Latest / The Mental Health Evolution / Ep 51: 10 Years of Trauma Specialists - a Live Episode
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- 0:00(Transcribed by TurboScribe. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) This podcast is part of the Frederick Podcast
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- 0:05Welcome to Mental Health Evolution, a podcast about
- 0:08what's changing in mental health and why it
- 0:11matters.
- 0:12I'm your host, Rachel Harrison, inviting you into
- 0:15honest conversations with people from all perspectives in
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- 0:22and all the folks in between.
- 0:24Let's explore what's working, what's not, and what's
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- 0:33Welcome back, everyone, to the Mental Health Evolution
- 0:37podcast, where we talk about the mental health
- 0:40industry and the changing landscape.
- 0:43Today is a very different day for our
- 0:46podcast because I am not going to be
- 0:49hosting.
- 0:50Instead, I am going to introduce two of
- 0:53my friends who are going to be hosting
- 0:55this podcast, and I am going to be
- 0:57interviewed.
- 0:58But before I do that, I would like
- 1:00to introduce Tom Lynch and Carlos Klein.
- 1:04So first, Tom.
- 1:06For more than 45 years, Tom has had
- 1:08the honor of serving others as a lawyer
- 1:10in the beautiful state of Maryland, initially in
- 1:14Baltimore and thereafter in Frederick, with his firm
- 1:17Miles and Stockbridge, integrating a new office into
- 1:21the Miles family.
- 1:22When taking the oath as a lawyer, Tom
- 1:24committed himself always to strive for excellence while
- 1:27observing the highest standards of professionalism with colleagues,
- 1:31clients, and the courts and opposing counsels and
- 1:34their clients.
- 1:35As of May 1, 2021, Tom retired and
- 1:38has worked part-time primarily as a mediator
- 1:41for the courts since then.
- 1:43This has given Tom time to provide greater
- 1:45service to this community, one of Tom's highest
- 1:48priorities.
- 1:49Since coming to Frederick, Tom has served as
- 1:52Chair of the Board of the Community Foundation,
- 1:55Frederick Community College, and of the Chamber of
- 1:57Commerce.
- 1:58He has also served on the Board of
- 2:00the YMCA.
- 2:01Most recently, Tom had the honor of chairing
- 2:04the Charter Review Committee for the City of
- 2:06Frederick.
- 2:07Tom has two daughters, Rebecca and Sarah, who
- 2:10are out and about in the world accomplishing
- 2:12remarkable things in their respective professions, but his
- 2:16most important attribute is being the support system
- 2:18for his wife, Carlos Klein, in her daily
- 2:22task of doing good and spreading joy in
- 2:25this great city.
- 2:26Welcome Tom.
- 2:27Absolutely, too.
- 2:29I'm the support system.
- 2:31And Carlos Klein is a leader known for
- 2:34her community service and philanthropic activities.
- 2:37Without knowing anyone in Frederick, Carlos moved here
- 2:40in 1990.
- 2:41Her earlier career had been successful in New
- 2:44York and Philadelphia with the Jones New York
- 2:46Company.
- 2:47In Frederick, she switched careers completely by working
- 2:50her way up from Gal Friday to Vice
- 2:53President with a very large building manufacturing company.
- 2:56By 2009, she retired and dedicated her time
- 2:59to improving the lives of women in Frederick
- 3:02County.
- 3:03This was accomplished mainly by creating the Women's
- 3:05Giving Circle.
- 3:07Carlos has participated on the board or committees
- 3:10of over 42 local nonprofits and businesses.
- 3:13Her passion is to connect the dots with
- 3:16no agenda or reward, desiring only to make
- 3:20the community a better place.
- 3:22A few of her boards include the Women's
- 3:24Giving Circle, Frederick Health, Homewood, Rotary, Frederick Arts
- 3:28Council, FCC Foundation, Mental Health Association, Downtown Frederick
- 3:33Partnership, United Way, Habitat for Humanity.
- 3:37Tom encourages her to spread joy and do
- 3:39good, and they vacation in Frederick because they
- 3:42love their lives in this community.
- 3:44Carlos is grateful every day for the opportunity
- 3:47to give back wherever she's needed.
- 3:50Thank you, Carlos.
- 3:51Thank you.
- 3:52And now I am turning it over to
- 3:55both of you to be the hosts of
- 3:57the podcast today.
- 3:59Okay, well, I'm going to start.
- 4:01And I can't tell you how tickled I
- 4:04am to be here with you.
- 4:06What an honor.
- 4:06And I am probably one of your biggest
- 4:09fans since I've met you years ago.
- 4:12And I want to talk a little bit
- 4:14about how I met you.
- 4:16Someone recommended that I meet this therapist named
- 4:20Rachel Harrison.
- 4:21And in my mind, you were a soul
- 4:24practitioner.
- 4:24I don't research anybody that I meet with.
- 4:27And so as we're sitting there, I said,
- 4:30well, where's your office?
- 4:32And you said at the time, it was
- 4:34five locations.
- 4:35And she said, I have five locations.
- 4:37I said, wow, like, how do you run
- 4:40between all those locations?
- 4:43I had no idea that you had this
- 4:46thriving, gigantic practice.
- 4:49And then you proceeded to explain EMDR to
- 4:53me, which I thought was such an amazing
- 4:56concept.
- 4:57And ever since then, I've just followed you
- 5:01and applauded you.
- 5:03And I'm grateful to know you.
- 5:06So I guess, Tom.
- 5:08I'll say a few words about, well, first,
- 5:10greetings all for all of you that are
- 5:11here.
- 5:12Thank you for sharing this time with us.
- 5:15And thank you so much, Rachel, for your
- 5:17kind introduction.
- 5:18And to be frank about it, Carlos and
- 5:20I are so thrilled to be here for
- 5:21your 10th anniversary celebration to be included in
- 5:24this.
- 5:24So we really appreciate your including us.
- 5:26And we're humbled by the opportunity.
- 5:29For those of you that know me that
- 5:31are here or that watch this podcast at
- 5:33some point, you're probably scratching your heads and
- 5:36saying, what's a reasonably well-adjusted, apparently senior
- 5:40doing in a place like this, especially when
- 5:44it's not my profession?
- 5:45It has nothing to do with my profession
- 5:47and my professional life.
- 5:49Well, the answer is pretty straightforward.
- 5:52About a little over two years ago, over
- 5:55a breakfast on a Sunday morning, which we
- 5:58typically share, Carlos and I, we came to
- 6:01the consensus view that I was damaged goods.
- 6:04And so I am here as a patient
- 6:08who came to EMDR after more than 50
- 6:13years from the date of the trauma events
- 6:15I experienced as a child and up through
- 6:18my adolescent and teen years.
- 6:21So I approached, well, we had that conversation.
- 6:25Carlos, by happenstance, had just met Rachel and
- 6:29said, I just heard about this.
- 6:31You might want to think about it.
- 6:32No pressure.
- 6:33But I thought about it for a couple
- 6:35of days and ended up calling and getting
- 6:37an appointment to get into EMDR therapy, which
- 6:40I did.
- 6:41And to be frank about it, given that
- 6:42I am a lawyer, I approached it with
- 6:44skepticism.
- 6:45Complete skepticism, as you would expect from a
- 6:47lawyer in anything we do.
- 6:49But after eight sessions, I emerged from EMDR
- 6:53not only a true believer, but frankly, it
- 6:56was transformative for me as a person.
- 6:58It was transformative for me as a person.
- 7:00It was also transformative for me in my
- 7:03relationship to my two daughters, who are, as
- 7:05you heard, grown and out and about the
- 7:07world.
- 7:08But equally important, it was transformative in my
- 7:11relationship with my four siblings from whom I
- 7:14had been disconnected for 35 years.
- 7:17Truly disconnected for 35 years because we had
- 7:21shared trauma, which blew up our family and
- 7:25were completely disconnected for a very long time,
- 7:27never having convened the five of us.
- 7:30So it introduced me to the capacity to
- 7:33bring the group together, which we did that
- 7:36spring after I completed the EMDR and actually
- 7:40just had our second annual meeting of the
- 7:43Lynch clan up in Massachusetts.
- 7:45And the restoring of the relationships with my
- 7:48siblings is something that I can now, frankly,
- 7:51go to my grave in peace.
- 7:53I have accomplished something that, but for EMDR,
- 7:57I would never have accomplished in life.
- 7:59And so that's why I'm here.
- 8:00I'm the patient.
- 8:01I love that perspective, Tom.
- 8:03Well, so trauma therapy is a word that
- 8:06I think many people have heard, but I
- 8:09don't know that the general public knows of
- 8:12EMDR. So let's go back to where, when
- 8:15you started, how did you decide on concentrating
- 8:20on EMDR?
- 8:21And then secondly, I think you should share
- 8:25when you made your decision to go from
- 8:27solo practitioner to expanding.
- 8:30Yeah, so I was a therapist for about
- 8:3310 years before I was trained in EMDR.
- 8:35And then once I got trained, that really
- 8:39started to change and transform what was happening
- 8:43in therapy with my clients.
- 8:45So much so that I started saying, I
- 8:49really love this stuff and eventually became a
- 8:51consultant and then a trainer training other therapists
- 8:54to do that.
- 8:55And I became very passionate about it.
- 8:58You know me, I'm pretty passionate.
- 9:00If I really like something, I'm going to
- 9:01be all in on something.
- 9:03And so I started saying, I really think
- 9:06all therapists need to know how to do
- 9:08this.
- 9:09Because we can only take people so far.
- 9:13You heard me say earlier today, being trauma
- 9:15informed is amazing in the therapy room, but
- 9:19that doesn't actually treat the trauma.
- 9:21And that is what we do in EMDR.
- 9:24It's an evidence-based approach, and we're able
- 9:25to actually treat trauma, literally changing how the
- 9:29brain experiences the trauma going forward.
- 9:33Which allows people that freedom, allows them not
- 9:36to have triggers, all of those things.
- 9:38And so I had also become a trainer
- 9:40in EMDR. And sitting down to think about
- 9:43creating this practice, I said, I really want
- 9:46it to be called trauma specialist.
- 9:48But at the time, there really were no
- 9:50practices named that.
- 9:51I thought this is such a risk because
- 9:53people are going to potentially be turned off
- 9:55by that.
- 9:56You know, I don't have trauma or what
- 9:58does this actually mean?
- 9:59But I really wanted it to represent who
- 10:02we are, which the vision was to have
- 10:04a group of therapists that we do have
- 10:06that are excellent at actually treating trauma and
- 10:11setting people free and hopefully influencing their communities
- 10:14from there for good.
- 10:16Well, congratulations also on the 10 years.
- 10:19And I look at some of the statistics.
- 10:22You've had 10,000 clients, which is amazing.
- 10:25So the seven locations, the 10 years, how
- 10:29did you get the word out?
- 10:31How did you let people know what EMDR
- 10:35is?
- 10:35Because it's complicated.
- 10:38You weren't too afraid of the risk of
- 10:40taking on the name trauma specialist?
- 10:42Oh, yeah.
- 10:43Just curious.
- 10:45100%.
- 10:45I thought this could crash and burn.
- 10:47But to someone today said, like, as entrepreneurs,
- 10:51right, we take big risks.
- 10:52It was like, well, this is either going
- 10:54to go really well or really bad.
- 10:56I have no idea.
- 10:57I have no idea.
- 10:58But spreading the word, I don't really know.
- 11:01I just think I talked about it all
- 11:03the time because I love it.
- 11:05So I don't know.
- 11:06And then as I trained more people and
- 11:08they have experiences, and Tom, like your experience,
- 11:11people who experience EMDR tend to talk to
- 11:14other people and tend to have that positive.
- 11:17And I think really word of mouth is
- 11:19what grew the practice more than anything else.
- 11:22Did you encounter any resistance in formulating this
- 11:26new approach?
- 11:27And just curious, because anytime you launch out
- 11:30on a new branch that maybe no one's
- 11:32been out on before you.
- 11:34Definitely.
- 11:35I think some people are still hesitant to
- 11:39approach us because of our name, maybe, and
- 11:42saying, I don't really have trauma.
- 11:44I just want treatment for depression or whatever.
- 11:46I think the other form of resistance, honestly,
- 11:50has been from the clinical side and other
- 11:53clinicians or practice owners who are taking a
- 11:58different approach.
- 11:58And there's some disputes in our world about
- 12:02which approach is better kind of thing.
- 12:04So that's where I've had the most difficulty.
- 12:06Well, I came to EMDR, as we just
- 12:10discussed, accidentally kind of because of a conversation
- 12:14we were having on a Sunday morning.
- 12:18And Carla's brought the subject up of, you
- 12:22know, she was concerned about the fact that
- 12:23I was always sleep deprived and I had
- 12:26restless leg syndrome.
- 12:27And she explained to me, which I didn't
- 12:29realize, startle reflex, which was chronic, that affected
- 12:34her sleep, obviously, and then affected my sleep.
- 12:38And we had the conversation, it got very
- 12:40deep because I said, you know, I'm frustrated
- 12:41as a human being and regret that there
- 12:44are so many things that I think I
- 12:45could have accomplished despite my success that I
- 12:48didn't accomplish.
- 12:49She said, why do you think that is?
- 12:50I think it's because, and I said, I
- 12:52think it's because of the trauma that I
- 12:54encountered as a juvenile, especially in my teen
- 12:57years.
- 12:58And so she then introduced me to the
- 13:01fact that there was this concept.
- 13:03And I went to it.
- 13:04But as I said, I came with total
- 13:06skepticism because, you know, it's 50 years in
- 13:09the rearview mirror.
- 13:10Do I really want to revisit all this
- 13:11stuff now at this stage in my life?
- 13:13So I would be interested in knowing, because,
- 13:16you know, I went through the eight steps
- 13:18that you went through in an eight session.
- 13:20And as I say, it was transformative for
- 13:23me.
- 13:23But if you have somebody like me that
- 13:26comes challenged, but is skeptical, how do you
- 13:31get beyond the skepticism?
- 13:32And is there a point at which being
- 13:35skeptical and a nonbeliever, in addition to having
- 13:39the psychological resistance to want to reopen the
- 13:43can of worms that is back there?
- 13:45How do you get a patient like that
- 13:48to move beyond that and actually accomplish something
- 13:51through the therapy?
- 13:53There's, I think, a lot of layers to
- 13:55that.
- 13:55But at the end of the day, I
- 13:57think people that are skeptical are my favorites.
- 14:01I'm proud of myself.
- 14:02A lawyer does a good thing.
- 14:06That's great, right?
- 14:08Because EMDR is really designed as a modality
- 14:11to follow the client's brain.
- 14:15And so we're not trying to force anything.
- 14:17We're trying to facilitate you experiencing your own
- 14:22healing journey and listening to your own brain
- 14:25and what it needs.
- 14:26And so there's an opportunity there for you
- 14:29to be able to try it out.
- 14:30But if anyone doesn't want to try it
- 14:33out, I don't think it's our job to
- 14:35overcome that.
- 14:36Well, do you have patients that come to
- 14:38you that want relief, but they can't get
- 14:42beyond the fact of not wanting to reopen
- 14:45the can?
- 14:46Yes.
- 14:47I mean, that's scary for all of us,
- 14:49right?
- 14:49And we have different things that we do
- 14:51therapeutically that can really help with that.
- 14:54But I often say what takes the longest
- 14:56amount of time is getting a client ready
- 15:00for EMDR. Once we start EMDR, the process
- 15:03is generally pretty quick.
- 15:06I can say as an observer of him
- 15:09going through it, the trauma that happened to
- 15:11him as a young man, he never spoke
- 15:15about it.
- 15:16Just it was one comment one time, and
- 15:19he said, I don't want to talk about
- 15:20it.
- 15:21And after he had gone through eight sessions
- 15:24of EMDR, which I never interfered and asked,
- 15:29how's it going?
- 15:30I just let him go through it.
- 15:32We were at dinner with Andrea Chaplin Delane,
- 15:36who is the president of Hood and her
- 15:37husband.
- 15:39All of a sudden, Tom said, do you
- 15:41know what EMDR is?
- 15:42And they were like, no.
- 15:44And I'm thinking, OK, where is he going
- 15:46with this?
- 15:46And he told the whole story.
- 15:50And it was the first time I had
- 15:52ever heard the story.
- 15:54And he was so calm, so OK with
- 15:58it.
- 15:59And from that point on, he could talk
- 16:01to anybody about the trauma that happened to
- 16:04him as a child.
- 16:06And is a bigger fan of yours than
- 16:10I am because he spreads the word everywhere.
- 16:13But I don't want to run out of
- 16:15time without talking to you about one other
- 16:17thing.
- 16:17OK.
- 16:18You partner with so many different organizations in
- 16:22Frederick and have changed so many lives that
- 16:26way.
- 16:27What prompted you to decide to start partnering
- 16:31with other organizations?
- 16:34Because that's pretty unique.
- 16:36It is.
- 16:36And I think it's really just honestly, it's
- 16:40been opportunities.
- 16:41So it's been meeting people in the community
- 16:44and starting to talk about what we offer
- 16:47as a practice and finding out what their
- 16:50needs are and then eventually figuring out that
- 16:53there's a pairing there.
- 16:54I think being more and more involved in
- 16:57this community, I was part of Leadership Frederick
- 16:59County, made a lot of great contacts, one
- 17:02in our audience here.
- 17:04And that's where a lot of these conversations
- 17:07have just sort of organically come up.
- 17:10And that's kind of what's led to that.
- 17:12I think it's just a step-by-step
- 17:14process.
- 17:15So do you envision that growing as time
- 17:18goes on?
- 17:19And do you have any changes that you'd
- 17:22like to see in the future?
- 17:23That's a question I was going to ask.
- 17:25I was going to ask you the question.
- 17:27Here you are.
- 17:28You have your crystal ball in front of
- 17:30us, in front of you.
- 17:32Take us out 10 years and tell us
- 17:36what your vision of how you would see
- 17:38the opportunities that this therapy provides being maximized
- 17:42in this community.
- 17:43Because I'm sure you have a vision looking
- 17:46about where you want to see this 10
- 17:48years from now.
- 17:49Yes.
- 17:49So I would love to have more community
- 17:52partnerships.
- 17:53Kind of our next vision that we've worked
- 17:56on with our leadership team is to have
- 17:58sort of four pillars of what we do
- 18:01as a practice.
- 18:02So one pillar that we're already pretty solid
- 18:05with is the idea it's all based on
- 18:08relationship.
- 18:09And for me, some of that comes from
- 18:11a very tech world and AI therapists and
- 18:15all kinds of things that are available out
- 18:17there.
- 18:17And so what is it that sets us
- 18:19apart?
- 18:20What makes us different?
- 18:21And it is that relationship-based work.
- 18:23So if you think about relationship to yourself
- 18:26is a lot of what EMDR and typical
- 18:29therapy works on.
- 18:30So we've got that pillar down pretty well.
- 18:33Relationship to your significant others, your immediate family,
- 18:37kids, partner is the other pillar that we
- 18:40have therapists already that work on that.
- 18:43And we're doing that.
- 18:44The other thing I find important is relationship
- 18:47to the earth, to nature.
- 18:49I think there's a lot to that that
- 18:52we miss as a culture.
- 18:54And that is something that our staff is
- 18:56starting to be trained in.
- 18:57And we have some plans for how we're
- 18:59evolving and developing that.
- 19:01And the last one is relationship to community.
- 19:04And that is us, wherever our location is
- 19:07in Delaware, Pennsylvania, or Maryland, being able to
- 19:11really interact with the community and figure out
- 19:15how we support community initiatives.
- 19:16We work with the Coalition for a Healthier
- 19:18Frederick County here.
- 19:20There's just a lot of people doing a
- 19:22lot of work on that.
- 19:23And we want to be a part of
- 19:25that, however it makes sense.
- 19:26Well, I'm an example of someone who is
- 19:28senior.
- 19:30And then the success story.
- 19:32Is there an age, like, for instance, can
- 19:35you work with the Frederick County Public Schools
- 19:37for children?
- 19:38I mean, you're looking at COVID and frankly,
- 19:40some of the depression that exists because of
- 19:42what's happening in the country.
- 19:44I'm sure there's a lot of grief out
- 19:46there.
- 19:47Is there an age-specific readiness that has
- 19:51to be there for somebody to get the
- 19:52therapy?
- 19:53Or is it?
- 19:54Not really.
- 19:55We do work with littles, too.
- 19:57It's work with littles and their parents, of
- 19:59course, not just like a solo session.
- 20:01But I would say probably about age 3
- 20:04to 103.
- 20:06Wow.
- 20:07And what, for you, and I recognize every
- 20:09patient might be different, but can you describe
- 20:13what success looks like for you as working
- 20:16through it with a patient and instances where
- 20:19what lack of success looks like?
- 20:22Sure.
- 20:23Because I'm sure it happens with patients.
- 20:25Yeah, I mean, and I think ultimately therapy
- 20:28is a partnership, right?
- 20:30You have to have the right match.
- 20:31It's a very personal journey.
- 20:34And so developing that relationship, but then success
- 20:37is really defined by what a client is
- 20:40motivated to do.
- 20:41And so we as therapists really work toward
- 20:45that end more than sort of our own
- 20:48goals, while also presenting opportunities and things that
- 20:51we see along the way.
- 20:53So I think success is seeing someone get
- 20:56where they wanted to go or even further
- 20:58than they wanted to go.
- 21:00And if that doesn't happen, I think we
- 21:03have to look at what's standing in the
- 21:04way.
- 21:05What are some of the barriers?
- 21:06Are those something that we can solve for?
- 21:08Or is there something different that's better for
- 21:11that person?
- 21:12Well, how can we help?
- 21:15Because it seems to me that trauma treatment,
- 21:19because of the extent of trauma that people
- 21:22never talk about, that exists in our community,
- 21:25exists everywhere, how can we spread the word
- 21:28and get people who should be aware of
- 21:31this, aware of what you're providing?
- 21:33Because I can tell you, I'm a much
- 21:36different person as a 73-year-old than
- 21:39I was as a 71-year-old.
- 21:40And the transformative nature for what it's done
- 21:43for me and for my family in the
- 21:46fullest sense is something that I'd love to
- 21:48share.
- 21:49And I'm sharing right here, obviously.
- 21:51Well, sharing on this podcast is awesome.
- 21:54I think people don't really understand, even people
- 21:58who are in mental health don't always understand
- 22:00that we have an evidence-based treatment that
- 22:03cures PTSD, period.
- 22:06Like, that's possible.
- 22:08It cured him.
- 22:09Yeah.
- 22:09So why not try it?
- 22:12I just tell people that are here that
- 22:14when I was a young lawyer, because of
- 22:16the trauma events, I got to a point
- 22:20where I created a cocoon around myself.
- 22:23And so I blocked my memories first of
- 22:28what had occurred.
- 22:29And I didn't actually remember what had occurred
- 22:31until I was in my late 40s, which
- 22:34is the first time I re-encountered the
- 22:37trauma that I had experienced.
- 22:39But I also blocked myself from my own
- 22:41emotions.
- 22:42And the result of that is that as
- 22:44a young lawyer, my nickname in this large
- 22:47institutional law firm was the monster, because I
- 22:50was a workaholic and lacking in empathy, both
- 22:54for witnesses and for staff.
- 22:56People were scared to death of working with
- 22:58me, which people that now work with me
- 23:00have no idea that the same person is
- 23:02sitting in front of them.
- 23:03So it's one of those things that I
- 23:05think not even appreciating as a 21, 22
- 23:08-year-old, what trauma has done to you
- 23:11is something that if I had had this
- 23:12therapy back then, my life would have been
- 23:15so different than it's been, because you're, you
- 23:17know, you got fear of failure, you got
- 23:19all these things that are wrapped up in
- 23:21the trauma that you experienced.
- 23:23And a lot of times I think men
- 23:25more than women want to like suck it
- 23:28up and not and say that was in
- 23:30the past and don't want to deal with
- 23:33it, even though they don't realize that it's
- 23:35impacting every day.
- 23:37Every day, every single day.
- 23:39Did you, did you have any final words
- 23:41that you want to wrap it up with?
- 23:43I just want to say that every person
- 23:46that has a story like you, Tom, is
- 23:48why trauma specialists exist.
- 23:51So I'm excited to see what the future
- 23:54brings.
- 23:54I'm excited for the work we've already been
- 23:56able to do in the team we have.
- 23:58So just thank you for the opportunity to
- 24:01talk about it.
- 24:02Well, congratulations on your 10 years and we
- 24:04are excited for you.
- 24:06And I'm excited for this community because once
- 24:08this spreads, it only can benefit the community.
- 24:11Well, and it has spread seven locations.
- 24:15So yay, Rachel.
- 24:16Thank you.
- 24:17Thank you.
- 24:18And thank you for having us, really.
- 24:19Thanks for being here.
- 24:21And for those of you listening, thanks for
- 24:23being here and listening to the Mental Health
- 24:25Evolution podcast.
- 24:26We will be back next week where I
- 24:28will actually be the host and be interviewing
- 24:30someone else.
- 24:31Bye for now.
- 24:32Thanks for listening to the Mental Health Evolution
- 24:35podcast.
- 24:36Join the conversation.
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- 24:39Send us your thoughts and tell us what
- 24:41you're seeing in your corner of the mental
- 24:43health world.
- 24:44Until next time, stay curious and keep evolving.
- 24:55Hey, everyone.
- 24:56I want to take a minute and tell
- 24:58you about a training opportunity.
- 25:01So this course through the Trauma Specialist Training
- 25:04Institute is called Foundations of Trauma Therapy.
- 25:07This course actually evolved out of a year
- 25:11-long training program that all of the staff
- 25:15at trauma specialists go through to become just
- 25:18that, to become trauma specialists.
- 25:21Foundations of Trauma Therapy is an eight-week
- 25:24live remote training that teaches clinicians how trauma
- 25:27actually impacts the brain, how to stabilize clients
- 25:31before reprocessing work begins, and how to build
- 25:34skills that many graduate programs never teach.
- 25:37It's for any clinician who wants a really
- 25:40thorough foundation in trauma work, whether you're just
- 25:43starting out or looking to build on what
- 25:45you already know.
- 25:46No EMDR training required.
- 25:49The course starts on October 20th, runs weekly
- 25:53on Zoom, and early bird pricing is available
- 25:56now through October 6th.
- 25:58And if you run a group practice, reach
- 26:00out to info at traumaspecialists with an S,
- 26:04training.com, and mention that you heard about
- 26:07the training on the podcast.
- 26:09We have special discounted rates for teams of
- 26:12five or more.
- 26:13The other real benefit to this is you
- 26:16get to be live online with other clinicians
- 26:20that are learning the same thing, talking to
- 26:22the experts and being able to ask your
- 26:25questions.
- 26:25The link to sign up is in the
- 26:27show notes.
- 26:28The training is Foundations of Trauma Therapy.