What Would Dr. Meyers Do?
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What Would Dr. Meyers Do?
Welcome to WWDMD, the biweekly show where we get into the mind of mental health clinicians. Have you ever wondered what clinicians and social workers are REALLY thinking and feeling as they help others navigate their lives? This podcast is all about learning: about the dynamics of a clinical case; t...
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Episode 122: Sibling Abuse Series: Surviving Sibling Sexual Abuse
Jane Epstein is more than a survivor of sibling sexual abuse: she’s a voice for hope, healing, and breaking silence. In this episode, Jane shares her...
Episode 121: Love without borders: Realities of interracial relationships
We’re diving deep into the realities of interracial relationships — the highs, the hurdles, and the healing that can come from love across cultural li...
Episode 120: Beyond the label: Living with food allergies
Are you effected or not effected by food allergies? Either way you need to become more informed. Food allergies affect much more than what ends up on...
Episode 119: You can get through it: Dealing with imposter syndrome
Do you doubt your abilities? Feel like a fraud? And yet, there isn't evidence that you're a failure? You're struggling with imposter syndrome, a pheno...
Episode 118 Practical approaches to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Judith Belmont, MS is a psychotherapist and author who offers practical approaches to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Through examples, she transl...
Episode 117: Body Image & Eating Disorders in the age of Ozempic
Mary Anne Cohen, Director of the New York Center for Eating Disorders, coined the term "emotional eating". In this episode, she offers a nuanced persp...
Episode 116 How do we make sense of sibling abuse?
There's a lot we can understand about the sibling abuse experience and outcome for the survivor through a theoretical lens. Dr. Meyers presents the th...
Episode 115 Case Presentation: Importance of accurate diagnoses
One of many anxieties about working with people and their emotional lives is contending with suicidal gestures. This case presentation of a 16 year ol...
Episode 114 Hush no More: Sexual abuse by a parent
After ten years of sexual abuse by her stepfather, Nicole Braddock Bromley found the courage to disclose to her mother at 14 years old. Though she enc...
Episode 113 Immigration: Why it matters and why we should care
How do we undertand the trauma immigrants have experienced in their home country and now our own? A professor, community social worker, and BSW studen...
Ep. 112 When a Social Worker Has a Mental Illness
The stigma of mental illness is reflected in Regina, a social worker who contends with her own mental illness diagnosis and its implications for worki...
Ep. 111 Transitioning to Private Practice
Making the move to private practice requires several considerations: When is the right time? Will I be financially stable? What is the cost/benefit ra...
Episode 110: Sibling Abuse series: I Now See You
A sibling sexual abuse survivor and a mother of a SSA survivor and perpetrator share their experiences in the hope of coming to terms with "how did th...
Episode 109: Contagious excitement about working with medically ill children
It may be challenging to consider how there is joy in working with ill youth, and even chronically and terminally medically ill children. To her own s...
Episode 108: Understanding EMDR
There are many ways to treat trauma from psychotherapy to CBT, Ketamine, and EMDR. Dr. Meyers is interested in exploring it all. This week she is join...
Episode 107: When the therapist's life enters the treatment
Kellyanne Brady, PhD is pregnant. How might this impact her treatment? Transference is likely to occur. How might her clients' feelings be overtly or...
Episode 106: Sibling Abuse series: Working on Healing
From the last podcast episode on sibling abuse, my guest, Lorene Stanwick wanted to ensure that she communicated specific aspects of her experience. I...
Episode 105: Sibling Abuse series: Believe Me, I Wouldn't Make this Up
Not being believed when someone has been abused magnifies the experience of trauma. What happens when ones own family doesn't acknowledge the abuse fr...
Episode 104: Growing Pains: A conversation with a Social Work student
Meet Alma, a BSW student who is just beginning her social work education. In spite of how astute, insightful, and self-aware she is, she still contend...
Episode 103: What we can all learn from working with Couples
In this episode you are sure to gain a better understanding of what is at the root of most couple conflict; the need to focus on the underlying feelin...
Ep. 102: Body Dysmorphia
Many of us have some form of body dysmorphia, and so we can all relate to this episode. Societal pressures make it almost impossible not to contend wi...
Ep. 101: We CAN have civil discourse: Approaches to navigate differences in racial identities
Dr. Meyers has a pointed, open and honest conversation with two racially different professors who co-teach a course on diversity. As they engage in pr...
100th episode: celebrate with a lively discussion
Join Dr. Meyers as she celebrates her 100th episode with some reflections on her favorite episodes, responses to listener's questions about therapy an...
Ep. 99: Social Work and Field Education: Challenges and Solutions
There are some challenges facing the field of social work and education. COVID exacerbated issues already plaguing the field in terms of staffing and...
Episode 98: How to take control of the Holidays
Whether you enjoy the holidays or not, they can still be a source of expectation, stress, and pressure. Dr. Meyers identifies some of those challengin...
Episode 97: Autism Spectrum Disorder: A personal and professional lens
Join my guest, Lilach Koch, LMSW a professional and personal expert on autism spectrum disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities as she...
Episode 96: Sibling Abuse Series: Everyone was Silent - An Experience of Sibling Sexual Abuse Part II
In the second part of Diane's story of sibling sexual abuse, Diane shares more about her sibling dynamics, generational abuse, and her relationship wi...
Episode 95: Sibling Abuse Series: Everyone was Silent - An Experience of Sibling Sexual Abuse Part I
A passionate advocate for child safety education and a sibling sexual abuse surivor, Diane Tarantini shares her family dynamics and experience on whic...
Episode 94: I love what I do but it's overwhelming
Transitioning from student to practitioner is challenging and raises questions about one's capability. It is disarming and scary. Seasoned clinicians...
Episode 93: Imposter Syndrome: Even seasoned professionals experience it
We can all identify with the feeling of not feeling capable in the workplace. Maybe you even experience fear that you will be "found out". Those who e...
Ep 92 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: It may be overlooked as anxiety
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder creates an intrusion on thoughts and actions. Join Lauren Wolfe, MS, LPC as she discusses the ways in which OCD shows up...
Episode 91: Catatonic Depression
Dr. Meyers shares her experience with a friend battling catatonic depression and reflects about the societal perception of mental illness and challeng...
Episode 90: Sibling Abuse Series: Sibling Sexual Abuse
In the first sibling abuse series focused on sibling sexual abuse, learn about its prevalence, characteristics, signs, family context and the short an...
Episode 89: Let's talk attachment
How do our relational styles of attachment get programmed from earlier caregiver figures? What is healthy attachment? We tend to repeat what is famili...
Episode 88: Re-launch Dr. Meyers shares what she's really thinking
In this re-launch of one of Dr. Meyers' favorite episodes, Mara, a
seasoned client is back for a second round of questions about all things
Episode 87: An Authentic Approach
What does it truly mean to take an authentic approach with both supervisees and clients? Dr. Andrew Dahlstrom shares the meaningfulness and impact of...
Episode 86: Social-Emotional Development: What we all could learn
There seem to be similarities and even some overlap between social workers and teachers in regard to their perspectives and how we conceptualize the i...
Episode 85: Sibling Abuse Series: What are deconstructive patterns of sibling relationships and how can caregivers cultivate healthy sibling relations?
What is the difference between constructive and deconstructive patterns between siblings? What is the role of the parent in creating expectations of r...
Episode 84: A Case of Domestic Violence hits close to home
Be a fly on the wall to a clinical case discussion about working with a domestic violence victim and the countertransference that ensues. Stephanie Bl...
Episode 83: Complex Trauma
Join Kina Wolfenstein, LMSW, expert on complex trauma as she discusses the symptoms of complext trauma, the lived experience of shame and emotional di...