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Conversations with mental health experts. We speak to psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, doctors, therapists and more. Their stories highlight the importance of thinking and talking about the mind - both for ourselves and to better understand those close to us. Submit episode questions to www.talklink.com.au/podcast
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Anna Davies is a Psychologist, Mindfulness Trainer and Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Anna runs a private practice called Ubuntu Wellness. Ubuntu is a South African philosophy which states that “I am who I am because of who we all are”. Ubuntu speaks of the very essence of being human; our capacity for openness, understanding, respect and compassion. Human beings are social creatures; we influence each other, depend on each other and can grow and expand together in the most powerful ways. This philosophy guides much of Anna’s works and it is her belief that by finding peace within ourselves, we allow ourselves to be in peace with the world around us.
You can connect with Anna via her website ubuntuwellness.com.au/
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Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
It is with sadness that Dr. Harte has passed away. Dr. Harte was a leader and educator of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidence based therapy used to help people with emotional injury and trauma. Dr. Harte spoke through the identification of emotions during therapy (there are 7 primary emotions: sadness, joy, anger, fear, disgust, interest/curiosity and shame). Dr. Harte explained how a trained therapist emotionally tunes into the feelings of their clients and helps process what they are feeling as well as using other cues to identify the emotions that someone may be experiencing.
For example fear is felt in the solarplex, a restriction in your throat represents words unsaid, weight or pain in your heart represents sadness and a churning or bloating of the stomach is often associated with disgust. Dr. Harte explains how, once identified she helped her clients re-attach meaning to past events and change the future emotional response someone may have as a result of a past trauma.
Dr. Harte new book for clinicians is an excellent professional resource: “Processing Emotional Pain Using Emotion Focused Therapy, A Guide to Safely Working with and Resolving Emotional Injuries and Trauma.”
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03 9935 7400 GriefLine National Helpline
1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
1800 858 858 National Gambling Help Line
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Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
It is with sadness that Dr. Harte has recently passed away. Dr Harte was a leader and educator of Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), an evidenced based therapy mainly used to help people with emotional injury and trauma. Dr. Harte walked us through the identification of emotions during therapy (there are 7 primary emotions, sadness, joy, anger, fear, disgust, interest/curiosity and shame). Dr. Harte explained how a trained therapist emotionally tunes into the feelings of their clients and helps process what they are feeling as well as using other queues to identify the emotions that someone may be experiencing.
For example fear is felt in the solarplex, a restriction in your throat represents words unsaid, weight or pain in your heart represents sadness and a churning or bloating of the stomach is often associated with disgust. Dr. Harte explains how, once identified she helped her clients re-attach meaning to past events and change the future emotional response someone may have as a result of a past trauma.
Dr. Harte new book for clinicians is an excellent professional resource: “Processing Emotional Pain Using Emotion Focused Therapy, A Guide to Safely Working with and Resolving Emotional Injuries and Trauma.”
Find Dr. Harte at https://www.melissahartepsychology.com.au/
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Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tuesday Dec 15, 2020
Tara mentioned that each of us experience a varying degree of hardship over a lifetime. When this hardship evokes emotion that is too intense for us to handle it can cause emotional injury to the brain. This emotional injury is known as trauma. Trauma falls into one of two categories, including little ‘t’ traumas (disruption to a healthy bond between a parent and a child, loss of a significant relationship, bullying, harassment, or other non-life-threatening events) and Big ‘T’ traumas (abuse, neglect, violence and other life-threatening events).
Although Big ‘T’ traumas are life threatening events, little ‘t’ traumas should not be dismissed. Research has shown that in some cases repeated exposure to little ‘t’ traumas, can cause more psychological damage than a single Big “T” traumatic event.
If left untreated emotional injury to the brain can contribute to psychological symptoms and diagnosis, particularly if it occurred during important periods of brain development such as early childhood and adolescence.
Tara Hicks focuses in a treatment model, which is a little like emotional surgery, called Emotion Focused Therapy. Listen to how Tara can identify emotional injury caused by little ‘t’ or Big ‘T’ trauma and help her clients to re-process the emotion associated with the traumatic memory. Sceptical? We were too but this is an evidence-based treatment style and Tara shares some pretty amazing case studies.
Find Tara at her clinic in Beaumaris - www.mindedpsychology.com.au
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1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
1800 858 858 National Gambling Help Line
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Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Tuesday Dec 08, 2020
Over 2018 to 2019 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated psilocybin (one of key ingredients in psychoactive mushrooms) and MDMA (one of the key ingredients in ecstasy) with “breakthrough status” given the huge promise they’ve both shown in the first stages of clinical trials. Psilocybin showed incredible promise for Major Depressive Disorder (something affecting up to 15% of people living in developed countries at some point in their life). MDMA showed significant promise for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. One of the most curious things about the proposed therapies are that they’re once-off or just a few dosed sessions that could cause lifelong changes unlike existing antidepressant medication.
The proposal is that the substances are to be taken under supervision of a trained mental health professional and this is where Dr. Alana Roy and Mind Medicine Australia come in.
Mind Medicine Australia believe that Australia should be taking advantage of the completed body of science and take lessons from the US to move forward to having similar therapies legally offered in Australia.
Check out and share this 2 minute animation to find out why psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy needs to be available to those who are suffering.
To better understand how these medicines offer promise in treating mental illness, please visit our website and https://mindmedicineaustralia.org/psychological-support-services/
Please also read https://mindmedicineaustralia.org/important-resources/
Mind Medicine Australia relies on tax-deductible donations to create a pathway for the regulatory approval of medicine-assisted therapies. We invite you to donate HERE.
Future research in Australia is on the way. If you would like to be kept aware of when such research is announced, and whether you may qualify for inclusion, please follow us on facebook, twitter and join our mailing list and attend our next educational events.
There are some ways to stay in touch and become involved in the meantime.
Dr Alana Roy (Ph. D Psychology, B. A Social Work (MHSW))
National Practice Manager Psychological Services
Dr Alana Roy is a psychologist, social worker and therapist and has spent the last 13 years working in mental health, suicide prevention, trauma, sexual abuse and family violence and the disability sector. Alana has worked with borderline personality and dissociative identity disorder in various roles in the community such as; Rape Crisis Centres with victims of ritual abuse, childhood and adult sexual assault, supporting women in the sex industry, survivors of human trafficking and now as a psychedelic integration specialist. Alana focuses on harm minimisation, community and connection.
She is dedicated to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy and plant medicines. She has engaged with, and provides integration therapeutic support services for communities across Australia. Alana works at several universities as a Research Fellow and supervisor of students on placement. Alana passionately advocates for public policy, community education and legislative changes so that these treatments are regulated and supported by a strong, connected and skilled sector.
Alana utilizes a range of therapies such as emotion focused therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness and meditation approaches. In Alana’s spare time she is kept busy by her young sons, her love of traveling the world, and connecting with the diverse and creative medicine community.
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
(Part 2 of 2) This week we complete our conversation about Borderline Personality Disorder, possibly one of the most misunderstood and confusing of mental illnesses. Dr. Yvette Vardy speaks specifically about an evidence-based-treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder called “Dialectical Behavior Therapy” (DBT). Find out what this therapy is and how it can be used to help those who have Borderline Personality Disorder.
Join us for a free webinar with Dr. Vardy on Mon 14-Dec at 7pm.
Register here: https://www.yvettevardy.com/events/ask-me-anything
Dr. Vardy has developed an online training course on DBT, connect in with Dr. Vardy or check out her online courses at https://www.yvettevardy.com/
Although becoming a skilled DBT therapist requires in-depth training and experience, Dr. Vardy wishes to emphasize that there are a number of other effective psychological treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder. Even for health care providers in supportive roles, there are now well established, evidence based generalist approaches that are known to be effective. This means we can all learn to engage with confidence and remain therapeutic, regardless of our role.
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
(Part 1 of 2) This week we talk about Borderline Personality Disorders, possibly one of the most misunderstood and confusing of mental illnesses. Dr. Yvette Vardy helps us navigate this topic with skill, sensitivity and a huge amount of insight. As a clinical psychologist with a doctorate in the area, Dr. Vardy is passionate about a specific treatment called “Dialectical Behavior Therapy”. Find out what Borderline Personality Disorder is and how it can be managed.
Join us for a free webinar with Dr. Vardy on Mon 14-Dec at 7pm.
Register here: https://www.yvettevardy.com/events/ask-me-anything
Dr. Vardy has developed an online training course on DBT, connect in with Dr. Vardy or check out her online courses at https://www.yvettevardy.com/
Also, the Royal Commission referred to in our conversation was still ongoing at the time of this conversation. We look forward to seeing the outcome of this Commission.
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1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
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Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Tuesday Nov 17, 2020
Professor Dan Lubman is an addictions expert. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University, the director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, and the director of a not for profit, Turning Point, that helps people struggling with addictions. This is part 2 of a 2 part conversation. In this part, we talk about social media addictions specifically.
This podcast also tees into a documentary “Addicted Australia” that Prof Dan and his team with Blackfella Films have made for SBS, following the stories of people struggling with different addictions. It airs on 10-Nov-2020 and is then freely available at sbs.com.au/ondemand/
Turning Point are also running a campaign to “Rethink Addiction” where you can read people’s stories and even share your own as well as join a petition to raise awareness of increase funding for addiction.
Want to ask Prof Dan a question? You can do so at talklink.com.au/podcast
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Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Tuesday Nov 10, 2020
Professor Dan Lubman is an addictions expert. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University, the director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, and the director of a not for profit, Turning Point, that helps people struggling with addictions. This is part 1 of a 2 part conversation. First up we chat alcohol, drugs and gambling.
This podcast also tees into a documentary “Addicted Australia” that Prof Dan and his team with Blackfella Films have made for SBS, following the stories of people struggling with different addictions. It airs on 10-Nov-2020 and is then freely available at sbs.com.au/ondemand/
Turning Point are also running a campaign to “Rethink Addiction” where you can read people’s stories and even share your own as well as join a petition to raise awareness of increase funding for addiction.
Want to ask Prof Dan a question? You can do so at talklink.com.au/podcast
For emergency support contact:
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1300 726 306 Perinatal Anxiety and Depression (PANDA) National Helpline
03 9935 7400 GriefLine National Helpline
1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
1800 858 858 National Gambling Help Line
1300 22 46 36 Beyond Blue
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
It turns out that sometimes having a baby brings things to the forefront that you may not have noticed before. In the case of Josie, her General Anxiety expressed itself as a birth related anxiety and depression with both of her kids. Now, a passionate ambassador for perinatal depression and anxiety, Josie is sharing her story online, through her platform, “Smiling After PND”. Josie has featured on major publications, websites and is a public presenter, visiting workplaces and institutions as she continues her quest to increase awareness and remove sigma.
You can find Josie at:
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1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
1800 858 858 National Gambling Help Line
For emergency support contact:
000 for police, ambulance or fire services
13 11 14 for Lifeline, a crisis support and suicide prevention service for all Australians
1300 726 306 Perinatal Anxiety and Depression (PANDA) National Helpline
03 9935 7400 GriefLine National Helpline
1800 250 015 Alcohol and Drug Support Line
1800 858 858 National Gambling Help Line
1300 22 46 36 Beyond Blue