Mental Health News Radio

Join Melanie and Kristin as they discuss Walmart adding mental health clinics to their stores. It's a hot topic. What does this say about mental health?Melanie Vann has her MA in Counseling Psychology. She is the Program Director for MHNR Network, host of Memoirs of Madness, and founder of Your Wise Therapist.Kristin Sunanta Walker is the founder of MHNR Network and host of Mental Health News Radio.

Jaime Grace is back to talk about his upcoming book, catch up with our host Kristin Walker, and dive even deeper into this popular yet painful subject. Grace’s work incorporates Western, depth psychology, developmental theory, as well as meditative, contemplative, and mindfulness-based approaches to interpersonal and personal growth, spiritual transformation, and emotional healing.His interests and therapeutic training are in the field of analytical and Jungian psychology, and attachment theory. His spiritual background is influenced by Buddhist concepts, Sufism, Christian Mystics, and Shamanistic experiences.At present, Grace runs his online private practice worldwide (in English and Portuguese). He also runs workshops online and around the world. Besides that, he spends the rest of his time being a spiritual mentor, psychotherapist, shamanic practitioner, teacher, coach and writer.jaimegrace.org

What is Value Based Care and how is the care and payment model affecting behavioral health? Join our hosts Dave Ballenberger and Kristin Sunanta Walker as they go in-depth with Kevin Fischer. Kevin Fischer is the Executive Director of NAMI Michigan. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. A retired businessman, Kevin joined NAMI as a volunteer in 2011 shortly after losing his oldest son Dominique to suicide in 2010. After serving on the NAMI Michigan Board of Directors as the NAMIWalks Chairperson for two years, and as Board Vice-President for two years, Kevin accepted the role of Executive Director in 2014. Kevin is the founder and Director of The Dominique Fischer Memorial Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of several behavioral health organizations throughout Michigan. Quoted as saying “this is his last job; his last fight,” Kevin is

Join the founder of Mental Health News Radio Network, Kristin Sunanta Walker to discuss what goes on off the air of this mental health focused digital media network. Joining her are two podcasters who host on the network. Joe Fusaro of hysteriaradio.com Matt Pappas of beyondyourpast.com

Julie Ryan is a medical intuitive. We cover a lot of topics on mental health news radio but not this one. We wanted to know if a medical intuitive can also detect depression and other mental health issues. Julie can sense what medical conditions and illnesses a person has, she can facilitate energetic healings, see energy fields—and communicate with spirits both alive and dead. She can work from anywhere; it’s rare I’m with someone while scanning them.In addition, she can scan animals, access people’s past lives, and remove ghosts from homes and other buildings, and tell how close to death someone is.Although the medical intuitive aspect of her life has been an amazing side interest, she is basically a businesswoman, an inventor, an author, and a serial entrepreneur. During her 35-year career, she invented surgical devices that are sold throughout the world and founded several companies in the medical, natural gas, advertising, long-term care, compliance, and data breach prevention industries.www.askjulieryan

Hilary Jacobs Hendel is back! She joins us to talk about the misconceptions about emotions and how we can educate ourselves and others to further our healing. To relieve her patients’ suffering, psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel switched from practicing traditional talk psychotherapy to Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). Traditional therapy focuses on people’s thoughts and stories while AEDP is a healing methodology that helps people connect with their core emotions. Hendel teaches us that core emotions like joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement, are automatic and universal physical experiences; this is firmly grounded in neuroscience. Lack of access to these core emotions is at the root of anxiety, depression, and many other problems people suffer from today. We can all be taught to rediscover our core emotions with The Change Triangle, an easy to learn tool that Hendel uses to help people move through emotions to a place of calm and which is an important part of healing anxiety an

Announcements and what the heck goes on behind the scenes of a podcast network all about mental health? Join podcaster and sound editor Joseph Fusaro (Joda) and Kristin Sunanta Walker as they talk about what's up and the art of disengagement.

Join hosts Dr. Kristina Hallett and Kristin Sunanta Walker with the incredible Jenn Edden talking about our addiction to sugar. Three women unleashed on this incredible new series Be Awesome!Jenn Edden is a certified health coach specializing in sugar addiction and empowerment coaching. She is also a mom, speaker, and biz coach for other entrepreneurs looking for clarity and confidence. As a recovering sugar-a-holic, Jenn supports women to take back their lives and health by making small tweaks to food and lifestyle choices while addressing how much mindset plays a role in long-term success.www.jecoaching.com

Join Dr. Kristin Neff for a lively discussion about what it means to be a compassionate mess! It's okay. Our hosts Dr. Kristina Hallett and Kristin Sunanta Walker jump in to ask questions about what self-compassion really means especially in today's world.Kristin Neff got her Ph.D. in 1997 at UC Berkeley, studying moral development. She is currently an Associate Professor in Human Development at the University of Texas at Austin.During Kristin's last year of graduate school she became interested in Buddhism, and has been practicing meditation in the Insight tradition ever since. While doing her post-doctoral work she decided to conduct research on self-compassion - a central construct in Buddhist psychology and one that had not yet been examined empirically. In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an 8-week program to teach self-compassion skills. The program, co-created with her colleague Chris Germer, is called Mindful Self-Compassion.

Join your cohosts Evelyn M. Ryan and Kristin Sunanta Walker with two special guests as they discuss power imbalances - at work, at home, in relationships, in the world.Evelyn holds advanced degrees in science and management as well as multiple professional certifications in life and health coaching, organizational excellence, and process improvement. She is a recognized expert and published author in quality management and has worked nationally and internationally for several world-class research institutions and agencies supporting high risk operations and national and international security.Purchase Evelyn’s groundbreaking book, Take Your Power Back: Healing Lessons, Tips and Tools for Abuse Survivors.

Johnny Crowder joins hosts Dave Ballenberger and Kristin Walker, to talk about his SMS platform CopeNotes.com which is shaking how we look at effective treatments in mental health. Johnny is a musician, singer, artist, and tech entrepreneur who has fronted several heavy metal bands. He founded CopeNotes as a tool to help those struggling with their mental health. A daily reminder that helps you strengthen and renew neural pathways. www.copenotes.com

The first episode in our new series on Mental Health News Radio has our cohosts, Dave Ballenberger and Kristin Walker, exploring the topics, guests, and ideas for this show. Why is a show on the business side of Mental Healthcare important? There is not a podcast in the world that comes close to these topics and just like any sector of healthcare - mental healthcare is a booming business. It is also unique in that discussions of profit, using the word "sales", and the downsides of this industry are rarely, if ever, spoken about. Kristin Walker is the founder of MHNR Network and has spent the last several years working directly in the business side of mental health.Dave Ballenberger, MSW has spent his entire career in the mental health field from working as a clinician to running a successful technology company. Tune in each week to discover the "under the hood and behind the scenes" of their most favorite part of the healthcare industry. www.mentalhealthbusinessradio.com

Shahida Arabi is a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University graduate school and a four-time bestselling author. Her bestselling books include The Smart Girl's Guide to Self-Care and Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself, featured as a a #1 Amazon Bestseller for 16 consecutive months after its release, and POWER: Surviving and Thriving, featured as a #1 Amazon Bestseller in Applied Psychology. Her writing has been featured on Salon, Psych Central, The Huffington Post, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, MOGUL, Yoganonymous, Elephant Journal, Dollhouse Magazine, The West 4th Street Review, Thought Catalog, the Feministing Community blog, and Harvard-trained psychologist Dr. Monica O'Neal's website. Her interests include psychology, sociology, education, gender studies and mental health advocacy. She studied English Literature and Psychology as an undergraduate student at NYU, where she graduated summa cum laude and was President of its

Join Kristin Walker and her guest Bipolar Barbie as they talk about being advocates in the mental health field. People ask her why she chose the name Bipolar Barbie and it all started one Sunday afternoon. Her housemate asked her why she has so many clothes and she replied “because I have so many different personalities, they each need their own wardrobe” Then it dawned on her. "I am just like a naked barbie doll, waiting to see what outfit I will be dressed in each day, dressed by another hand."Barbie has her outfits like nurse barbie, horse riding barbie, dancing barbie and everything in between. This is Bipolar Barbie in the mental health world. www.bipolarbarbie.com

Nanci Danison joins us to talk about the day she died. That's right. The day she died and what she learned from the experience. She died March 14, 1994, at the age of 43, but voluntarily returned to human life to share what she could remember of the wonders she experienced and truths she learned in the afterlife. At the time of her death, she had been an attorney practicing law in a 270 attorney regional law firm for 17 years as a litigator in the labor and employment law areas, and as a transactional and health care fraud defense lawyer in the health law field. She brought her training and skills as a trial lawyer to the evidence she encountered and challenged within the afterlife. "Nancy brings the credibility of a trial lawyer, highly trained to evaluate evidence, to her account of the answers to our most pressing spiritual questions: What is God? Who am I? What is the purpose of this life? What happens when we die? . . . She observed this near-death experience with the detachment of a jurist. That jury

Amy O’Neill, MS, LPC is a speaker, survivor, resilience expert, therapist, and motivator is our guest today with her friend and our co-host, Dr. Kristina Hallett. Today we talk about and examine resilience. Amy O’Neill chose a mental health career that requires resilience to do well and stay healthy; and she engages in hobbies that thrive on resilience, like the Iron-man Triathlon and Boston Marathon. Amy has also been thrust into situations wherein survival came from resilience. Thus, as a Mental Health professional and Boston Marathon attack survivor, Amy has acquired keen insight into how we can not only survive the challenges life throws at us, but also thrive in creating a life we love.www.amyconeill.com

Join Claire and Kristin and they talk about something often overlooked when it comes grief: Anxiety. Claire Bidwell Smith, LCPC, is a therapist specializing in grief, and the author of three books of nonfiction: The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin, 2012), After This: When Life Is Over Where Do We Go? (Penguin, 2015) and Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief (Da Capo, 2018).

Join Dr. Kristina Hallett, Patricia Steuer, Kristin Sunanta Walker and Evelyn M. Ryan for a deep discussion about women and how we are trying to navigate 2018. Dr. Kristina Hallett is the host of the Be Awesome series on Mental Health News Radio. She is also a psychologist in private practice, author, speaker, and corporate trainer. She has worked extensively with people diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder in the prison system.www.drkristinahallett.orgPatricia Steuer is an artist and activist who is a classically trained singer with a degree in music from the University of Massachusetts. She is also a survivor of sexual assault and came forward as one of the accusers of Bill Cosby.Kristin Sunanta Walker is the CEO of Mental Health News Radio Network, as well as, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. www.mhnrnetwork.comEvelyn M. Ryan is a consultant in the nuclear power industry, author, and coach for survivors of psychological abuse. www.yourlifelifter.com

How do we support the mental well-being of the people who are on the front lines? Our first responders. These jobs where people put their lives at risk to help others but aren't supported enough in taking care of themselves? Join two of the founders of Stepstone Connect, Joe Gorton and Barry Toone, with our host Kristin Sunanta Walker, as they discuss how they serve our front line support. Joe Gorton is the CEO/Co-Owner with Step Stone Connect. Offering therapeutic and consulting services. He is an empathic, effective, and motivated professional; Experienced with a broad range of mental and behavioral disorders; Clear awareness of diverse backgrounds; Proven experience of growing the client base and implementing strategic program development; Consummate net-worker with exceptional communication skills; Licensed as a Certified Mental Health Counselor.Mr. Barry Toone is General Counsel and Co-Founder of Stepstone Connect, a Telebehavioral Health company with licensed clinicians throughout the United States. Ste

Two PhD's in Psychology, Dr. George Simon and Dr. Sherry Simon, one who well known for the study of character disorders and the other for her work with those in relationship with the character disordered. Our host, Kristin Sunanta Walker, could not wait to start the first of many of these conversations on our series: Character Matters. Dr. George Simon is an internationally-recognized expert on manipulators and other problem characters and the author of 3 bestselling books: In Sheep’s Clothing (which has been translated into 12 foreign languages), Character Disturbance, and The Judas Syndrome. He’s made appearances on several major television (Fox News Network, CNN, CBS 48 Hours).Until recently, Dr. Simon maintained an active private practice dedicated to assisting individuals develop character and helping empower victims in relationships with disturbed characters. In addition to providing psychotherapy services, he specialized in anxiety and anger management, comprehensive personality assessments, mental hea