Traci Pirri is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 plus years of experience working with trauma survivors. She uses and teaches a comprehensive trauma approach at her group practice called "Hope for the Journey" in Round Rock, Texas. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled. "If you're always going to something to numb, then your body is going to have to get louder and louder and louder to get your attention." "You're not crazy. Absolutely not. And once you understand the PTSD kind of way that your brain works you can very easily teach yourself how to get o ..read more

Suzy Soulshine is a trained Drum & Rhythm Facilitator. She uses an evidence based program called HealthRhythms to help people relax, connect, re-energize and heal. Suzy also facilitates monthly drum circles to connect people to community and the healing power of rhythm. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled. "If you engage in an activity, whether it be drumming or dance or, or something where you're utilizing rythym and movement, if you feel amazing afterwards, that's not an accident." "The universal birthright is the heartbeat. It's one thing all of human ..read more

Katy Manganella is a licensed professional counselor and a registered yoga teacher. We talk about Katy's personal story of embodied healing, experiential knowing, and how to use breath to soothe our nervous systems. Katy is the founder of Austin City Counseling and runs a therapeutic yoga group at the Center for Grief and Loss in Austin, TX. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled. "I knew these things academically, but I hadn't experienced them. It was through the physical body work of yoga that I got back in touch with myself." "If you could find the steps to ..read more

Marshall Lyles is a supervisor to LMFT's, LPC's, and RPT's and an EMDR international association approved consultant. We talk about how he got in to the field, the power of expressive arts therapy, and what he has learned about being human through his career as a therapist. Marshall was my first student internship supervisor. I have so much respect for him and I hope the felt safety one experiences with him translates in this podcast format. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled, "I think if we could raise a generation of people who trust in their own creativ ..read more

Suzy Soulshine is a trained Drum & Rhythm Facilitator. She uses an evidence based program called HealthRhythms to help people relax, connect, re-energize and heal. Suzy also facilitates monthly drum circles to connect people to community and the healing power of rhythm. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled. "If you engage in an activity, whether it be drumming or dance or, or something where you're utilizing rythym and movement, if you feel amazing afterwards, that's not an accident." "The universal birthright is the heartbeat. It's one thing all of human ..read more

Here's where you can learn a bit more about my heart for this podcast and where I'm coming from. Make sure to subscribe so you'll get to hear from all the counselors, helpers, and healers coming on the show ..read more

Katy Manganella is a licensed professional counselor and a registered yoga teacher. We talk about Katy's personal story of embodied healing, experiential knowing, and how to use breath to soothe our nervous systems. Katy is the founder of Austin City Counseling and runs a therapeutic yoga group at the Center for Grief and Loss in Austin, TX. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled. "I knew these things academically, but I hadn't experienced them. It was through the physical body work of yoga that I got back in touch with myself." "If you could find the steps to ..read more

Marshall Lyles is a supervisor to LMFT's, LPC's, and RPT's and an EMDR international association approved consultant. We talk about how he got in to the field, the power of expressive arts therapy, and what he has learned about being human through his career as a therapist. Marshall was my first student internship supervisor. I have so much respect for him and I hope the felt safety one experiences with him translates in this podcast format. Here's a preview of the episode in the form of a couple quotes I pulled, "I think if we could raise a generation of people who trust in their own creativ ..read more

Here's where you can learn a bit more about my heart for this podcast and where I'm coming from. Make sure to subscribe so you'll get to hear from all the counselors, helpers, and healers coming on the show ..read more