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Light Up The Couch

Affordable, relevant, and diverse Continuing Ed for mental health professionals… one year of unlimited CE courses for just one low price! Clearly Clinical is an approved provider with the APA, NBCC, ASWB, NAADAC, NYS, CAMFT, & CCAPP; we feature clinicians from historically-marginalized populations, and donate to the Trevor Project. Our innovative CE presentations and interviews feature national experts and cover topics that help today’s passionate providers learn, grow, and shine. Visit us at www.ClearlyClinical.com to become part of the movement! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

September 30, 2026 • 61 mins

Jessica Fink, LCSW, explores circadian rhythm disorders and how mismatches between the body’s internal clock and everyday schedules can be mistaken for insomnia, depression, or behavioral problems. She discusses clinical assessment, diagnostic criteria, and helpful referrals and interventions. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Dr. Shiro Perera Torquato revisits sensory processing differences, reflecting on what has changed in clinical understanding since her 2019 Clearly Clinical interview. She explores how sensory needs can affect behavior, school functioning, and daily life. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Lisa Kays, LICSW, LCSW, explores how clinicians can support parents and caregivers when a child’s possible neurodivergence, sensory needs, learning differences, or medical complexity may be contributing to family stress. This conversation invites clinicians to move beyond parent-blaming frameworks, ask more curious and contextual questions, and help caregivers connect with appropriate assessment, school-based supports, and re...

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Monique Gonzalez, PsyD, explores premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), helping clinicians recognize its cyclical impact on mood, cognition, relationships, and daily functioning while considering assessment, treatment, and culturally responsive care. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Dr. Wendy Ashley explores how clinicians can move beyond the myth of neutrality by recognizing how identity, power, privilege, and lived experience shape clinical work. She offers practical guidance for practicing with greater cultural humility, reflexivity, authenticity, and responsiveness in the therapeutic relationship. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Trish Yonker, LCPC, explores how foster care, family separation, instability, and disrupted relationships can affect children and the people who care for them. She offers practical guidance for pacing trauma treatment, building emotional and physiological safety, supporting overwhelmed caregivers, responding to behavioral and developmental needs, and creating flexible, relationship-centered care for foster and adoptive families. In...

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Mara Sammartino, LCSW, explores how clinicians can support Hispanic and Latino/x/e clients with cultural humility, curiosity, and respect amid heightened fear and safety concerns. She offers practical guidance for building trust, addressing systemic stressors, and reducing barriers to care. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Boris Kisilev, MD, explores how cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship can affect patients and the people who care for them. He offers practical guidance for addressing anxiety, grief, trauma, treatment-related mental health symptoms, caregiver stress, fear of recurrence, and the need for coordinated, multidisciplinary support. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.

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Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA, explores how cognitive impairment and dementia can show up in clinical work. She offers practical guidance for adapting communication, supporting caregivers, preserving dignity, and expanding care when clients need more support. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT. 

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Dr. Julia Macaronis explores ethical, culturally responsive supervision practices, offering concrete strategies for addressing power, positionality, feedback, gatekeeping, and cultural humility in support of safer learning environments and supervisee growth. Presentation.

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Dr. Londyn Miller, LMFT, examines mental health leave in the workplace, helping clinicians identify how occupational stressors, systemic influences, and functional impairment converge, while providing practical strategies to support assessment, stabilization, and return-to-work planning. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, ...

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Dr. Kristin Dempsey, LMFT, LPCC, and Ali Hall, Juris Doctor, explore how motivational interviewing evolves in real-world practice, helping clinicians move beyond core skills to navigate context, systemic influences, and the complexities of change, while applying a flexible, process-oriented approach that supports engagement, autonomy, and meaningful progress. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our ...

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Dr. Nancy Grechko explores how stigma, trauma, and emotion dysregulation shape borderline personality disorder, helping clinicians reconsider diagnostic assumptions, recognize internalized and overlooked presentations, and apply a trauma-informed lens to support more accurate, compassionate care. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an enti...

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Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge explores how early nervous system dysregulation shows up in children, helping clinicians recognize signs of overload or shutdown and apply a regulation-first lens to support stabilization and engagement. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, with some of the strongest CE approvals in the country (APA...

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Robin Abbott, OT, explores how the vestibular system shapes emotion, attention, and behavior, helping clinicians recognize when dysregulation may be sensory-based and apply a body-based lens to support regulation. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, with some of the strongest CE approvals in the country (APA, NBCC, ASWB, an...

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Kelly Higdon, LMFT, and Miranda Palmer, LMFT, review the growing use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy and explore both its potential advantages and important ethical and practical limitations for clinical care. Presentation.This episode has been proudly sponsored by AutoNotes, an AI-powered clinical workspace helping therapists save time on documentation while supporting ethical, HIPAA-aligned care. To celebrate the epi...

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Dr. Beth Mullen-Houser, LPC, and Hanna Soumerai Rea, LICSW, examine how therapist reactions to suicide talk influence clinical care, integrating research and Internal Family Systems informed practice to offer strategies for staying grounded and connected in high-stakes sessions. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, with some...

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Dr. Matt Zakreski, PsyD, examines how clinicians can distinguish sensory overload from behavioral concerns and develop individualized sensory support plans that promote regulation and engagement. Presentation.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, with some of the strongest CE approvals in the country (APA, NBCC, ASWB, and more). Learn, g...

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Daniel Lobel, PhD, discusses the adult impact of growing up with a parent or caregiver with borderline personality disorder, with a focus on mistrust, identity development challenges, and therapeutic support for healing. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credits for an entire year, with some of the strongest CE approvals in t...

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Helen Bennett, counsellor and psychotherapist, explores hormone-aware therapy practices and how hormonal shifts can influence neurodivergent presentations in clients assigned female at birth, with a focus on reducing distress, improving clinical understanding, and avoiding misdiagnosis. Interview with Elizabeth Irias, LMFT.Earn CE credit for listening to this episode by joining our low-cost membership for unlimited podcast CE credi...

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