Amy talks with Laura Hogan in today’s episode. Laura is a mental health therapist with an LCPC and a yoga therapist with a C-IAYT. Laura specializes in working with women prone to perfectionism leading to burnout, depression, and anxiety. More recently, Laura has created a resiliency and burnout recovery program for employees at Riverside Hospital in Illinois, USA.

Amy and Laura talk about Laura's background and how she got started in Yoga Therapy, the Yoga Therapy, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), the Well In Mind Employee Assistance Program, the needs of the hospital's employees and administration, and much more.

Make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy the conversation! 

They discuss the following topics: 

• Laura’s background as an Employee Assistance Program counselor
• How Laura got started as a Yoga Therapist in college
• The stigma around Mental health care vs Yoga care
• Yoga Therapy and Employee Assistance Programs& Well In Mind Employee Assistance Program
• Trauma-informed leadership as the key to success
• Meeting the needs of the employees and healthcare workers at the hospital
• Meeting the needs of the administration at the hospital
• How Laura deals with the disappointments and setbacks
• Advice to talk with hospital leadership and bring yoga therapy to the hospital by figuring out the pain points of both the leadership and employees

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