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🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week I'm joined by the incredible Dr. Leah Katz! We unpacked a lot in this episode: the concept of connecting with your "inner child", what it means to "re-parent yourself", Trauma healing from the perspective of Carl Jung, IFS, and more...
I hope you enjoy our conversation!
Leah Katz, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist practicing in Portland, Oregon. Originally from New York, she completed her doctorate training at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. While living in New York, Dr. Katz worked at a community clinic where she led several groups, treated individuals and couples in therapy, and taught at Stern College for Women. She currently works in a group practice where she specializes in working with teenagers and women, with a focus on treating anxiety and depression, amongst other things. She utilizes a hybrid of cognitive behavioral, ACT, and mindfulness techniques in her therapy work.
Dr. Katz is passionate about girls’ and women’s mental health, and helping women navigate challenges to live deeply connected and fulfilled lives. She writes for Psychology Today and recently published her first book, Gutsy: Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Bravery. You can find her on Instagram @dr.leahkatz, Twitter @drleahkatz, and her website, drleahkatz.com where she shares mental health related tips and insights.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mathishe Barker Podcast, everybody. |
0:06.0 | Hey, I'm happy you're here. |
0:07.0 | Today we're talking about inner child work. |
0:09.0 | And that is kind of an umbrella term. |
0:11.0 | You could think of it kind of like a genre of trauma work, |
0:14.0 | a genre of trauma psychotherapy, in which you kind of deal |
0:18.0 | with the traumatic event as if there is a childhood part of you |
0:21.0 | that holds a wound, a part of you kind of locked in time |
0:25.0 | in the internal psyche and the internal self, |
0:27.0 | and the way to kind of go about healing is both by listening |
0:32.0 | and retrieving that inner child and then dealing with them warmly |
0:35.0 | as if you were something like a parent. |
0:38.0 | And something we did today, which was really cool. |
0:41.0 | I talked to Dr. Leah Katz, who's a psychologist. |
0:43.0 | She has a book out called Gutsy. |
0:45.0 | She's incredible. |
0:46.0 | She deals with trauma and anxiety. |
0:48.0 | She's an expert in her field. |
0:50.0 | Something that we talked about today was inner child work. |
0:52.0 | And I kind of brought up some of the common resistance points |
0:55.0 | and places that people kind of push back against inner child work. |
0:59.0 | Namely, the biggest one being that it sounds kind of foofy |
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