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I interview marginalized individuals and providers of individuals who are marginalized about mental health. Find "Sage in Time: The Podcast" on the major Podcast platforms. Video episodes are at www.youtube.com/@sageintimeMHC. I am a sex-positive Licensed Mental Health Counselor in NY and a Licensed Professional Counselor in PA specializing in couples' therapy and grief work, working with individuals from 14+, couples, and families with adult and minor children. If you, or someone you know, ...
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Beccy: An After-Hours Chat -- Her Story of Healing and Giving
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In this episode, Derek is joined by his friend and former colleague, Beccy. Beccy shares some of her story growing up on a farm in the 80s and 90s, and how she dreamed of being a mother and supporter of her children, along with offering a safe place to the friends of her children. Additionally, she opens up about part of her journey that led her to…
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Darcey: An After-Hours Chat -- The State of Mental Health
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In this episode of Sage in Time, we meet Darcey, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and one of Derek’s former colleagues. Our time with clients had ended for the day and we decided to simply catch up on various topics that affect a variety of our current and potential clients. We moved quickly through the topics of: substance abuse credentials telem…
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Tyr: ESAs and Service Animals, Joy in First Responding, and Memories of A Father (TW: vehicular trauma, 9/11)
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In this episode, Derek meets with Tyr, an educator and fire service / medical professional who is supported and supportive of Canine Companions, a charitable organization that provides service animals at no cost to the recipients. Tyr is served by Zeus and has been for most of Zeus's life. Tyr shares, not so much the traumatic stories of serving in…
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Q/A #2: ESA Letters, Can I Be Your Therapist?, and How Do I Find/Vet/Fire My Therapist?
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Derek takes another stab at taking questions from listeners. This time, he addresses Emotional Support Animals, including how he supports clients and their Emotional Support Animals, detailing advice from the American Counseling Association as to how to protect the animal and the client/handler. This is a more significant request than any "ESA Lett…
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Ev: The Human Quest for Identity and Connection (TW: Trauma, Sexual Content)
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In this episode, Derek is joined by San Francisco transplant turned local educator within Kink / BDSM. Ev Lokidottir is a trauma survivor, kink/BDSM and Negotiation educator, and a chronic volunteer when it comes to supporting her community and friends. She openly shares some of her experiences when it comes to that support, including some of her o…
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Chérie and Anthony: A Family Diagnosis
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In this episode, Derek is joined by his VR workout friend, Chérie, and her son Anthony, as they both share their own different experiences with the same diagnosis. Anthony shares his experience as the oldest of Chérie's children in caring for his siblings during Chérie's early years with her mental health journey. Chérie accepts Anthony's recollect…
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Debs: Conclusion. Trauma, Understanding, and Healing
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This episode concludes our time with Debs, the Kink Shrink, and a varied discussion on intergenerational trauma (and healing!), the way some psychotherapy might gain for the client but challenge a relationship, the importance of seeking similarities within community for social healing and change as opposed to the damage caused by focusing on differ…
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Debs: Consent Doesn't Mean Safety; What Does It Mean? (TW: 19:30 - 19:40 descriptive violence)
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TW: sexual language, trauma, physical injury, death Special trigger warning: Brief graphic description of violence at approximately 19:30 in the episode. In this first of two episodes, Derek sits down to hear from Debs. Debs is a very busy psychologist, educator, speaker, and mom to adult children in the UK. She has hosted over 7,000 presentations …
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Anne: Finding Herself In an Unknown Emotional Place (TW: injury, death, trauma; CW: brief discussions of human sexuality)
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In this, the 10th episode, Derek sits down and talks with Anne, a recent widow who, with her wife, had rescued several special needs dogs. Anne openly and candidly offered an interview to share her own mental health journey, including why she believes that mental health therapy has been and continues to be so crucial to her own healing. She truly v…
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Rachel: Get Better at Dating (How to Use Tradition, Tech, and Community to Find Love)
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In this episode, Derek sits down and talks with Rachel, Founder and CEO of social media app Keepler. Rachel shares her own story of her journey into and out of academia by way of English Literature, Poetry, an MBA program and a Pandemic-inspired dating journey that found her pivoting, not just once but multiple times, considering not only her own i…
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Derek Fields Questions from the Listening Audience: The First Episode Without a Guest
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In this episode, Derek is without a guest for the first time. Will he be able to handle the podcast all by himself? Who knows? But you have an opportunity to listen in as he answers questions from listeners and followers on his social media regarding therapy and his work as a therapist for the last nearly 11 years. In this episode, he addresses fou…
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More Than One Way to Enjoy Relationships, with Guest: Paige
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In this episode of the Sage in Time Podcast, Derek and listeners get to hear from Paige Bond, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist from central Florida who is passionate about helping her clients develop flourishing relationships, regardless of their particular dynamic. She shares some of her own journey to become this unique/rare type of thera…
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The Importance of Sexual Freedom and the Mitigation of Shame with guest: Susan
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In this episode, Derek speaks with Susan Wright, the Executive Director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom about the work that Susan and her team have been involved in within local communities, state and federal-level lobbying, as well as the Judicial system to recognize that kinky and non-monogamous people are not the threat to individua…
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It's a Fine Line - Collaboration Between Mental Health and Medical Professionals with Guest: Dr. Angie (TW: clinical sexual terms, medical trauma, non-traditional LS)
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In this episode, Derek hosts guest Dr. Angie Stoehr, OBGYN who runs her own medical practice in the DFW area, specializing in gynecological pain, serving the diverse population of LGBT in their medical needs, oftentimes when others turn them away. She discusses her journey into specialty medicine, her own relationship with her husband, and how she …
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Overcoming Odds and the Importance of Therapy for EVERYONE with Guest: BMN TW: Childhood Trauma
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In this episode, Derek speaks with BMN, who shares his own medical and mental health challenges over the course of decades and how he came to press into his own healing. He details starting out with feeling "uncomfortable" (which we often know now as being anxiety) to finding language for the expanse of human emotions over his lifetime. He takes De…
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Do No Harm: Why Conversion Therapy Needs to be Outlawed in all 50 States with Guest: Heather
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TW: Child Abuse, Medical Trauma In this episode of the Sage in Time Podcast, Derek is joined by Heather Mandel, who shares her powerfully redeeming story of how she realized and accepted her her own gender dysphoria, after nearly an entire decade of systematic psychological torture through the very real dangers of Childhood Conversion Therapy*. *Co…
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How Not to Lose Your Job for Doing What You Love with Guest: Anthony
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In this episode of the Sage in Time Podcast, Derek is joined by Intellectual Property Attorney, Anthony Verna of Verna Law Firm in NY State. Verna discusses some of the unique needs of kink service providers and educators, including personal brand protection as well as confidentiality for his clients for whom public knowledge of their activities ma…
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Kinky, Poly, NRE, and Mental Health with Guest: April (TW: SA)
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Summary TW: Sexual Assault, Violence This is the Pilot episode of the Sage in Time Podcast hosted by Derek Wittman, LMHC, LPC. His guest, April Strickland, a kinky poly podcasting business owner, discusses her experiences and insights into polyamory and BDSM. She explains the differences between polyamory and BDSM, emphasizing the importance of inf…
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Introducing the Sage in Time Podcast, hosted by Derek Wittman, LMHC, LPC. Voice Talent: Melissa Reagan Send us a Text Message. Support the Show. If you live in New York or Pennsylvania, or know someone who does, and might be interested in learning more about working with me in the context of mental health therapy, check out my profile on Psychology…
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