the Informed Simplicity podcast

the Informed Simplicity podcast


Latest Episodes

EP 31: Bil Lepp - a master class in storytelling
December 21, 2019

    "The most important thing of any storytelling is you can't be the hero of your own stories. Nobody wants me to stand on stage for 30 minutes and talk about what a great person I am. So if anything heroic happens in my stories, generally I'm telling a.

BONUS: So you want to be a Supershrink?: the search for informed simplicity
November 18, 2019

About a month ago a friend and fellow therapist asked me to give a presentation to his chapter of GAMFT. At first I didn't know what to present on, then it dawned on me. Since day 1 I've been trying to follow in the footsteps of Milton Erickson. While my.

EP 29: Jesse Smith and Attachment Based Family Therapy for Suicidal Teens
October 28, 2019

  "For me humility is super important. Humility, I think a lot of people think, means humbling yourself and bringing yourself down, But it's also about bringing yourself up. it's about right sizing where you fit."  View on YouTube Contact Jesse at: jas94.

EP 28: Jeff Zeig and the Art of Therapeutic Communication
October 07, 2019

  "It's a matter of utilizing, not analyzing, what the client is bringing to you, what exists in the total weave of the therapy situation, learning how to join into that moment rather than trying to instruct in some cognitive about how to get out of that.

EP 27: Debbie Pridemore on Attachment theory, Therapy, and Christianity
September 03, 2019

"[Attachment] it's a protection systems that's built into our bodies, so when that's in distress, like with a couple, and you don't know if that person has your back, you don't know if you're safe with that person, or that person becomes a threat, then w.

EP 26: Alan Berkowitz on using Social Norms for Social Change
July 26, 2019

"We go through life underestimating the goodness of human beings and we overestimating the negative and then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy." Learn more about Alan here: www.alanberkowitz.com Get his EXCELLENT book here:   http://www.lulu.com/sho.

EP 25: Connirae Andreas and Awakening the Wisdom Within
June 24, 2019

Watch on Youtube:, follow on Medium:,Listen on iTunes: "It can't be imposed on someone. It's for everyone who's interested in a better life."   Connirae Andreas is the last of the mavericks. There was a time in the world of psychotherapy when the field w.

Name change and new directions!
June 18, 2019

Hello!  I'm pleased to announce the Informed Simplicity Project! This project is all about mastery in the field of psychotherapy. Part of this project will be same- I'll still be interviewing amazing guest in the field of psychotherapy. And part of this.

EP 24: James Hawkins, Ph.D on Racial Reconciliation
May 29, 2019

"I hear so many political pundits and talking heads now and when they talk about reconciliation or why there's is disproportionate levels of income and crime rates and all of these things now and they'll point to things such as 'well it's because of sing.

EP 23: Dr. Anabelle Bugatti on excellence in EFT
May 02, 2019

If you really want to be a superior therapist then you got to keep getting trained. And you can, and it it will show up... I really care about not just being a good therapist, but an amazing therapist. Anabelle Bugatti first popped onto my radar throug.