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Season 2, episode 24 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: New Directions in Couples Therapy with Dr. Dana McNeil, PsyD, LMFT
JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dana McNeil to explore the sometimes complex dynamics in a range different romantic relationships– from hetero and LGBTQ couples, to polyamorous. Understanding the habits of successful couples is key to developing relationship skills that can take yours to the next level of trust, open communication, and longevity.
Dana McNeil, PsyD, LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and is the founder of The Relationship Place, a group practice with locations in her hometown of San Diego, California. Dr. Dana’s practice specializes in couples therapy and utilizes an evidence-based type of couples therapy known as the Gottman Method. Dr. Dana works with all types of relationship issues from premarital counseling, dealing with the aftermath of extramarital affairs, working with addiction recovery, military deployed families, parents of special needs children, LGBTQ partners, and polyamorous, ethical non-monogamy clients. Dr. Dana is the resident relationship expert on the Cox Communications Show “I Do” and will be featured in an upcoming documentary on the art of couples therapy.
Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.
Season 2, episode 24 Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: A Spiritual Approach to Psychotherapy with Kenneth Pargament, PhD.
JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Kenneth Pargament to gain a deeper understanding of the intersection of psychotherapy and spirituality. How can psychologists be better prepared to deal with encounters with the sacred dimension of life? How and when is it better to consult a chaplain than a psychotherapist?
In what ways can spirituality ease mental health issues like depression? These are some of the questions you will hear explored in this soul nourishing podcast. Kenneth Pargament is a professor emeritus of psychology at Bowling Green State University. He has authored The Psychology of Religion and Coping and Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy. Dr. Pargament is Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality. With Julie Exline, he has authored the recently released Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice. He was Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center. His awards include the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2009, the first Outstanding Contribution to the Applied Psychology of Religion and Spirituality Award from APA in 2017, and an honorary doctor-of-letters from Pepperdine University in 2013. He was recently named One of the 50 Most Influential Living Psychologists. Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.
Season 2, episode 24 Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: Understanding the Needs of Multicultural Populations in Behavioral Healthcare, Dr. Norman Kim, PhD.
JD Kalmenson interviews Dr. Norman Kim, the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, as well as the Diversity chair of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, to discover how innate biases in the healthcare system compromise both the quality and quantity of care provided to marginalized communities.
Dr. Kim explains how a deeper understanding of cultural differences, and an increased sensitivity to diverse cultural norms, leads to better outcomes for everyone suffering with mental health challenges. Dr. Kim is the inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer for the Center for Practice Innovation at Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and the NY State Office of Mental Health, and the co-founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity, a social justice-focused consultancy. He completed his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. in Psychology at UCLA. Norman has developed an expertise in psychiatrically complex populations, and his primary areas of interest are the application of a transdiagnostic framework for eating disorders, taking an evolutionary approach to shame and anxiety, and minority mental health. He is a regular national and international speaker, educator, and passionate advocate with a particular focus on minority status and barriers to mental health care in marginalized communities. He was the founding co-chair of the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Committee of IAEDP, on the inaugural Behavioral Health Taskforce for the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, former board member of the Eating Disorders Coalition, and serves on numerous advisory boards. Most recently Norman was the Deputy Director of Ayana Therapy, a tech startup focused on providing culturally intelligent, adapted, and accessible care to marginalized communities, and was the co-founder of Reasons Eating Disorder Center.
How to Raise Children Who Thrive with Michele Borba, Ed.D
Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 20 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: How to Raise Children Who Thrive with Michele Borba, Ed.D
JD Kalmenson’s interviews Dr. Michele Borba about her latest book, Thrivers, which outlines the character traits most correlated with resilience, and suggests simple every-day things parents can do to develop these in their children.
Dr. Borba shares her years of research and hands on experience with humor and wisdom.
Dr. Borba is an internationally renowned educational psychologist, parenting /child expert, a best-selling author, and a sought-after motivational speaker. Dr. Borba has spoken in 19 countries and served as a consultant for hundreds of schools and corporations worldwide, including Sesame Street, Harvard University, and the US Armed Services, to name just a few. Dr. Borba is a regular on the TODAY show, and has appeared on countless other media outlets, including Dr. Phil, The View, and CNN. Her work is featured in major newspapers and journals like TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Dr. Borba’s award-winning 24 books have been translated into 22 languages, and she is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, recognizing her expertise in solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s empathy, and social-emotional intelligence. She offers research-based parenting advice culled from a career working with over one million parents and educators around the world.
Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.
Discover U Podcast: Healing from Eating Disorders with Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LCSW-C
Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 19 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: Healing from Eating Disorders with Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LSCSW-C. Learn More about Montare Behavioral Health:
JD Kalmenson’s interview with Jennifer Rollin, MSW, LCSW-C, brings a nuanced perspective to the wide-ranging world of eating disorders. Jennifer discusses the connection between various symptoms and their underlying causes– from genetic to environmental, and paths toward healing. Jennifer is a therapist and founder of The Eating Disorder Center in Rockville, Maryland, who specializes in working with adolescents and adults with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, and body image issues as well as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and self-injury.
Named as one of the top eating disorder experts in the country by a leading eating disorder treatment center, Jennifer has experience working in a variety of settings and served as the chairwoman of Project Heal’s national network of eating disorder treatment providers. She has been interviewed about eating disorders on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and PBS, as well as The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, US News and World Report, Forbes, and Esquire, to name a few. She gives talks on eating disorders at national conferences, therapy centers, retreats and colleges. And she is the staff expert writer on eating disorders at the Huffington Post and Psychology Today. Jennifer co-authored the best-selling book “The Inside Scoop to Eating Disorder Recover: Advice From Two Therapists Who Have Been There.”
Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.
Reconceptualizing Borderline Personality Disorder BPD Through a Trauma Disorder Lens
This talk is designed to assist participants with evaluating and challenging current assumptions about borderline personality disorder (BPD), and to explore BPD symptoms and traits from a trauma disorder perspective.
This workshop will cover the neurological, biological, psychological, and social effects of trauma, overlapping features of trauma responses and BPD symptoms, and implications for diagnosis and intervention. The goal of this workshop is to provide clinicians with education and diagnostic skills that will enhance trauma-informed treatment. Dr. Dzioba is the Chief Clinical Officer for Montare Behavioral Health. She has spent the last decade in clinical leadership roles for behavioral healthcare settings, creating, developing, and improving clinical treatment programs in inpatient, residential, and outpatient levels of care. Dr. Dzioba has created an evidence-based clinical curriculum for mental health and addiction treatment programs and developed a spiritually integrated clinical supervision model (SIS Model). She has a specialty in trauma treatment and has assisted many organizations in trauma-informed transformations.
Understanding Postpartum Depression with Cathy Dore, LMFT
D Kalmenson interviews Cathy Dore, LMFT, to shed light on the unique challenges to women’s mental health during the pregnancy and postpartum period. Understanding the difference between “baby blues” and a more serious depressive event, is just one of the distinctions you will learn about in this episode.
Cathy Dore is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Toluca Lake California, where she specializes in women’s health, with a focus on pregnancy and childbirth. Cathy is a member of Maternal Mental Health Now, Los Angeles County’s perinatal mental health task force. She has served on the board of Postpartum Support International, and is the co-founder of the Motherhood Consortium, an inclusive community of professionals who provide care and nurturing for mothers, families, and their babies. Cathy’s clinical experience spans 20 years both as a private practitioner, and with several well-regarded mental health agencies throughout Southern California, where she serves diverse urban populations, providing psychotherapy for a broad range of clinical issues, including depression, anxiety, stress management, abuse, and trauma. Additionally, Cathy has been a contributing writer for several parenting publications. Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California.
How EMDR Works for Trauma and Grief, with Roger Solomon, PhD
Montare Media presents Season 2, episode 17 of the Discover U Podcast with JD Kalmenson: How EMDR Works for Trauma and Grief, with Roger Solomon, PhD. Learn More about Montare Behavioral Health: https://montarebehavioralhealth.com/about/digital-library/
JD Kalmenson interviews Roger Solomon, PhD, an expert in EMDR therapy, to learn about how this evidence-based modality effectively rewires a traumatized nervous system. Note that Dr. Solomon was traveling to the Ukraine to deliver care to war victims there during the taping of this podcast, so the audio is not pristine. Roger Solomon PhD is a psychologist specializing in trauma and grief. He’s the program director and senior faculty with the EMDR Institute, an EMDR Europe approved trainer, and teaches EMDR therapy internationally. He currently is a consultant with the United States Senate and has provided services to numerous first responder agencies, following traumatic incidents, including the FBI Secret Service, NASA, the US Attorney’s office, and the US Army. For over 40 years, he’s worked with families of first responders killed in the line of duty. Along with teaching basic training at EMDR therapy workshops internationally, Dr. Solomon presents workshops on the utilization of EMDR therapy with grief and mourning, complex trauma, and dissociative symptoms. Dr. Solomon has authored or co-authored 47 articles and book chapters pertaining to EMDR therapy. And he has just authored a book published in 2022 in Italian, translated, “Grief and EMDR: From Diagnosis to Clinical Intervention.” Host Kalmenson is the CEO/Founder of Renewal Health Group, a family of addiction treatment centers, and Montare Behavioral Health, a comprehensive brand of mental health treatment facilities in Southern California. Kalmenson is a Yale Chabad Scholar, a skilled facilitator, teacher, counselor, and speaker, who has provided chaplain services to prisons, local groups and remote villages throughout the world. His diverse experience as a rabbi, chaplain, and CEO has inspired his passion and deep understanding of the necessity for effective mental health treatment and long-term sobriety.
