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the Informed Simplicity podcast
“I wouldn’t give anything for the simplicity on this side of complexity. I’d give my life for the informed simplicity of the far side of complexity.” - Adam Robinson. Email me at jordanthecounselor@gmail.com
Episodes
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EP 40: How to Know if Your Clients Feel Safe
As therapists we have to always be mindful of how safe our clients feel in our presence. This is not always easy to determine. But now we know. There are…
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EP 39: Jordan Harris "How I Became a Therapist"
"Connection is always, always, always a long term solution...Empathy and connection techniques are just the more powerful techniques." Contact me here…
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EP 38: Ryan Rana the Trana' on Mastering Your Craft
"A lot of learning comes through failure. That's been a good teacher for me." Contact me here: informedsimplicity@gmail.com Watch here on YouTube Learn a more…
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EP 37: Corona, Social Distancing, and the Psychology of Disgust
"One can imagine how revulsion at the physical signs of suffering, of disease, might have had a benefit in reducing contagion, but it comes at the cost of…
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EP 36: Katy Wells on Curating The Art of Learning.
Not only is it okay to make mistakes or to fail at something, but it's good in a way. If your not, if your not making mistakes and you're not failing your not…
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EP 35: Gottman on Affairs and Sex - A Review of What Makes Love Last
My research findings were not unique. The late sex therapist Bernie Zilbergeld studied 100 couples...to [his] surprise, his overwhelming finding was the…
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EP 34: A Critique of Esther Perel and other Charismatic Speakers - an ISP short
The Charismatic {Speakers}: This is the kind of person who spends all their time talking. Lecturing. Weaving shimmering webs of ideas into the air. They’re…
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EP 33: Meet You in McGinnis Meadow - an ISP short
"Attunement and responsiveness are hot topics, and the subject of a fair bit of research, in psychotherapy. The former refers to a therapist’s ability to pick…
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EP 32: Mark Andreas on Taming Troubled Teens
Don't get into a power battle, but if you do get into a power battle get back out of it. What I realized is there's not a rule that says once you're in one you…
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EP 31: Bil Lepp - a master class in storytelling
"The most important thing of any storytelling is you can't be the hero of your own stories. Nobody wants me to stand on stage for 30 minutes and talk about…
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BONUS: So you want to be a Supershrink?: the search for informed simplicity
About a month ago a friend and fellow therapist asked me to give a presentation to his chapter of GAMFT. At first I didn't know what to present on, then it…
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EP 29: Jesse Smith and Attachment Based Family Therapy for Suicidal Teens
"For me humility is super important. Humility, I think a lot of people think, means humbling yourself and bringing yourself down, But it's also about bringing…
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EP 28: Jeff Zeig and the Art of Therapeutic Communication
"It's a matter of utilizing, not analyzing, what the client is bringing to you, what exists in the total weave of the therapy situation, learning how to join…
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EP 27: Debbie Pridemore on Attachment theory, Therapy, and Christianity
"[Attachment] it's a protection systems that's built into our bodies, so when that's in distress, like with a couple, and you don't know if that person has…
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EP 26: Alan Berkowitz on using Social Norms for Social Change
"We go through life underestimating the goodness of human beings and we overestimating the negative and then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy." Learn more…
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EP 25: Connirae Andreas and Awakening the Wisdom Within
Watch on Youtube:, follow on Medium:,Listen on iTunes: "It can't be imposed on someone. It's for everyone who's interested in a better life." Connirae Andreas…
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Name change and new directions!
Hello! I'm pleased to announce the Informed Simplicity Project! This project is all about mastery in the field of psychotherapy. Part of this project will be…
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EP 24: James Hawkins, Ph.D on Racial Reconciliation
"I hear so many political pundits and talking heads now and when they talk about reconciliation or why there's is disproportionate levels of income and crime…
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EP 23: Dr. Anabelle Bugatti on excellence in EFT
If you really want to be a superior therapist then you got to keep getting trained. And you can, and it it will show up... I really care about not just being a…
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EP 22: Adam Mathews and the Digital Future of Therapy
"Most online schools, that are accredited, have a thousand people in their master's program getting online degrees, and so to then say that we don't do online…
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EP 21: Alex Vaz on Becoming a Practitioner Researcher
"It's not that we're doing nothing. It's that a lot of the things we're focusing on {don't} seem to map to outcomes." After talking with Alex I got the sense…
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Ep 20: Scott Miller and What it Takes To Be a Better Therapist
"I'm not interested in psychotherapy as an enterprise. I'm interested in doing whatever it takes to engage people in helping people help themselves to lead…
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EP 19: Denise Walker, A.B.D. on In-home Therapy
"How can we educate anybody when they have so much more going on outside of these 6.5 - 7 seven hours of school?" Denise Walker is one of the few therapist…
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EP 18: An Uncommon Case Report with Eric Greenleaf
"That's all I'm trying to do in therapy, I'm trying to get the patient to teach me how he does things well, [rather] than me to teach him what his mistakes…
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EP 17: Deb Dana and the Science of Safety
"[I call polyvagal theory] the science of feeling safe enough to fall in love with life and take the risk of living." I can't talk about therapy without…
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EP 16: Stephen Gilligan and Generative Trance
"Usually with trance you think close your eyes and go away. And that's a good thing to be able to do but I think we always should regard it as a special case…
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EP 15: Laurence Hirshberg on Neurofeedback and Neuromodulation
"The question I had was, well I could teach people how to cope better, I could teach people how to manage that arousal better, but could I actually turn down…
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EP 14: How to Get your Baby to Sleep (and build a following) with Alexis Dubief
{No one is successful by themselves.} It takes a village. And I found my village and I'm super grateful because possibly the 100,000 people we've helped on the…
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EP 13: Bonnie Kaplan and Nutritional Treatments for Mental Health
If we had a new antidepressant that resulted in a 1/3 remission in just 12 weeks, with no side effects, except having more energy, sleeping better, having…
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EP 12: Kathryn Sneed and Brand building from a Client's Point of View
"If you want to have a lot of clients you've got to make yourself a brand." We live in a world where therapists are expected to do more than merely see…
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EP 11: Enlightenment and Social Justice with Noelle Zamudio
"There's more than enough to go around. If you trust in that flow ... if you have an open hand, things can flow into that hand and things flow out of it. But…
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EP 10: Motivational Interviewing with Dr. Angela Bethea-Walsh
One of the things that’s important to remember is knowledge is not enough for people to change. Along the path of life we occasionally bump into exemplars-…
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EP 9: Lisa Diamond on sexual fluidity and attachment
“Our society does not respect attachment relationships that are neither family nor sexual and I think that’s a fundamental weakness and something that runs…
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EP 7: Karyn “Her Heart Beats for Therapists” Bristol
“When you watch your own tapes you’ve got to be so careful to not look for all your mistakes … how we learn is yeah, notice something you may have missed, but…
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EP 6: Talk’n EFT with Katie Gudde
My first guest on the podcast, and little-known wonder, was Katie Gudde. Practicing in the small (but growing) area of Northwest Arkansas, Katie Gudde is, in…
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EP 5: A “Little” Advice on Becoming an EFT Therapist
I stumbled upon Wesley Little’s blog Becoming A Couples Therapist a few months ago and was dumbstruck. Here was someone who spoke with both passion and…
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EP 4: Kershaw, Wade and the hidden common factor of therapy
Drs. Kershaw and Wade are, in my my opinion, pioneers of the field. Their approach to therapy which combines neurofeedback and hypnosis puts them on the…
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EP 3: The Hypnotic Therapy of Douglas Flemons
Ryan and I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Douglas Flemons. A wonderful therapist and a personal mentor we’ve been talking about hypnosis and change…
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EP 8: Sebern Fisher and Neurofeedback for Developmental Trauma
“Neuroplasticity, which we talk a lot about, is in the frequency domain of the brain. We know it’s not in the chemical because we provide chemicals and they…