Episodes
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Therapist Horror Stories
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
In honor of SPOOKY SEASON we asked our listeners and community for their horror stories. We didn't want the PARANORMAL kind, we wanted the ones that left our peers and colleagues in shock and terror for different reasons. As you will see, in this episode, the horror ranges from kinda scary to outright terrifying.
Elisa Dobler, LCSW-S and myself, Cristal Acosta, LPC-S, NCC, CCTP read submissions and react to therapist horror stories. We even tell some spooky stories of our own.
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Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Copywriting for my Private Practice Website
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
In another candid and unedited episode, I walk you through a typical day of working at home in solo private practice. I talk about why copywriting and letting your voice and purpose shine through in website descriptions is a good way to increase SEO and communicate with potential clients.
Mentioned in this episode: Mi colega, Mishka Kimball at https://www.thekimballcollective.com/
Monday Aug 31, 2020
The Intersection of Politics and Mental Health feat. Veronica Carbajal
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
The personal is political and the political is personal. Mental health is both personal and political! It's about viewing the person as a whole within a larger system. My guest today really, really gets this.
Lawyer and mayoral candidate, Veronica Carbajal, is a guest on today's episode to talk about her views on politics and mental health. If you are an El Pasoan, this episode provides a window into our city politics. We talk about #BLM, the City's COVID-19 response, gentrification, and Vero's plan on changing the City's governmental landscape. Get ready for some truth bombs #realtalk #therealdeal!
More about today's guest:
From www.veroformayor.com
"Verónica Carbajal is a progressive running a grassroots campaign to become the first Latina Mayor of El Paso, Texas.
Vero is a Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. lawyer and an advocate for the people, who has devoted her life to social justice, particularly, environmental justice, fair and affordable housing, disaster assistance, historic and cultural preservation, and animal rights.
Vero is a fourth generation fronteriza, raised in both Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso; and she is also a children’s book author. She is a graduate of Burges High School, Brown University and The University of Texas School of Law."
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Monday Apr 29, 2019
BECOMING AN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGIST- feat. Clarissa Arms-Chavez, Ph.D.
Monday Apr 29, 2019
Monday Apr 29, 2019
If you want to be a psychologist but are considering a non-clinical route, this is a great episode to listen to. Social Psychology, just like clinical or counseling psychology, is only one of the many niches in the psychology world. This area of psych explores why people do what they do, why we think what we think--biases, perception, preferences, familiarity (to name a few phenomena). To be a social psychologist also probably means doing research, meaning you're also probably an experimental psychologist. My guest today is Clarissa Arms-Chavez, Ph.D, a tenured associate professor and social experimental psychologist at Auburn University. She and I discuss: social psych, working in academia, clinical psych, teaching at a university, tenure, impostor syndrome, and being a department chair. She also gives advice to undergraduates thinking about going to grad school!
Must have info about today's guest:
Clarissa J. Arms-Chavez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Psychology Department at Auburn University Montgomery. She earned her M.S. in Experimental Psychology and her Ph.D. in Social Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Texas at El Paso. She has thirteen years of experience teaching undergraduate courses such as introduction to psychology, social psychology, social cognition, the psychology of prejudice & hate, and writing in psychology. She also has ten years of experience teaching advanced social psychology at both the Masters level (Auburn University at Montgomery) and the Doctorate level (Auburn University). In general, her research interests include the many various stigmas and prejudices involved within different social groups/categories (e.g., racial issues, colorism issues within the African-American community, sex and gender identity issues.
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Friday Apr 19, 2019
BECOMING A CLINICAL SUPERVISOR- feat. Dr.Kate Walker
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Hello, Through the Eyes of a Therapist Podcast listeners! If you’ve gotten this far in my latest series on becoming a therapist, you’ve heard about Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Clinical Social Workers, and School Counselors. You know by now that to become a therapist, you need to get a master’s degree and to become fully licensed, you must complete a post-graduate internship. Most of these last at least 18 months post masters and you need to accumulate 3,000 hours of supervised practice.
Supervised practice means that you must contract someone who is a clinical supervisor to oversee and sign off on your 3,000 hours. Clinical supervisors make an investment in provisionally licensed practitioners by meeting with them on a weekly basis, going over treatment plans, evaluations, personal issues that may be affecting work with clients, and progress notes. This is, probably, the last time a clinician is being closely monitored in their career before becoming independently licensed.
To explain this further, my guest on the podcast today is Dr.Kate Walker. She is an expert on therapist development and growth. Her work includes training fully licensed therapists in becoming clinical supervisors. She has also written a book called “My Next Steps, Create a Counseling Career You’ll Love.” Find this book on amazon for less than 15 bucks! https://www.amazon.com/My-Next-Steps-Create-Counseling/dp/1937514722
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Monday Apr 15, 2019
BECOMING AN EQUINE THERAPIST- feat. Janet Nicholas, LPC, LCDC
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 15, 2019
Equine therapy is a treatment modality that can be used for a wide array of client populations and issues in counseling. Equines are horses, and if I didn't do an episode about equines, I wouldn't be able to call myself a true Texan! I am so excited to release this interview because I learned so much about the healing power of horses in counseling/therapy. My guest, Janet Nicholas, gives us details on how to become an equine therapist (not to be confused with hippotherapy) and why horses are so healing in this capacity. I hope you enjoy this content as much as I do!
Must have info about my guest:
Janet Nicholas is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor from South Texas. She has been working in the mental health field for 20 years. Her personal and professional experiences have led her to engage in her current passion of equine therapy. She has her own practice where she sees clients in a traditional office, but also does some of her favorite work out in her "grassy office" with her equine therapy associates (her horses). She went to the University of Houston, St.Edward's University, and then received her Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology from Sam Houston State University. Visit her websites: www.trails-less-traveled.com or www.janetnicholas.com
Mentioned in the episode:
EAGALA: https://www.eagala.org/
E3A: https://www.facebook.com/E3Assoc
PATH: https://www.pathintl.org/
"Adventures in Awareness; Learning With the Help of Horses" by Barbara Rector
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BECOMING A CAREER COUNSELOR- Feat. Vanessa B. Monroy, LPC
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Through the Eyes of a Therapist Podcast has reached 10 thousand plus downloads! Thank you to all listeners!
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