154: You Might Be A Trauma Survivor And Need More Self Care
Therapy Chat
Laura Reagan, LCSW-C
4.4 • 728 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Therapy Chat! In today’s episode, we’re delighted to welcome Robyn E. Brickel, MA, LMFT to the podcast.
Robyn E. Brickel, MA, LMFT is the clinical director and lead therapist at Brickel and Associates, LLC in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, which she founded in 1999. She is deeply committed to clinical practice, professional education and better public awareness of mental health issues.
Robyn practices a strengths-based approach to therapy. She helps clients process and heal from trauma, addictions, challenged family systems, and mood disorders including maternal mental health issues. She works with individuals (both adolescents and adults), couples, families, and groups. With advanced training and experience in the treatment of trauma, dissociation, addiction and maternal mental health, Robyn helps people make and maintain positive changes in their lives.
Clients find a safe therapeutic environment for recovering from dysfunctional relationships, anxiety, depression, abuse history, addictions, and eating disordered behaviors. New skills learned in treatment include a better understanding of how to work from personal strengths.Robyn’s work with at-risk adolescents goes beyond behavioral interventions and resolving negative school performance. Working with young people and teens, she taps into the strengths of community and family systems, helping members grow and thrive together.
Robyn speaks to school and parent groups about mental health risks facing young people today. Presentations include teaching other therapists how to work within a trauma-informed, strengths-based framework, to work with adolescents and their families in a collaborative approach treating substance abuse and the trauma of domestic violence.
The Washington Post and Washington Parent magazine have featured her insights in articles about the dangers of adolescent marijuana use and teen dating safety.
Resources
https://brickelandassociates.com/blog/
https://brickelandassociates.com/9-signs-you-need-better-self-care-trauma-survivor/
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| 0:00.0 | Therapy Chat Podcast, episode 154. |
| 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. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, welcome back to therapy chat. I was planning to bring you new content again last week, but due to some personal issues, I was not able to get my episode together, but I'm back here now. And I hope that you're going to enjoy listening. My guest today is Robin Brickle, LMFT. |
| 0:57.6 | Robin is someone who is a group practice owner specializing in trauma. And I think she's pretty |
| 1:07.0 | amazing. And she has a blog that she puts out regularly. And every time I read |
| 1:12.2 | her blog articles, I'm like, oh my gosh, this is like totally spot on. Half the time I feel like |
| 1:19.2 | it's what I would have written if I had time to blog anymore. And I came across one article |
| 1:26.5 | that Robin wrote that was called Nine Signs, |
| 1:31.9 | you need better self-care and maybe a trauma survivor. |
| 1:35.4 | And as always, when I read a blog post and I think about sharing it with my audience or |
| 1:41.3 | with my clients, I want to read it first, you know, not just skim through it |
| 1:46.0 | or read the headline and share it. But I was like, okay, so what does she got to say? And I started |
| 1:51.0 | reading it. I'm like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, self-care is important. Yeah, yeah. Then I started reading |
| 1:56.8 | the nine signs you need better self-care due to trauma. |
| 2:01.6 | And I got so, I started feeling these weird feelings. |
| 2:06.0 | I was like, oh my gosh, I've got these. |
| 2:10.5 | I mean, I was just like, darn it. |
| 2:13.4 | As I read down the list, I was like, oh, I have that one, that one, that one, and the reason |
| 2:19.8 | why I was so frustrated about it was because it reminded me at the time when I read it that I had |
| 2:25.6 | been neglecting my own self-care. And yes, I am a trauma survivor. So if I am reading this and I'm recognizing myself in it, while I didn't like that, it was a good |
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