EP# 263: Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote's Inspiring Transformation from Academic to Trauma Therapy Leader

What makes Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote with Mind Body Therapeutics a good neighbor?

What if you could leave your past behind and forge a future filled with meaning and purpose? In this episode of the Good Neighbor Podcast, we sit down with the extraordinary Dr. Jane Statlander-Slote, a clinical psychologist whose journey from English professor and documentary filmmaker to clinical director of a statewide psychotherapy practice is nothing short of inspiring. Dr. Jane reveals how her skills in understanding character, plot, and motive enrich her therapeutic practice, enabling her to help patients transcend their past traumas and build vibrant, fulfilling lives.

Dr. Jane also shares her relentless pursuit of knowledge, including her ongoing PhD in clinical sexology, and how she balances her career with being a mother of four. With a team of 12 clinicians, she specializes in trauma therapy, grounded in neuroscience, and stresses the importance of positive thinking and resilience. Join us for an enlightening conversation filled with actionable insights into Mind Body Therapeutics, and discover the one crucial takeaway Dr. Jane believes can transform your approach to mental health and personal growth.

To learn more about Mind Body Therapeutics go to:
https://www.mindbodytherapeutics.life/

Mind Body Therapeutics
772-486-4417

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, GarfieldBowen.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
All you need of a clinicalpsychologist.
Well, one may be closer thanyou think.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing Dr Jane.
Closer than you think, today Ihave the pleasure of introducing
Dr Jane Statlander-Sloat, yourgood neighbor.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Dr Jane, tell us about your business.
Well, it's a practice inpsychotherapy.
We have 12 clinicians workingunder me, I'm the clinical
director as well, and we'relocated all around the state.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And we do great work.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, so tell us how did you get into this business,
dr Jane?
Well, actually I had a fewprofessions.
I was a professor of Englishfor a few years, with three
degrees in English.
I'm also presently as well, adocumentary filmmaker.

(01:22):
A documentary filmmaker I havea Master's of Fine Arts in
Cinema and Multimedia from theUniversity of Miami and I make
documentary films.
Now, and I guess, to answeryour question how I got into it,
some patients ask me how didyou go from being a professor of

(01:46):
English filmmaker to being aclinician?
And I said all threeprofessions have three things in
common character, plot andmotive.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
And I was really good in my literature classes.
I'm also a writer, so I knowabout how you lay out plots.
I know how to analyze character, so it's easy to sit and listen
to someone and quickly figureout what's going on and quickly

(02:28):
figure out what's going on.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wow, you have a lot of talent.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
What are some of the myths and misconceptions of your
industry?
Well, I think the biggestmisconception is from the
therapists themselves not in mypractice, but generally is that
you can't cure anybody.
That's a big problem.
The reason they can't cureanybody is because I sound

(02:55):
terrible, but because I don'tthink they know what they're
doing, because they don't have abasis in neuroscience.
They don't understand how thebrain works.
I have a doctor of clinicalpsychology degree.
I'm a trauma specialist and Iknow how the past in someone's

(03:20):
life affects their present life.
Someone's life affects theirpresent life.
That mostly actually Garfieldpatients.
A lot of patients don't evenhave a present life because
they're always in their past andtherefore they can never have

(03:44):
anything but the same old, sameold, garbage future.
So we I help my patients to getrid of their past, to be in the
present moment so that they cancreate a future that they want
to have, and to stop beingcontrolled by their environment
and their past.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Wow, I think everyone needs to just stop and take a
minute and listen to that a fewtimes.
But, dr Jane, when you're notbusy running your business
outside of work, what do youlike to do for?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
fun.
Well, I've been studying a longtime.
I'm finishing my PhD inclinical sexology as well, so
I'm doing that.
I'm also taking.
I'm going to be taking an exam,so I'm studying something else.

(04:42):
I'm always studying or reading,actually, and I also I have yes
, I have.
I have four children, and youknow I'm not a An active mother
as well.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You sound like you get a lot of joy from learning.
Is that so?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh yeah, it's fun to learn.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Let's change gears a little bit.
Let's talk about one hardship,one life challenge, something
that you went through and couldlook back today and see you're
better and stronger because ofit.
What comes to mind?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
A personal challenge.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
It could be personal, it could be business, whatever
you like to share.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
I'll tell you really truthfully, garfield, there was
never any challenge that put medown.
That's it.
It's all here.
It's all here.
It's how you think about whatyou think about.
Nothing puts me down, and mytwo ex-husbands will tell you

(05:48):
that nothing puts her down,nothing.
I always land on my feet.
It's all how you think about it.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
All right, I'm going to put you on the spot here a
little bit.
Okay, I know you have a lot toshare about mind-body
therapeutics, but I want you tonarrow it down to one thing, one
thing that you want ourlisteners to remember about your
company.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
That.
I'm sorry it cut out.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I want you to tell us one thing that you want our
listeners to remember About yourbusiness.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, what we can do.
We can cure people.
In fact we can cure people,although I don't take on the
personality disorders.
I don't take those on becausethey're too much a part of a
brain that has a lot of holes init, a part of a brain that has

(06:46):
a lot of holes in it, likenarcissistic personality
disorder, borderline personalitydisorder, antisocial
personality disorder and others.
You can't do much with those,but we cure people.
We cure people, people who haveanxiety, depression, trauma in

(07:10):
their past I'm a traumaspecialist also.
We cure them.
We cure them Because we stoptheir thinking, the way they
think about what they thinkabout, because what you think
about all the time person getsup in the morning, what's the
first thing?
They have this chatter going oneven through their sleep and

(07:37):
they have this thought thatleads to a feeling, that then
leads to a behavior and that'sthis circular thing that gets
them falling down a black hole.
And we stop that.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
You have my listeners really thinking Seeing how they
can use your service.
They probably have familymembers or friends or relatives
that could utilize it and theyhave one question on that could
utilize it.
And they have one question ontheir lips right now and that's
how, how can they get moreinformation in mind-body
therapeutics?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, you can call 954.
You want the phone numbers?
Sure, you want the phonenumbers.
Sure, you can go on our website, wwwmindbodytherapeuticslife,
that's 772-486-4417 or561-866-0217.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well, Dr Jane, we really appreciate having you on
the show.
We wish you and your businessthe very best moving forward.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
Thank you very much.
Good luck to everybody.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
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