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Rebecca Doppelt is a clinician practicing in Los Angeles, who has really cool and interesting ways of conceptualizing and working with betrayal. She was kind enough to share with me her own original treatment method, which blends trauma and grief therapy, and how she uses it to ease people's pain and teach them how to re-parent themselves. 

S2E9: I Am the Net (with Marissa Esquibel) Marissa Esquibel is a thriving therapist in Claremont, CA, and the host of the Codependummy Podcast. Marissa shares with me the harrowing tale of starting a business right at the beginning of the pandemic, and how she helped herself overcome the setbacks and fear so that she can help others. 

As we launch into a new presidency, a new year, and hopefully a new era in how we treat one another, I took the opportunity to discuss Peace and Contentment with podcaster and friend Erline Maingot. Erline's viewpoints are always interesting to me, and she's not afraid of hard questions. Enjoy!

My friend and colleague Jackie Shapin has been getting a lot of training in the area of OCD recently, and was sharing with me some of the amazing things she's learned about how this disorder affects people, the unexpected ways it shows up, and most importantly, how it's treated. This conversation was a learning experience for me, and I hope it will be for you, too.

Alcoholic families are shaped differently than families without an addict. Nick interviews Michelle Lange to learn some of the issues and obstacles faced by people who grow up with an alcoholic parent.

In the season where are all perennially torn between eating delicious things and meeting others' expectations for how we should look, how do we make our choices? How do we love ourselves when we're told so often that we're not enough? Nick speaks with personal trainer Mandie Carroll, the owner of rockthebodyyourein.com, to discuss the right ways to build a healthy relationship with yourself and your body.

Tune in to this episode to hear Amoret's story and as we discuss all things related to narcissism.  

An amazing podcast with my friend and colleague, Tiffany McLain discussing how to kick some ass in business and in life.  

This week, Nick speaks with LA-based therapist and master embroiderer Ariel Hirsch, MFT on the subject of healing. I always enjoy picking Ariel's brain about broad topics, because I am always rewarded with wisdom. Enjoy!

In the last episode of Season 1, I brought back nearly all the guests from the first season to discuss our personal and professional responses to the racism that -although it has existed for centuries- is just now becoming more visible to people like us on a daily basis.This conversation, like the profession of psychotherapy itself, was populated disproportionately by white people. We all felt self-conscious about that, but agreed that it was better to have the conversation and risk being incomplete or exposing our own racism than not to have the conversation at all.As a group and as individuals, we welcome anyone's feedback on the content of this podcast, as it will surely contribute to our own growth as humans and as clinicians.

In this episode, I talk with Blacksburg, Virginia-based therapist Sarah Kate Valatka about the ways our lives were beginning to take shape during the beginning of the coronavirus. 

I spoke with Los Angeles-based Kirstin Carl, MFT, about the work that traumatized people can do to rebuild their self-esteem and find love and contentment. People who are survivors of trauma often feel the most alone and helpless of any of us- and Kirstin's voice is an important one for them to hear. 

I spoke with my friend Clint Berry, who always has a fresh outlook on troubling times. Clint shared with me the ways that he finds contentment, and accesses unconditional love for the world around him. I've always valued Clint's perspective- both because it's so positive, and also because it's often really, really different from my own. 

I spoke with Cincinatti therapist Rose Kormanyos about the work of therapy with individuals and couples who are highly intelligent and deeply cerebral. Rose had a lot to say about existential contentment vs. joy, which is always at the center of the happiness conversation. 

During this episode, Holly Anderson and I brave the challenges of wind-battered sound to discuss Holly's practice with highly successful women, and the fears that hold people back from leading the lives that they want. 

In the inaugural episode of More Exemplary, I talk with Virginia-based therapist Jenn Fredette, LPC, and we embark on a swear-laced discussion on the different ways that she and I work with anger, and the ways that we seek happiness in daily life.