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Good Neighbor Podcast: Port Saint Lucie
EP# 263: Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote's Inspiring Transformation from Academic to Trauma Therapy Leader
What makes Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote with Mind Body Therapeutics a good neighbor?
What if you could leave your past behind and forge a future filled with meaning and purpose? In this episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast, we sit down with the extraordinary Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote, a clinical psychologist whose journey from English professor and documentary filmmaker to clinical director of a statewide psychotherapy practice is nothing short of inspiring. Dr. Jane reveals how her skills in understanding character, plot, and motive enrich her therapeutic practice, enabling her to help patients transcend their past traumas and build vibrant, fulfilling lives.
Dr. Jane also shares her relentless pursuit of knowledge, including her ongoing PhD in clinical sexology, and how she balances her career with being a mother of four. With a team of 12 clinicians, she specializes in trauma therapy, grounded in neuroscience, and stresses the importance of positive thinking and resilience. Join us for an enlightening conversation filled with actionable insights into Mind Body Therapeutics, and discover the one crucial takeaway Dr. Jane believes can transform your approach to mental health and personal growth.
To learn more about Mind Body Therapeutics go to:
https://www.mindbodytherapeutics.life/
Mind Body Therapeutics
772-486-4417
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Garfield Bowen.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. All you need of a clinical psychologist. Well, one may be closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing Dr Jane. Closer than you think, today I have the pleasure of introducing Dr Jane Statlander-Sloat, your good neighbor.
Speaker 3:Dr Jane, tell us about your business. Well, it's a practice in psychotherapy. We have 12 clinicians working under me, I'm the clinical director as well, and we're located all around the state.
Speaker 2:And we do great work.
Speaker 3:Okay, so tell us how did you get into this business, dr Jane? Well, actually I had a few professions. I was a professor of English for a few years, with three degrees in English. I'm also presently as well, a documentary filmmaker. A documentary filmmaker I have a Master's of Fine Arts in Cinema and Multimedia from the University of Miami and I make documentary films. Now, and I guess, to answer your question how I got into it, some patients ask me how did you go from being a professor of English filmmaker to being a clinician? And I said all three professions have three things in common character, plot and motive.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 3:And I was really good in my literature classes. I'm also a writer, so I know about how you lay out plots. I know how to analyze character, so it's easy to sit and listen to someone and quickly figure out what's going on and quickly figure out what's going on.
Speaker 2:Wow, you have a lot of talent.
Speaker 3:What are some of the myths and misconceptions of your industry? Well, I think the biggest misconception is from the therapists themselves not in my practice, but generally is that you can't cure anybody. That's a big problem. The reason they can't cure anybody is because I sound terrible, but because I don't think they know what they're doing, because they don't have a basis in neuroscience. They don't understand how the brain works. I have a doctor of clinical psychology degree. I'm a trauma specialist and I know how the past in someone's life affects their present life. Someone's life affects their present life. That mostly actually Garfield patients. A lot of patients don't even have a present life because they're always in their past and therefore they can never have anything but the same old, same old, garbage future. So we I help my patients to get rid of their past, to be in the present moment so that they can create a future that they want to have, and to stop being controlled by their environment and their past.
Speaker 2:Wow, I think everyone needs to just stop and take a minute and listen to that a few times. But, dr Jane, when you're not busy running your business outside of work, what do you like to do for?
Speaker 3:fun. Well, I've been studying a long time. I'm finishing my PhD in clinical sexology as well, so I'm doing that. I'm also taking. I'm going to be taking an exam, so I'm studying something else. I'm always studying or reading, actually, and I also I have yes, I have. I have four children, and you know I'm not a An active mother as well.
Speaker 2:You sound like you get a lot of joy from learning. Is that so?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it's fun to learn.
Speaker 2:Let's change gears a little bit. Let's talk about one hardship, one life challenge, something that you went through and could look back today and see you're better and stronger because of it. What comes to mind?
Speaker 3:A personal challenge.
Speaker 2:It could be personal, it could be business, whatever you like to share.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you really truthfully, garfield, there was never any challenge that put me down. That's it. It's all here. It's all here. It's how you think about what you think about. Nothing puts me down, and my two ex-husbands will tell you that nothing puts her down, nothing. I always land on my feet. It's all how you think about it.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm going to put you on the spot here a little bit. Okay, I know you have a lot to share about mind-body therapeutics, but I want you to narrow it down to one thing, one thing that you want our listeners to remember about your company.
Speaker 3:That. I'm sorry it cut out.
Speaker 2:I want you to tell us one thing that you want our listeners to remember About your business.
Speaker 3:Well, what we can do. We can cure people. In fact we can cure people, although I don't take on the personality disorders. I don't take those on because they're too much a part of a brain that has a lot of holes in it, a part of a brain that has a lot of holes in it, like narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder and others. You can't do much with those, but we cure people. We cure people, people who have anxiety, depression, trauma in their past I'm a trauma specialist also. We cure them. We cure them Because we stop their thinking, the way they think about what they think about, because what you think about all the time person gets up in the morning, what's the first thing? They have this chatter going on even through their sleep and they have this thought that leads to a feeling, that then leads to a behavior and that's this circular thing that gets them falling down a black hole. And we stop that.
Speaker 2:You have my listeners really thinking Seeing how they can use your service. They probably have family members or friends or relatives that could utilize it and they have one question on that could utilize it. And they have one question on their lips right now and that's how, how can they get more information in mind-body therapeutics?
Speaker 3:Well, you can call 954. You want the phone numbers? Sure, you want the phone numbers. Sure, you can go on our website, wwwmindbodytherapeuticslife, that's 772-486-4417 or 561-866-0217.
Speaker 2:Well, Dr Jane, we really appreciate having you on the show. We wish you and your business the very best moving forward.
Speaker 3:Thank you very much. Good luck to everybody.
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