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16. DBT Education: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (an overview)... changing problem behaviors, validating, key principles to use when combatting teenage depression and anxiety
This DBT Overview episode covers the biosocial therapy, behavior change tactics, dialectics, and validation. I go over a recent interpersonal conflic…
6 years, 1 month ago
15. How do you support a friend struggling with depression and anxiety while maintaining your own mental health?
I sit down with my best friend from home, who recounts what it was like watching me struggle, go to treatment, and come back home successfully. We di…
6 years, 2 months ago
14. The effect of depression and anxiety on a family… feat. my younger sister
In this episode, I sit down with my younger sister and we talk about how mental health impacts a family unit. We dive into her experience at home whi…
6 years, 5 months ago
11. Emily Thelen (MA+LCPC+CTRS) on adjusting to change, societal norms, therapeutic boarding school, wilderness, and recovering from depression and anxiety.
This week I sit down with one of my therapists from my therapeutic boarding school. We talk about how she saw me change, the difficulty of measuring …
6 years, 6 months ago
10. Jacob Sparks (LMFT) on therapeutic boarding schools, healthy relationships, coping skills, self love, and recovering from depression and anxiety.
I sit down with one of my past family and individual therapists (current therapist at the time of this recording) to discuss the work we've done. I a…
6 years, 6 months ago
8. A parent’s guide to adolescent treatment for depression and anxiety: family therapy, what it’s like sending your child away, and how it helped our family… feat. my Dad
In this episode of Nevertheless, She Persisted, I ask my Dad what it was like to be a parent of a patient at a residential program and a therapeutic …
6 years, 7 months ago
6. Building and maintaining fulfilling, healthy, loving relationships with family members, friends, and peers
Sitting down with a friend, we discuss relationships. We cover co-dependent unhealthy romantic relationships and friendships, evolving family relatio…
6 years, 7 months ago
5. Teen anxiety: how to cope, using skills, and surviving school
In this episode we talk anxiety. Between personal experiences, breaking down what panic attacks feel like, and why anxiety gets in the way of things,…
6 years, 8 months ago
3. A sister’s perspective: what do depression and anxiety look like? How do you support a sibling struggling? How did therapy help our family?
I ask my younger sister how she was impacted by my mental illness. From how the focus of the family shifted to how our relationship has evolved we di…
6 years, 8 months ago
2. A Dad’s perspective on how to support a teen suffering from depression and anxiety
I sit down with my Dad to discuss what it was like to see his child suffering from mental illness. Between conversations about the difficult decision…
6 years, 8 months ago