Brandon and Jason talk about Affiliates in Counseling, the practice Jason co-founded, and how they’ve worked to create a values-driven, supportive clinical team.

Jason discusses why even committed, long-standing couples can struggle. Therapy helps partners identify unspoken needs and repair long-running patterns that have never been addressed.

This clip explores how small, intentional gestures—like a glance or a note—can create emotional safety and rebuild intimacy over time, especially when trust has been strained.

Jason highlights the power of curiosity in rebuilding connection. He describes how shifting from accusation to genuine wondering can soften conflict and open up new understanding between partners.

Jason Price explains how couples therapy provides a structured space where both partners can slow down, clarify what they need, and feel emotionally recognized—something that often gets lost in day-to-day conflict.

Michael Blumberg introduces Glenview Counseling Group, the therapy practice he founded. He reflects on its origins, values, and the importance of pairing clinical skill with warmth and connection.

Michael Blumberg breaks down Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), explaining how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are interconnected. He shares how CBT helps patients shift patterns by focusing on concrete, present-moment strategies.

Michael Blumberg uses a simple metaphor to explain how children regulate emotions—like filling compartments in an ice cube tray. This visual helps parents and kids understand how small emotional moments can build up and overflow when not addressed early.

In this clip, Dr. Melanie Santos explores how subtle safety behaviors—like reassurance seeking or avoidance—can interfere with progress in OCD treatment. She explains how identifying and reducing these behaviors is a key part of ERP.

Dr. Melanie Santos describes the emotional ups and downs of OCD treatment and the importance of staying the course. She talks about how therapy can feel discouraging at times, but how sticking with it leads to meaningful change.

Dr. Melanie Santos explains how ERP works to treat OCD. She outlines how gradual, supported exposure to feared thoughts—without engaging in rituals—can reduce anxiety over time and restore a sense of control.

Mike Gortowski reflects on how play creates a natural and effective bridge to therapeutic work — especially for kids who may resist traditional talk therapy. In the sport court at True Mind + Body, basketball becomes a vehicle for emotion regulation, relational repair, and behavioral coaching. By engaging kids where they are, play becomes both a trust-builder and a tool for change.

Melissa Novack describes how mind-body therapy extends far beyond child treatment. Adults at True Mind + Body often engage in walk-and-talk therapy, outdoor sessions, or yoga-based practices. The goal is to bring movement, mindfulness, and somatic awareness into psychotherapy in ways that feel natural and restorative.

Mike Gortowski and Caroline Novack discuss how True Mind + Body supports patients with anxiety, depression, and social-emotional challenges — as well as kids with ADHD. Movement and somatic work provide an intuitive entry point, helping kids regulate impulsivity and begin developing emotional self-awareness in a physically engaging way.

Melissa Novack explains why mindfulness is foundational to their work: it reconnects kids and teens with their bodies, helps regulate their nervous systems, and builds inner safety. Rather than separating the mind and body, their approach invites both into the therapy space as allies in healing.

Caroline and Melissa Novack share how their practice grew out of a personal experience: movement made them feel better. That simple insight — that physical activity could enhance emotional clarity and cognitive function — led to the founding of True Mind + Body, where movement isn’t just an add-on, but a therapeutic lens in itself.

Carl Jerome, longtime mindfulness teacher and director of North Shore Meditation & Dharma Center, explains what mindfulness is—and what it’s not.

Why sit in silence? In this conversation, Carl describes how unguided meditation builds internal confidence. Without someone leading you, you begin to trust yourself to sit, stay, and return to the present.

Carl walks through what actually happens during a 30-minute meditation. The goal isn’t to achieve peace—it’s to stay with the practice, observe the mind, and return again and again.

What if we could step back from our thoughts and observe them? Carl describes how mindfulness cultivates metacognition—the ability to notice thoughts as mental events—and how this practice creates space between stimulus and response.