This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Adriana Alejandre. Adriana Alejandre, LMFT is the founder of Latinx Therapy which is a podcast and therapist directory that demystifies mental health stigmas in the Latinx community one myth & conversation at a time. She is also a relationship therapist and counselor, and speaker on sexual assault, sexual violence and trauma. Special thanks to Adriana for agreeing to come on the show at the last moment.
Find a therapist or join the directory atLatinxTherapy.com.
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This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Ashley Kirsner. Ashley Kirsner is the founder and director of Skip the Small Talk and believes in the efficacy of high-quality person-to-person interaction for improving psychological health. Ashley gained hands-on therapeutic experience as a suicide hotline phone responder and as a peer counselor at Cornell University. Ashley received her B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University and turned down acceptances to doctorate programs in order devote her time to Skip the Small Talk. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ashley in-person inside the halls of Harvard University so that was fun. We even engaged in a modified version of Skip The Small Talk which we both really got in to. These in-person and on-location interviews are always a treat.
For more info on Skip the Small Talk please visit skipthesmalltalk.org 6/15/2019 Hosting A Panel on Romantic Relationships & Mental Illness with Non Wels, Brandie Carlos, and Kerry OsbornRead Now
From left to right: Brandie Carlos, Non Wels, Rudy Caseres, and Kerry Osborn
Here’s video of the “Romantic Relationships & Mental Illness” panel I hosted recently at the NAMI Los Angeles County Pathways to Recovery Conference. A big thank you to my panelists Non Wels, Kerry Osborn, and Brandie Carlos for donating their time and lived expertises. This was the first panel I ever hosted and I’d do it again in an instant with these same people. It’s an hour long so I hope you hang in there. Please contact me if you'd like me to host a similar panel for your organization at Rudy@RudyCaseres.com.
Today I interviewed Kati Morton for The Mighty. Kati is a licensed therapist who makes extremely popular videos on YouTube. I’m thankful she took time away from her busy schedule to come down to Mighty HQ and talk with me for almost an hour. As you know I don’t hold back with the questions I ask so I’m glad Kati was willing to take them all on.
BIO: Kati Morton, LMFT holds a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She runs a private practice in Santa Monica, CA. Over the past eight years, Kati has leveraged social media to share mental health information worldwide through video. Her specialties include working with individuals experiencing eating disorders and self-harming behaviors, although she addresses all things related to mental health. Kati is well known for her YouTube channel which touts over 1 million subscribers, and has garnered 80+ million views. In addition to her YouTube channel and strong presence on social media, she has appeared on KTLA’s morning news, Fox 11 Good Day LA morning show, and was showcased in Europe’s highest circulated magazine, Glamour UK. She was also a 2019 Shorty Award finalist as well as a 2019 & 2020 Streamy nominee. Kati’s first book, Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health was released in December 2018. 
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Jess Stohlmann-Rainey. Jess Stohlmann-Rainey is a researcher, trainer, and advocate who has focused her career on creating pathways to intersectional, justice-based, emotional support for marginalized communities. She is the winner of the American Association of Suicidology’s 2019 Transforming Live Experience Award and chairs Colorado’s Suicide Commission work group on Investigating the Use of Forced Treatment.
You can also watch my previous interview with Jess here: No Restraints with Rudy Caseres Episode 3: Jess Stohlmann-Rainey 
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Nanea Hoffman. Nanea Hoffman is the founder of Sweatpants & Coffee which is a website that describes itself as "a place where you can kick back, enjoy yourself, and be comfortable. It also home of the world famousAnxiety Blob! Nanea is also a cancer survivor who lives with PTSD, Anxiety Disorder, Depression, and Bipolar II which are all topics we discuss in this interview. I have had the pleasure of hanging out with Nanea multiple times in person and hope to do so many more times in the future.
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Jenn Brian. Jenn Brian, also known as The Queen of Dating had just shared her story of being a suicide and PTSD survivor at the 2019 Mental Health Matters Day event outside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento, CA. And she even called me out as the inspiration for finally publicly coming out about her story after seeing me speak at this same event a year prior!
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Jasmin Pierre. Jasmin Pierre is a Certified Peer Support Specialist, mental health speaker, author of the self-help book 'A Fight Worth Finishing', and creator of the minority mental health app for the Black community The Safe Place. In this interview we talk about Black mental health and why sometimes having a therapist with the same skin color as you is necessary, why calling the police on Black people is much more dangerous than calling them on white people, and other topics dealing with racial justice and more.
You can download The Safe Place app at the links below. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-safe-place/id1349460763 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.he6ecb72aef1&hl=en_US&gl=US Content warning: talk of racial violence and police brutality. See you again next week for an all-new No Restraints with Rudy Caseres. Wednesdays 12pm PT/3pm ET. Watch live at Facebook.com/RudyCaseres and, of course, watch all past episodes at NoRestraints.net. Why? Because it's for your own good. 
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Eduardo Vega. Eduardo is the founder and CEO of Humannovations, a social impact organization that provides innovative solutions and training to the health, human services and arts sectors. A person with lived experience of suicide and consumer advocate he helped found the national Destination Dignity! Project, the California Association of Mental Health Peer Run Organizations, and the world’s first suicide attempt survivor task force (through the US National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention). We'll be speaking face-to-face in Downtown Los Angeles about his life and work - including his new training program for peers called Growing Through. Halfway through our discussion we get kicked out of our meeting room and had to scramble to relocate which was a first for No Restraints but I welcome all challenges!
You can learn more about Eduardo and his work at humannovations.net Content warning: suicide See you again next week for an all-new No Restraints with Rudy Caseres. Wednesdays 12pm PT/3pm ET. Watch live at Facebook.com/RudyCaseres and, of course, watch all past episodes at NoRestraints.net. Why? Because it's for your own good. 
This week on No Restraints with Rudy Caseres my guest is Eileen Davidson AKA Chronic Eileen. Eileen Davidson is a mother who writes about life & advocacy with a triple whammy of arthritis & all that comes with it. She is also an ambassador for The Arthritis Society and a member of the Patient Advisory Board for Arthritis Research Canada.
You can follow Eileen on Facebook here and Instagram here. See you again next week for an all-new No Restraints with Rudy Caseres. Wednesdays 12pm PT/3pm ET. Watch live at Facebook.com/RudyCaseres and, of course, watch all past episodes at NoRestraints.net. Why? Because it's for your own good. |