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- Ted Thao: Hello and welcome to Internal Insights, a quick, honest conversation about mental health in about five minutes or less. No fluff, no forty five minute deep dive you have to carve out time for, just a quick monologue where you can listen on your commute, on a walk, while you're making dinner, or even maybe when you're starting your day. My name is Ted Tao, and I'm a licensed professional counselor. I run a therapy practice in San Antonio, Montana. Texas called Internal Insights Therapy, where I work with adults and teens navigating through trauma, anxiety, depression, and the big disorienting life transitions that come with being human. A little on how I got here. My path into this work has been shaped by wanting to create a space where people don't have to explain themselves. I've seen so many people walk around carrying things quietly. Not because they don't want help, but because they've never had a space where they felt like they could share or get help. Where cultural context, family expectations, and the stuff that doesn't always translate into a textbook diagnosis actually gets seen. This matters a lot to me, especially working with Asian communities, where mental health conversations haven't always been natural to talk about at home. I use EMDR or eye movement desensitization reprocessing a lot in my work. It's a therapy approach that helps people process really difficult or stuck memories without having to relive them in exhausting detail. I also use a lot of dialectical behavioral therapy, otherwise known as DBT, which is more about building skills for handling really intense emotion and staying grounded when things feel too much. We'll get to talk a little bit more about these in future episodes. So here's what this podcast is. Every episode, I'm gonna take one idea. Something about anxiety, trauma, relationships, cultural identity, whatever's showing up for people in my practice, and just talk about it plainly. what it is, why it's happening, and one thing you can actually do with it. That's the whole model. No jargon unless I'm defining it for you. This isn't therapy. It's not a replacement for working with someone, but you get to thinking. Or gets you to feel a little less alone in whatever you're carrying. That's the goal. Thanks for spending five minutes or less with me. I'll see you in the next one.