The Practitioner's Heart: Practical Buddhist Wisdom for Therapists and Healthcare Professionals
The Practitioner’s Heart offers practical Buddhist wisdom to help therapists and healthcare workers stay grounded, open, and connected in their work and daily lives. Hosted by psychologist and Buddhist practitioner Poh Gan, this podcast explores how to integrate mindfulness, compassion, and awareness into real‑world clinical practice—beyond theory and into lived experience. Each episode includes gentle reflections, sharing of buddhist teachings, and conversations with fellow practitioners walking a similar spiritual path. Whether you’re seeking to calm a busy mind, deepen your inner resources, or reconnect with purpose, this is a space to feel supported, inspired, and be part of a community of helpers cultivating clarity and an open heart.
The Practitioner's Heart: Practical Buddhist Wisdom for Therapists and Healthcare Professionals
Latest Episodes
The Power of Dharma Friendship: Why Therapists Need Spiritual Community and Support
In this episode of The Practitioner’s Heart, we explore one of the most powerful – and often misunderstood – sources of support for therapists: dharma friendship.Whether you call it spiritual fri...
How Buddhist Practice promote secured attachment and nervous system regulation for therapists?
In this episode, Poh explores how Buddhist practice can support therapists in cultivating secure attachment within themselves — and how this inner steadiness naturally supports nervous system regulation, compassionate presence, and therapeutic ...
A Conversation with Dr Hayley D. Quinn: Reclaiming Wellbeing and Creating A Life That Fits (Part 2)
In Part 2 of my deeply nourishing conversation with Dr. Hayley D. Quinn, we turn toward the realities so many therapists, psychologists, and helping professionals quietly carry: burnout, self‑neglect, emotional labour, and the pressure to keep ...
A Conversation with Dr Hayley D Quinn: From Self-Neglect to Self-Compassion (Part 1)
In this spacious and nourishing episode of The Practitioner’s Heart, Poh sits down with Dr. Hayley D. Quinn — mindset and wellbeing coach, former clinical psychologist, author of From Self‑Neglect to Self‑Compassion, au...
Cultivating Equanimity In The Turbulent Times for Therapists
In this episode, we explore one of the Four Immeasurables that feels profoundly essential for the world we’re living in right now: equanimity.As global instability, the war in the Middle East, and the ongoing energy crisis ripple ...