The IEP Meeting That Made Me Throw Up with Paula J. Yost

About this episode

Paula J. Yost discusses the impact of a bad IEP meeting on mental health and shares her unique perspective as both an attorney and a psychotherapist.

Send us Fan Mail One bad IEP meeting can change your body, your sleep, and your faith in the “village” everyone promises you. I’m joined by Paula J Yost, who has a perspective you rarely hear in one voice: she’s both a practicing attorney and a licensed psychotherapist. Paula shares how living through clinical depression shaped her, why getting real mental health support in law school changed her future, and how those therapy tools now show up in the way she helps people in legal settings fil...

People in this episode

Host: Sonia Krishna Chand

Guest: Paula J. Yost

Topics covered

• IEP meetings
• mental health
• legal support
• depression
• therapy

Keywords

• IEP meeting
• mental health support
• clinical depression
• therapy tools
• legal settings

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