Psychotherapy

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In this episode, IVFN Community Nurse Director Fran Steyn is back this week with another conversation alongside Psychotherapist for Wales Therapist Rosanna Joseph-Holme to look at the tools and therapies you might want to consider to help you through the ups and downs of your fertility journey, including how to manage your anxiety, reframing unhelpful thoughts and promoting self-compassion.

So to start the conversation, Roseanne opens up on why going through the IVF treatments can be seen as mentally challenging for some, going through it and not for others.

Well, I wouldn't want to sort of frighten anybody into thinking that it's always going to be absolutely awful because I do come across people who actually quite enjoy their IVF experience.

Well worth a read.

And you might want to check out my blog on psychotherapy.nz as well, which has got a blog this week about habits and habit stacking and habit pairing.

Well, that's it for this week on The Nutters Club.

A big thank you to everyone who shared their experiences, to psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald, our production team, Newstalk ZB and New Zealand On Air for making these conversations possible.

In this short episode, we're going to cover an overview of psychotherapeutic modalities.

We're going to look at the role of psychotherapy and explore the general principles, relative indications, relative contraindications, and limitations of five modalities.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, interpersonal therapy, or IPT, And finally, psychodynamic therapy.

I'm Victoria Meng, a third year medical student at McMaster University.

And I'm Matthew.

I'm a second year psychiatry resident at U of T.

So to start off, I think the first question would really be, what is psychotherapy? Many famous scientists over the years have proposed their own definitions of psychotherapy.

But simply put, you can think of it as an umbrella term to describe a talk-based treatment rooted in the collaboration between a therapist and a patient.

This topic came to us in part because of this research article that you found that I guess was making the rounds.

I haven't come across it or hadn't come across it before, but it was published in the journal Psychotherapy, which is a pretty well-regarded journal.

Journal of the American Psychological Association.

It's by, I'm probably getting her name wrong, but Ioni Izawa is the first author and Steve Holland.

Listeners of the podcast might recognize that name, Steve Holland.

He was a previous podcast guest.

We had a great discussion about depression and their article was entitled Cognitive Restructuring and Psychotherapy Outcome, a Meta-Analytic Review.

i thought it was interesting just as an aside that it was called psychotherapy outcome because as far as i could tell it was psychotherapy for depression outcome it wasn't general every every every one of the four studies there was meta analyzed in the end including the fifth that was part of their review was addressing depression so our listeners might want to keep that in mind as we're talking about this but uh But this was an article looking at the effects of changing the way that we think.

What do you do? I've talked to other leaders about this off mic, and they're also scared.

If I go and you make me better, they're Mr. Psychotherapist.

You're going to ruin me.

What if I end up leading nothing? Great.

People don't understand the importance of the relationship as being central to healing in all fields of medicine,

hello everybody welcome to another wonderful and exciting episode of peak inside podcast and i am your host leanne we have a wonderful guest with us today we have dr david joseph who will share with us his life journey and give us snippets and background of what makes him the person he is today so For your information, Dr. David Joseph is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and the author of Listening for a Lifetime, the Artful Science of Psychotherapy.

Those were like... big roles that he actually fills in.

And for sure, Dr. Joseph here is excited to unpack his journey to us.

But I didn't want to work if I couldn't be my best.

So I have no regrets.

And at the time that I was making up my mind to when, picking a time about when I was going to close my practice, that's when I began writing my book, which you said is listening for a lifetime, Artful Science of Psychotherapy, because I believe that in today's culture, the ability to Not just the ability to listen, but how essential listening is to all relationships.

Not just a relationship between a clinician and someone who's coming to see them because they're hurting, they're anxious, they're sad, they're depressed, they're in a bad job, a bad marriage.

Christina is also a licensed clinical social worker and co-founder of SANA Psychotherapy.

She previously held leadership roles in Columbia University Irving Medical Center's OBGYN Women's Mental Health Division.

She trained in relational psychodynamic psychotherapy at the William Allenson White Institute.

Christina supports clients through fertility challenges, perinatal anxiety and depression, birth trauma and loss, and she serves on the medical advisory board of Chasing the Rainbows.

She's also a mom and brings that lived understanding into her work.

So Jessica and Christina, thank you both so much for joining us today.

Thanks so much for having us.

Um, so would love for I mean, I just gave you an intro and kind of intro the topic a little bit of what we're going to be talking about, but would love to sort of hear in your own words, how you got into this field, why you're passionate about it, and how you both kind of joined forces and started sauna psychotherapy.

What is dialectical behavioral therapy? I wanted to include this next section because DBT is highly recommended and it is a core part of the treatment of borderline personality disorder, so it's important to be aware of.

The rest of this section is a short extract from my book, Introduction to Psychotherapies.

Therefore, dialectical behavior therapy is a manualized and structured form of therapy made up of both weekly individual and group sessions for 6 to 12 months that has a strong educational component, something I am already a fan of, and the therapy aims to give clients the skills to manage intense emotions as well as negotiate social relationships.

Anyway, this therapy was originally developed to prevent the self-destructive impulses of chronically suicidal clients.

Um, I- I- I'm not hugely active on there, but people can sort of see up and coming retreats, and also just follow some of my work that I do in the press there.

Um, and, um, if they want to contact me, my website is www.ls-psychotherapy.com.

Oh, thank you.

Amazing.