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

About this episode

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...

People in this episode

Host: Lisa

Guest: Dr. Andrea DePetris

Topics covered

• custody exchanges
• trauma response
• mental health
• psychology
• self-understanding

Keywords

• custody
• trauma
• psychology
• mental health
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale School of Medicine

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