E.132 Season Finale: Celebrating Growth, Resilience, and the Transformative Power of Therapy
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As Season 10 draws to a close, it's a time for heartfelt reflection and storytelling that will leave you both inspired and introspective.
You'll be moved by the tales of growth from those who make a living by listening, like Courtney Romanowski, whose transition from guest to guest host embodies the beauty of mental health counseling and expressive arts therapy. She can be reached on her website here.
You will hear from Eric Knox who discussed firefighters and mental health.
Pavel Ythjall describes his strength when tragedy struck during the holidays with his new bride. His book can be found on Amazon.
Michele Lareau-Alves wants to talk about sex and she can be reached on Psychology Today.
Is attachment issues affecting your life? Marc Sholes discusses that and his website can be found at Marcsholeslcsw.com.
A regular on the show, Stephanie Simpson, discusses the importance of good coaching and good coaching training. She can be found here.
The fearless leader of the PsychCraft Network, Gordon Brewer discusses spirituality and podcasting. He can be found here.
Bill Dwinnells is my business partner in Gambit Counseling. He has many years of experience in the crisis world.
Susan Roggendorf is a sister from another mother and had has a great podcast called F*ck The Rules.
Lane Kennedy and Tamar Medford are the amazing hosts of Laughing Without Liquor, a podcast for sobriety, focused on women.
Andrew Kang and Dennis Sweeney are part of our Mental Men group, returning guests for sure, who talk about mentoring, treatment, and mental health,
Chris McDonald is the host of The Holistic Counseling Podcast, part of the PsychCraft Network. We talk holistic treatment.
Maegan Visconti talks about dance therapy and mental health treatment. She can be reached at A New Leaf Counseling.
Gina Moffa is a grief author and good friend of the show. She is truly amazing and her website is ginamoffa.com.
Finally but certainly not least, Jenny Helms, LCSW is by far my favorite social media publisher, but she is so much more more than that. She is also a great business owner and has the largest independent office of therapists in Kansas. They are called Somawichita.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. The goal of this |
| 0:07.4 | podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide |
| 0:12.0 | array of conversations you can have in and about therapy. |
| 0:16.8 | Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, and |
| 0:22.2 | how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives. |
| 0:27.0 | With lots of authenticity and a touch of humor, |
| 0:30.0 | here is your host, Steve Bissant. |
| 0:38.0 | Thank you, and happy end of the year. This is episode 132, end of season 10, |
| 0:42.0 | and end of 2023 for me, for the episode for finding your way through |
| 0:48.6 | therapy. |
| 0:49.9 | If you see me struggle a little bit, so you are catching me about 10 days. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm recording this 10 days post surgery, still healing. |
| 0:58.8 | So if you see me struggle or my words for this episode, That's what's going on. Episode 131 was with |
| 1:06.8 | Gina Mofa. I hope you enjoyed it. This is one of my favorite episodes. It was my |
| 1:11.0 | favorite episode of the year and we'll hear from |
| 1:14.1 | Gina later on but for episode 132 I'm doing a little bit of a change of |
| 1:18.2 | last year. So last year what I did is I did the 12 days of Christmas which ended up being like 15 days of Christmas or something like that |
| 1:27.2 | but I I decided this year to do something a little different so I contacted all my guests from this year and say hey |
| 1:32.4 | if you want to leave a message leave leave a message. If you don't, that's okay. Nothing wrong with that. And I'm looking through my notes here, so if you hear the roughling of the |
| 1:45.0 | I got 16 responses, 17 in fact. I'll explain one of them as we go along. |
| 1:47.0 | So what we're gonna do is we're gonna hear, |
| 1:49.0 | I'm gonna give you a little bit of an intro, |
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