Episodes
Oct. 6, 2022
How Can I Stop Nail Biting, Hair Pulling, Skin Picking? Answers
In this show, Stacy Nakell, author of the new and important book, Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: An Integrative Psychodynamic Approach, provides answers with compassion, theoretical understanding and clinica...
Sept. 29, 2022
Lifeway Network: Ending Human Trafficking - Reclaiming Life
It is often hard to believe that Human Trafficking, Forced Labor, and Sexual Trafficking of children, all forms of Modern Slavery, are hiding in plain sight not just somewhere across the globe but right here in the US. Today ...
July 28, 2022
OpSAFE- Protecting Children from the Impact of Traumatic Events
There is no end to the reality of traumatic events suffered world-wide, be they man-made atrocity or natural disaster. What about the children caught in the midst of such suffering? That is the focus of today’s show. Our gues...
July 14, 2022
Curbing Gun Violence: Gun Laws, School and Community Strategies
In the first 185 days of 2022 there have been 11 mass shootings per week. When does this stop? How can we make a difference? Our guest is Sara Rogerson, a professor at Albany Law School, the Vice President of Niskayuna School...
June 16, 2022
Why Are Most Mass Shooters Men? – Important Answers
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have already been more than 240 mass shootings in 2022 in the United States. A striking 98% of Mass Shooters are men. This show asks the question “WHY?” In a fascinating discussion...
May 19, 2022
“My So-Called Selfish Life”- The Filmmaker’s Insider View
In this show Host Suzanne Phillips is joined by Award Winning Filmmaker, Therese Shechter who discusses her new and powerful film, “My So-Called Selfish Life.” Spanning over many years this is a paradigm-shifting journey thro...
April 14, 2022
Who's Mothering Mother? The Power of Authentic Connections Groups
Across time and cultures and against the backdrop of medical, social, economic, political, gender and racial issues, mothers face a lot and give a lot. Whether new mothers, working mothers, single mothers or grandmothers, mos...
April 7, 2022
“MORE” A Proven and Effective Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Someone has finally found a way to address opioid misuse and addiction among people with chronic pain. In this show, Dr. Eric Garland, the world’s leading expert on the use of mind-body therapies to treat opioid misuse for pa...
March 17, 2022
Understanding and Responding to Anger in Children
In this show, Dr. Deborah Serani, psychologist, award winning author and media expert returns to Psych-Up Live to discuss her new children’s book “ Sometimes When I‘m Mad.” She invites listeners to understand and respond to a...
Dec. 23, 2021
Holiday and Year Round Survival Tips for Divorced Parents
It goes without saying that this is a stressful as well as special Holiday time of the year. For millions of divorced parents there are additional challenges they face, as they try to make the holidays a success, while splitt...
Dec. 16, 2021
Strength-Based Prevention for Violence & Public Health Problems
Nationally and Internationally people are exposed to violence on a daily basis. We read about it in the paper. We see it in the images of violence on TV and the internet and too many people have been personally exposed to or ...
Dec. 2, 2021
How Do We Pass On the Gift of Gratitude to our Children?
In a complex culture with non-stop invitations to do and have more, parents often wonder how to raise grateful kids. In this show, Dr. Rebecca Hershberg, clinical psychologist, child expert and author of The Tantrum Survival ...
Sept. 9, 2021
Voices Center for Resilience – 20 Years with the 9/11 Community
This year we commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, an unspeakable event that took the lives of 2.996 people and caused the death of another four thousand from 9/11 related illness. We are privileged ...
Sept. 2, 2021
A Surprising New Look at the Benefits of Forgetting
In this episode Dr. Scott Small, esteemed neurologist and neuroscientist known for his work in Alzheimer’s disease, discusses his important new book, Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering. In a culture inundated with in...
Aug. 26, 2021
Five Respectful Ways to Address an Antivaxxer’s Hesitancy
As anxiety escalates in face of a resurgence of Covid-19 fueled by variants, tension builds between those who recognize the vaccine as a lifesaving answer and those who view it as an invasive healthcare intervention. Beyond t...
Aug. 12, 2021
Why Losing a Dog Hurts So Much!
There is little question that when a person suffers the death of their dog, the loss is excruciating. Why? In this episode, Dr. Frank McAndrew, evolutionary and social psychologist, draws upon his personal experience as well ...
Aug. 5, 2021
A Closer Look at The Secret Lives of Men: Pain and Possibilities
This show is for men and everyone who loves them. In it, psychotherapist, James Hawes draws upon his years of clinical experience with men and his book, The Secret Lives of Men: Ten Keys to Unlock the Mystery, to discuss the ...
July 8, 2021
Workplace Harassment Reaches into The Remote Workplace: Concerns
As we consider how to open the workplace with possible hybrid options, one reality that has received too little attention is the increase in Workplace Harassment during the pandemic year. In this show, Kalpana Kotagal, partne...
June 17, 2021
From Neurons To Nations: Regulating For The Benefit Of All Beings
In this show, our guest Boaz Feldman will be calling in from Geneva Switzerland with great interest in connecting to our listeners. Much as the title suggests, Boaz Feldman’s passion is the integration of knowledge from many ...
May 27, 2021
Supporting Transgender Teens: What Parents Need to Know
The journey that a transgender teen takes from confusion and fear to acceptance and consolidation of gender identity is often a difficult one for them and their parents. It is one for which understanding and support are inval...
May 13, 2021
Porn Literacy: How Do Parents Talk to Their Teens about Porn?
In today’s high speed internet world, teens are merely a few clicks away from free access to streaming porn. A Nationally Representative Youth Internet Safety Survey found that the likelihood of a teen or preteen accessing po...
April 15, 2021
Guns, Suicide, Violence and Gun Safety in Uncertain Times
Half of all suicide deaths are caused by firearms, and suicides account for nearly two thirds of all deaths by firearms. We are horrified by the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Suicide comprises a substantial portio...
March 25, 2021
Age-Proof Your Sex Life: Information, Realities and Strategies
In a manner that is personal, specific, at times funny and underscored with thirty years of writing and talking about sex, Tracey Cox invites us to age-proof our sex lives. Drawing upon her 17th and newest book, Great Sex Sta...
March 4, 2021
Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower: Strategies
In this episode, Dr. Therese Huston draws upon her new book, Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower, and her experience speaking to academic audiences and businesses like Microsoft and Amazon to teach us how to g...