123: Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy: A New Clinician's Story With Julia Alexander
Therapy Chat
Laura Reagan, LCSW-C
4.4 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 123 of the Therapy Chat Podcast with host Laura Reagan, LCSW-C. Today Laura speaks to Julia Alexander, LMSW, M.Ed.
For the last decade, Julia has worked to create effective spaces for people to heal. She believes children’s behavior, especially behavior that appears problematic, often meets an important need. Using a compassionate and flexible treatment approach, grounded in the neurobiology of trauma, Julia aims to support children and caregivers in understanding the purpose of current behaviors in order to eventually develop more adaptive coping strategies. She knows that the most effective treatment involves a recognition of children, caregiver and system strengths and needs with a focus on connected, attuned relationships.
Julia was trained by leading experts in intergroup dialogue facilitation and social justice curriculum design. She has extensive training in the Attachment, Regulation and Competency Trauma Treatment model and has attended trainings in Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment for Traumatized Children and Adolescence (SMART) as well as The Neurobiology of Trauma. Julia not only brings her clinical experience to Spirit Reina but also, a lifetime of horse experience! She loves the ways in which horses support the therapeutic process by asking us to take responsibility for the types of relationships we create.
She is excited to be starting her dual certification in Natural Lifemanship. When not at Spirit Reins you can find Julia spending time exploring Austin, hanging out with her two dogs or dancing. Julia holds an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, an M.Ed in Social Justice Education from UMass Amherst and a B.A in Psychology from Mount Holyoke College.
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| 0:00.0 | Therapy Chat Podcast, episode 123. |
| 0:04.2 | This is the Therapy Chat Podcast with Laura Reagan, LCSWC. |
| 0:11.0 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional. |
| 0:18.3 | And now, here's your host, Laura Reagan, LCSWC. |
| 0:24.0 | Thank you. Hi, welcome back to therapy chat. Today's episode is a little bit different. |
| 0:40.0 | You have heard a few interviews lately with some clinicians who are incredible rock stars with over 30 years of practice and research and experience at the field like Pat Ogden |
| 0:58.6 | of sensory motor psychotherapy and Dick Schwartz from internal family systems. But this |
| 1:05.7 | week's episode is something that I hope and I believe that many of you will be interested in hearing. |
| 1:14.3 | I am interviewing Julia Alexander, who is a recent grad from social work school, who talks about |
| 1:25.0 | her work using trauma-focused equine-assisted psychotherapy. |
| 1:30.5 | So you've heard previous interviews about equine-assisted psychotherapy |
| 1:37.4 | and the beautiful Charlotte Hiler Easley in her work with East Equine Assisted Survivors of Trauma Therapy. |
| 1:48.9 | Julia is going to talk to us today about her experience as a relatively new social worker, |
| 1:57.8 | learning natural lifemanship, and how she uses it in her practice. So of course, as a new grad, |
| 2:05.2 | she has all the latest up-to-date information. And after attending natural lifemanship training, |
| 2:13.2 | she learned a lot about trauma and neuroscience. So she's going to talk a bit about that in relation to trauma-focused EAP |
| 2:20.2 | using natural lifemanship and kind of just more about what it's like for her, |
| 2:26.0 | where she works, how this model supports her as a person, |
| 2:31.0 | as a helping professional, and helps her support clients. So I thought this was a really |
| 2:39.6 | interesting discussion and, you know, although Julia is newer to the field, she has a lot to contribute |
| 2:47.3 | as we all do. I know so many of you who listen are therapists who might just be |
| 2:54.7 | starting out or you might be just learning about trauma, you know, through listening. I know that |
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