Mental Health Specialist Mike Vanderplas Interview

About this episode

Santa interviews mental health specialist Mike Vanderplas about PTSD recovery and resilience.

In this episode of SantasAbout, Santa sits down with Mike Vanderplas — a 3-time international bestselling author, award-winning mental health advocate, and veteran ICU travel nurse — to talk about PTSD recovery, suicide prevention, resilience, and practical tools that can help people get out of negative thought cycles.

People in this episode

Host: David Stanley

Guest: Mike Vanderplas

Topics covered

• mental health
• PTSD recovery
• suicide prevention
• resilience
• negative thought cycles

Keywords

• mental health
• PTSD
• suicide prevention
• resilience
• negative thoughts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SantasAbout

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