Episode 14: Met Gala, Emergency Medicine and Guest Susan Roggendorf

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. 

TW: Suicide, Body Image 

Episode summary: Johanna and Sarah talk about their plans for attending the Met Gala next year. They both read about the history of emergency medicine. Guest, Susan Roggendorf talks about what it’s like to work in an emergency department. 

Guest Bio: Susan Roggendorf is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Iowa. She's the LGBTQ+ owner of Coffelt Counseling Services in the Quad Cities. Susan works with folx living with anxiety in her LGBTQIA2s+ community. She's also currently in certification to expand her work with First Responders grappling with anxiety as well as other life issues. And she's still at work in the ER part-time as a Crisis Clinician when she's not out in her garden or busy annoying her adult kids.

Sources for today’s History Lesson: “Emergency Care: Then, Now, And Next” by Arthur L. Kellermann, Renee Y. Hsia, Charlotte Yeh and Kristine G. Morganti; West Virginia Department of Education; “Good Samaritans in Florence: Public Service in the Tradition of the Catholic Faith” by Allison Zack; indianahealth.care

Resources: Project of the Quad Cities; Clock Inc.; Pride of the Quad Cities; LGBTQ Clinic at the University of Iowa; National Alliance on Mental Illness

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