Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. I am your host, Steve Bissom. I'm an author and

mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about

therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to make

therapy and psychology accessible to all by using real language and straight to the point discussions.

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would your physical health.

Therapy should not be intimidating. It should be a great way to better health.

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental

health and discussions you can have with your therapist. I also want to introduce psychology

in everyday life, as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce

the subtle and not so subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well as special guests.

So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Hi and welcome to episode 17 of finding your way through therapy.

I'm Steve Biso.

Today we are going to talk to Maureen Man.

Maureen is someone I've known from working on the crisis team in the past, but her career

and my career diverge at some point. And it's very interesting to hear about her 25-year

career in mental health and education. She has earned her undergrad degree at University of Massachusetts and her master's in social work at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

She continued to pursue some education as time went on from school counselor to principal to Reiki Master to energy medicine practitioner to advance angelic practitioner and multi-dimensional healer.

That's a mouthful in itself.

I'm really looking forward to this conversation because I don't get to talk a whole lot

about my spiritual practice with therapy.

And I think it's very important to do so.

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