Maybe I'm Not the Problem with Complex Trauma Expert Danica Harris, Ph.D, SEP

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Danica @theempoweredtherapist specializes in healing from attachment wounds, sexual assault, emotional neglect, vicarious trauma, intergenerational and identity-based trauma, and work or academic trauma.

In this DEEP convo, Kristen and Danica discuss the following topics:
Complex Trauma
Is it ADHD or CPTSD?
Attunement
Attachment
Somatic Experiencing
How to Identify a Trigger
The Complexity of Healing

Danica is a therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) in Dallas, TX. She co-owns Empowered Healing Dallas, a group practice where she provides trauma-informed therapy using somatic, relational, attachment, and parts work approaches to treatment.

Danica is passionate about support for therapists and provides counseling services, mentorship, supervision, and consultation to mental health providers looking for trauma-informed support. She is deeply invested in equity, social justice efforts, and destigmatizing mental health treatment, and utilizes her Instagram platform, @theempoweredtherapist to provide education and support to the broader community.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to a new bi-weekly series
0:13.4	on the I have ADHD podcast called Maybe I'm Not The Problem. This is a different type
0:19.1	of podcast where I have deep conversations with therapists, psychologists, and trauma-informed
0:24.9	coaches about how our pasts are upbringing, our parents, our teachers, our traumas, our
0:29.6	neurodivergencies, all of that have impacted us and how maybe, just maybe, we are not the
0:36.1	problem. Now, this is not ADHD-specific content, so if that's what you're looking for, just
0:41.6	click on one of the over 200 episodes of the I have ADHD podcast and enjoy. You can expect
0:49.0	this bi-weekly series of maybe I'm not the problem to be a casual, long form and really
0:55.6	vulnerable conversation with someone that I deeply respect. For detailed information
1:01.4	about today's guest, check out the episode show notes for their bio and links, and now
1:06.9	let's get started.
1:09.9	I really, like I said, so appreciate you meeting with me. I host a podcast all about
1:23.0	adult ADHD, and I've been on my own healing journey through very trauma-informed therapy.
1:34.8	I think I have a lot of complex PTSD, and I'm really wrestling with, is it ADHD or is
1:46.5	it complex PTSD?
1:48.5	Yep.
1:49.5	And I'm having these conversations kind of live and vulnerably because the journey that
1:57.3	I have been on is one that I think a lot of people with ADHD will resonate with where
2:04.4	you kind of, you discover you have ADHD and there's kind of a triage period where you're
2:09.6	like, I need medication, I need coaching, I need, you know, like give me all the resources.
2:14.9	And then once you feel kind of stable, there's a little bit of space where you can kind
2:20.5	of do a little bit more unpacking.
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