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…to help? Why can creativity feel safer than talking about trauma? What is MBT (Mentalization-Based Treatment) in simple terms? How do curiosity and the "not-knowing stance" support healing and relationships? What do therapists need right now to prevent burnout and stay grounded? Anna brings over a decade of experience across mental health, addiction, and palliative care, along with training in art therapy, EMDR,…

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…and that at that moment there was something in me and this was in a different state and I was just like so disappointed in our colleagues because these were colleagues of ours and it was just like you know they were talking of because the the the the client was talking about how in therapy for 18 months doing EMDR and wanting to have uh you know she would show pictures of her children. And so this is the therapist…

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…a little more of the what the how. Maybe if there's the science behind it of like the connection and what do you mean by that? Because people that are going to be listening to this, they're going to be like, "Oh, this is woo woo." But I have to get them to understand these are studied things that have been researched and seen that it's worked just like a lot of different modalities like EMDR or um brain spotting. So…

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…plug for the Florida CBT association. We're we're having our first uh networking event on October 16th at Lropical in Winwood. So, you know, it' be wonderful to see everyone. >> Yes. Yeah. And there's supervis I mean not super I'm a qualified supervisor. So, there are interns listening to this probably throughout the state of Florida. So, yeah. CBT like because some people are like well I don't know you know EMDR and…

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…your voice after trauma, this episode is for you. In This Episode, We Talk About: How postpartum trauma ignited Katana's creative journey Turning grief, loss, and identity struggles into children's books and film Shadow work, EMDR, and reframing old narratives for deep healing The unique mental health stigma in Caribbean and church communities Raising Gen Z and Gen Alpha with emotional intelligence Why storytelling…

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…clients the accept man or whatever it is the other things, but it's not that I'm spending eight weeks in a group. I'm like, no, you need to go see a DBT specialist that that's what they do or EMDR. So this is the same thing listener that IFS is the same. You would want someone to that knows that's a certified trained and I think there's levels. Yeah. Right. And so to me like I know what a manager is, a firefighter…

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…takes the chance with me to do this. >> Yes. you know because they're getting out of their comfort zone and that's what we teach in therapy as therapists right so even before becoming a therapist emd EMDR practitioner an instructor with the real courses you were someone searching for healing yourself you shared that taking the course in 2011 became a turning point in your life what was happening internally during…

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…amount of loss in their lives? Maybe grief. um maybe there was trauma and there was um and I kind of delineate it as trauma with a capital T or trauma with a lowercase T, right? And I learned that from a f fantastic clinician that we have in the field here down in South Florida. I went to one of his talks and he's a a phenomenal EMDR therapist and I actually learned that um from him and and it works really well with…

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…do you know of anything >> about finding a provider or >> well TMS just if someone's now curious about that is there a book or a resource that we can I put in the show notes that can you know maybe they could see the paddles or they could see it happening to someone like because that's a scare you're right that is a scary thing. I know like when I first went into EMDR I'm like oh my gosh they're going to hypnotize me…

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…a I'm a licensed mental health counselor. what I'm supposed to do is be a mirror for the person with all the tool sets that I keep learning because it's always some or whatever I choose like I am this kind I'm CBT only if you need DBT you need to go to so and so EMDR you need to go or even the uh what you were just psychedelic therapy I mean that I'm trying to find someone to come on my show to talk about that…

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…things happening, too. So, I like that you're saying that you go deep into patterns Yes. and mapping. So, that's what I want to understand because I know many different modalities have different protocols or like like say EMDR has these, you know, the 10 questions and they're trained in certain ways of doing this or Gottman. You know, you have that kind or CBT or you know, because people that are listening that have…

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