Sign up for your FREE parenting course today! https://www.tonyoverbay.com/courses/ Tony Overbay, LMFT and host of The Virtual Couch Podcast, offers you a free "virtual session" to help you improve your parenting today. In this free course, you'll learn why it can be so difficult to parent kids of any age…
Tony Overbay, LMFT presents episode 193 of The Virtual Couch Podcast. Can memories be implanted? What would you do if smoke began billowing from underneath a door and everyone around you acted like nothing unusual was happening? And could you spot a gorilla running across the screen while you were…
Dr. Mary Wilde is a board-certified pediatrician, author, and mother of 8 who spends a lot of her time helping people decrease anxiety during anxious times. It’s fair to say that with the continuing information regarding COVID-19 coming from all angles these are truly anxious times. So what can you…
Episode 191 of Tony Overbay LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast. With things changing rapidly thanks to the spread of COVID-19 and the Coronavirus, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to know exactly what to do, how to do it, and for how long? But one thing that remains a constant…
Episode 190 of Tony Overbay LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast. With the continued information about the coronavirus coming in almost by the minute, two things have remained consistent...wash your hands long enough to sing the ABC song AND don't touch your face! But for most, simply telling one to not…
Tony Overbay LMFT's Virtual Couch Podcast Episode 189 - Living with a Narcissistic Parent - Tina Fuller, Author of "It's My Turn" Author Tina Fuller joins Tony to talk about her book "It's My Turn" https://amzn.to/2ImIMtk which details her experiences in growing up with a narcissistic mother. The interview covers…
Episode 188 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast - Simply put, psychological reactance is the instantaneous response that we have when we're told what to do. In business it is often called "change resistance" and in parenting, it's typically referred to as, well, "kids!" Reactance can also be…
Episode 186 of the Virtual Couch Podcast hosted by Tony Overbay, LMFT. Lora Abraham, LCSW and a former high school classmate of Tony's uses EMDR to treat clients who present with a variety of types of trauma. What is EMDR? From the EMDR Institute: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)…
Episode 183 of Tony Overbay's The Virtual Couch podcast. Plenty of well-meaning people in our lives try and motivate us by saying, "Just choose to be happy every day!" But why, then, isn't it that easy? Why when many people try and choose to be happy, do they actually end…
When Ginger Hahn, the founder of Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates' daughter was only 6 days old she had an intestinal bypass. According to Ginger, "It was the worst 2 weeks of my life in that hospital. Walking to the cafeteria every day I would walk past the oncology pediatrics wing at…
Episode 184 of Tony Overbay's The Virtual Couch Podcast. Many of us know what Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is, and we associate it with people who have come back from war, or who have experienced traumatic events, or accidents. Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or C-PTSD is a type of PTSD…
Episode 182 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast. All or nothing...He’s ALWAYS late! She NEVER asks me about my day. The kids will absolutely never, ever, no matter what I say pick up after themselves (OK, that one might actually be true). Do you always find yourself using…
Episode 181 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast. In Dr. Steven Hayes’ book A Liberated Mind, How to Pivot Toward What Matters https://amzn.to/34w72BT Dr. Hayes shares some research that shows how quickly you can begin making progress using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The study evaluated how ACT…
In episode 180 of Tony Overbay's The Virtual Couch Podcast, Tony interviews Dr. Shelly Hoover. Dr. Hoover is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend. She’s a veteran, author, educator, and advocate. It’s what she does. It’s who she is. In 2013, her neurologist told her that she only…
I recently had the privilege of being asked to be a part of the iBody panel held at Freeflow Academy in Rocklin, CA. The panel consisted of people who had incredible stories of hardship, addiction, struggle, acceptance, and survival. But these panelists not only survived, they learned to thrive, and…
Tony Overbay LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast Episode 178 available on Apple Podcasts, The Google Play Store, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Have you ever been scared by a friend? Chances are your first, or primary emotion, was fear! That's perfectly normal, after all, you're human. But what…
Tony Overbay, LMFTs Virtual Couch Podcast episode 176. In today's episode, Tony tackles the popular article "How Complaining Physically Rewires Your Brain To Be Anxious And Depressed," from the Daily Health Post https://dailyhealthpost.com/complaining-brain-negativity/ - Tony will be speaking in the Midvale North Stake on Sunday, January 26th in Midvale, UT.…
Episode 175 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast - Allison Carlson (IG: @allisonbailey1) is more than a social media content creator, aka an “influencer,” she is also a wife, a future doula, a woman who has suffered through multiple difficult miscarriages, a survivor of betrayal, anxiety, depression and…
It’s New Year’s Resolution time! Does setting resolutions, or even talking about resolutions, in general, bring feelings of fear, or excitement? In this episode, I weave acceptance and commitment therapy into 5 evidence-based ways to make your resolutions stick once and for all! Learn how your values must drive your…
Tony Overbay LMFT's The Virtual Couch Podcast episode 173 - Cha, Cha, Changes! The Transtheoretical, or Stages of Change Model, 6 Steps to Lasting Change! Tony talks stages of change using the Transtheoretical, or Stages of Change Model referencing an article by Kendra Cherry https://www.verywellmind.com/the-stages-of-change-2794868 Discover the 6 stages of…
Episode 172 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's The Virtual Couch podcast. In this episode, Tony shares his excitement over one of the founders of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dr. Steven Hayes' new book A Liberated Mind, How to Pivot Toward What Matters https://amzn.to/34w72BT Tony reviews Dr. Hayes 6 key "pivots" of…
Virtual Couch Podcast Episode 171 - Part 3 of 2 of Tony Overbay, LMFT's discussion of his ADHD (ADD inattentive type) diagnosis. In this episode, Tony goes more into some of the diagnostic criteria including a couple of lists of behaviors often associated with ADD-like symptoms (trust me, it's more…
Tony Overbay LMFT's "The Virtual Couch Podcast" Episode 170 "Tony Overbay and Joshua Shea Co-Authors of "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a Former Addict Answer Your Questions." Tony Overbay, LMFT interviews Joshua Shea about their newly released book "He's a Porn Addict...Now What? An Expert and a…
Tony Overbay, LMFT's Virtual Couch podcast episode 169. Wait! Don't skip this episode! I know if you're a podcast listener you've no doubt heard therapist and life coach alike gush about the benefits of mindfulness, about meditation, about being present. Well, what does that actually mean? What's the science behind…