Exploring the rabbi’s dual role—to comfort those in pain and to challenge those who have grown too comfortable.

Rabbi Lowenstein and Dr. Gimbel discuss the quiet power of presence—staying with people through seasons of suffering and change.

Dr. Rebecca Cho describes how openness and collaboration help families feel comfortable beginning psychiatric care.

Dr. Cho shares how she listens for patterns beneath parents’ descriptions, integrating developmental and family context.

When emotions run high, Dr. Cho explains how she stays grounded and helps families find calm through validation and understanding.

Dr. Cho discusses how she decides when to wait and when to act, balancing patience, change, and safety in treatment decisions.

Dr. Cho and Dr. Gimbel explore how psychiatrists distinguish overlapping ADHD and anxiety symptoms to guide effective care.

Lee Wells and David Meyerson of Mind Chicago talk with Brandon Gimbel to explain how Parent Management Training (PMT) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) go beyond behavior charts‚ offering live parent coaching and real-time connection with children to shift relational patterns.

In this clip, Lee Wells and David Meyerson of Mind Chicago highlights the foundational principle of PCIT‚ connection before correction‚ and shows how in-the-moment, non-judgmental parent coaching transforms family dynamics.

Lee Wells of Mind Chicago explains how Parent Management Training (PMT) supports parents of older children through skill-building, family system insights, and real-time practice‚ with results that often appear quickly.

David Meyerson explains how Mind Chicago uses the first phone call to truly understand a family’s needs‚ sometimes recommending parent coaching or PCIT instead of traditional child therapy.

Lee Wells explains how group therapy at Mind Chicago fosters connection, normalizes struggle, and surprises even the most hesitant kids with its sense of belonging and fun.

Lee Wells of Mind Chicago explains to Brandon Gimbel that PCIT and PMT are more than behavior management, that they help kids feel successful at home and with peers. This clip explores how coaching improves family connection and increases self-worth in children with ADHD.

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.

What makes ACT different from traditional CBT? Tory explains how ACT shifts the focus from challenging thoughts to noticing them, asking whether they’re useful, and orienting behavior around values instead of symptom control.

Why take thoughts less seriously? Tory walks through ACT’s playful defusion strategies, from repeating words until they lose meaning to thanking the mind for its chatter — all ways of loosening thought’s grip.

What does it mean to live by values? Tory explains how ACT turns values into active commitments — not abstract categories, but concrete ways of showing up. Values become the life map that guides therapy.

Why does fighting anxiety make it worse? Tory shows how ACT normalizes fear, distinguishing between everyday worry and panic. By accepting discomfort, we stop feeding the spiral of “anxiety about anxiety.”

Why keep coming back to the present moment? Tory describes how ACT borrows from mindfulness, using anchors and awareness to notice thoughts without trying to eliminate them — choosing instead to return, over and over, to what matters.

Maggie Schwalbach explains executive functioning as the brain’s management system. Coaching identifies weak spots—like time management or organization—and helps turn daily chaos into clear, workable routines.