• #35 Helping Clients Prepare for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy w/ Temple Morris
    Apr 29 2023

    To purchase the music and directly support the artists click here:

    https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/album/luz-camino-y-gu-a


    I am joined by the marvelous Temple Morris, LCSW-C. She is a therapist/consultant in private practice at True North in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. She is a mover and shaker in the ACT community especially in the psychedelic special interest group. In this episode we talk abut helping clients prepare for their plant medicine journeys, and to coach people to use ACT processes on these inner voyages. We talk about the entheogenic/psychedelic renaissance. Also, we discuss how our own explorations have informed our work and lives.


    To purchase the music and directly support the artists click here:

    https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/album/luz-camino-y-gu-a


    To contact Temple:

    https://truenorthact.com/staff/temple-morris-lcsw-c/


    One River Book mentioned:

    https://daviswade.com/book-one-river


    My email: marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • #34 The Heart of ACT w/ Robyn Walser
    May 25 2022

    Into the heart of ACT (and really therapy) with Robyn Walser, PhD. Robyn has been an integral part of the development and dissemination of ACT for several decades. We discuss what it means to work from the heart, with presence and authenticity. Robyn has a new on demand course through praxiscet: Healing Trauma with ACT. Robyn’s website: http://www.tlconsultationservices.com/index.html


    To purchase the album of music on this podcast: https://zulenadueto.bandcamp.com/releases


    If you are interested in joining my a group consultation with me, email me at marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • #33 Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy w/ Henry Whitfield
    Mar 11 2022

    #33 with Henry Whitfield. We discuss his recent publication (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727572/full), issues of self and content/process/context, and finish with a real-play demonstration of Henry leading me through a integration session.

    Henry is a peer reviewed ACT trainer. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP. As a visiting research fellow at Regents University London, he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic-assisted therapy. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he does psychotherapy especially with self-concept issues.


    Music:

    robertotakiwaska@gmail.com

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK2zQsSa7ixMdPyi32nT-vg


    Mural Artist: 

    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077566398655

    Henry’s 2022 in-person training:

    https://psychflex.co.uk/product/expanded-act-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-integrated-trauma-focused-act-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-including-traumatic-incident-reduction-tir-and-parts-work/?fbclid=IwAR1w5sCEuecGCF5c0vZRXr0tSbtdM8Xe_egAdmrFCi4_XFZLnFsvjm6FzrA


    my contact info:

    Marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Self-as-Context Guided Meditation w/ Louise McHugh
    Dec 23 2021

    From episode #32

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    11 mins
  • #32 Louise McHugh
    Dec 22 2021

    What you know about your Self?

    Join me as I mix it up with Dr. Louise McHugh to discuss this very important topic of The Self. She provides a friendly crash course in RFT and helps to show how RFT is useful in understanding different selfing repertoires. Dr. McHugh is associate professor of psychology at University College Dublin, a Fellow in the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, and has contributed mightily to the contextual behavioral science view of the self. GO AND GET A COPY of her he book A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self: Theory and Practice. It's a must read for ACT clinicians.

    She sometimes provides training through this org: https://actnow.co/

    Mooji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ui3vIvymDE&t=340s

    i'm available for group and/or individual consultation: marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • #31 Mitch Fryling
    Nov 14 2021

    I’m joined by Dr. Mitch Fryling to discuss functional thinking and open the aperture a bit, from a causal way of interpretation, to a field perspective. Mitch is gifted at making Interbehavioral philosophy approachable and even fun. We dissect what “function” points at, public vs. private events, and problems with mentalistic thinking. 

    Artilcles discussed:

    Are Thoughts Private:

    https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/593/59335812001.pdf


    OVERCOMING THE PSEUDO-PROBLEM OF PRIVATE EVENTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR:

    https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mitch-Fryling/publication/272788235_Overcoming_the_pseudo-problem_of_private_events_in_the_analysis_of_behavior/links/54ee091c0cf25238f9397168/Overcoming-the-pseudo-problem-of-private-events-in-the-analysis-of-behavior.pdf


    Emily Sandoz’ Interbehavior as a clinical focus in CBS: A response to Hayes and Fryling (2019) (full access available ACBS members) 

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212144720302015?dgcid=rss_sd_all


    If interested in training groups: marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #30 Lisa Coyne
    Sep 8 2021

    Big number 30 with ACT and OCD ninja, Lisa Coyne, PhD. We discuss screen, how to value and shape valuing, OCD/ERP, and how to pivot when your bid to do exposure work is rejected. 


    Check out Lisa’s New England Center for OCD and Anxiety for training and consultation: https://www.newenglandocd.org/


    If you are interested in group or individual consultation w/ me: marcel@marceltassara

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    54 mins
  • #29 Yash Bhambhani
    Jul 25 2021

    From start to finish, this interview with Yash Bhambhani, PhD, is a palpable demonstration of mindfulness in action. Yash is a psychologist at an addiction treatment clinic at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, assistant professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We discuss (and embody) how to go about appreciating in therapy.

    contact info for Yash: yashnpbhambhani@gmail.com

    https://ybhambha.wixsite.com/yashbhambhaniphd

    my contact info: marcel@marceltassara.com

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    1 hr and 4 mins