumptions based around the notion that emotional problems are largely caused by faulty thinking habits.  If you can learn to identify and correct problems in your thinking, you can substantially reduce the amount of emotional pain you experience.  Cognitive therapy has grown from a singular treatment for depression to a therapy for anxiety disorders, and more recently, a therapy for many different sorts of problems, including aspects of schizophrenia, addictions, personality disorders and eating disorders.  Dr. Beck's recent book, "The Beck Diet Solution", applies the principles of Cognitive Therapy to the difficult problem of sustained weight loss.  In the interview, Dr. Beck describes some of the ways that thiner and heavier people tend to think differently, and how heavier people can learn to think more like thinner people, and thereby lose weight and keep that weight off.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Judith Beck, Ph.D. on Cognitive Therapy applied to Weight Loss"  In this episode of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys speaks with Psychologist Judith Beck, Ph.D. on the topics of Cognitive Therapy and the application of Cognitive Therapy to the problem of weight loss.  Cognitive Therapy is a time-limited psychotherapy based on the cognitive model - a set of assumptions based around the notion that emotional problems are largely caused by faulty thinking habits.  If you can learn to identify and correct problems in your thinking, you can substantially reduce the amount of emotional pain you experience.  Cognitive therapy has grown from a singular treatment for depression to a therapy for anxiety disorders, and more recently, a therapy for many different sorts of problems, including aspects of schizophrenia, addictions, personality disorders and eating disorders.  Dr. Beck's recent book, "The Beck Diet Solution", applies the principles of Cognitive Therapy to the difficult problem of sustained weight loss.  In the interview, Dr. Beck describes some of the ways that thiner and heavier people tend to think differently, and how heavier people can learn to think more like thinner people, and thereby lose weight and keep that weight off.

Judith Beck, Ph.D. on Cognitive Therapy applied to Weight Loss

Irvin Yalom

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Irvin Yalom, MD on Death Anxiety", posted February 15, 2008. Dr. Van Nuys interviews Dr. Irvin Yalom, a psychiatrist and Stanford professor about his new book "Staring At The Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death".  This book follows up on a theme previously explored in Yalom's earlier classic work \"Existential Psychotherapy\", namely that death anxiety permeates life and is a cause of many psychological symptoms and conditions, and that confronting one's own personal death can result in symptom reduction and a generally richer and more fulfilling life.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Irvin Yalom, MD on Death Anxiety", posted February 15, 2008. Dr. Van Nuys interviews Dr. Irvin Yalom, a psychiatrist and Stanford professor about his new book "Staring At The Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death".  This book follows up on a theme previously explored in Yalom's earlier classic work \"Existential Psychotherapy\", namely that death anxiety permeates life and is a cause of many psychological symptoms and conditions, and that confronting one's own personal death can result in symptom reduction and a generally richer and more fulfilling life.

Irvin Yalom on Death Anxiety

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Dr. Van Nuys interviews Keith Sutton, Psy.D. on Oppositional Defiant Disorder".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Keith Sutton, Psy.D. on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).  Dr. Sutton is a California Bay Area based Psychologist who has specialized in family therapy through his private practice partnership with Jim Keim, LCSW (a student of Jay Haley, one of the founders of modern family therapy).  Dr. Sutton notes that late childhood is all about individuation, and that some level defiance at this age is age appropriate.  The diagnosis of ODD occurs when normal defiance takes on an extreme character resulting in children having problems functioning at home or at school.  ODD is about children's need for limit-setting.  As children become more anxious about not having limits set upon them appropriate to their needs, they become more likely to act out.  Dr. Sutton describes his approach to treating ODD, which involves family and individual meetings, observation of family interactions, parental education and respite, a non-blaming systemic treatment formulation, and an eclectic array of possible interventions, offered with the understanding that several will likely need to be tried as there is no single intervention that always works.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Dr. Van Nuys interviews Keith Sutton, Psy.D. on Oppositional Defiant Disorder".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Keith Sutton, Psy.D. on Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD).  Dr. Sutton is a California Bay Area based Psychologist who has specialized in family therapy through his private practice partnership with Jim Keim, LCSW (a student of Jay Haley, one of the founders of modern family therapy).  Dr. Sutton notes that late childhood is all about individuation, and that some level defiance at this age is age appropriate.  The diagnosis of ODD occurs when normal defiance takes on an extreme character resulting in children having problems functioning at home or at school.  ODD is about children's need for limit-setting.  As children become more anxious about not having limits set upon them appropriate to their needs, they become more likely to act out.  Dr. Sutton describes his approach to treating ODD, which involves family and individual meetings, observation of family interactions, parental education and respite, a non-blaming systemic treatment formulation, and an eclectic array of possible interventions, offered with the understanding that several will likely need to be tried as there is no single intervention that always works.

An Interview with W. Keith Sutton, Psy.D. on Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Annie Fahy

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Annie Fahy, MSW on Motivational Interviewing".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Annie Fahy, MSW on the topic of Motivational Interviewing.  Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client centered set of psychotherapeutic strategies first developed by William Miller, Ph.D. (and then later developed by Miller and colleague Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.).  MI is applied by the interviewer to a client who is (usually) ambivalent about making a change to some maladaptive behavior they habitually engage in, such as drug use.  Despite their client-centered approach, motivational interviewers are directive with clients.  They use conversational therapy techniques as first developed by Rogers to advance a therapeutic agenda of helping to clarify and crystallize a client's motivation to change.  They are not cohersive or insistent about it, however, in contrast to some addiction therapy approaches that stress confrontation.  Motivational interviewing has been well studied, and has been repeatedly shown to help people reduce their problem drug or alcohol use.  It fits well into the Harm Reduction psychotherapy framework for addictions as the therapy is okay with such partial improvement and does not demand full sobriety from clients.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Annie Fahy, MSW on Motivational Interviewing".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Annie Fahy, MSW on the topic of Motivational Interviewing.  Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a client centered set of psychotherapeutic strategies first developed by William Miller, Ph.D. (and then later developed by Miller and colleague Stephen Rollnick, Ph.D.).  MI is applied by the interviewer to a client who is (usually) ambivalent about making a change to some maladaptive behavior they habitually engage in, such as drug use.  Despite their client-centered approach, motivational interviewers are directive with clients.  They use conversational therapy techniques as first developed by Rogers to advance a therapeutic agenda of helping to clarify and crystallize a client's motivation to change.  They are not cohersive or insistent about it, however, in contrast to some addiction therapy approaches that stress confrontation.  Motivational interviewing has been well studied, and has been repeatedly shown to help people reduce their problem drug or alcohol use.  It fits well into the Harm Reduction psychotherapy framework for addictions as the therapy is okay with such partial improvement and does not demand full sobriety from clients.

An Interview with Annie Fahy, MSW on Motivational Interviewing

Marjorie McKinnon

Marjorie McKinnon on Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Marjorie McKinnon on Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.

Marjorie McKinnon on Incest and Childhood Sexual Abuse

Kristin Neff

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Kristin Neff, Ph.D. on Self-Compassion

Daniel Strunk

Dr. Strunk, a cognitive-behavioral therapy researcher, describes results of his recent psychotherapy research.  Specifically, he has examined the contributions of two aspects of the psychotherapy process, rapport (or the quality of the relationship between therapist and client) and technique (or the consistency with which the therapist sticks to teaching core cognitive therapy principles within therapy sessions, and found that, given a pool of reasonably competent therapists (some masters and some journeymen), there is a direct relationship between the consistent teaching of cognitive techniques and early symptom remission, but not really a relationship between how well therapists and clients think of each other and symptom remission.  Dr. Strunk is quick to point out that rapport would likely have become more important if therapists taking part in the research had been seriously lacking in rapport building skills.  He emphasizes that both cognitive therapy for depression and medication therapy for depression have been shown to be effective treatments for depression, and that since the majority of depressed people go untreated, the most important thing is that people who are suffering get themselves into an effective treatment of some kind.

Daniel Strunk, Ph.D. on Cognitive Therapy for Depression

Diana Fosha

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Diana Fosha, Ph.D. on Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

John Kihlstrom

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "John Kihlstrom, Ph.D. on Dissociation".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews John Kihlstrom, Ph.D. about Hypnosis, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders.  Conventional clinical wisdom suggests that a precondition of the more severe dissociative disorders like DID is significant childhood trauma.  A causal relationship is implicit in this 'wisdom' to the effect that early trauma is thought to cause later dissociation in susceptible people.  Dr. Kihlstrom has specifically examined whether evidence in support of this causal assumption could be generated in the lab.  Importantly, he has concluded based on years of doing such research that trauma is not a precondition for developing dissociation disorders.  The true cause of dissociative disorders remains unknown, in his view.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "John Kihlstrom, Ph.D. on Dissociation".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews John Kihlstrom, Ph.D. about Hypnosis, Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders.  Conventional clinical wisdom suggests that a precondition of the more severe dissociative disorders like DID is significant childhood trauma.  A causal relationship is implicit in this 'wisdom' to the effect that early trauma is thought to cause later dissociation in susceptible people.  Dr. Kihlstrom has specifically examined whether evidence in support of this causal assumption could be generated in the lab.  Importantly, he has concluded based on years of doing such research that trauma is not a precondition for developing dissociation disorders.  The true cause of dissociative disorders remains unknown, in his view.

An Interview with John Kihlstrom, Ph.D. on Hypnosis, Dissociation and Trauma

Joshua Lerner

Joshua B. Lerner on the History of Object Relations Theory.  Object Relations Theory is an important development of psychoanalysis which is widely supported today within the psychoanalytic community.  The term object is really a stand-in word for people, as the theory really speaks to the importance of how a person's early relationships, particularly with caregivers, strongly influence their psychological development.  The importance Object Relations Theory applies to early relationships is in contrast to Freud's original conception of child development which was understood to be more biologically or instinctually driven.  In this Wise Counsel interview, Joshua Lerner, a social worker and psychoanalyst, talks about the historical development of Object Relations Theory; its origins with analysts like Melanie Klein, and how it developed over time under the influence of other analysts including Winnicott, Balint, Fairbairn, and Bowlby.

Joshua Lerner, LCSW on the History of Object Relations

Steven Hayes

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. on Acceptance and Committment Therapy", posted March 21, 2007.  Dr. Steven C. Hayes' Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT) is a relatively new variety of psychotherapy that puts cognitive behavioral techniques into the service of helping people excape their symbolic prisons by teaching them how to become more conscious of and less bought into and embedded in their symbolic prisons.  When painful experience is not avoided anymore people become more able to connect with what they value and then to act (commit) to actions that are consistant with their values (rather than consistant with avoiding what they fear).  Though experiential in orientation and practice, ACT is firmly based in science, and is supported by multiple clinical trials that provide evidence for its' efficacy.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. on Acceptance and Committment Therapy", posted March 21, 2007.  Dr. Steven C. Hayes' Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT) is a relatively new variety of psychotherapy that puts cognitive behavioral techniques into the service of helping people excape their symbolic prisons by teaching them how to become more conscious of and less bought into and embedded in their symbolic prisons.  When painful experience is not avoided anymore people become more able to connect with what they value and then to act (commit) to actions that are consistant with their values (rather than consistant with avoiding what they fear).  Though experiential in orientation and practice, ACT is firmly based in science, and is supported by multiple clinical trials that provide evidence for its' efficacy.

Steven Hayes, Ph.D. on Accetance and Committment Therapy

In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Jurgen Kriz on the topic of Self-Actualization, a concept central to the humanistic school of psychotherapy, and central to the work of Dr. Carl Rogers who was (and remains) arguably the most important psychologist of that school.  Dr. Kriz has recently written a book about self-actualization in which he attempts to bring Rogers' ideas up-to-date by integrating them with modern insights from systems theory (e.g., the basis for the family systems psychotherapy).  Self-actualization is not really about self-improvement but instead about the self-organizing principle, which is the idea that people are first and foremost intrinsically (internally) motivated, according to their desires, but that they adapt themselves according to social (external) demands.  Accordingly, there is no therapist-set goal in person centered psychotherapy, Instead, Rogerian therapists work to provide their clients with the support and understanding they need to recognize and act upon their own intrinsically present goals.  As Kriz says, "You do not need to impose order.  You can just help people to facilitate their inherent possibilities".

An Interview with Dr. Juergen Kriz on Self-Actualization and Person Centered Psychotherapy

Mental Help Net (Www.Mentalhelp.Net) Presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (Wisecounsel.Mentalhelp.Net), Hosted By David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "shinzen Young on Mindfulness Meditation".  in this Installment of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys Interviews Shinzen Young, a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Buddhist Scholar.  As a Westerner Fluent in the Practice of Eastern Meditation, Young Has Set Himself the Goal of Making Meditation More Easily Available to Average Western People.  He Has Reformulated Buddhist Concepts Into Language That Westerners Can Understand, and Has Developed a Website Through Which He Teaches Online Classes so As to Make Meditation Instruction Available to Most Anyone Regardless of Location Or Financial Resources.  His Third Goal is to See Buddhism and the Long Training Period Necessary to Learn How to Become a Skillful Meditator Become Obsolete Through the Development of a Merged Western-Eastern Neuroscience and Brain-Based Approach to Meditation.  He is Excited to Note That Part of this Merging Between Science and Meditation is Occurring Today With the Development of Mindfulness-Based Forms of Psychotherapy.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://Www.Mentalhelp.Net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Www.Mentalhelp.Net</a>) Presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://Wisecounsel.Mentalhelp.Net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wisecounsel.Mentalhelp.Net</a>), Hosted By David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "shinzen Young on Mindfulness Meditation".  in this Installment of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys Interviews Shinzen Young, a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher and Buddhist Scholar.  As a Westerner Fluent in the Practice of Eastern Meditation, Young Has Set Himself the Goal of Making Meditation More Easily Available to Average Western People.  He Has Reformulated Buddhist Concepts Into Language That Westerners Can Understand, and Has Developed a Website Through Which He Teaches Online Classes so As to Make Meditation Instruction Available to Most Anyone Regardless of Location Or Financial Resources.  His Third Goal is to See Buddhism and the Long Training Period Necessary to Learn How to Become a Skillful Meditator Become Obsolete Through the Development of a Merged Western-Eastern Neuroscience and Brain-Based Approach to Meditation.  He is Excited to Note That Part of this Merging Between Science and Meditation is Occurring Today With the Development of Mindfulness-Based Forms of Psychotherapy.

Shinzen Young  on Mindfulness

George Bonanno

Resilience

An Interview with George Bonanno, Ph.D. on Bereavement, Grief and Resilience.  Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  Dr. Bonanno describes lessons learned from his 30 year research career studying bereavement (grief in response to the death of a significant other).  His findings debunk many grief myths that are widely held, including the notion that grief is always a drawn out process, and that it proceeds as a predictable series of stages.  In reality, many people get over their losses fairly quickly.  Rather than stages, the typical experience is more like periods of sadness that gradually get less intense.  It is also the case that people normally experience intense happy emotions during bereavement as well as sad ones, moving back and forth between the two, with both emotions tending to be intensely felt but brief in duration.  The more that people smile early on during bereavement, the faster they tend to recover their equilibrium.  In many ways distraction and avoidance end up being better ways of managing intense grief than involved grief-focused conversations.  Distressed people can become sensitized by such conversations and end up having a worse outcome than they otherwise would.  Involved grief-focused discussion can be useful as a componant of psychotherapy for people displaying complicated (non-remitting) grief.  Formal therapy is generally not indicated for normal grief.  However, it can very useful for grieving people to have the opportunity to talk with an understanding and caring family member or friend if they desire it.

An Interview with George Bonanno, Ph.D. on Bereavement, Grief and Resilience.  Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  Dr. Bonanno describes lessons learned from his 30 year research career studying bereavement (grief in response to the death of a significant other).  His findings debunk many grief myths that are widely held, including the notion that grief is always a drawn out process, and that it proceeds as a predictable series of stages.  In reality, many people get over their losses fairly quickly.  Rather than stages, the typical experience is more like periods of sadness that gradually get less intense.  It is also the case that people normally experience intense happy emotions during bereavement as well as sad ones, moving back and forth between the two, with both emotions tending to be intensely felt but brief in duration.  The more that people smile early on during bereavement, the faster they tend to recover their equilibrium.  In many ways distraction and avoidance end up being better ways of managing intense grief than involved grief-focused conversations.  Distressed people can become sensitized by such conversations and end up having a worse outcome than they otherwise would.  Involved grief-focused discussion can be useful as a componant of psychotherapy for people displaying complicated (non-remitting) grief.  Formal therapy is generally not indicated for normal grief.  However, it can very useful for grieving people to have the opportunity to talk with an understanding and caring family member or friend if they desire it.

An Interview with George Bonanno, Ph.D. on Bereavement, Grief and Resilience

Edna Foa

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Edna Foa, Ph.D. on the Nature and Treatment of PTSD"  In this episode of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys speaks with Psychologist Edna Foa, Ph.D. a world-famous Anxiety researcher on the topic of treating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, better known as PTSD.  Dr. Foa describes the nature of PTSD, including the three major classes of symptoms that are associated with the diagnosis: re-experiencing, avoidance and emotional numbing, and arousal.  She also describes the best scientifically validated treatment for PTSD currently known, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, which involves a systematic detailed and repetitious retelling of the trauma story by the trauma victim so as to help them integrate their trauma memories, place them firmly in the past, and habituate them to the story so that they feel less arousal and anxiety when they think about it.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.  "Edna Foa, Ph.D. on the Nature and Treatment of PTSD"  In this episode of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys speaks with Psychologist Edna Foa, Ph.D. a world-famous Anxiety researcher on the topic of treating Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, better known as PTSD.  Dr. Foa describes the nature of PTSD, including the three major classes of symptoms that are associated with the diagnosis: re-experiencing, avoidance and emotional numbing, and arousal.  She also describes the best scientifically validated treatment for PTSD currently known, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, which involves a systematic detailed and repetitious retelling of the trauma story by the trauma victim so as to help them integrate their trauma memories, place them firmly in the past, and habituate them to the story so that they feel less arousal and anxiety when they think about it.

Edna Foa, Ph.D. on the Nature and Treatment of PTSD

Becky LaFountain

Mental Help Net (www.mentalhelp.net) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ed.D.  "Rebecca LaFountain, Ed.D. on Adlerian Psychotherapy".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Rebecca LaFountain, Ed.D. on the topic of Adlerian Psychotherapy.  Adlerian psychotherapy is based on the work of Alfred Adler, who is best known as an early disciple of Sigmund Freud who broke away to pursue his own independent line of psychotherapy.  Adler is the originator of many psychological concepts that remain popular today, including the the idea that birth order is an important determinant of personality, and the "inferiority complex", although they are not always tightly identified as originating with Adler.  Dr. LaFountain reviews Adler's contributions and clarifies frequently misunderstood concepts.  As presented by Dr. LaFountain, Adler was a man "ahead of his time" who anticipated hugely popular later developments in psychotherapy including positive psychology, family systems and humanistic person-centered therapy.

Mental Help Net (<a href="http://www.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mentalhelp.net</a>) presents the Wise Counsel Podcast (<a href="http://wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wisecounsel.mentalhelp.net</a>), hosted by David Van Nuys, Ed.D.  "Rebecca LaFountain, Ed.D. on Adlerian Psychotherapy".  In this edition of the Wise Counsel Podcast, Dr. Van Nuys interviews Rebecca LaFountain, Ed.D. on the topic of Adlerian Psychotherapy.  Adlerian psychotherapy is based on the work of Alfred Adler, who is best known as an early disciple of Sigmund Freud who broke away to pursue his own independent line of psychotherapy.  Adler is the originator of many psychological concepts that remain popular today, including the the idea that birth order is an important determinant of personality, and the "inferiority complex", although they are not always tightly identified as originating with Adler.  Dr. LaFountain reviews Adler's contributions and clarifies frequently misunderstood concepts.  As presented by Dr. LaFountain, Adler was a man "ahead of his time" who anticipated hugely popular later developments in psychotherapy including positive psychology, family systems and humanistic person-centered therapy.

An Interview with Becky LaFountain, Ph.D. on Adlerian Psychology and Therapy

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