Buckle Up In Blankets, Serving Rural Communities and Guest Cassie Smith
Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas.
CW: None
Episode summary: Johanna stickers. Sarah has found a hairdresser. They both discuss mental health in rural communities. Guest, Cassie Smith joins them to talk about working in rural and Native American communities and much more!
Guest Bio: Cassie Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, born and raised in North Carolina. She has lived in the mountains of Western NC the majority of her life with witnessed and lived experience with poverty, oppression, and trauma. She is a strong advocate for destigmatizing mental health in the mountain community and promoting inclusivity of all populations with particular respect to mountain folx, the Native American community, and women. Her primary modalities include CBT, EMDR, and narrative therapies, as well as tools from other modalities. She has over 10 years of experience in the mental health field and opened her private practice a year and a half ago to better serve her community. Her practice is inclusive to all identities, ethnicities, and nationalities and is regarded proudly as a non-judgemental space by all of the clients she has served who completed an exit survey.
Resources: Abortion Resources; Rural Information Hub; Wikisource for James Mooney; Cassie’s Website
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