Family Therapy Express

Welcome to the the Family Family Express! We are glad you are joining us as we traverse the vast landscape of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) landscape including cultural attunement, lessons learned, shared fears, and the passion and curiosity that bonds our EFFT community. In addition, your hosts and guest speakers will share how lived experience have shaped and influenced their professional trajectories while keeping our conversations centered around attachment theory. Kathryn and Ronda are grateful to Sue Johnson and other mentors for the development of EFFT.

Family Therapy Express is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 56 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Family Therapy Express

  E4. The Changing Family Landscape in Egypt with Eman Onsy

  —34 min

  Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Ronda Evans, LMFT where our destination is resilient and connected families. Join us for a conversation about the changes in families and family therapy in Egypt with our guest Eman Onsy. She is the current director and co-founder of the Egypt Emotionally Focused Therapy Community and is a Certified EFT therapist. All Aboard ! 2:15 ICEEFT will formally introduce EFFT to Egypt in January 2024. Our own Kathryn de Bruin will provide this training! 3:59 EFFT is culturally appropriate for Egyptian families. 8:15 Eman reframes parental buy-in to changes in stigma about therapy, and to improved accessibility to trained helping professionals 15:52 How has the parenting landscape changed in Egypt 18:28 “Raise your kids not for your generation, but for the coming generations” - an Islamic quote 20:12 Ronda and Kathryn summarize Eman’s perspective of how Egyptian counselors are helping families make these shifts: by tapping into the built-in magic of attachment and that every parent wants to feel like a successful parent Thank you for listening! Kathryn is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, Certified EFT Supervisors and and AAMFT Approved Supervisors. Thank you for listening! You can follow Kathryn Facebook , YouTube , IG , Yelp , Google + , Twitter , Website You can follow Ronda Facebook Facebook IG LinkedIn Website You can follow Eman Facebook LinkedIn

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  E13. How Connection Brings Hope to Neurodiverse Families with Elizabeth Gillespie, MAC, MEd, LMFT

  —36 min

  Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin and Ronda Evans where our destination is resilient and connected families. Today’s guest is Elizabeth Gillespie, MAC, MEd, LMFT from Boulder, Colorado. Our conversation centers the importance of connection with neurodiversity. All Aboard ! 1:14 Elizabeth tells us how her path led her to work with neurodiversity almost exclusively. 3:47 Parents are feeling helpless, exhausted, financially worried and stressed, and medication is not enough, and they are in desperate need of support. They are in “fight more” as they advocate for accommodations. There are social struggles, and other mental health issues. 6:04 Neurodiversity is highly heritable. 8:05 When Elizabeth works with families experiencing neurodiversity, where does she start? Elizabeth tries to have the whole family attend the first session. 10:34 Elizabeth pauses to reflect on the complexity of these cases, including sensory struggles. 13:53 Families and kids experience frequent judgment for their behavior or responses to cues. 15:19 Elizabeth describes what their renovated office space will look like. 17:17 Elizabeth returns to reflecting on the quote by Patricia Crittenden and Kathryn and Elizabeth underscore the therapeutic alliance and relationship and the connection that comes with that is so key. 22:12 Elizabeth talks about Dr. Thomas Brown, and the new model of ADHD he created informed by research that centers on 6 components including emotional modulation and working memory. 27:45 Building connection and engagement through the creative way that reaches a particular client is critical because it soothes the physiological and sensory needs of that client. 28:50 Elizabeth shares an example from her life in which joining the intellectual understanding of a specific topic is part of the alliance building and connection because the intellectual topic is tied up in self-identification. Thank you for listening! Kathryn is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, EFT supervisors and therapists, and AAMFT Approved Supervisors. You can follow Kathryn de Bruin Facebook YouTube IG Yelp Google + Twitter Website You can follow Ronda Evans Facebook Facebook IG LinkedIn Website You can follow Elizabeth Gillespie Email: connect@betweenpsychotherapy.com Website

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  E21. Attachment in Action Series: Infant Stage

  —38 min

  Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin and Ronda Evans where our destination is resilient and connected families. This is the first installment of our Attachment in Action Series. In this episode we focus on attachment in the infant stage. We underscore the importance of assessing for the emotional and relational context at the time of birth and the infant stage, and we provide overview of caregiver responding to baby distress signals. All Aboard ! 1:20. Assessment is about taking a developmental history that includes the contextual, emotional and relational attachment history. 2:50. This Attachment in Action Series and the accompanying conversations are taken from the content in the book called “Attachment and Family Therapy” by Patricia Crittenden, Rudi Dallos, Andrea Landini, Kasia Kozlowska 4:30. Baby/Newborn/Infant stage means that there is joy, and loss because there is change. 5:30. A developmental history needs to include talking about birth because birth can bring death or trauma or loss. 6:50. When a baby arrives, there is change and the arrival of conflicting needs. Where there is change, there is inherent loss. When there is change, we may see distress and distress means that coping strategies may emerge/become visible. 8:55. Family contexts to consider: Siblings; Non-birthing parent or Non-Primary Attachment parent/caregiver 12:30. Consider other contextual factors for families such as covid. 22:30. Infants are learning to regulate arousal/distress. Parent needs to see the arousal/distress signal from the baby, problem solve about what does the baby need, and respond to the need, so that the arousal/distress will then reduce. So, baby goes through arousal and calm, over and over. This then determines the baby’s internal state of managing their arousal. So the baby experiences and creates a physiological model of managing arousal. Joint, dynamic input from the beginning. 30:25. Winnicott said, “there is no such thing as a baby. There is no such thing as a ‘mom’. There is only a nursing pair”. Life starts as a dyad/pair because the baby is 100% dependent on the caregiver. 31:40. If a baby never experiences arousal, then the baby never has to learn how to regulate their internal arousal. Or, if a baby gets aroused, and there is no responsiveness, or responsiveness is too slow (temporal lag between arousal and caregiver response) or responsiveness is intermittent/inconsistent, then the baby won’t learn the “contingencies” and the baby does not experience and create the physiological model of arousal regulation. Thus every baby needs to experience arousal so that the internal physiological model of arousal regulation gets created. Thank you for listening! Kathryn de Bruin is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, EFT supervisors and therapists, and AAMFT Approved Supervisors. You can follow Kathryn de Bruin Facebook YouTube IG Yelp Google + Twitter Website You can follow Ronda Evans Facebook Facebook IG LinkedIn Website

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  E12. Parents and Therapists Getting Comfortable with Identity Development in their LGBTQ Queer Children with Abraham Mehboob Alam, LMFTA

  —37 min

  Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin and Ronda Evans where our destination is resilient and connected families. Today’s guest is Abraham Mehboob Alam, LMFTA (they/them). Our conversation today centers around identity development and some helpful guidelines in approaching family therapy with queer youth. All Aboard ! 1:00 Kathryn and Ronda ask for Abraham's help and correction with any language bias, or closed mindedness heard in our questions or comments. 4:19 Abraham discusses being cautious and intentional about family sessions with queer youth/clients. Abraham describes using active listening for indicators about the parent's comfort and acceptance of their child's identity. 7:00 Abraham discusses the absolute need for collaboration with the minor client/youth in what is discussed in a family therapy session. 11:30 Kathryn and Abraham discuss the nuance of being intentional and cautious about topics addressed in family therapy sessions. 13:30 Abraham describes possible ways that the EFFT therapist can respond to the parent's conjecture about their child's identity such as "how did you come to that conclusion?" 16:00 Abraham emphasizes maintaining a zoomed out approach to the conversation about their child's identity -- talk in generalities "so it can't be traced back to the client." 16:55. Kathryn makes explicit that the EFFT therapist needs to maintain close collaboration with the client about the focus/agenda of family sessions. 18:40 We discuss that identity development is a private matter until a youth is ready for their identity to not be private anymore, in their own time and way. 23:15 Abraham and Kathryn explore what it could mean about the family system if something noticeable is not talked about by the family. 27:00 Abraham makes the point that when therapists and parents are leaning in with curiosity to their child's identity development to also lean with openness to education and correction -- including the nuance between "who is my child going to be?" versus "who is my child". 34:00 Abraham leaves their final message to EFFT therapists: 1. do your own research/education and then take this back to the client, 2. be open to correction and feedback. Thank you for listening! Kathryn is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, EFT supervisors and therapists, and AAMFT Approved Supervisors. You can follow Kathryn de Bruin Facebook YouTube IG Yelp Google + Twitter Website You can follow Ronda Evans Facebook Facebook IG LinkedIn Website

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  E54. Good Moms Lose It Too: The Truth about Parental Anger and Regulation with Michelle Puster, LPC

  —41 min

  Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Ronda Evans, LMFT where our destination is resilient and connected families. Our guest today is Michelle Puster, LPC in North Carolina. Kathryn de Bruin is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, EFT supervisors and therapists, and AAMFT Approved Supervisors. You can follow Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT at Facebook YouTube IG Yelp Google + Twitter Website You can follow Ronda Evans, LMFT at Facebook Facebook IG Website Michelle Puster (she/her) M.Ed., LPC Website https://compassionateheartmindfullife.com/ Podcast Compassionate Heart Parenting Podcast Resource Pause & Regroup Insta: https://www.instagram.com/compassionateheartparenting YouTube: https://youtube.com/@compassionateheartmichelle?si=Bm7zH31WsROxc748 FB: https://www.facebook.com/CompassionateHeartMindfulLife

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