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The episode discusses how trauma-informed therapists are rethinking the medical model and exploring new approaches to healing.

Why trauma-informed therapists are questioning the medical model, rethinking therapist education, and redefining what healing can look like in a disconnected world. In my ongoing effort to "future-proof" the field of therapy, I'm encouraging practitioners to dream beyond the conventional session model. How do we move our profession and the world closer to a truly person-centered ethos? How do therapists expand our professional capacity to welcome (or, at least tolerate) interpersonal nuance, spiritual inquiry, somatic experiences, and/or political difference? My guest, Dr. Danica Harris, suggests that therapists begin by loosening their death grip on the one-on-one billable hour, among other things. Danica is the somatic experiencing practitioner behind The Empowered Therapist on Instagram. She's also a complex trauma expert working internationally as a coach, facilitator, presenter, and educator. If you're gonna chart a course for a utopian professional future, you're gonna want Danica along for the ride! Why the medical model is failing many therapists and clients The growing divide between therapy education and real-world healing How trauma shows up in therapists themselves…

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