Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
How do you actually use EMDR, CBT, or IFS in session, not the textbook version, but with a real client sitting across from you? Self Careapist Therapist is a therapist-to-therapist podcast where licensed clinicians break down the
clinical skills, modalities, and hard conversations that training programs skim over.
Hosted by Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, PMH-C, EMDR Certified Approved Consultant, Clinical Supervisor, and graduate school faculty associate. Each week features expert guests, including researchers, authors, and practicing clinicians, sharing
evidence-based interventions you can take straight into your next session.
Topics include:
• EMDR therapy, trauma processing, and advanced EMDR applications
• Internal Family Systems (IFS), parts work, and integrative trauma approaches
• CBT, DBT, RO-DBT, ACT, and third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies
• Clinical supervision, therapist training, and professional development
• Trauma, complex trauma, PTSD, CPTSD, and nervous system regulation
• ADHD, autism, neurodiversity-affirming assessment and treatment
• Therapist burnout, perfectionism, compassion fatigue, and sustainable self-care
• Couples therapy, attachment theory, and relational wounds
• Anxiety, OCD, and exposure-based interventions
• Grief, prolonged grief disorder, and meaning-making
• Suicide risk assessment, CAMS, and crisis intervention
• Parent-child therapy, adolescent anxiety, and family systems
• Perinatal mental health
• Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and emerging modalities
• Clinical ethics, risk management, and culturally responsive practice
• Private practice development, insurance, and building a sustainable career
Questions we answer:
• How do I use EMDR, CBT, DBT, or ACT in real-life sessions, not just textbook examples?
• How do I choose which therapy modality to learn next?
• How do other therapists handle burnout and compassion fatigue?
• How do I integrate different modalities instead of feeling like I'm doing them wrong?
• When should I use IFS parts work versus EMDR reprocessing?
• How do I grow as a therapist after grad school or licensure?
• How do I make my practice more trauma-informed and culturally responsive?
• How do I find my niche or specialty as a clinician?
• What does evidence-based therapy actually look like in practice?
• How do therapists cope with imposter syndrome and self-doubt?
• How do I explain complex therapy concepts to clients in simple language?
• What is the best podcast by therapists, for therapists?
Whether you are a seasoned clinician or a graduate student, every episode is designed to sharpen your clinical thinking and reconnect you with the curiosity that makes therapy meaningful. Conference-level education and psych journal-quality conversations delivered while you drive, walk, or decompress between sessions.
Many episodes offer a free CEU for licensure in Arizona through the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners. Content is relevant for continuing education across LCSW, LMHC, LPC, LMFT, NCC, NBCC, and psychology licensure.
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Self Careapist Therapist Podcast
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART): How It Compares to EMDR with the founder, Lainey Rosenzweig, LMFT
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What happens when a therapist takes EMDR training, loves the eye movements, and throws out the protocol entirely? Laney Rosenzweig did exactly that. In 2007, she walked out of an EMDR training room convinced there was a better way. Eighteen years later, ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy) has been trained at military bases, studied at Mayo Clinic and Yale, and is resolving complex trauma in a single session. Laney joins the show to break down how ART works, who it helps, and what the training path looks like for licensed clinicians.
Episode Timestamps
• 0:38 - The origin story of ART
• 9:27 - Modifications since the stroke and continued dedication
• 10:14 - Commonalities between ART and EMDR origins
• 11:48 - Eye movements vs. other bilateral stimulation methods
• 13:45 - Positization and the role of humor in ART
• 15:32 - The ART script and how it restructures trauma
• 17:14 - ART training at military bases and Walter Reed
• 18:33 - ART as a foundational model vs. EMDR
• 19:24 - Free association vs. guided protocol
• 22:56 - How to set expectations with new ART clients
• 24:25 - The role of metaphor in ART
• 26:23 - Staying passionate after decades of clinical work
• 28:30 - What to expect from the basic three-day training
• 31:43 - Practicum structure and the three-to-one ratio
• 33:25 - Advanced training and credentialing pathway
• 36:09 - Who is not a candidate for ART
• 37:19 - How to explain ART to a new client
• 39:56 - Working with children and the SAFT technique
• 42:53 - Training licensed therapists and ethical considerations
• 44:30 - Becoming an ART trainer
• 47:36 - How ART grew through word of mouth and research
• 54:03 - Free intro sessions and getting started
• 58:12 - Self-care through ART
Episode Highlights
• ART was developed after Laney found EMDR's free association protocol too unpredictable. By placing eye movements directly on the problem and building in a structured end point, she created a model that consistently resolves trauma in one session.
• The core mechanism is image rescripting combined with eye movements. Rather than asking clients to free associate, the ART script guides the brain to replace distressing images with positive ones, which Laney calls positization.
• Humor is a deliberate part of the ART approach. Laney gave the example of a palmetto bug phobia transformed into a favorable image of Willie Nelson. When clients can bring lightness to a previously terrifying image, the therapeutic shift has taken hold.
• Metaphor is built into the model, not added as an option. The brain processes in images during sleep, and ART mirrors that process. Clients who resist direct confrontation of a trauma can work entirely through metaphor, including a structured script for clients who fear change.
• ART is not free association. Unlike EMDR, the therapist guides the protocol from start to finish. Clients know what to expect and sessions
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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