Men Too: Unspoken Truths About Male Sexual Abuse (ft. Dr. Kelli Palfy)
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, your host, Eric Skwarczynski, is joined by Dr. Kelli Palfy.
Dr. Kelli Palfy began her professional career working in adult and youth corrections. Here she noticed a disproportionate number of males in the system. After becoming an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer, she took an interest in investigating sex crimes and went on to specialize in sex crimes committed against children internationally. Here, as she combed through video evidence, she witnessed first-hand the grooming tactics commonly used by sophisticated pedophiles.
After retiring from the RCMP, Dr. Palfy obtained her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Alberta where she conducted her doctoral research on the reasons why males don’t commonly disclose sexual abuse. She is now a trained trauma therapist and public speaker on the topic of male abuse. Dr. Palfy currently runs a small private practice where she works with male survivors of sexual abuse, first responders, victims of bullying and couples. Outside of her professional life she enjoys hiking, cycling, swimming, kayaking, paddle boarding, hanging out with friends and her pets.
Clips Referenced:
Sheldon Kennedy Interview – https://youtu.be/LSGVM6X6BPk
Terry Crews' Testimony – https://youtu.be/Zft697iv4y0
Leaving Neverland – Available on HBO
Emily's Ted Talk – https://youtu.be/L-q-tSHo9Ho
Dr. Kelli Palfy
peaksandvalleyspsychology.com
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| 0:45.7 | Doc. Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. |
| 0:50.9 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Bridge Boys podcast. On today's episode, |
| 0:54.6 | I'm sitting down with Dr. Kelly Palfi. Dr. Palfi began her career working in adult and youth |
| 0:59.8 | corrections. She worked in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and was involved in cases involving |
| 1:06.3 | sex crimes against children. After retiring from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Dr. Palfi received her |
| 1:12.1 | PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Alberta. She's a trained trauma specialist |
| 1:18.3 | with a practice that focuses on helping men who have been victims of sexual abuse in trauma. |
| 1:24.4 | So this episode's really good. I was good to sit down and talk about a topic that's not |
| 1:27.7 | discussed much. Even in groups that do focus on sexual abuse, the idea of men coming forward and |
| 1:33.1 | reporting and having a safe space to talk about sexual assault and trauma is something that's |
| 1:38.1 | hard to find. And so we talk about resources there. We talk about creating environments that |
| 1:43.1 | allow men to come forward, why they don't |
| 1:45.3 | report in the first place, what the grooming process looks like when it comes to a pedophile and one of |
| 1:52.4 | their victims. And there's just a lot of really good information. So I hope you'll watch all the |
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