Welcome to the Mathiasia Barca podcast everybody

Happy that you're here. My name is Mathias. I'm a psychotherapist from Spokane, Washington

No, I'm not

Um, I'm from Nashville, Tennessee

I'm still used to saying I'm from Spokane though. I recently moved

My family and I we moved down to Nashville, Tennessee recently and so I'm still used to lived in Spokane for 10 years

Still used to saying I'm from Spokane

I guess I uh, I still need to reprogram the muscle memory. All right

Anyway, okay, so Hilary McBride is on the podcast today. I'm so excited about this

Um, she's someone who was really a huge part of me becoming a therapist

So as I was contemplating career and and the prospect of you know the helping field just listening to her work both on her podcast

Um, other people's problems and reading her books um

Yeah, she really inspired me. I loved her approach. I loved her approach to healing and therapy and

She's consistently been someone I've looked up to and and really taken a lead from

On becoming a psychotherapist and and helping people so uh really care about her really really thankful to have her on the podcast

It's fun talking to your heroes. She wrote about recently the wisdom of your body and make sure to check that out

We have a fun conversation. It's about like

I didn't really anticipate having this conversation. It wasn't I didn't go in with a with a topic in mind

I just kind of wanted to lean into some spontaneity and and what kind of came up was

You know, we're in this season where therapists increasingly are having online presence and um whether that's social media pages

Whether that's you know a linkedin profile, you know

When people are looking for a therapist

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