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Mindstories is a fascinating podcast focused on unraveling the many forms of psychological therapeutic intervention. Covering medication management, established & alternative therapies, & women’s mental health, our expert guests share highly informative & valuable information. Mindstories is hosted by Dr. Josephine McNary, a Stanford / Tulane / UCLA-trained Psychiatrist. In her practice, CalPsychiatry, she & her team focus on women’s mental health, mood & anxiety disorders, ADD, PTSD & addiction.
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Wednesday May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
Rebecca Kahn, LMFT is a therapist who specializes in working with individuals who have experienced pregnancy losses. She attended Pepperdine University for graduate studies and has had many clinical experiences including community mental health, the Juvenile Justice system and private practice. Following the stillbirth of her son, Jasper, in July 2018, she changed her clinical focus and became certified in perinatal mental health. Her practice has expanded into a small group practice called Saguaro Counseling.
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Caitlin O’Brient Bauer (she/her) is the founder of SF ADHD Coach, a certified ADHD Coach trained by the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA), and member of the ICF. She offers ADHD & Life coaching for adults in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She specializes in working with new moms, women in tech, entrepreneurs, and creatives.
Diagnosed with ADHD at 8, it took finding genuine interest in her first love, the theatre, to start engaging her strengths and growing beyond the limitations of her condition. Caitlin went on to earn a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Miami (Go Canes!) and work in professional theatre. She also has over a decade of entrepreneurial expertise running her own digital marketing & web design agency.
As a coach, Caitlin facilitates the work of understanding, positive inquiry, and problem solving with her clients. She creates a safe, non-judgmental space for exploration and connection, so her clients can work toward the lives they’ve always dreamed of.
International Coaching Federation
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Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Michelle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, certified Community Resiliency Model teacher, registered yoga teacher (RYT-200), is working toward her certification as a Trauma Resiliency Model practitioner, and a lover of movement, play and art. She is dedicated to social justice, celebrates neurodiversity, and is a staunch ally of the LGBTQI+ community. Michelle began her career as a transformative education coach with homeless youth and as an Outreach Counselor at the Southern California Counseling Center. In her post-graduate work as a clinical therapist in FSP-intensive services, she specialized in helping children, adults, and families struggling with co-occurring issues of mental illness, trauma, and neurodevelopmental challenges.
With a philosophy firmly rooted in somatic, depth, and humanistic psychology traditions, Michelle’s therapeutic approach blends multiple modalities such as Gestalt, Jungian, Trauma Resiliency Model, Play Therapy, Internal Family Systems, CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, and mindfulness practices. She cultivates a safe, collaborative space to help individuals, children and families reach their therapeutic goals and expand wellbeing in mind, body and spirit.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Dr. Morgan is a psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist based in the CalPsychiatry San Francisco office. She specializes in the integrative treatment of patients with mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, neuropsychiatric illness, and healing from trauma. Dr. Morgan is a board certified neurologist, and understands the complex interplay between the structural "hardware" and emotional "software" in the brain. Dr. Morgan has been featured in several media outlets including KQED and CBS for her work with COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Morgan takes an evidence-based integrative approach to personalized medical care. She provides both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, and draws upon many forms of healing to tailor a treatment plan to a patient's unique needs.
During training as both a neurologist and psychiatrist at UCSF, Dr. Morgan pursued additional training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, addiction psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, advanced nutrition, and sleep medicine. She enjoys working with patients with an aim of cultivating psychological growth and greater wellbeing. She teaches extensively on neuropsychiatry and neuroanatomy at UCSF, and brings a whole-brain approach to her patients’ needs.
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Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Dr. Morgan is a psychiatrist and neuropsychiatrist based in the CalPsychiatry San Francisco office. She specializes in the integrative treatment of patients with mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD, neuropsychiatric illness, and healing from trauma. Dr. Morgan is a board certified neurologist, and understands the complex interplay between the structural "hardware" and emotional "software" in the brain. Dr. Morgan has been featured in several media outlets including KQED and CBS for her work with COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Morgan takes an evidence-based integrative approach to personalized medical care. She provides both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments, and draws upon many forms of healing to tailor a treatment plan to a patient's unique needs.
During training as both a neurologist and psychiatrist at UCSF, Dr. Morgan pursued additional training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, addiction psychiatry, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, advanced nutrition, and sleep medicine. She enjoys working with patients with an aim of cultivating psychological growth and greater wellbeing. She teaches extensively on neuropsychiatry and neuroanatomy at UCSF, and brings a whole-brain approach to her patients’ needs.
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Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Dr. Ryan is a board certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist practising on the west side of Los Angeles. He attended UC Irvine for medical school, went on to UCLA-SFV for psychiatry residency, and then University of Washington for an addiction psychiatry fellowship. During his training he started researching ketamine as a legal psychedelic with healing potential, going on to author several articles and a book chapter, as well as giving talks on the subject, eventually starting a clinic where he provides ketamine assisted psychotherapy along with other mental health services. Additionally, he has worked in various research settings, accumulating published articles and presentations on such topics as ketamine for treatment resistant depression, cannabis, psychedelics, club drugs, hallucinogens, and addiction.
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Jack Lam (they/them) is an associate psychotherapist at the Yellow Chair Collective, a multicultural therapy practice focused on Asian and Asian American mental health. Jack is a genderqueer, non-binary Chinese Malaysian immigrant, who brings a compassionate, anti-oppressive lens to the work they do. Their work focuses on depression and anxiety treatment, suicidality and transgender/non-binary identities.
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Nita helps her clients navigate their strategies to work through major challenges offering responsive caregiving solutions in a warm and nurturing environment, through CBT modalities and a strengths based perspective. Nita utilizes a positive, holistic, and collaborative approach, building upon client strengths to produce meaningful change. As an individual who was raised between two cultures, she offers a warm and safe space to discuss cultural competency as it relates to her clients' life. For many minorities, there is a stigma toward psychotherapy; it’s not something that's spoken about with friends and family. Nita approaches each client from a unique perspective, tailoring treatment to individual needs.
Nita specializes in anxiety, depression, career, premarital counseling, love, dating, & relationships, children, teens, & families, and racial & cultural identity.
Nita holds a Master of Social Work from University of Pennsylvania and is licensed in both New York and California.
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Dr. Simone is a board certified adult psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and more), depression, young adult mental health, ADHD, and insomnia. She has experience working in a variety of settings including academic, community, private, and veterans affairs. She is passionate about her integrative and culturally competent approach to mental health care. While she provides medication management, she also highlights the importance of non-pharmacologic interventions including healthy lifestyle changes, mindfulness, and psychotherapy.
Dr. Simone is a Southern California native, where she also completed her education and training. She received her bachelor’s of science degree in human biology and psychology from UCSD, earned her medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences, and completed her psychiatry residency at UCLA and West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, where she was Chief Resident. She has been awarded the Psychiatric Education & Research Foundation Excellence in Psychiatric Education Award, American Psychiatric Association Resident Recognition Award, and the Western University of Health Sciences Psychiatry Clinical Chair Award.
She is currently offering both telehealth and in-person appointments at the CalPsychiatry Echo Park and Pasadena offices.
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Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Dr. Shannon practices Chinese medicine with a focus on mental health, internal medicine and sports medicine at Seyhart Wellness in Santa Monica. Dr. Shannon received her Masters and Doctorate degrees from Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and is the chair of the Points Department and faculty member at Yo San University. Dr. Shannon was a ghost editor for Acupuncture Anatomy: Regional Micro-Anatomy and Systemic Acupuncture Networks, and is currently researching the effects Curcumin has on Multiple Sclerosis. "My passion is to educate and lead clients, students and the community in prevention and preservation of the mind, body and spirit. When the mind, body and spirit are harmonized we live in balance and without illness".
Yo San University of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Using Chinese Medicine for Treating Depression and Anxiety
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Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
I am a qualified, insured End of Life Doula, and I have earned the Proficiency Badge with the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). I am certified through the End of Life Training from Going with Grace and have completed the Intensive Grief Training with Our House Grief Support Center. I’m a hospice volunteer and a grief support specialist. Additionally, I am a professional yoga educator and incorporate meditation, stress-reduction, and pain-relieving breathing techniques into my end-of-life work.
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Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Jackie Shapin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She provides therapy to adult individuals and specializes in treating OCD, anxiety and eating disorders. Jackie opened her practice at the end of 2017. Prior to doing so, she worked at The Bella Vita, an eating disorder treatment center, for eight years. Jackie had several roles during this time, including Clinical Supervisor and Program Manager. She has since expanded her practice to include clients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. In 2017, she attended the International OCD Foundation’s Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI) and trained in EMDR through the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Jackie’s hands on work experience and specialized training has provided her with effective tools to help many throughout her career and she is continually adding to her abilities as a therapist.
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