Crafting Your Authentic Message

It’s time to reimagine therapy and what it means to be a therapist. We are human beings who can now present ourselves as whole people, with authenticity, purpose, and connection. Especially now, when therapists must develop a personal brand to market their practices.

To support you as a whole person and a therapist, your hosts, Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy talk about how to approach the role of therapist in the modern age.

Interview with Mercedes Samudio, LCSW, Parent Coach

We so enjoyed talking with Mercedes Samudio!

Mercedes Samudio, LCSW is a parent coach, speaker, and bestselling author who helps parents and children communicate with each other, manage emotional trauma, navigate social media and technology together, and develop healthy parent-child relationships. Over the course of her career, she has worked with adoptive families, foster families, teen parents, parents navigating the child protective services system, and children living with mental illness. Mercedes started the #EndParentShaming movement as well as coined the term Shame-Proof Parenting (check out the bestselling book here) – using both to bring awareness to ending parent shame. Mercedes is a leading parenting expert and has an amazing following on social media that allows her to reach the hearts of thousands of parents who feel heard and seen on their parenting journey. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, US News and Report, Woman’s Day, LA Parent Magazine, CBS LA, and Kids In The House. Mercedes seeks to empower parents to believe that they are already great guides for raising healthy and happy children.

You can read more about her parenting expertise at https://shameproofparenting.com.

In this episode we talk about:

• Shame-Proof Parenting and how therapists can shame the parents they serve
• Having a big message and crafting it for your audience
• Becoming an Amazon best-seller
• Being both a coach and a clinician
• Being a geek and using sci-fi and fantasy (especially Star Wars and the Marvel Universe) to talk about family dynamics
• Being authentic and vulnerable with your story
• Managing vulnerability through a strong sense of self and a supportive community

 Resources mentioned:

We’ve pulled together any resources mentioned in this episode and put together some handy-dandy links.

Shame-Proof Parenting by Mercedes Samudio

Homework Wars by Mercedes Samudio

Paper Raven Books

Credits:

Voice Over by DW McCann https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/

Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano http://www.crystalmangano.com/