Buck Black, LCSW - TruckerTherapy.com - Today’s podcast is an interview with Buck Black of TruckerTherapy.com. I’ve been a fan of his approach for years but this is the first time I actually had the privilege of speaking with him. He’s been quite an inspiration to me as I started my practice and it was great to finally speak with him. Trucker Therapy, as you can imagine, is a counseling practice with the niche of working with those in the trucking industry. Buck has been able to see a need and meet it – and along the way has learned a great deal about his clients and their industry. Dealing with issues of isolation, anger, stress and relationships – he speaks their vocabulary and understands where they are coming from – saving a lot of time and energy in the therapists office. Today we talk about the challenges and benefits of online counseling and phone therapy and we go into some of the issues of platforms and HIPPA. It was a great talk and I’m so thankful for Buck sharing some time with us.
In this podcast, I got to speak with Miranda Palmer and Kelly Higdon – co-founders of ZynnyMe.com. They bring the skills of the business world to realm of private practice. We look at the gap we therapists have: Grad school teaches us how to be great therapists but now how to run the business of private practice. We explore how online counseling can be so different that face to face therapy and how the industry is changing. Kelly and Miranda have a wealth of information and bring incredible joy and passion to their work as the help therapists all over the world get into alignment with their practice and develop a more professional approach to their business.
Check out their Business School Bootcamp for therapists.
http://mostawesomeconference.com/
In this podcast, we get to meet Poonam Jalan who is psychologist working with Your Dost – dost in Hindi means friend! Your Dost is an online wellness platform that provides a safe place for those in India and really – anywhere, to get the mental health care they need. While India continues to have a stigma associated with counseling and therapy – there is a VERY large need. Low estimates say that as many as 50 million Indians are in need of counseling and suffer from some form of mental illness. Your Dost is doing wonderful work and I’m so pleased to have one of their members talk with us.
You can learn more about them at: www.yourdost.com And we are now on twitter.
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In this podcast I didn’t have to look far. Patrick Cayouette works for me at maritalcounseling.com. He is relatively new the online counseling world and it was great to get a ‘newby’s’ take on things. He brings a lot to the table. He specializes in Christian Counseling and has a niche for Men’s Issues and Sex Addiction. He’s a fellow New Yorker and was really able to open up about some of the pros and cons of working online. And we had a great discussion about the marketing aspect of things.
In this podcast I got to speak with the wonderfully energetic Jo Muirhead. She is an incredibly passionate Career Development Coach and Rehabilitation Counsellor. You can’t help from being inspired by this trainer, professional speaker and coach. She is working with people all over the world via online platforms to “love their job, live life passionately, and reach their potential”. We get to explore how online connections have helped her bring healing to all parts of Australia, how she launched her business and quickly made it a success – and how she is teaching others to do the same. Lots of great tips and tricks from this powerhouse!
In this podcast we have the incredible privilege to speak with Dr. Julie de Azevedo Hanks, PhD, LCSW. She is an incredible force. An all around Renaissance Woman. She owns the Wasatch Family Therapy Center and is a nationally recognized relationship expert and media personality – having appeared on numerous television and radio programs. She is the author of several books including The Assertiveness Guide for Women and the Burn Out Cure. Today we talk about her work as a private practice consultant and her Social Media Bootcamp. We touch on issues on online counseling and I really got a wonderful sense of her love of all things innovative. She has a passion for learning and sharing and was a wonderful guest. I learned a lot and hope you do too!
http://www.drjuliehanks.com/category/practice-toolbox/
Last summer, my wife and spent a month in London and I had the privilege of meeting Jimi Sayo who is an extremely talented hypnotherapist based in London. But I was fascinated to learn that she works online via skype with people all over the world. Today we get to learn about her approach and how she believes that connecting via skype can be just as effective as meeting in person in her South London office. We also get to talk a little a bit about the Virtual Gastric Band – which just blows my mind. As a hypnotherapist and a practitioner of NLP – Jimi has many tools to draw from and we spend the beginning of the podcast exploring her approach, but at about the 21 minute mark, we start really delving into the online approach – the benefits and challenges.
Hypnotherapyresults.co.uk
See the benfits of BNI? Here is another contact from my very own BNI chapter – Christine Sachs. She is a ball of energy and she brings this passion to her life coaching practice. Today we get to talk about how coaches have ALWAYS been working with technology – phone, video, etc. This has been their natural territory for quite some time and I think we can learn from them. We talk a bit about the differences between coaching and therapy and how best to use technology to enhance a practice. I’ve known Christine for a long time and I know how incredibly busy she is and I think we are lucky to get to learn from her.
Christinesachscoaching.com
Other resources: Accomplishmentcoaching.com
Dr Ivy Branin is an inspiration and I could talk to her for hours. Dr Ivy is another contact I made through BNI – ( Business Networking International. If you haven’t visited a BNI chapter near you – you really should. ) She is a Naturopathic Doctor based in New York City but also doing tele-medicine with clients all over the world via skype. Fluent in both French and English, she has developed a truly global practice. In this podcast we talk about her journey toward holistic natural medicine and the many clients and types of disorders that she treats. I know she perhaps is a different choice for this podcast – but seeing as she does online medicine, I think there are several things we can learn from her. We get a little deep into a few things, but hang in there – we come out the other side with a lot of great information on the challenges and benefits of reaching clients through technology.
Simplicityhealthassociates.com
I’m very excited to welcome Karissa Brennan to the podcast. We met through a mutual contact at BNI. BNI stands for Business Networking International and it is an amazing organization that allows for small business owners to network with each other and build their referral base. You will hear a lot about BNI from me because I’m a big supporter – as is Karissa. You can learn more about them from BNI.com. Karissa is a fellow New Yorker and has a very interesting practice – she works online via video cam, texting and instant messaging. We get to talk about her approach, what platforms she uses and the ups and downs of online counseling. In fact, we had a bit of a problem with the connection – and this interview shows how things do not always go smoothly but you can use the problems to maybe come up with solutions! She has a beautiful story of how she was drawn to online counseling and does a wonderful job of opening up and showing the personal side of a therapist. She has a beautiful “why”. Other resources we mentioned: www.cce-global.org/dcc
Dr Judith Zur - Onlinetherapyandlifecoach.com - For my first interview, I could not have chosen a better person to talk with than Dr. Judith Zur. She is a fascinating person – with dual US and UK citizenship and currently working in Mexico, she is truly a global therapist. It was raining in Mexico on the day we recorded this interview and were at times having internet connection issues – which gave us a great subject to explore - how do you deal with tech problems when doing therapy online? But we also explored her fascinating history which includes working with individuals all over the world, her experience with doing therapy with war time torture victims, the difficulty of cultural boundaries and language when doing therapy in different countries and which virtual platforms she prefers: Skype, Facetime, etc. As my first podcast I could not have asked for a better volunteer.