Conscious Mental Health
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Conscious Mental Health
The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When It Feels Like the End of the World with Larisa Garski, LMFT and Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC
In this episode, Laurel chats with Larisa Garski, LMFT and Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC about their newest book “The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Your Clients and Yourself When It Feels Like the End of the World.” Larisa and Justine take Laurel on a journey through the Realms of Grief as a therapist, walking through their writing process, personal stories, and offering tools and wisdom for caring for yourself as a clinician.
Larisa Garski, LMFT is the chief of clinical staff for Empowered Therapy in Chicago IL. Larisa is the co-author of The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World, and Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life. Larisa has also contributed to numerous other books on pop culture and psychology, co-hosts the Starship Therapise podcast, and is an AAMFT-approved supervisor.
Justine Mastin, LMFT, LADC is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. Justine runs Blue Box Counseling, a private practice in Minneapolis, MN and is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor. She literally wrote the book on Therapeutic Fanfiction—Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life—and she offered support to healers in The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World. Justine also co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts and has presented a TEDx talk. Justine is proud to educate future therapists at the University of Massachusetts Global.
Buy “The Grieving Therapist” for 25% off and FREE shipping through North Atlantic Books using the code GRIEVING: https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-grieving-therapist/
Where to find Justine and Larisa:
Instagram @grieving_therapist, @mindbodyfandom (Justine), @starship_therapise
justinemastin.com
starshiptherapise.com
Podcast: starshiptherapise.com/podcast
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