Finding You: by Dr. Brad Reedy

Emerging Adulthood 2019 - Ep 263 by Dr. Brad Reedy

Cascades' Therapist, Judith Sadora, takes us through the understanding of attachment and how it relates to racial identity development and secure relationships. Judith uses examples pulled from her experience working with transracially adopted families and interracial families.

Brad talks about factors that can lead to emotional dysregulation: exceptions, alcohol use, critical family members, and poor self-care. He describes emotional dysregulation and associated mental health issues. He encourages listeners to be kind to themselves and allow for all feelings rather than trying to force feelings we are told we "should" have.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions about length of stay in treatment, how to help siblings, and what makes Evoke Therapy Programs unique.

Dr. Brad Reedy welcomes Sanford Shapiro to the Evoke Therapy podcast. Sanford is our new Learning Specialist & Executive Consultant at Evoke Therapy Programs. He brings a wealth of experience from the cognitive sciences to help Evoke support clients with learning differences. Sanford talks about educational trauma and how universal design can help to cast a wider net to help more clients.

Dr. Reedy talks about how expectations and parental anxiety regarding perceived success impacts our children. He also talks about how parental trauma can affect the way we parent our children.

Dr. Talks explains ADHD, executive functioning, and the effects of academic and educational trauma. he talks about testing and the need for accommodations.

Dr. Brad Reedy talks about the idea of the "inner-child" and how that relates to parenting your own children. He encourages parents to explore their histories through the inner-child concept as a way to increase bandwidth in dealing with a child struggling with mental health and addiction issues.

Dr. Reedy talks about the stages and phases of growth that Evoke participants go through. He talks about how metaphor and stories bypass resistance. He talks about the risks of reducing children, or others, to their behaviors and suggests that we listen to what behaviors are trying to tell us before we try to change them.

A review of Brainspotting from David Grand's book, Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change. Dr. Reedy talks about Dr. Grand's evolution from EMDR to developing an accessible and efficient model for treating trauma.