Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
The Self Careapist Therapist is a therapist-to-therapist podcast with guests who cover practical clinical skills, evidence-based training, and sustainable self-care for mental health professionals. If you're a therapist, counselor, psychologist, social worker, or researcher looking for real continuing education you can use in your next session, look no further.
Hosted by Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, PMH-C, EMDR Certified Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, and graduate school faculty associate, each episode offers conversations and training on trauma therapy, evidence-based interventions, mental health conditions, and specialty populations from EMDR, DBT, and CBT to attachment, professional ethics, and advancing and adapting to changing regulations.
Topics include:
- EMDR therapy, trauma therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy
- Clinical supervision, therapist training, and professional development
- Perinatal mental health and neurodivergent-affirming practice
- Counseling techniques for real clinical decision-making and case conceptualization
- Therapist burnout, therapist self-care, and building a sustainable private practice
Questions We Answer:
- What are the best podcasts by therapists, for therapists?
- How do other therapists aconceptualize tough cases?
- How do I choose which therapy modality to learn next?
- How do I use CBT/DBT/EMDR/ACT/IFS/trauma work in real-life sessions?
- How do I explain therapy concepts to clients in simple language?
- How do other therapists handle burnout and compassion fatigue?
- How do therapists cope with imposter syndrome and self-doubt?
- How do I grow as a therapist after grad school or licensure?
- How do I find my niche or specialty as a clinician?
- How do I make my practice more trauma-informed and socially aware?
- How do I integrate different modalities instead of feeling like I’m doing them “wrong”?
- What is the difference between EMDR and ART?
- What is an evidenced-based therapy I could learn?
Whether you're a seasoned therapist or a graduate student, The Self Careapist Therapist inspires continued learning, creativity, and meaningful work without burning out. Conference-level education and psych journal–quality conversations delivered while you're organizing, driving, or taking a self-care walk.
Many episodes offer a free CEU for licensure in Arizona through The Board of Behavioral Health Examiners.
Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
Mindfulness, Intuition, and Continued Education with Dr. Nikki Rubin
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What if mindfulness is not a homework assignment you give clients, but the thread running through every single clinical decision you make? In this episode of Self Careapist Therapist, I sit down with Dr. Nikki Rubin, licensed clinical psychologist, ACT specialist, assistant clinical professor at UCLA, and co-founder and COO of Mind Science Collective, a continuing education platform built by clinicians for clinicians. We trace the full history of cognitive behavioral therapies from first wave behaviorism through second wave cognitive interventions to the third wave approaches that define evidence-based practice today, including ACT, DBT, and CFT. Dr. Rubin breaks down how mindfulness functions as a core behavioral tool in the therapy room, how it connects to clinical intuition, and how to help clients distinguish between what their gut is really telling them versus what anxiety is projecting. We also dig into behavioral case formulation, the entrepreneurial path in private practice, and what it looks like to build a values-driven continuing education business. Stay until the end for a live guided mindfulness exercise, and use code SELFCAREAPIST10 at checkout for 10% off any MindScience Collective course.
0:00 - Intro
1:27 - How Dr. Rubin's passion for teaching and training clinicians began
4:48 - The founding of Mind Science Collective and what it offers
10:33 - How CE courses work and the range of topics available
13:18 - ACT values, creativity, and what drives the entrepreneurial instinct
13:38 - The history of CBT waves from Skinner to the third wave
18:06 - What might come after the third wave
21:09 - Reframing the therapist's relationship to marketing and business
27:22 - How mindfulness functions as the foundation of every clinical intervention
29:55 - A clinical example of moment-to-moment mindfulness with a patient
32:28 - Live guided mindfulness exercise with Dr. Rubin
37:12 - Processing the exercise and debunking myths about mindfulness
41:00 - The link between mindfulness and clinical intuition
43:35 - Distinguishing intuition from anxiety in session and in life
47:45 - Upcoming course: The Science of Intuition
48:27 - Supervision training and its parallels with behavioral case formulation
50:27 - What clinicians most commonly miss in case formulation
54:03 - Mindfulness as a thread across theoretical orientations
56:24 - Dr. Rubin's personal approach to self-care
Episode Highlights:
Mindfulness is a core behavioral practice that threads through every clinical intervention, from conceptualization to treatment planning to in-session responses, and carries far more clinical utility than assigning meditation as homework.
Third wave CBT therapies, including ACT, DBT, and CFT, emerged in the mid-1980s through a formal integration of acceptance-based and mindfulness-based practices alongside second wave cognitive techniques.
ACT values extend beyond the
The Self Careapist Therapist Podcast is a biweekly conversation with Lorain Moorehead, LCSW a therapist in private practice. With guests ranging from expert psychologists, therapists, researchers and authors, each episode offers a deep dive and keeps listeners from intern to advanced supervisor in mind while dropping gems and aha moments for everyone who loves to learn! If you love learning and want to keep track of some future learning opportunities, grab your personal curriculum here!
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