Toni Talks Therapy
By Toni Aswegan
Find more on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at riverbanktherapy.com
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**this podcast is not therapy
Toni Talks TherapyNov 24, 2020
29 | Internal Family Systems Therapy with Tyndal Schriener
Today we are talking IFS! Internal Family Systems therapy. Tyndal Schreiner, MA, LPC is a licensed counselor, a writer, and an advocate who spends her days supporting women in therapeutic work and taking to Instagram to fight mental health stigma with some wit, humor, and a lot of compassion. She is unpolished, validating, and here to get real about the things we as a society don't want to talk about. Her goal is to support women in unlearning the shame that we have been conditioned to believe and in rediscovering and loving all parts of ourselves. She has advanced training in multiple modalities but has a true love for the IFS model. She believes the self-love trend needs some revolutionizing and she is here to lead the way. She ditched agency life to become her own boss and live out her trauma-informed ways in her little telehealth office in TX with her plants and two big pups. Thousands tune in to her social media to read "dear little me" letters on Sundays and to follow along with her work. Join in on the movement and connect with her on Instagram @tyndalelizabeth or sign up for her monthly mental health email at www.tyndalelizabeth.com.
You can find more about IFS through Derek Scott, Sue McConnel and PESI.
Sign up for consultation and mentorship with Toni! Groups for graduate students, new therapists, and therapist adding somatic work to their practice. Snag your spot at riverbanktherapy.com/tonitalkstherapyshop
28 | Self-Care, Boundaries and Social Justice with Sana Powell
Today we are talking with Sana Powell! She is an Indian-American licensed professional counselor who is passionate about holistic and culturally-affirming mental health. She enjoys creating inclusive psychoeducational resources and writing about diverse mental health topics. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @curly_therapist, and at her blog curlytherapist.com
27 | EMDR with Melissa Parks
Today we are talking EMDR with Melissa Parks! Melissa is a licensed therapist in private practice in the state of South Carolina. She has been practicing for 17 years this year and she specializes in working with adults with complex trauma and with couples. She is certified in EMDR and can provide consultation for therapists pursuing EMDR certification. She has had several advanced trainings that inform her work and some of her favorites include Attachment Focused EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, to name a few. She can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok @melissaparkssays
Find an EMDR therapist or training at EMDRIA.org
26 | Anxious Achieving with Dr. Nicole Thaxton
Today we are talking with Dr. Nicole Ayers Thaxton. She is is the Co-Founder of Atlanta Wellness Collective, a Licensed Professional Counselor, Online Educator & Speaker. She is passionate about findings in the fields of psychology, mental health, high performance, developmental and generational trauma and patterns, and exercise and nutrition. She uses that knowledge to help people find freedom from anxiety, overachievement, perfectionism, generational patterns, and people pleasing so they can grow in self-awareness and enjoy a fulfilled life.
IG: @cocothax & @atlwell
TikTok: @drnicolethaxton
Website: atlwell.com
25 | Radically Open DBT with Lauren Ruth Martin
We're talking Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT) today! Lauren Ruth Martin is a licensed therapist and owner of Novel Counseling in Tennessee. She is a woo girl gone mild who roots for underdogs and perfectionists. Lauren specializes in chronic depression, unhelpful perfectionism, and burnout. Her goal is to help people declutter their lives with compassion in order to get unstuck. This year, Lauren plans to launch her second podcast and is currently booking keynotes and workshops for companies and organizations. You can find her current podcast "A Novel Life" on Apple and Spotify. Her IG is @laurenruthmartin where you can also get links to all the things.
Find Lauren online at novelcounseling.com and her podcast A Novel Life.
Head to radicallyopen.net for more information on RO-DBT and to find a provider in your area.
24 | Routes of Safety with Jake Ernst
Today we are talking with Jake Ernst (Pronounciation "Earn-st") about the Routes of Safety model, the differences between feeling unsafe and feeling uncomfortable, and how the 5 Love Languages need a trauma-informed reframe. Jake is a writer, educator, and therapist in Toronto, Canada. Jake writes about relationships, unprocessed feelings, and unmet attachment needs as catalysts for unhealth and unwellness. Jake is the creator of the Routes of Safety model which is a roadmap people can use to help nourish their nervous system to increase safety and connection with themselves and others. You can find Jake on social media @mswjake and his website mswjake.com. You can also listen to his podcast This Isn't Therapy, which is a great listen!
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23 | Trauma Healing with Danica Harris
Today we are talking trauma healing with Danica Harris!
Danica is a therapist in Dallas, TX who co-owns Empowered Healing Dallas, a private practice where she provides trauma-informed therapy using an interpersonal, social justice, and attachment-based approach. Danica specializes in attachment and family-of-origin wounds, trauma related to sexual assault and intimate partner violence, vicarious trauma, and healing from oppression. Danica is passionate about training and provides education to other mental health providers in the areas of building an advocate identity, social class, size-based discrimination, and trauma-informed strategies in clinical practice. She is deeply invested in equity, social justice efforts, and destigmatizing mental health treatment, and utilizes her Instagram platform, @theempoweredtherapist to provide education and support to the broader community.
22 | Feel Deal Heal with Tiffany Roe
Today we are talking with Tiffany Roe! Tiffany is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor, CEO, entrepreneur, award-winning psychology teacher, & speaker on a mission to make therapy cool. She’s known as the "OG IG" therapist and is out to change the mental health game. Tiffany is revolutionizing modern mental health by sharing her Therapy Thoughts on instagram, offering courses on TiffanyRoe.com, and spreading education and real psychological tools on the Therapy Thoughts Podcast. You can expect no BS empowering help from this queen of mental health. She will help you make peace with mind, body, and food, and in her words, "feel, deal, heal."
We discussed how to feel, deal, heal, showing up authentically on social media as a human therapist, and more.
Follow Tiffany on IF @heytiffanyroe, and don't miss merch, courses and more at tiffanyroe.com!
21 | Racial Trauma with Ashley McGirt
We're back with Season 2! Today's episode features Ashley McGirt, the founder and President of the WA Therapy Fund. She is a psychotherapist, Tedx international speaker, and author. Ashley offers presentations, workshops, group facilitation, and consultation specializing in racial trauma, mental health, crisis response, social justice and racial equity. In this episode we talk about what racial trauma is, how it impacts Black people and people of color, and how to work through racial trauma.
You can find her on Instagram @TherapyWithAsh
You can order her ebook here A mental health survival kit for anti-racist advocates! — Ashley McGirt, MSW
and get involved in the WA Therapy Fund here: WA Therapy Fund Foundation
You can sign up for her Racial Trauma 102 workshop for therapists here Racial Trauma 102 Tickets, Wed, May 19, 2021 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
20 | A Year of Meditation: 2020
366 days! we're almost there! This episode we're talking about my commitment to meditate every single day this year. What a freakin' year to do it! I talk about why I decided to do this, how I stayed motivated, and what impacts I noticed. We also talk about what meditation is and how to get started if you're interested!
Meditation apps: Ten Percent Happier; Headspace; Calm; Insight Timer.
Sign up for Yoga for Trauma and Stress here: Yoga for Trauma and Stress — Riverbank Therapy, PLLC
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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19 | Perfectionism with Jen Douglas
Today we are talking PERFECTIONISM with Jen Douglas. If you don't already follow Jen on Instagram, go do it now! She is @drjensf and shares so many useful tips and reminders for us recovering perfectionists. Dr. Jen Douglas is a clinical psychologist, assistant clinical professor at Stanford University, as well as a wife and mother. She specializes in the management of perfectionism, anxiety, and imposter syndrome in high functioning adults. She also provides workshops, public speaking engagements and trainings for organizations and nonprofits. Dr. Jen can be found at @drjensf. Her new course on perfectionism can be found at drjenniferdouglas.com/courses
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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18 | Seasonal Depression
Hello, Darkness, my old friend. It's seasonal depression time, folks! Both in the world and in the podcast. Today we're talking about what seasonal depression is, how it differs from major depression, what causes seasonal depression, and what helps alleviate this experience.
Mentioned in this episode: Depression toolkit; Edie Stark Intuitive Eating episode; Amanda White Sobriety episode; Ten Percent Happier podcast episode #268 on sleep with Dr. Posner.
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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17 | Sobriety with Amanda White
Today we are talking alcohol with Amanda White--sobriety, moderation, how to get sober, resources, and sober curiosity!
Amanda E. White is a licensed therapist and the creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen. She specializes in teaching women how to set boundaries, engage in real self-care and work through shame. She is the founder of "Therapy for Women Center" located in Philadelphia and serving clients across the country. She is in recovery from an addiction and eating disorder and in her clinical work, Amanda specializes in supporting clients in the overlap and intersection of both. Amanda is also an experienced registered yoga teacher and leads yoga and mental health retreats around the world.
Follow Amanda on IG @therapyforwomen and her therapy practice @therapyforwomencenter
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Books: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker; Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington; Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker; We are the Luckiest by Laura McKowan
Recovery communities: the Temper ; @holly on IG; She Recovers ; This Naked Mind
16 | Sex Therapy with Mia Fine
You can find Mia's podcast with Kia @sexuali.tea , and Kia @pucksaplenty. You can work with Mia or the other therapists in her practice, go to PNWsextherapycollective.com and miafinetherapy.com.
Other resources Mia mentioned:
For therapist education and training: AASECT ; Books: Come As You Are and Burnout by Nagoski;
omgyes.com to explore your sexuality and learn more. Sex education for teens at Scarleteen. Erotic writing at literotica.com and erotic audio at dipsea. Check out also the Seattle Erotic Art Festival.
15 | Mental Health Stigma with Christina Iglesia
Find Christina on Instagram @dr.christina_ and @hashtagtherapyiscool
Support the action campaign at hashtagtherapyiscool.com --every month proceeds go to a different mental health services or advocacy organization. You'll be starting important conversations to end stigma, and putting your dollars to meaningful use in the community.
14 | Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Emma Knighton
We talked about what psychedelic assisted therapy is, how it works, what it's recommended for (and not), and what is happening for the future of this treatment modality.
Resources we mention:
Book: How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Training: California Institute of Integral Studies
Find a therapist: Psychedelic Support Network
Participate in research and learn more: MAPS
Learn more: Chacruna
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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13 | Politics and Mental Health with Yolanda Renteria
Yolanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Arizona with a certification in trauma and training in somatic approaches. She works in a community setting in an agricultural community serving predominantly Hispanic clients. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Masters degree in Counseling. She is also adjunct faculty Professor for the Social Sciences Department at Northern Arizona University. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing, and spending time with her family.
Find Yolanda on Instagram @thisisyolandarenteria and @DepoliticizeYourMind
and on Twitter @ThisisYolandaR and search Yolandra Reneria on Youtube for more!
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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12 | Self-care
Let's talk SELF-CARE! And no, it is not always "treat yo'self" spa days. We'll add some nuance to what self-care is, how to move through guilt, how to care for yourself if you feel you don't deserve it. Then we'll talk about what self-care can look like on three dimensions: physical health, emotional health, and social/spiritual health. Let's get into it!
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11 | Intuitive Eating with Edie Stark
Edie and I talk about: what diet culture is and how it is harmful, weight stigma and fat phobia, Health At Every Size and the ten principles of Intuitive Eating. This is a good one, folks, let's dig in!
Follow Edie on Instagram @ediestarktherapy and work with her at EdieStark.com. She is licensed in both CA and NY, so can work with clients who reside in either state!
Referenced in the interview:
-book Body Respect by Linda Bacon
-book Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Reich
-Instagram accounts to follow: @drjoshwolrich and @heytiffanyroe and @chr1styharrison
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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10 | Becoming a Therapist
We'll talk about: Toni's personal path to becoming a therapist, what to study in college, how to get experience if you don't have a master's degree, choosing between social work, counseling and marriage/family therapy master's programs, where/how to find a job, and some of what it's like to be a therapist.
If you're an Associate therapist in Washington state and need supervision hours, reach out! Also, if you are in private practice and are looking for clinical or business consultation, this is my FAVORITE THING. Reach out.
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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09 | Suicide Prevention
It's a big one, ya'll. This topic is near and dear to my heart. I'll share some thoughts (based on my list 15 years post suicide attempt) for those of you who are currently suicidal. We'll talk about individual suicide prevention: how to recognize risk and warning signs, and how to support someone who is suicidal, and what protective factors are. We'll also talk about collective suicide prevention steps. Take a listen, this one's important.
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08 | Stress
What, stress? Never heard of it. Said no one, ever., especially in 2020. In this episode, we'll talk about what stress is, how it impacts your body, how to recognize when stress is present, how to build stress resilience, and tools you can use right now to release stress.
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07 | Journaling
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06 | Attachment, Trauma and Telehealth
We talk about what "attachment," is, how it can intersect with trauma, and how it might impact your experience of virtual therapy. We also discuss things you can do to adjust your virtual therapy process if it does feel disconnecting right now.
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05 | Virtual Therapy
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04 | On Trauma-Informed Therapy
Spoiler alert: kind of! In this episode we talk about: the difference between a trauma therapist and a trauma-informed therapist and how to spot a trauma-informed therapist.
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03 | Getting the most out of therapy
We'll talk about the nitty gritty of therapy! What do I talk about? How do I open up? What if I feel stuck? How often should I schedule? What if I have therapy on a day I'm feeling fine? These questions answered and more.
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02 | Starting Therapy
Unsure how to get started in therapy? This episode will empower you with information to get the process of therapy off the ground! In this episode we talk about: why you might go to therapy, how to find a therapist, what questions to ask a new therapist, different therapist licenses to look for, and the basics of health insurance.
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01 | Perfectionism
In this episode we talk about:
-two ways perfectionism can show up
-why perfectionism can be so painful
-tools to work with perfectionism
-my experience of jumping into podcasting as a perfectionist!
-how perfectionism can impact anti-racism work
Mentioned in this episode:
Brene Brown "The Gifts of Imperfection"
Kristin Neff: self-compassion.org
Find me on Instagram @tonitalkstherapy or at my practice website riverbanktherapy.com
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Trailer (AKA: Is this thing on?)
A quick intro to Toni and the podcast!
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