I’ve heard from therapists that this could be the GOLDEN AGE of therapy. Across the globe, we’ve all had two years to come to grips with not only what’s been going on around the world, but what’s been going on inside us. And we need some help finding our way back home. I had a chance to catch up with brilliant psychologist and trauma specialist, and my cousin, Dr. Alana Siegel. Alana completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University. She then earned her doctorate in Clinical and School Child Psychology at Yeshiva University. Fun fact, for those who have been here before, you’ll recognize Alana from my very first episode of Finding Home, on the “Power to Process”.
We’ll discuss everything there is to know about creating safe spaces, processing the impact of Covid-19. We also talk about the similarities in experience, and the differences, between soldiers and doctors, in the US and in Israel, where Alana is based. We speak about the universal fear we experience of losing a loved one, and so much more. We talk about Alana’s background, her path into trauma psychology, and her vital discovery that “the external stress of Covid-19 led us, led people to cohere, to come closer together”.

Conversations like this one, especially when we are talking about our more difficult times as humans, but Alana’s research is a reminder that, in the hardest of times, human beings get through it, together.

Shownotes:
[2:00] Introduction to Alana Siegel!

[4:23] Studying Trauma Psychology: Covid-19 & Doctors
[5:50] Parallels & Differences between Israel and New York City
[17:00] Resilience
[30:22] Responses to Covid-19 & Trauma
[33:02] Human Ecological Systems
[40:42] Concluding Thoughts

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Website: https://www.dralanasiegel.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrASiegel/photos/

Email: DrAlanaSiegel@gmail.com

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