Hi and welcome to Finding Your Way Through Therapy.

The goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy, and the wide

array of conversations you can have in and about therapy.

Through personal experiences, guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it, and how psychology

and therapy are present in many places in their lives. With lots of authenticity and a touch

of humor, here is your host, Steve Bisson. What do you guys think? That's an awesome intro now.

I don't even have to introduce myself anymore.

So welcome to episode 95 and the premiere episode of season eight of finding your way through therapy.

I'm so happy to have that intro. I'm so happy to be back. If you haven't listened to episode 94, I would suggest you go and listen to it because it was with Brad Cohen. Brad is someone that I've

known for many years. We talked about corrections, one of my biggest passions after working in that

system for a few years. I know how much help they need. And I truly enjoyed that interview.

So please go back. He comes off as very authentic and passionate, something like I can relate to.

So hopefully you enjoy that.

But for episode 95, we will be interviewing a colleague of mine who works out of my office.

Her name is Michelle LaRoe Alves. And I better be careful in how I pronounce her LaRot, because that's a French way of saying it.

I hope I did it right.

Michelle is an LMHC.

She's recently got a certification in AASECT, which is working with

couples and sexual issues. She's worked in community mental health for about 20 years, where she

started addressing the complex struggles of children and family in the social service system.

This led her to her passion working with a core unit of family systems, the couples and the

parents who can be instrumental in breaking the cycles of intergenerational trauma.

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