How to Stay Calm During Custody Exchanges with Dr. Andrea DePetris

How to Stay Calm During Custody Exchanges with Dr. Andrea DePetris

April 13, 2026 · 28 min · Season 2026 · Episode 350

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Lisa discusses trauma responses during custody exchanges with Dr. Andrea DePetris.

If seeing your ex, even from across a parking lot, sends your body into overdrive, you're not overreacting. You're experiencing a trauma response. And it has a name. In this episode, Lisa sits down with Dr. Andrea DePetris, a clinical psychologist at Yale School of Medicine and private practice therapist, for a conversation that will genuinely change how you understand yourself in these moments. We start with something that gets thrown around a lot - the word "trigger" - and Dr. DePetris ex...

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