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The Trauma Therapist

Episode 740: Understanding Suicide with Paula Fontenelle

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

For more than 20 years, Paula worked as a Brazilian journalist, but that all changed after the suicide of her father in 2005. After experiencing this trauma, she decided to dedicate time to preventing suicide. Since then, She’s trained in Psychoanalysis and just finished her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health. For 12 years now, she’s been helping families deal with this kind of loss and those who are at risk for self-inflicted death.

She has completely transformed her trajectory after losing her dad and she would love to inspire others to reframe their loss and find other ways to deal with their pain.

Paula’s book is titled: Understanding Suicide: Living with loss. Paths to prevention.

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Music com.

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Welcome back to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson.

1:39.3

My mission is to help trauma therapist be their incredible selves, to be human, to be real, not just a clinician.

1:47.1

I'm a big believer in who we are is more important than what we know.

1:50.8

And this requires cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability.

1:55.3

And that requires intention.

1:57.3

You can learn more about my courses and workshops by going to the Traumathotherapist

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Project.com.

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Let's get started.

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Paula, here we go.

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