Today’s Guest: Dr. Ofelia Tatu, PhD, is a psychotherapist and life coach based in Yukon, Canada. She is also a Brainspotting therapist and consultant and is certified in Integrative Medicine & Functional Nutrition for Mental Health. Dr. Tatu has over 15 years of experience in psychology and teaching, and her main areas of expertise are performance (sports, athletes, and artists) and chronic conditions such as autoimmunity. She works with adults, teens, children, and babies.

SHOW TOPICS

• The artistic persona and how it affects our sense of self

• The protective walls that we build up and how they move us away from our center and flow state

• Learning how to express our emotions and needs as we did naturally as a baby

• The personal connections to art, sports, and other activities or professions that allow therapists to relate to clients

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• Dr. Ofelia Tatu

Learn more about Ofelia’s work and workshops at www.drtatu.com

Get in contact with Ofeilia at contact(at)drtatu.com

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Today’s Guest: Zach Meyer, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor who likes to say he has worked with students since he was one himself. From coaching high schoolers and working as a camp counselor to clinical positions in inpatient and outpatient settings, Zach has spent his career supporting teenagers and young adults to navigate the many challenges that accompany this developmental stage.

Zach has also spent his life in the arts, growing up in choirs and theater productions from grade school through college. He continues to write and record music, and he released his first full-length album last summer. At the intersection of these two interests lie Zach's greatest passion: the relationship between art-making and our mental health.

He and his wife — a psychologist — have a private therapy practice in the Milwaukee area. When not doing therapy or making music, Zach is probably hanging out with his wife, three kids and two dogs, or working on the restoration of their historic 1913 home.

SHOW TOPICS

• Doing preventative work with teenagers while they’re in a more malleable stage of life

• The power of stories in therapy and music making

• Helping teenagers discover their own narrative to uncover their goals, passions, and intrinsic values beyond what outside sources are telling them to believe

• Striving to take the pressure off artists so they can create something meaningful in the moment

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• Zach Meyer

Learn more about Zach’s therapy practice at www.neumapsych.com

Discover more about Zach’s music and studio work at www.coalroom-mke.com

TikTok and Instagram: @zachmeyermusic

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Today’s Guest: Dr. Madeline Ofina is a speaker, community educator, Clinical Psychologist, and Mental Health Consultant. Her training focused on program evaluation, the Wellness and Recovery model of mental health, and serious, persistent mental illness. After her clinical training and work in the hospital system, she realigned her work and decolonized her mind and practice through training and studying decolonizing mental health and liberation psychology. She founded MO-fina Wellness and Education, an education and spiritual business, and separately owns a Private Practice working with predominantly BIPOC adult children of immigrants on healing from intergenerational trauma, racial trauma, and oppression through decolonization.

SHOW TOPICS

• The marriage between creativity and spirituality both in and out of therapy

• Pushing back against the idea of using spirituality to avoid pain and suffering

• Dr. Ofina's journey to decolonize her work and align it with social justice and liberation principles

• The tug of war between wanting to work inside or outside the field of therapy

• Framing the insidious nature of colonization within the framework of mental health

SHOW LINKS

• Dr. Madeline Ofina

Discover more about Dr. Ofina at http://mofina.net/ and https://doctorofina.com/

Follow Dr. Ofina on Instagram @mofina.wellness

• Decolonizing Therapy

https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/

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