Pebble Ripple: Exploring Human Connection through Mental Health
This podcast is transitioning to a new title from Mentalhealth5. I request your patience with the transition.
In this podcast, I will explore all things mental health and will be set up in a miniseries format. The first series will address basic information regarding therapy; differences between types of mental health clinicians, types of counseling environments and third-party payers, etc. Future miniseries will address, the brain and talk therapy, child & adolescent mental health, mental health and aging, post-pandemic mental health and many more!
Episodes
10 episodes
It's All in How We Interpret it: A brief discussion addressing how our perception affects our mental health.
Have you ever noticed how two people can have the same experience and have two totally different perceptions of the experience? For example, one person may look outside when it's raining and think "This is just great, might have known it would ...
The Brain and Diet
This episode was originally aired January 2023.In this episode, we have the pleasure of engaging with Linda Taylor, who will enlighten us on matters of diet and the brain. She also discusses diet and its relationship to the prevention of...
The Brain and Gut Health
Join me for a brief and somewhat technical episode examining the relationship between the brain and the gut. The relationship between the brain and gut health is complex and bidirectional, often referred to as the "gut-brain axis."&...
Anxiety: "Get me off this by-pass!"
In this episode, I'll talk a little about what's going on in our brain when we have high levels of anxiety. I'll also share a little about the by-pass metaphor and how it describes how we feel when we are ruminating or super anxious when we can...
Trusting Your Inner Compass
In this episode, Dr. Suzie Dukic explores what trust in oneself might look like by addressing how we react when everything starts unraveling —events such as a job loss, a broken relationship, and just feeling overwhelmed. She suggested that in ...
Hope
In this uplifting episode of Pebble Ripple, we dive deep into the timeless and transformative power of Hope – that quiet force that keeps us moving forward even in the darkest times.Dr. Suzie Dukic explores what hope truly is: not...
Medications & Mental Health
Medications and mental health? Are medications a fix-all for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, etc...." Sorry, we can't get by that easy. In this episode, we will examine how medications can help with mental health symptoms. Dr. Steven Hollon, ...
Why Therapy Works
I will share my thoughts on why I think that talk therapy works. Keep in mind there are 100's, if not 1000's of theories and modalities that mental health clinicians apply in the therapeutic environment. Therefore, my opinion is not the only pe...
Diagnosis and Mental Health
In this episode, we'll look at diagnosis in mental health. Probably not the most interesting episode, however, detailed information is shared with the listener to help substantiate the process of diagnosis, as well as a little about how clients...