{"podcast":{"title":"Therapy Chat","slug":"therapy-chat-215844","podcast_index_feed_id":215844,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/303d5792-3fd7-4731-b268-57d1f542269b","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/therapy-chat","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2023/4/3/17/e3d12496-b0f2-4fab-94b0-fd35ef68d22e_therapy-01_4_2.png","author":"Laura Reagan, LCSW-C","episode_count":539,"summary":"Laura Reagan, LCSW-C, Psychotherapist, Burnout Prevention Consultant and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator interviews guests to discuss holistic and alternative approaches used in psychotherapy, counseling, coaching and healing sessions. Be a fly on the wall as therapists discuss the practice of psychotherapy and how they implement self care into their own lives to prevent therapist burnout. Conversations about mindfulness, self compassion, The Daring Way™, EMDR, art therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, other somatic methods, trauma, parenting, attachment will get you thinking deeply about therapy and the universal experience of being human, with all the joy and pain that entails.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T04:18:41.582412+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapy-chat-215844"},"episode":{"title":"535: Brainspotting + Healing Childhood Trauma With Dr. Cherie Lindberg","slug":"535-brainspotting-healing-childhood-trauma-with-dr-cherie-lindberg","published_at":"2026-07-21T13:00:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapy-chat-215844/535-brainspotting-healing-childhood-trauma-with-dr-cherie-lindberg","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapy-chat-215844","url":"https://therapychatpodcast.com","audio_url":"https://audio2.redcircle.com/episodes/f428af80-6e02-44c5-8caf-b021c3fae72b/stream.mp3","summary":"We continue our conversations about Brainspotting in this week's episode with my guest, Dr. Cherie Lindberg. Cherie is the author of Sacred Healing, a former psychotherapist of 25 years, a speaker, a Brainspotting consultant and trainer, and a coach working with high performing individuals and the practitioners who serve them. In our conversation, Cherie shares that despite being abused as a child, she didn't recognize until she was in graduate school that she was experiencing Complex PTSD. Initially finding little help from talk therapies, Cherie notes that many of the attachment wounds affecting her were from early years and stored non-verbally. She explains that she experienced her first shifts through EMDR therapy, which reduced some of the symptoms, but she was still living her life in a way that felt inauthentic, still operating from that wounded place. We talked about the \"fawn\" response to threat which shows up in performative behaviors like people-pleasing and accommodating others while suppressing our own thoughts and feelings, wants and needs. Through deep Brainspotting work, Cherie found herself using the \"fawning\" strategy less and less and showing up more often as her authentic self. Now she teaches her coaching clients and Brainspotting students and consultees how to do the same! Find Dr. Cherie Lindberg's book, Sacred Healing, and more at her website Find Dr. Cherie Lindberg on socials: Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , YouTube My course on therapy skills for work with survivors of sexual violence is available on The Academy of Therapy Wisdom site. Watch a free video and access the course. Find the video and access the course here! We are all carrying a lot, whether we are helping professionals or not. Retreats have been hugely beneficial for me, and I…","meta_description":"We continue our conversations about Brainspotting in this week's episode with my guest, Dr. Cherie Lindberg. Cherie is the author of Sacred Healing, a for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2321,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/therapy-chat-215844/episodes/535-brainspotting-healing-childhood-trauma-with-dr-cherie-lindberg/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/therapy-chat-215844/535-brainspotting-healing-childhood-trauma-with-dr-cherie-lindberg.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}