Pacing Episodes
235
April 16, 2026
From Trigger to Withdrawal: How Cue Stacks Shape Client Exposure, Shame States, and Trauma Reintegration in Clinical Practice
This episode explores how witnessing, paced exposure, and relational contact help clients re-engage unresolved biophysiological trauma data without collapsing into overwhelm or defensive compression. For clinicians, it offers a trauma-informed lens on how cue-linked activation, shame, and protection can be sequenced more adaptively through titration, reintegration, and therapeutic presence.
Guest: Steve Sapourn
234
March 5, 2026
Minding The Gap: Client Alliance and Tending The Relational Field
Minding the alliance gap: how holding the relational field, consent, and pacing prevent rupture, reduce interpretive intrusion, and strengthen therapy outcomes.
233
Feb. 13, 2026
Moral Gating, Progress, and the Relational Field: Navigating Edge, Shame, and Therapeutic Intrusion
A clinician-focused dialogue on moral gating, shame, and relational edge—tracking embodied cues, pacing rupture, and redefining progress in therapy.
Guest: Dr. Lincoln Stoller
231
Jan. 16, 2026
Reintegration Over Performance: How Embodied Compassion Restores Identity After Trauma
A trauma-informed conversation on how early attachment shapes performance identities, dissociative bypassing, and over-functioning in therapeutic roles—exploring somatic awareness, identity flexibility, and building adaptive capacity without flattening complexity.
Guest: Tena Cacic
224
June 20, 2025
Driven or Disconnected: The Hidden Cost of Overachievement and Conditional Worth
This episode explores the subconscious and unconscious patterns driving the compulsion to over-perform as a form of adaptive self-abandonment. Joining us is Albert Bramante, who works extensively with creatives and high-functioning professionals navigating identity fusion, perfectionism, and chronic people-pleasing.
Guest: Albert Bramante