A Psychotherapist Marking Time, Podcast

Episode 17: The Shadow Epidemic

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:50:00 +0100

This podcast is about the unspeakable Shadow Pandemic of violence against women

Episode 16: Social Distancing, Then and Now

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:45:00 +0100

Social Distancing has always been part of our lives.

Episode 15: Giving Shape to the Shapeless

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:40:00 +0100

A Glimpse at how the Psychotherapy process may be shaped

Episode 14: Old Trauma New Trauma

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:35:00 +0100

Noticing how responses to Covid-19 threat re-trigger old trauma

Episode 13: Energy Shifts and the New Normal

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:30:00 +0100

Noticing how people's energy goes up and down, dramatically on occasions. How we are being told about the new normal and can we influence it?

Episode 12: The Healing Earth

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:25:00 +0100

Noticing how the earth is breathing since humans left it alone due to lockdown, appreciating and hoping we can continue to treat it well

Episode 11: Managing Technology During Covid-19

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:20:00 +0100

Noticing and responding to the challenges of using video day in and day out keeping connected with clients, friends, colleagues, groups.

Episode 10: Feeling Anxious is OK.

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:15:00 +0100

Hearing, feeling and experiencing the level of anxiety around and for that to be normal and OK

*Published in the Summer 2020 Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Episode 9: Being Open to Receiving the Feminine

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:10:00 +0100

Wanting to find other ways to be in the world that is not competitive, attached to competitiveness and ownership. Wondering if it might if we could reclaim and add ancient ways of being in the world that include ancient feminine qualities.

Episode 8: Having Time to Spare: Love & Compassion

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:05:00 +0100

Noticing how we have time on our hands, how we might use that time: reaching out and connecting to others; offering loving kindness to the world.

*Published in the Summer 2020 Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Episode 6: The Radicalisation of Psychotherapy

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:55:00 +0100

I feel challenged in these strange times of Covid-19, to think about other ways of delivering psychotherapy services, leading to some radical thought.

Episode 5: Connecting With the Invisible: Creative Responses to Covid-19

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:50:00 +0100

The world is more than material, although the focus is often on material possessions. Use mindfulness practices to help manage the invisible threat of Covid-19, then taken it s step further into creative expression.

Episode 4: Reaching Out and Connecting

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:45:00 +0100

The realisation that in order to cope with Covid-19 I needed to reach out to colleagues and others for connection, conversation and support for me and my psychotherapy practice.

Episode 3: My Experience of Working From Home and Privacy

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:40:00 +0100

Some thoughts and feelings about offering therapy on video and working from home, self-isolating and the difficulties some had finding private spaces.

*Published in the Summer Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Episode 2: I Need to Capture the Impact of Covid-19

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:38:00 +0100

In mid-march I was feeling the need to capture my initial responses to closing my psychotherapy office, working online from home and my personal reactions to Covid-19

*Published in the Summer Edition of Inside Out, the Journal of the Irish Association of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.

Episode 1: intro Introduction to Marking Time Podcast

Thu, 28 May 2020 16:35:00 +0100

This short introduction to Marking Time gives some background to the genesis of the series, my responses to my work as a psychotherapist, with reference to the challenges of Covid-19