Conversations With a Wounded Healer

Chantelle Thomas, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction treatment, trauma and health psychology. As the executive clinical director at The Manor, in Slinger, Wisconsin, Dr. Thomas provides daily guidance to the clinical team in addition to the individual time she spends with guests and their families. Chantelle shares her view of ways we can shift our medical system to be more supportive of both healthcare workers and patients. Sarah and Chantelle discuss their love for the field of addiction and learning to access one’s own darkness as a therapist. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sophia Brody, MA, brings her mastery of psychology and her intuitive practice with the elements/creative expression to provide a compassionate and sacred space for exploration. She offers life coaching and inner journey work through Transpersonal Muse life coaching and education.   Sophia and Sarah discuss bringing divine practices into everyday life, using the wound as a sacred object, and discerning between the voice of ego and the voice of intuition.   Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #recovery #selfcare #spiritualawakening #compassion #sacred #sacredpractice #intuition   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Molly Beane is the founder/CEO of clean beauty startup From Molly With Love. Molly started the company as a kitchen-table startup in 2016. Less than three years later, her products are sold in hundreds of retailers with international distribution. Molly and FMWL have been featured in Good Morning America, Well + Good, Pop Sugar, Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, BuzzFeed, Forbes, and other publications. Two Fairfield, OH natives sit down for a chat with a swig of Diet Mountain Dew. In this episode, Molly talks about her experiences growing up in Southern Ohio, recovery from addiction and trauma, and how spiritual awakening is necessary, but definitely not cute.  Conversations with a Wounded Healer is a proud member of @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #fairfield #ohio #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #addiction #recovery #addictionrecovery #trauma #traumarecovery #wellness #beauty #cleanbeauty #selfcare #spiritualawakening   Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rich Buino, LSW is a career-changing professional having received his Masters in Social Work in May 2019. He currently uses his clinical skills in clinical case management for older adult populations. His 17 years of past work experience in global PR and corporate communications provides many transferrable skills, including relationship building, interviewing, cultural humility in working with diverse populations, as well as writing and editing. In her most intimate interview to date, Sarah interviews her husband, Rich. They discuss their marriage: the ups and downs and the way they’ve transformed each others’ lives. Rich shares his journey from corporate America to social work and how he’s learning to be his most authentic self through social work and relationships. Conversations with a Wounded Healer is proud to be part of the @mhnrnetwork #healer #healing #woundedhealer #therapy #therapist #psychology #msw #socialwork #socialworker #marriage #relationships #communication #careerchanger #intimacy #unconditionallove  Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website (and full show notes): www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram: @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Sarah discusses the pain that can come from being an over-achiever and the depths from which that idea springs. She shares musings on her understanding of spiritual evolution and how life’s pain is part of that process. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

David is a cofounder of Artisan Clinical Associates, a small outpatient therapy practice in Naperville, IL. A native of Cincinnati, David studied psychology and religion at Indiana University before earning his master’s in clinical psychology from Wheaton College. He has counseled in private practice since 2002. He’s also a husband, father, guitarist, an amateur photographer and an avid reader.  David and Sarah discuss what it was like to grow up in a suburban town in Southern Ohio and how it shaped them into the therapists they are today. They also share their belief about what it takes to be a good therapist: knowing that you have no business being in this business of healing others. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Dawn Nickel is the visionary behind the SHE RECOVERS movement and a thought leader in the women’s recovery community.  Her personal recovery journey began in 1987 when she entered treatment for a substance use disorder, trauma from spousal abuse, and anxiety. Today, Dawn also identifies as being in recovery from cancer, codependency, grief, and workaholism. Dawn and Sarah share their mutual affinity for women supporting women, a non-binary analysis of the 12-steps, and the joy of recovery. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Dr. Heller is the founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model™ or (NARM), a unified systemic approach for working with developmental trauma and complex post traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). He is the author of Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship. Dr. Heller and Sarah discuss the underlying philosophies of NARM: de-pathologizing thoughts, feelings and behaviors; the roots of shame; and our innate hunger to connect to self and others. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Fresh off a podcasting high, Sarah discusses joy, happiness, and the ways she tries to cultivate both. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi

Rebecca Ching, LMFT is a Leadership Developer, Speaker, Psychotherapist, Writer, and Workshop Facilitator. She is the CEO and founder of Potentia Family Therapy, Inc. in San Diego, California and is a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator + Consultant and Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist.  Rebecca has also started Rebecca Ching Leadership Coaching and Consulting where she develops leaders through coaching and workshop experiences. She lives in San Diego, CA with her husband and their two children where they enjoy cooking, going to farmers markets, all things ocean and outdoor sports. Rebecca and Sarah discuss how as therapists they are no longer able to speak “human,” the two different types of therapists (those who are hot messes and know it and those who are hot messes and don’t…), and geek out about their knowledge of shame-resilience work. Let’s be friends! You can find me in the following places... Website: www.headhearttherapy.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoundedHealr/ https://www.facebook.com/HeadHeartTherapy/ Instagram:  @headhearttherapy Twitter: @WoundedHealr @HeadHeart_Chi