The Anomalous Mind
John T Maier
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The Anomalous Mind invites clinicians and researchers to explain the work that they are doing in mental health and why it matters. Hosted by John T. Maier.
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Apr 18, 2022
Episode #20: Steven J. Sandage
Steven J. Sandage is Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology at Boston University, where he is also Research Director and Senior Staff Psychologist at the Danielsen Institute. He has authored or co-authored several books and many more articles on relational spirituality, the clinical significance of forgiveness, the nature of humility, among many other topics.
About Steven J. Sandage:
• Faculty page at Boston University
• Google Scholar profile
• The Danielsen Institute
Programs mentioned in this episode:
• The Virtue and Flourishing Project
• The "Helping the Helping Professionals" Initiative, funded by the Peale Foundation
Books mentioned in this episode:
• Relational Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Healing Suffering and Promoting Growth (SJ Sandage, D Rupert, GS Stavros, NG Devor)
• Forgiveness and Spirituality in Psychotherapy: A Relational Approach (EL Worthington Jr. & SJ Sandage)
Articles mentioned in this episode:
• Forgiveness in the treatment of borderline personality disorder: A quasi-experimental study (2015). SJ Sandage, B Long, R Moen, PJ Jankowski, EL Worthington Jr., NG Wade & MS Rye.
• Relational dynamics between psychotherapy clients and clinic administrative staff: A pilot study (2017) SJ Sandage, SH Moon, D Rupert, DR Paine, EG Ruffing, LE Kehoe, M Bronstein, & SC Hassen.
Additional resources mentioned in this episode:
• Robert Moore on humility
About John T. Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @AnomalousMind
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Mar 14, 2022
Episode #19: Simon Jarrett
Simon Jarrett is a historian and writer, a research fellow at Birbeck, University of London, and the editor of Community Living Magazine. He is the author of Those They Called Idiots:The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day (Reaktion Books, 2020).
• Purchase Those They Called Idiots via Reaktion (UK) or U. of Chicago Press (US).
• More about Community Living Magazine
• More about Corali Dance Company
• Follow @SimonJarrett6 on Twitter
Other work mentioned in this episode:
• Deborah Cohen, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain
• C.F. Goodey, A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'
About John T. Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @AnomalousMind
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Feb 21, 2022
Episode #18: Clara Humpston
Dr. Clara Humpston is a Research Fellow in Youth Mental Health Methodology at the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham, and beginning in April 2022 she will be an Assistant Professor at the University of York. Her work ranges broadly over cognitive neuropsychiatry, computational psychiatry, phenomenology, among other fields. Much of her research has focused on improving our understanding of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
About Clara Humpston:
• Faculty profile
• Google Scholar
• Posts at Psychology Today
Selected Research:
The paradoxical self: Awareness, solipsism and first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia
C Humpston
Behind the opaque curtain: A 20-year longitudinal study of dissociative and first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses, other psychoses and non-psychotic disorders
C Humpston, M Harrow, C Rosen
Innovations in the psychopathology of schizophrenia: a primer for busy clinicians
P Wilson, C Humpston, R Nathan
Finding order within the disorder: a case study exploring the meaningfulness of delusions
R Ritunnano, C Humpston, MR Broome
About John T. Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @AnomalousMind
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Jan 10, 2022
Episode #17: Dariusz Galasiński
Dariusz Galasiński is Professor at the University of Wroclaw, as well as Head of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Health and Illness. He is a linguist and the author of numerous books and articles on language, psychology, psychiatry, and their points of intersection.
Website: dariuszgalasinski.com
Twitter: @d_galasinski
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research into Health and Illness
Selected articles:
• No mental health research without qualitative research. Lancet Psychiatry.
• Language and psychiatry. Lancet Psychiatry.
Selected books:
• Men's Discourses of Depression. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Discourses of Men's Suicide Notes. Bloomsbury.
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @AnomalousMind
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May 17, 2021
Episode #16: Acacia Parks
Acacia Parks is the Chief Science Officer at Happify Health and is the author of numerous widely cited publications on positive psychology, digital mental health, and their intersection. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvana.
About Acacia Parks:
Happify Health: Acacia Parks, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer
Google Scholar: Acacia C. Parks
Twitter: @acaciaparks
Psychology Today: The Science of Self-Help
Selected Happify Health products:
Happify
Kopa for Psoriasis
Selected research:
Positive psychotherapy
MEP Seligman, T Rashid, AC Parks
Pursuing happiness in everyday life: The characteristics and behaviors of online happiness seekers
AC Parks, MD Della Porta, RS Pierce, R Zilca, S Lyubomirsky
Disseminating self-help: positive psychology exercises in an online trial
SM Schueller, AC Parks
Positive Psychological Interventions (PPIs) in the age of COVID-19: on the potential impact of digital PPIs on loneliness
AC Parks, EM Boucher
Testing a scalable web and smartphone based intervention to improve depression, anxiety, and resilience: A randomized controlled trial
AC Parks, AL Williams, MM Tugade, KE Hokes, RD Honomichl, RD Zilca
The effects of a digital well-being intervention on patients with chronic conditions: observational study
AC Parks, AL Williams, GM Kackloudis, JL Stafford, EM Boucher, RD Honomichi
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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May 10, 2021
Episode #15: Elizabeth Eikey
Elizabeth Eikey is an Assistant Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science as well as The Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In addition, she is the Director of the Mental Health in Design Lab and the Assistant Director of the iSchool Inclusion Institute. She holds a Ph.D in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State.
About Elizabeth Eikey:
Webpage: eveikey.weebly.com
Google Scholar: Elizabeth V. Eikey, PhD
Twitter: @eveikey
Selected research:
It's Definitely Been a Journey: A Qualitative Study on How Women with Eating Disorders Use Weight Loss Apps
EV Eikey, MC Reddy
Do Recovery Apps Even Exist?: Why College Women with Eating Disorders Use (But Not Recommend) Diet and Fitness Apps Over Recovery Apps
EV Eikey, Y Chen, K Zheng
Recovery and maintenance: How women with eating disorders use Instagram
EV Eikey, KM Booth
Barriers to and Facilitators of User Engagement With Digital Mental Health Interventions: Systematic Review
J Borghouts, EV Eikey, G Mark, C De Leon, SM Schueller, M Schneider, N Stadnick, K Zheng, D Mukamel, DH Sorkin
Examining the Role of Collaboration in Studies of Health Information Technologies in Biomedical Informatics: A Systematic Review of 25 Years of Research
EV Eikey, MC Reddy, CE Kuziemsky
Designing for privacy management in hospitals: Understanding the gap between user activities and IT staff’s understandings
EV Eikey, AR Murphy, MC Reddy, H Xu
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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May 3, 2021
Episode #14: Kayla Rosen
Dr. Kayla Rosen is a staff psychiatrist at UC Santa Barbara Student Health, and also works with Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics and Santa Barbara Street Medicine. She holds an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and did her residency at Mass General Hospital and McLean Hospital, where she was chief resident in the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorders Unit.
About Kayla Rosen:
UC Santa Barbara profile
Santa Barbara Street Medicine profile
About Open Dialogue:
Finland in Boston? Applying Open Dialogue Ideals on a Psychotic Disorders Inpatient Teaching Unit
Kayla Rosen, Joseph Stoklosa
About Open Dialogue
Institute for Dialogic Practice
The Comprehensive Open-Dialogue Approach in Western Lapland: II. Long-term stability of acute psychosis outcomes in advanced community care
Jaakko Seikkula, Birgitta Alakare, Jukka Aaltonen
Open Dialogues in the Present and the Future
Jaakko Seikkula
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Apr 26, 2021
Episode #13: Smriti Joshi
Smriti Joshi is Lead Psychologist at Wysa and an expert in telehealth delivery. She holds an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delhi and is a Member of the British Psychological Society.
About Smriti Joshi:
Twitter: @SmritiSawhney
LinkedIn: Smriti Joshi, MBPsS
About Wysa:
Website: wysa.io
Twitter: @wysabuddy
Wysa and the NHS
Selected Works:
"Let's Talk, but is Anyone Even Listening?"
Smriti Joshi, TEDx talk
Telepsychotherapy: The Bridge to Continuity in Care and Mental Health Services in Covid-19 and the Post-Covid Era
Smriti Joshi
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Apr 19, 2021
Episode #12: Clarissa Ong
Clarissa Ong is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Utah State University, and a Predoctoral Intern at McLean Hospital. She is the lead author of several widely cited papers on ACT, perfectionism, obsessive compulsive disorder, hoarding, and other topics, and an expert on the emerging topic of Process-Based Therapy.
About Clarissa Ong:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MGiZ6nIAAAAJ
Twitter: @ongclarissaw
Selected Research:
A meta-analysis of dropout rates in acceptance and commitment therapy
Clarissa W Ong, Eric B Lee, Michael P Twohig
A randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for clinical perfectionism
Clarissa W Ong, Eric B Lee, Jennifer Krafft, Carina L Terry, Tyson S Barrett, Michael E Levin, Michael P Twohig
In-Person and Online-Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Hoarding Disorder: A Multiple Baseline Study
Clarissa W Ong, Jennifer Krafft, Franchessca Panoussi, Julie M Petersen, Michael E Levin, Michael P Twohig
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Online-Delivered ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy for Trichotillomania in Adolescents
Michael P Twohig, Julie M Petersen, Jeremiah Fruge, Clarissa W Ong, Jennifer L Barney, Jennifer Krafft, Eric B Lee, Michael E Levin
Beyond Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Process-Based Therapy
Clarissa W Ong, Michael E Levin, Michael P Twohig
ACT in Steps: A Transdiagnostic Manual for Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Michael P Twohig, Michael E Levin, Clarissa W Ong
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Apr 12, 2021
Episode #11: Andrea Niles
Dr. Andrea Niles is the Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Youper AI. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the UCLA and is the author of a number of widely-cited articles on anxiety disorders and their treatment. She is also the founder of Digital Mental Health Hub, a community for connecting professionals working in digital mental health.
About Andrea Niles:
Website: https://www.andreaniles.com/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c9vm4fcAAAAJ
Twitter: @PsychNiles
Publications Discussed in this Episode:
Examining the reach of smartphone apps for depression and anxiety
Wasil, A. R., Gillespie, S., Shingleton, R., Wilks, C. R., & Weisz, J. R.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health among 157,213 Americans
JS Yarrington, Ja Lasser, D Garcia, JH Vargas, DD Couto, T Marafon, MG Craske, AN Niles
Randomized controlled trial of expressive writing for psychological and physical health: the moderating role of emotional expressivity
AN Niles, KEB Haltom, CM Mulvenna, MD Lieberman, AL Stanton
Cognitive mediators of treatment for social anxiety disorder: Comparing acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy
AN Niles, LJ Burklund, JJ Arch, MD Lieberman, D Saxbe, MG Craske
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Apr 5, 2021
Episode #10: Caroline Figueroa
Dr. Caroline Figueroa is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and She holds an MD and an PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam, and is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and a Senior Data Science Fellow at Berkeley's D-Lab. Her current work focuses on digital interventions for mental health, with a special focus on interventions for underserved populations.
About Caroline Figueroa:
Profile at D-Lab: dlab.berkeley.edu/people/caroline-figueroa
Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.com/citations?user=15X-lnoAAAAJ
On Medium: https://medium.com/@c.a.figueroa
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/line_figueroa
Interventions and publications discussed in this episode:
The Stay Well at Home Project
Site at Digital Health Equity and Access Lab
The need for a mental health technology revolution in the COVID-19 pandemic
CA Figueroa, A Aguilera
Adaptive learning algorithms to optimize mobile applications for be…
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Mar 29, 2021
Episode #9: Mark O'Connell
Mark O'Connell is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. He is the author of The Performing Art of Therapy (Routledge, 2019) and Modern Brides & Modern Grooms (Skyhorse, 2014), as well as numerous academic and popular articles. He holds an MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work and an MFA in Acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory.
Website:
http://markoconnelltherapist.com/
Books:
The Performing Art of Therapy
Modern Brides & Modern Grooms
Blog (Psychology Today):
Quite Queerly: Exploring the performing art of living
Academic & popular articles:
Publications by Mark O'Connell
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Mar 22, 2021
Episode #8: Michael Levin
Dr. Michael Levin is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Utah State University. He is a leading researcher on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and has been an innovator in developing web and mobile-based ACT interventions. He is co-Director (with Dr. Michael Twohig) of the ACT Research Group at Utah State. He received his PhD from University of Nevado, Reno under the direction of Steven Hayes.
About Michael Levin:
Website: https://psychology.usu.edu/directory/faculty/levin-michael
Google Scholar: Michael Levin
ACT projects online:
ACT Research Group at Utah State
Sign up to use ACT Guide
Articles discussed in this episode:
"Feasibility of a Prototype Web-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Prevention Program for College Students"
ME Levin, J Pistorello, JR Seeley, SC Hayes
"Does self-help increase rates of help seeking for student mental health problems by minimizing stigma as a barrier?"
ME Levin, J Krafft, C Levin
"Cognitive behavioral mobile applications: cli…
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Mar 15, 2021
Episode #7: David Ireland
Dr. David Ireland is a Senior Research Scientist at at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO. He does research on a broad range of issues, from therapeutic technology for speech and language disorders to the general theory of AI. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Computer Science from Griffith University.
About David Ireland:
Profile at CSIRO
Research page on Google Scholar
Papers, posts, and videos:
Hello Harlie: Enabling Speech Monitoring Through Chat-Bot Conversations
D Ireland, C Atay, J Liddle, D Bradford, H Lee, O Rushin, T Mullins, D Angus, J Wiles, S McBride, A Vogel
Video: Harlie small-talk
Designing a Chatbot for Non-Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum
A Cooper, D Ireland
Pain ROADMAP: A Mobile Platform to Support Activity Pacing for Chronic Pain
D Ireland, N Andrews
Introducing Edna: A trainee chatbot designed to support communication about additional (secondary) genomic findings
D Ireland, DK Bradford, E Szepe, E Lynch, M Martyn, D Hansen, C Gaff
The…
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Mar 8, 2021
Episode #6: Abhijit Nadkarni
Dr. Abhijit Nadkarni is an addictions psychiatrist as well as a global health researcher. He is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Director of the Addictions Research Group at Sangath in Goa, India.
About Abhijit Nadkarni:
Profile at Centre for Global Mental Health
Profile at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Twitter: @abhiloquacious
Research page on Google Scholar
Selected projects:
Projects at Sangath's Addictions Research Group
Listing of projects at MH Innovation
Papers mentioned in this episode:
"Counselling for Alcohol Problems (CAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for harmful drinking in men, in primary care in India: a randomised controlled trial"
A Nadkarni, B Weobong, HA Weiss, et al
"Trajectories of Alcohol Use Disorders and Their Differential Impact: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Goa, India"
A Nadkarni, HA Weiss, B Bhat, V Patel
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me…
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Mar 1, 2021
Episode #5: Elliot D. Cohen
Elliot D. Cohen, PhD, is the President of the Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation Institute, and co-founder and Executive Director of the National Philosophical Counseling Association (NPCA). He is one of the leading figures in philosophical counseling in the United States and the author of a number of books and articles on that and many other subjects.
Some of Elliot D. Cohen's projects discussed in this episode:
What Would Aristotle Do?
Blog at Psychology Today
Tell Walter: iOS, Android
An app that diagnoses faulty thinking
Logic-Based Therapy and Everyday Emotions: A Case-Based Approach
2016 book on Logic-Based Therapy
"The Metaphysics of Logic-Based Therapy" (PDF)
Article on the philosophical foundations of Logic-Based Therapy
Logic-Based Therapy
Wikipedia entry on Logic-Based Therapy
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
About: http://pod.anomalous.co/about
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Feb 22, 2021
Episode #4: Chadi El-Moussawi
Chadi El-Moussawi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Terap.io. Terap.io is "an online marketplace for psychotherapy services," based in the Czech Republic, and founded in 2019. Chadi joins The Anomalous Mind to discuss the importance of providing therapy online, and shares insights gained from building an online therapy platform in the Czech Republic.
About Terap.io:
Website: terap.io
Instagram: @terapio
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Feb 15, 2021
Episode #3: Shrenik Jain
Shrenik Jain is the CEO and Founder of Marigold Health. Marigold Health "combines the relatability of peer support groups with clinical mental health and substance use care." Along with his fellow founder Ravi Shah, he was recently named by Forbes as one of the "30 Under 30" in healthcare.
About Marigold Health:
Website: www.marigoldhealth.com
Twitter: @MarigoldHealth
"Mobile Peer-Support for Opioid Use Disorders: Refinement of an Innovative Machine Learning Tool"
C Scherzer, M Ranney, S Jain, S P Bommaraju, J Patena, K Langdon, E Nimaja, E Jennings, and F L Beaudoin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059630/
Forbes "30 Under 30" in Healthcare, 2021
https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2021/healthcare/
About contingency management (mentioned in this episode):
Contingency Management Interventions/Motivational Incentives
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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Feb 8, 2021
Episode #2: Minha Lee
Minha Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Eidhoven University of Technology. Her work explores "how we can design interactions with conversational agents like robots or chatbots as our moral mirrors for exploring moral emotions and concepts like compassion or fairness." Her paper "Caring for Vincent: A Chatbot for Self-Compassion" (co-authored with S Ackermans, N van As, H Chang, E Lucas, W Ijsselsteijn) introduces a new perspective on the role of chatbots in mental health.
About Minha Lee:
Website: https://minha-lee.github.io/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yVt9qu4AAAAJ
Twitter: @minhappylee
"Caring for Vincent: A Chatbot for Self-Compassion"
M Lee, S Ackermans, N van As, H Chang, E Lucas, W Ijsselsteijn
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3290605.3300932
"Speech Acts Redux"
M Lee
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3405755.3406124
Minha Lee's Dissertation:
https://minha-lee.github.io/files/mlee_dissertation2021.pdf
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Feb 2, 2021
Episode #1: Dahyana Schlosser
Dahyana Schlosser is a therapist, a nurse, and the co-founder of Pinnacle Partnerships, an organization devoted to supporting the social, emotional, and physical health of children and families. We discuss the vital work that Pinnacle Partnerships has been doing in Brockton and beyond, how Pinnacle Partnerships has pivoted in 2020, and how the field of pediatric mental health is changing today.
Pinnacle Partnerships:
http://www.pinnaclepartnerships.org
Therapy to You (individual therapy with Dahyana):
http://therapytoyou.org
Celeste the Therapist's podcast (mentioned in the interview): https://www.celestethetherapist.com/podcast.html/
About John Maier:
http://www.jmaier.net/about-me/
Contact The Anomalous Mind:
Email: theanomalousmind@gmail.com
Twitter: @ItsAnomalous
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