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EP #109 Amy Quinn's Insights on Therapy and Mental Wellness
Ever wondered if a therapist can actually read your mind or if you need a mental illness to seek therapy? In this enlightening episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast, we uncover the truth with Amy Quinn, the owner and founder of Amy Quinn Psychological Services. Amy brings her expertise in mental health counseling to the table, focusing on clients aged 16 and up, including couples. She offers a holistic approach through her biopsychosocial-spiritual model, addressing complex emotions and fostering mental wellness. Amy demystifies common myths and misconceptions about psychological services, revealing that therapy is not just for those with mental illness but also for anyone seeking personal growth, emotional balance, or navigating life's challenges.
Join us as we explore the unique insights Amy brings from her certification in spiritually integrated psychotherapy and her commitment to dignity and respect in her practice. By listening, you'll discover the multi-faceted nature of mental health issues and the importance of considering biological, psychological, social, and spiritual factors in one's well-being. Whether you're dealing with stress, grief, or relationship hurdles, or simply curious about mental wellness, Amy’s thoughtful approach could offer the support and understanding you've been seeking. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the supportive role of psychological services in enhancing personal and relational health.
Amy Quinn Psychological Services, LLC
Amy Quinn
Prior Lake, MN 55372
952-204-5008
amy@aqpsychsvcs.com
Amy Quinn Psychological Services, LLC - Counseling
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Mark Bratton.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbors Podcast, episode number 109. And with me today is a great friend and neighbor. I get to see you on a weekly basis as we work together with the Chamber of Commerce. I'm excited for Amy Quinn, owner and founder of Amy Quinn Psychological Services, to join us today. How you doing, amy?
Speaker 3:I'm doing good. How are you, Mark?
Speaker 2:I'm doing fantastic. The sun, finally, is coming out and the rain is gone. We're good, good, good, good. Well, I'm excited to learn more about your business, a little bit about your background, so I'm just going to let you go and share your passion about what you do.
Speaker 3:So I provide mental health counseling services to clients 16 and up and couples. I'm an expert I would consider myself an expert on managing emotions, stress, relationships. I love teaching skills in those areas and I kind of take a what they call a biopsychosocial, spiritual approach. So I really love learning about like treating the whole person and, in particular, treating the whole person you know, with dignity and respect.
Speaker 2:So Well, if that was me, we'd be. You'd be working with me for like a month or two. So, bio, psycho, social, oh boy, it's good for me.
Speaker 3:It's a big work. I'm happy to break it down, but in essence, like it's just about looking at the whole person, like biological influences, psychological or perception issues, like socially, are you interacting with people? Have you had some kind of you know, you know breakup with, with people? You know? I mean that that makes a huge difference in people's mental health. And then I can also take a look at the spiritual part of it. I'm certified in spiritually integrated psychotherapy. So it's just an opportunity for people to be able to kind of take a deeper dive on topics such as hope and grief and peace and all those deeper topics.
Speaker 2:So that's so awesome to hear because I come from a sports background and highly competitive let's coach, umpire, and obviously an athlete myself and boy, when we lose or fail, we go into funks that we need somebody like you to help us through, but we never know where it's coming from. Is it psychology? Is it just competitiveness? Oh my gosh, it's spiritual. I love the fact that you're able to work with somebody on a number of different levels, because we're all different people, right?
Speaker 3:Yep, and I think issues typically when people come in it's complex, it's never just one thing, it's always more of a system type of issue. So that's to me it's important to take a look at all those areas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know I get to hear you often and I guess we never get the chance to dive in like this is great. But you know, in all businesses and I'm guessing in yours for sure there's always these myths and misconceptions about the psychologist. Oh my, tell me a couple of those that you've run into and how you've overcome them and share it with your clients.
Speaker 3:I mean I can name a couple. I mean there's always the mind reading, that somehow we're able to mind read, or we're going to uncover something that somebody doesn't know and I think that can feel threatening to some people and I can assure you I have no ability to do that and you know or that a psychological test somehow is going to uncover something that's not there. Again, it's not possible. I get a lot of people, I think, that believe that you have to have a mental illness to seek somebody out. That's not necessarily true. I have a lot of people who come to me, especially in private practice now, that are interested in mental wellness or maybe have some grieving going on or a relationship issue. So you don't have to have and at least in my, if you're going through insurance you have to have a diagnosis because that's how somebody gets paid, but with private practice you don't have to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can, I could see that. I just remember back in my own days and I was afraid to talk to somebody and the myth was oh my gosh, if I talk to Amy, she's going to know all my dark, dark secrets and I don't trust her. But yet you're you're, you're sealed with confidentiality too, and that's how you work with your clients. I'm sure of it, Absolutely. It feels so much better to somebody, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Well, and I think the other thing that that people get confused on is, you know, you know, is there a specific type of treatment that's going to be the best, or a specific, you know, strategy. And you know it's interesting because almost all the research now says that it's the therapeutic relationship that is the best predictor of outcomes. So I've been in the practice for a long time 16 years. I think I'm generally really good at connecting with people and trying to get down to like the heart of the matter and I, you know, I think that I'm good at helping people develop that sense of trust and safety so that they can share those things if they want to. And as far as confidentiality is concerned, one of the biggest things for me is that I don't actually plan to ever use AI. Ai is kind of getting, in my opinion, in my field, getting kind of scary because literally they're listening in on sessions, recording it and providing the progress note for the therapist, and that's just not something I'm willing to do.
Speaker 2:That is so refreshing. We're losing the face-to-face handshake, handshake, touch, see, feel emotion type for each other. I mean, it's just so refreshing. I'm so happy to hear that my daughter gets a chance to go, and it's not always a negative. She likes to go just to share some positivity and then wanting to know how to continue or share it with other people. She's a nurse so she gets that opportunity and she's gifted as far as helping people that are having a negative situation. Somebody passes away or something the doctors will call her, but but she goes to, to somebody a psychologist like yourself, and she was dead. It's kind of refreshing to go to somebody. That's happy. It's not always negative, so that's good, that's great, and I hear that new weekly, so let's keep that rolling so well. Those misconceptions I kind of figured you'd have a handle of those. But so when you're, when you're not working and helping somebody, what does Amy do for family fun? What do you do?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I enjoy fishing. That's probably an activity I do a lot, obviously during the summer. I'm not I'm not an ice fisher person, I can't do that, too cold, Not my thing, Uh but I like to fly fish and and fish for bass and, uh, I really enjoy that. It's good. That's my actually really a lot of ways, that's my therapy. We always joke about that when I'm upset. Uh, that, and I would say cooking. I really enjoy cooking and I enjoy traveling, Even if it's just in Minnesota. I just I'm kind of a I like to wander sometimes and just end up somewhere and meet cool people and have good conversations.
Speaker 2:Well, I see you catch the fish. Do you clean the fish? I you said you cook, so you catch them and cook. Somebody in between there that cleans them for?
Speaker 3:you. Yes, my husband will take off the fish that I don't want to take off. And he cleans them as well, which I greatly appreciate. I figure he gets a lovely companion to fish with. He can contribute that.
Speaker 2:And you say fly fishing? I've never tried it. To me I could see myself all wrapped up in the, in the, in the, the fly I'd be, I'd be the one fishing. So that's not for me. I like bobber, throw it out there.
Speaker 2:Maybe even a cane pole works just fine yep so, um, I always love asking this question too, and I'm not sure, uh, but I liked it off the cuff. Is you have your fun time and everything else? Is there anything challenging in your life that you've overcome that maybe moved you into psychology or what you do, or is that another hobby or something? But I always love to hear somebody's challenges when they were younger, in school, or even now, something that motivates you. What gets you going every single day?
Speaker 3:What gets? There's a lot of questions wrapped in that. What gets me going every day? I mean, I think I have for myself a very deep spirituality that gets me going in the morning and prompts me to be out there in the world trying to help other people. I mean, ultimately, I think any provider that goes into mental health or physical health usually says that. So I think I really enjoy connecting with people. I just I I mean loving people, you know, and, and loving people is really helping them, uh, to be their best selves, uh, so that's yeah.
Speaker 3:I like that.
Speaker 2:Um.
Speaker 3:I've had, I'm sorry what.
Speaker 2:I've had a lot of those situations too, and it makes me smile when somebody else is, when somebody else succeeds or or you help them through a situation. It's really, really good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I've. I've had my own. I was thinking about this. I've had my own losses too and I think that those losses coming out, on the other side of it, I really feel like I've developed a greater understanding of acceptance, forgiveness, purpose and meaning. And that's kind of where I got into more of the spiritual side of things and I think that many people are really struggling and need some compassionate ear to listen to these really deep losses that they've had in their lives. Sometimes, like it's a, it's a loss that's, you know straight up, everybody understands. Sometimes it's more of what they call an ambiguous loss, where it's like for example, somebody's cut out of their life and they're not dead, but they're gone.
Speaker 3:And you know, it's just I. I I'm very passionate about that.
Speaker 2:That's a yeah, that I can see that being a gift for you, the time that we've spent together during the weeks. When you share, I just sit back and listen, and you definitely portray that in our our networking group, too, as well. So well, now that we're we are getting close to the end of our time together, is there one thing, just one thing, that anybody that checks out your podcast that you want them to to leave the podcast with to remember you, or just something that you want to share with them?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I, I'm, I'm really passionate about people understanding mental wellbeing. I want people to know that not only do I do the services that I do, but also I'm I've got a book club that I've started. I have a free 15 minute consultation that they are, you know, they can take advantage of, just to see if we're a good match. I don't want to, you know, waste anybody's time and effort, and so I just those are the two things that I offer that are complimentary, that I think, hopefully make it a little less scary to, you know, kind of dip your toes in the mental health area by maybe joining the book club and or maybe, you know, give a call and just talk to me for 15 minutes and see if this is a good fit. There's no obligation, so I love that.
Speaker 2:I love it. And you went right into the next and last question is how do I get a hold of you? And uh, you know you're.
Speaker 3:However, we get a hold of you, you tell us yeah, um, I mean, I'm on Facebook and Instagram, so you can certainly look me up there. Um, my my phone number, um 952-204-5008. Uh, you're welcome to reach out to me there. Email, I know it's going to be listed, uh, here, um, please reach out to me via email website. My website is set up in a way you can schedule your 15 minute consultation just by clicking a few buttons.
Speaker 2:And your website is if I recall it's Amy Quinn Psychological Services.
Speaker 3:Servicescom, it's a little longer because it goes through an electronic health record system, so it's best to just Google me. You can just Google Amy Quinn, therapist, minnesota. I'm, I'm, I have my own website and I'm also on psychology today, so you can find me on there as well.
Speaker 2:Oh, I guess I can find you about anywhere then. Amy yeah, super, super Well. You're about anywhere then Amy yeah, super, super Well. We are going to end our episode with Amy Quinn and I thank you so much and I look forward to seeing you more and more.
Speaker 3:Have a great day. I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 2:It is my pleasure.
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