Counseling Episodes

Nora Smyth on Creating Safer Spaces for Healing | 1,589 Nora Smyth believes meaningful change begins with the people who care for others. A licensed clinical social worker, educator, and founder of Join The Constellation PLCC, Nora is dedicated to strengthening the next generation of mental health professionals through intentional clinical supervision, practical education, and trauma informed leadership. Her work is driven by the belief that healthier practitioners create healthier individuals, families, and communities. As the author of five self care toolkits, Nora equips both clinicians and the public with practical strategies for resilience, reflection, and emotional well being. She is also developing specialized continuing education focused on domestic violence, helping practitioners move beyond theory with real world tools that strengthen trauma informed care. Beyond her clinical work, Nora is a passionate advocate committed to breaking the silence surrounding domest…

1,420 | From Emotional Eating to Healing with Jane McGuinness Jane McGuinness is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, author, and mother of three who brings warmth, honesty, and lived experience into her work. Originally from Australia, she now calls North Vancouver home, where she embraces the outdoors and finds balance through hiking and biking. A recovering emotional eater, Jane is a strong advocate for acceptance, gratitude, and kindness. Her approach to life and counseling is rooted in compassion, self awareness, and the belief that joy and laughter are essential to healing. Her debut book, Always Hungry: How I Lost the Weight and Found Myself, shares her personal journey and offers insight into the deeper emotional side of transformation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.janemcguinnesstheauthor.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedi…

1,336 | Stephanie Lincoln on Overcoming Fear When Everything Goes Wrong Stephanie Lincoln is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Army Veteran, and author of Born to Be Brave—a gripping true story of survival, resilience, and the unbreakable human spirit. In August 2020, what began as a short hike in Washington’s Olympic National Forest turned into a life-or-death battle when Stephanie went missing in the wilderness. Told with humor, grit, and honesty, her story reveals how every challenge in her life prepared her for that defining moment—and how courage, faith, and self-belief can carry us through the impossible. Today, Stephanie serves as an embedded behavioral health provider at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and runs a private practice offering mental health and wellness coaching. She continues to inspire others through her story, helping people discover their own inner strength and resilience. Based in South Seattle with her husband and two dogs, Stephanie is still an avid h…

1,236 | Stacy Schaffer on Helping Children Heal from Grief and Anxiety Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC, a dedicated children’s therapist in Arvada, Colorado, has more than twenty years of experience. Specializing in grief and anxiety, she creates a safe space for healing. She loves surfing, kickboxing, reading, and quality time with friends and her golden retriever/ therapy dog, Willow. With Love from a Children's Therapist is her first book, and she hopes people feel both seen and heard in the pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://authorstacyschaffer.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Friday! …

1,208 | How Sabrina Trobak Helps People Break Free From “Not Good Enough” Beliefs Sabrina Trobak, based in Fort St. John, BC, Canada, is a registered clinical counsellor and author of Not Good Enough: Understanding Your Core Belief and Anxiety. She is also a clinical supervisor and public speaker with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. Before founding her private practice, Sabrina spent over 20 years in education as a teacher, vice principal, and school counsellor across three school divisions. She brings extensive training and expertise in helping individuals address past trauma and its lasting effects, particularly anxiety and limiting core beliefs such as feeling not good enough, not important, or not valued. Through her agency, Trobak Holistic Counselling, Sabrina empowers individuals to identify, challenge, and transform these beliefs into a healthier mindset of being good enough, important, and valued. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some lov…

1,205 | How Mary Catherine Liscinski Helps Families Overcome Digital Addiction and Thrive Mary Catherine Liscinski is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Life Coach. She has been a counselor for 13 years; in 2022 she became certified to treat Digital Addiction (smartphones, social media, and video games). She has her own practice and can coach anywhere in the United States. She loves working with teens, adults, and families, she has a passion for seeing families thrive. In her spare time, she loves to read and be outside, and when she can read outside, it’s the best of both worlds. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest:https://lifewalkcoaching.com/screen-addiction-book/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video…

1,198 | How Jesse Johnson Explores Humanity’s Future in His Novel Transcendents In support of his debut speculative fiction novel Transcendents, Jesse Johnson brings together 17 years of experience as a somatic counselor, his background as a high school and college distance running coach, and his recent equine-partnered coaching practice. His work weaves these experiences into a post-conquest philosophy of humanity and the future, offering fresh perspectives on resilience, connection, and what it means to move forward. Jesse Johnson lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife Clara, their son August, and their Bernese Retriever, Doug. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://jessekjohnson.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Lik…

1,189 | How Dr. Janelle Martin Helps Families Heal From Trauma and Addiction Dr. Janelle Martin is a licensed counselor, certified IASIS MicroCurrent Neurofeedback provider, and a doctor of functional medicine. She is the founder of The Mind Connection, a holistic mental health practice in Houston, Texas, where she helps clients heal from trauma, addiction, and emotional dysregulation through an integrative mind-body approach. She is also the author of Losing Her, Finding Us, a moving memoir that shares her daughter’s battle with addiction and their family’s powerful journey toward healing. With deep empathy and lived wisdom, Janelle gives a voice to families facing similar struggles and offers practical support, guidance, and hope. Her work is a rare blend of clinical expertise and personal experience, allowing her to meet others in their pain while walking beside them on the path to recovery and resilience. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 C…

Dr. John Chanaca has over 42 years of teaching/counseling experience in PA and SC public schools. After completing his bachelor's and master's Degrees in elementary education, he taught in various elementary and middle schools at multiple locations with different socioeconomic and cultural groups. He obtained his certification in counseling from Marywood University in PA. John also holds a certificate in public School administration from Penn State University. In addition, he has been a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) since 1985 and has a private Christain Marriage and Family Practice. Support our podcast show by: https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Affiliate(s): Lyric Vids - https://positivetalkradio.net/Lyricvids NordVPN - https://positivetalkradio.net/NordVPN Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lan…