Finding You: An Evoke Therapy Podcast

Brad talks about factors that can lead to emotional dysregulation: exceptions, alcohol use, critical family members, and poor self-care. He describes emotional dysregulation and associated mental health issues. He encourages listeners to be kind to themselves and allow for all feelings rather than trying to force feelings we are told we "should" have.

Dr. Reedy takes live questions about length of stay in treatment, how to help siblings, and what makes Evoke Therapy Programs unique.

Dr. Brad Reedy welcomes Sanford Shapiro to the Evoke Therapy podcast. Sanford is our new Learning Specialist & Executive Consultant at Evoke Therapy Programs. He brings a wealth of experience from the cognitive sciences to help Evoke support clients with learning differences. Sanford talks about educational trauma and how universal design can help to cast a wider net to help more clients.

Dr. Reedy talks about how expectations and parental anxiety regarding perceived success impacts our children. He also talks about how parental trauma can affect the way we parent our children.

Dr. Talks explains ADHD, executive functioning, and the effects of academic and educational trauma. he talks about testing and the need for accommodations.

Dr. Brad Reedy talks about the idea of the "inner-child" and how that relates to parenting your own children. He encourages parents to explore their histories through the inner-child concept as a way to increase bandwidth in dealing with a child struggling with mental health and addiction issues.

Dr. Reedy talks about the stages and phases of growth that Evoke participants go through. He talks about how metaphor and stories bypass resistance. He talks about the risks of reducing children, or others, to their behaviors and suggests that we listen to what behaviors are trying to tell us before we try to change them.

A review of Brainspotting from David Grand's book, Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change. Dr. Reedy talks about Dr. Grand's evolution from EMDR to developing an accessible and efficient model for treating trauma.

Dr. Reedy talks about boundaries, shame, going home after wilderness therapy, and other topics as parents, extended family, and friends of Evoke participants ask live questions.

Dr. Reedy explains intensive programming at Evoke Therapy Programs. He talks about psychodrama and how these experiences are for the novice or the experienced therapy goer. He suggest that there is no better thing you can do to support a loved one struggling with mental health or addiction issues, than to attend your own intensive.

Dr. Reedy talks about Autism Spectrum Disorder and how wilderness therapy works with individuals with ASD. He offers practical take-home ideas for parents and emphasizes the need for continued support. He suggests that we shift to see things through their eyes.

Dr. Reedy talks about the need for children to explore their anger and grievances towards their parents and the benefits when parents are able to hear them. He debunks the myth that giving your child a stage to complain about how you hurt them doesn't mean you can't hold them accountable--it doesn't cause them to be a victim. Listening allows them to move through their feelings.

Dr, Reedy talks about codependency and attachment. He talks about what it means to be human and contrasts it with being raised to be good or right. He talks about what to look for in an adequate therapist.

Dr. Brad Reedy talks about outcomes. He explains quantitative vs qualitative outcomes and their advantages and disadvantages. He shares some of the outcomes at Evoke, compared to other programs and approaches. He also talks about what it means to let go of outcomes and how this practice, ironically, leads to better outcomes!

Dr. Reedy talks about the nature of accountability and what we can do to encourage accountability in others, including our children. He also talks about modeling accountability and how guilt and shame are barriers to accountability and prevent awareness. He talks about our right to feel hurt and take our time to trust again.