Therapist Uncensored Podcast

TU97: The Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment With Guest Patricia Crittenden (Part 2)

Note: This episode is Part 2 of 2. It stands alone, but to start at Part 1 click HERE.   “So which strategy in this model is best? Every behavioral strategy is the right strategy for some problem, but no strategy is the best strategy for every problem. We need them all.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context. LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES? DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION OR THE POWERP...

The Dynamic Maturational Model (DMM) of Attachment With Guest Patricia Crittenden (Part 2) (97)

Note: This episode is Part 2 of 2. It stands alone, but to start at Part 1 click HERE.   “So which strategy in this model is best? Every behavioral strategy is the right strategy for some problem, but no strategy is the best strategy for every problem. We need them all.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context. LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES? DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION OR THE P...

TU96: Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies With Guest Patricia Crittenden(Part 1)

Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies “If it protects you, it’s the right strategy.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context. LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES? DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION OR THE POWERPOINT VERSION HERE:  Rudiments of the DMM Powerpoint version  Or if you have great eyesight :) you can view them here. Are you ready to move from describing injured developmental...

Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies With Guest Patricia Crittenden(Part 1) (96)

Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies “If it protects you, it’s the right strategy.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context. LOOKING FOR THE SLIDES? DOWNLOAD THE PDF HERE: Rudiments-of-the-DMM-PDF VERSION OR THE POWERPOINT VERSION HERE:  Rudiments of the DMM Powerpoint version  Or if you have great eyesight :) you can view them here. Are you ready to move from describing injured develop...

TU96: Treating Attachment & Self-Protective Strategies With Guest Patricia Crittenden (Part 1)

    “If it protects you, it’s the right strategy.” – Dr Patricia Crittenden, creator of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment & Adaptation (DMM) using culture and context.     Are you ready to move from describing injured developmental pathways and symptoms – to addressing how to heal from disrupted development? We are on the case! In this episode co-host Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP discusses exactly that with Dr. Patrica Crittenden, founder of the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attac...

TU95: Oxytocin & Dogs (& Pets in General) as Attachment Figures

Oxytocin and dogs! Our pet relationships provide a trust and bonding boost, and is the natural love drug our bodies make at key relational moments such as child-birth, nursing, orgasm and falling in love.* In this episode we discuss how to create this moral molecule without even needing complicated human relationships by connecting mutually to our companion pets. What’s not to love about that? The science now is clear – this inter-species relationship is mutually beneficial and potentially l...

Oxytocin & Dogs (& Pets in General) as Attachment Figures (95)

Oxytocin and dogs! Our pet relationships provide a trust and bonding boost, and is the natural love drug our bodies make at key relational moments such as child-birth, nursing, orgasm and falling in love.* In this episode we discuss how to create this moral molecule without even needing complicated human relationships by connecting mutually to our companion pets. What’s not to love about that? The science now is clear – this inter-species relationship is mutually beneficial and poten...

Oxytocin & Dogs (& Pets in General) as Attachment Figures

Sweet, sweet Jackson – of Johnny Cash fame. My heartbreak. Look at those eyes and tell me you don’t get a neuropeptide hit?! 🙂 Want a totally free, no-hangover naturally produced cuddle-drug? Oxytocin and dogs!Our pet relationships provide a trust and bonding boost, and is the natural love drug our bodies make at key relational moments such as child-birth, nursing, orgasm and falling in love.* In this episode we discuss how to create this moral molecule without even needing complicated huma...

TU94: The Science of Self-Regulation – Breaking down Polyvagal Theory

The science of relaxing into love, this episode continues the exploration of Polyvagal Theory, one of the most important theories of our generation, especially when it comes to trauma and psychological treatment. Join Sue Marriott and Ann Kelley as they continue to break down and bring Polyvagal Theory to life. Through discussion and real-life examples of what happens when our bodies experience threat, you will learn how to recognize when you or your loved one is experiencing an unconscious ...

The Science of Self-Regulation – Breaking Down Polyvagal Theory (94)

The science of relaxing into love, this episode continues the exploration of Polyvagal Theory, one of the most important theories of our generation, especially when it comes to trauma and psychological treatment. Join Sue Marriott and Ann Kelley as they continue to break down and bring Polyvagal Theory to life. Through discussion and real-life examples of what happens when our bodies experience threat, you will learn how to recognize when you or your loved one is experiencing an unco...

TU94: The Science of Self-Regulation – Breaking Down Polyvagal Theory

TU93: Polyvagal Theory in Action – The Practice of Body Regulation With Dr Stephen Porges

Polyvagal Theory in Action – The Practice of Body Regulation With Dr Stephen Porges (93)

Polyvagal Theory is about the biology of opening our hearts. Cool, huh? What is all this fuss about the vagal nerve and the flurry of interventions developed around it? Find out the facts directly from the father of Polyvagal Theory, award-winning neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges. In this episode, he speaks with co-host Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP to discuss this ground-breaking discovery about the biology of threat and safety which explains so much about human behavior and psychological...

Understanding Addiction and Attachment-Informed Treatment With Guests Brad Kennedy & Vanessa Kennedy (92)

Learn 3 distinct features that make one vulnerable to addiction and understand the varied dynamics through the lens of attachment and emotional regulation. In today’s episode, Dr. Ann Kelley interviews two experts in the field of substance abuse treatment, Brad Kennedy and Dr. Vanessa Kennedy from Driftwood Recovery Center. They discuss their attachment-based perspective on what addiction is, how it develops, how understanding our attachment styles critically impacts the treatment an...

TU92: Understanding Addiction and Attachment-Informed Treatment With Guests Brad Kennedy & Vanessa Kennedy

TU91: Curiosity – One of the Most Powerful Tools For Connection

Curiosity – One of the Most Powerful Tools For Connection (91)

Have you ever just sat back and observed a small child as they learn something new? There is this profound sense of awe and wonder with each new discovery they make. Kids are naturally curious. As adults, we tend to take what we know about the world for granted. But, through the eyes of a child, the world is an exciting mystery just waiting to be discovered! What if we told you that it is possible to experience that childlike curiosity in your day-to-day life, starting right now? Wha...

Attachment Avoidance and the Difficulty Opening Up, with Robert T. Muller (90)

Troubled attachment is a natural outcome of challenging life experiences or trauma. But, there’s another outcome that we want to talk about: intimacy avoidance. It’s hard enough to open up in relationships. However, when your life experience has challenged you, avoidance is sure to follow. You may have found safety in hiding (a.k.a. cloaking). Yet, that cloak can clog up our current adult relationships. Dang it! Sorry to tell you what we imagine you already know – 🙂 Gotta lose the cl...

TU90: Attachment Avoidance and the Difficulty Opening Up, with Robert T. Muller

TU89 Neurofluency - with Dr. Lou Cozolino, Applied Neuroscience made Understandable

This episode breaks down the basics of neuroscience as it relates to being human in a relational world. This skill will help with your boss, your teacher, your student, your child, you client or you spouse. Learn to use the solid findings across varied life experiences. Sue Marriott joins Dr. Lou Cozolino, books and original articles on the subject. The post TU89: Neurofluency, Using Neuroscience in Therapy, Work & Life with Guest Dr. Lou Cozolino appeared first on Therapist Uncensored.

TU89 Neurofluency – with Dr. Lou Cozolino, Applied Neuroscience made Understandable

This episode breaks down neurofluency – the basics of neuroscience as it relates to being human in a relational world. This skill will help you with your boss, your teacher, your student, your child, you client or your spouse. Renowned author and therapist Lou Cozolino returns to Therapist Uncensored with co-host Sue Marriott for a breakdown of a concept he calls neurofluency. They describe what the key ingredients are for growth and why integration of different treatment forms can be crucia...

Neurofluency – with Dr. Lou Cozolino, Applied Neuroscience Made Understandable (89)

This episode breaks down neurofluency – the basics of neuroscience as it relates to being human in a relational world. This skill will help you with your boss, your teacher, your student, your child, you client or your spouse. Renowned author and therapist Lou Cozolino returns to Therapist Uncensored with co-host Sue Marriott for a breakdown of a concept he calls neurofluency. They describe what the key ingredients are for growth and why integration of different treatment forms can b...

TU89: Neurofluency – with Dr. Lou Cozolino, Applied Neuroscience Made Understandable

TU88: 6 Steps to Building Security & Self-Confidence You Can Do On Your Own

6 Steps to Building Security & Self-Confidence You Can Do On Your Own (88)

Building self-confidence and inner security on your own can seem nearly impossible, so for today we are ditching the heady theoretical neuroscience to break down 6 quick tips to improve self-confidence entirely on your own. It’s science-based but we focus on the actionable.    You’ll discover how this handful of practical steps for self-confidence can vastly improve the way you feel internally and the way you carry yourself externally. Dr. Ann Kelley and Sue Marriott co-host this sho...

Treating Complex Trauma and Attachment with Guest Dr. Daniel Brown (87)

This episode is packed with cool content! Learn about complex trauma, debunk myths of false memories from an expert witness for the prosecutors of child sexual abuse, and revisit the 3 Pillars Model of effective treatment for attachment disturbances, Dr. Daniel Brown! Also see the SPECIAL OFFER for his newly launched training below. Early attachment disruption is often the primary contributor to many adult mental health issues. Treating symptoms without addressing the underlying root...

TU 87: Treating Complex Trauma and Attachment with Guest Dr. Daniel Brown

86: Mentalization and Regression, Responding to Listener's Questions with Sue Marriott

Co-host Sue Marriott ends the year by addressing in depth 2 questions from our audience. These focus on mentalization, the attachment spectrum and regression. We look at how we can lose the capacity to mentalize when we are in a dismissing state of mind and what happens when we regress into early modes of functioning. The post TU86: Mentalization and Regression, Listener’s Questions with co-host Sue Marriott appeared first on Therapist Uncensored.

Mentalization and Regression, Responding to Listener’s Questions with Sue Marriott (86)

Therapist Uncensored co-host Sue Marriott ends the year with an episode answering two great questions about mentalization, regression and attachment left by listeners. By the way she totally missed her co-host and partner in crime, Dr. Ann Kelley, who was out of town and could not make it work before end of year. Hi Ann! Can’t wait to have you back on air! In this episode, we discuss: Question 1: “If someone is so far on the blue spectrum, they are completely out of touch with emotio...

86: Mentalization and Regression, Responding to Listener’s Questions with Sue Marriott

Therapist Uncensored co-host Sue Marriott ends the year with an episode answering two great questions about mentalization, regression and attachment left by listeners. By the way she totally missed her co-host and partner in crime, Dr. Ann Kelley, who was out of town and could not make it work before end of year. Hi Ann! Can’t wait to have you back on air! In this episode, we discuss:Question 1: “If someone is so far on the blue spectrum, they are completely out of touch with emotions and ne...

TU86: Mentalization and Regression, Responding to Listener’s Questions with Sue Marriott

TU85: Attachment in the Classroom with Guest Linno Rhodes

Attachment in the Classroom with Guest Linno Rhodes (85)

Using the science of attachment, mentalization and emotional regulation in the classroom, and in this case, adult learners. A look at the take-aways from a tour of relational science experts, guest Linno Rhodes joins co-host Dr. Ann Kelley as they look at applying the skills learned in one’s life and the workplace. Our guest today shares herself as a case example of how learning about the use of attachment science and how it affects one’s perceptions of co-workers, employees and stud...

TU 84: Why Do We Over (or Under) React? The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Attachment Categories

Neurobiological differences can be detected between secure and insecure relating, and even between the two organized insecure patterns of attachment (Dismissing and Preoccupied)!  This is cool because we can understand it and begin to gain mastery over our primitive reactions. The post TU 84: Why Do We Over (or Under) React? The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Attachment Categories appeared first on Therapist Uncensored.

Why Do We Over (or Under) React? The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Attachment Categories (84)

Neurobiological differences can be detected between secure and insecure relating, and even between the two organized insecure patterns of attachment (Dismissing and Preoccupied)! Cool, huh!? In this Therapist Uncensored episode, co-hosts and real therapists Dr. Ann Kelley and Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP begin to the question – why are there only 3-4 categories established in the largest body of attachment research given the zillions of different experiences across the globe? We point to t...

TU 84: Why Do We Over (or Under) React? The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Attachment Categories

Establishing Neurological Safety through Relationships with Guest Bonnie Badenoch (83)

Learn about the natural neurobiology of co-regulation and it’s capacity to engage safety and heal trauma. In addition, this episode addresses the myth of self-regulation and how to re-engage interpersonal relationships if they’ve been neglected. Therapist Uncensored co-host Sue Marriott LCSW CGP chats with author and therapist Bonnie Badenoch about the concept of using safety to reshape your neural landscape through authentic relationships. Badenoch guides us through her progression ...

TU83: Establishing Neurological Safety through Relationships with Guest Bonnie Badenoch

TU82: The Paradox of Masculinity with Guest Esther Perel

The Paradox of Masculinity with Guest Esther Perel (82)

Can men be BOTH Relational and Masculine? It couldn’t be a more important time for thoughtful, honest, and provocative discussion on what it means to be a man in today’s culture. Perel makes a case that men are both harmed by the existing power structures and perpetuate harm by the codes imposed on them by all of us. In 2018 there are many contentious ideas about masculinity and “the male code” including confusion by men about how to hold themselves out as safe and masculine during t...

How Good Boundaries Actually Bring Us Closer, with Guest Juliane Taylor Shore (81)

How Good Boundaries Actually Bring Us Closer Interpersonal co-regulation requires boundary setting. Most of us haven’t been lucky enough to learn to be good at boundary setting naturally, by good examples, so we have to literally be taught how to do this important skill. Well today we are in luck! Jello will be your friend. 🙂 Therapist Uncensored co-hosts Ann Kelley and Sue Marriott join the founder of IPNB Psychotherapy of Austin, Dr. Juliane Taylor Shore, in a discussion on interpe...

TU81: How Good Boundaries Actually Bring Us Closer, with Guest Juliane Taylor Shore

TU:80 Nervous Systems in the News: Dr. Blasey Ford, Sexual Trauma Stories and the Power of Patriarchy

Nervous Systems in the News: Dr. Blasey Ford, Sexual Trauma Stories and the Power of Patriarchy (80)

Nervous Systems in the News Let's talk nervous systems in the context of the news. We joke around a lot on this show, but when it hits the fan we are serious therapists devoted to treating real people and all kinds of survivors. As women, as privileged humans lucky enough and wildly empowered enough to have a mic and thus a voice with an audience, and as survivors ourselves, we could not let the treatment of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh hearing for his nomination for th...

Attachment Spectrum and the Nervous System, Quick Review with Updates (79)

A guide to secure relating and using the attachment sciences and regulation theory in your day to day lives. Today we review what we’ve discussed so far on the podcast about the attachment spectrum and add more detail about the nervous system. THANK YOU for getting us all the way to Season 3!! We continue to share our ideas on the practical use of attachment science and learning to manage our nervous system. Facebook Live October 8 11:30 am Central Time — Bless us with some attention...

TU79: Attachment Spectrum and the Nervous System, Quick Review with Updates

TU78: The Stress Response System (Attachment) Across the Lifespan - (Replay)

Neuroscience continues to document our ability to change and grow throughout our life. This episode takes a wide-angle look at attachment throughout one’s life, discusses how one’s environment affects their system’s involuntary response to stress, and how that stress response system impacts us from infancy to the autumn years.  Learn how to adjust set stress “pathways” and move towards more secure relating in adult relationships, and also unravel the parallels that exist between attachment i...

TU78: The Stress Response System (Attachment) Across the Lifespan – (Replay)

The Stress Response System (Attachment) Across the Lifespan – (Replay) (78)

The Stress Response System (Attachment) Across the Lifespan How does your involuntary stress response system affect you throughout life? FAVORITE EPISODE!!! This one takes a wide-angle look at attachment throughout one’s life, discusses how one’s environment affects their system’s involuntary response to stress, and how that stress response system impacts us from infancy to the autumn years. In this episode, co-hosts Ann Kelley Phd and Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP discuss attachment across...

TU77: Understanding the Mind with Guest Dr. Dan Siegel (Replay)