Whole Body Mental Health Radio

William Arendell, LCSW   William Arendell started working with children with Attention Deficit Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder using neurofeedback and biofeedback in 1996 at the Institute for Neurobiofeedback and Barclay Family Care in Michigan. Will developed a reputation for being able to work with clinically challenging children, many with severe emotional problems, and adults experiencing difficulties with insomnia, depression and stress. While working as a social worker for the Open Door in downtown Detroit he worked with homeless who were afflicted with addiction. Will conducted a study with Oakland University and the Institute for Inner Resources which was the first to use neurofeedback to treat those afflicted with heroin and crack addiction. He completed his masters in Social Work at Arizona State University. Will worked at Women's Hope, an addiction treatment center for women in Boston, and conducted stress reduction workshops for hospitals and mental health workers. Will is the former th

Andrew B. Newberg, M.D. is currently the Associate Director in Charge of Research at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital in Philadelphia. He is also a Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University and he is adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Haverford College with honors in chemistry in 1988, and then from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine in 1993. He did his training in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, serving as Chief Resident in his final year. Following his internal medicine training, he completed a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine in the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He has actively pursued a number of neuroimaging research projects which have included the study of aging and

Susan Blum, MD, MPH. Dr. Susan Blum has been treating, healing and preventing chronic diseases for nearly two decades. Her passion and dedication for identifying and addressing the root causes of chronic illness through the groundbreaking whole body approach known as Functional Medicine, is helping to transform our healthcare system. As the Founder and Director of Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York, Dr. Blum’s crusade for personalized medicine is paramount for treatment and prevention. Dr. Blum’s mission for Blum Center for Health is to facilitate a personalized healing experience by creating a partnership with her patients while providing cutting-edge Functional Medicine and teaching self-care skills for changing health habits. Through Dr. Blum’s medical practice, education efforts, writing, research, and advocacy, she empowers her patients to stop covering up symptoms in order to actually treat the underlying causes of illness, thereby combating—and most often curing—the chronic-disease epidemic.

Evonne Sullivan, BA, CHRL. Specializing in yoga and mindfulness for mental wellness and addiction recovery, Evonne is living her dharma by sharing her experience, strength and hope with others.Evonne has trained with Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, LifeForce Yoga for Depression and Anxiety, The Yoga of Recovery (April 2017) and YogaFit Canada. She runs independent wellness and recovery groups, as well as teaching with The Canadian Mental Health Association, Yoga of 12-Step Recovery, The University of Western Ontario and GoodLife Fitness.In treatment centres, schools, community organizations, fitness facilities and at special events, Evonne spreads the message of health, wellness, yoga and mindfulness through practice, education and advocacy.She holds an Honours BA from the University of Guelph and a Postgraduate Certificate in HR Management from George Brown College.

Rabbi Alexis Berk has been the Rabbi of Touro Synagogue in New Orleans since 2008. Rabbi Berk graduated with Honors from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in June of 2000. Upon ordination, Rabbi Berk was awarded two prizes for sermon oratory. Following graduation Rabbi Berk served in Nashville as Congregation Micah’s first Rabbi Educator, and later Rabbi at Vanderbilt University's Hillel, but finding she missed participating in a congregational community, she left to join the clergy team at Temple Ohabai Sholom, as Director of Congregational Enrichment. In 2011 Rabbi Berk was chosen as one of Gambit Magazine’s “40 under 40,” – forty individuals under the age of forty whose skills and accomplishments have helped make New Orleans a better place to live and work. She practices an engaged form of Judaism devoted to the cultivation of personal, communal, and world wellbeing. Rabbi Berk and her husband Bob live in Up

Dr. Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow at Brasenose College. Dr. Foster's research mainly focuses on how environmental light is detected and processed for the regulation of circadian rhythms, how circadian rhythms are generated, and what happens when these systems break down in disease and abnormal environmental conditions. Dr. Foster Chairs the Royal Society Public Engagement Committee, The Cheltenham Science Festival and is a Trustee of the Science Museum Group. He contributes to radio, television and newspaper articles, including the BBC, NPR, the Guardian, and the He has co-written three popular science books, and is working on his fourth, including: Sleep, a very short introduction, Circadian Rhythms a very short introduction, and Rhythms of Life: the biological clock that controls the daily lives of every living thing.

Dr. Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, FABOIM, physician and author, is a board certified rheumatologist, integrative medicine specialist, and environmental health expert specializing in arthritis, immune system disorders and women’s health. Dr. Cohen received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Her medical training from Hahnemann University Hospital School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Cohen continued her specialist training in rheumatology and autoimmune diseases at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein University Hospital in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Cohen is trained in medical acupuncture from the Helms Institute at UCLA and Environmental Medicine from Dr. Andrew Weil and the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine where she worked with Dr. Weil and his team. Dr. Cohen is the recipient of multiple awards including the Jones/Lovell Rheumatology Scholarship at the Center for Integrative

Founder of New Orleans Acupuncture. Valerie attended Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, NM where she earned a Masters in Science in Oriental Medicine (M.S.O.M.) graduating in May 2002 with nearly 3000 hours of study and clinic. She graduated in 1997 from The Scherer Institute of Natural Healing (Taos & Santa Fe, NM) with a Diploma in Massage Therapy Degree, upon graduation from massage school she completed a 300 hour apprenticeship in Japanese style bodywork and acupuncture with Jeffery Dann Ph.D., L.Ac. in southern Colorado, by 1998 she had began the journey on her MSOM in Santa Fe, NMIn 2007 Valerie received her 200 hour Yoga Teaching Certificate from Prajna Yoga in Santa Fe and is currently working towards her 500 yoga teacher training certificate.Valerie is NCCAOM certified and CCAOM certified for clean needle technique and is licensed to practice acupuncture in the states of Louisiana and Colorado and she is a Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance.

Dr. Mary Aiken, Ph.D. is a forensic cyberpsychologist. Dr. Aiken specializes in the impact of technology on human behaviour, and has written extensively on issues relating to the intersection between humankind and technology – or as she describes it “where humans and technology collide”. She appears regularly on radio and television and frequently gives talks to the public and private sector on an international basis. Dr. Aiken is an Adjunct Associate Professor at University College Dublin, Geary Institute for Public Policy, and Academic Advisor (Psychology) to the European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) at Europol, and has conducted research and training workshops with multiple global agencies, from INTERPOL to the FBI and the White House. Her research interests include cyber-security, organized cybercrime, cyberstalking, technology-facilitated human trafficking, and the rights of the child online. She the Director of the Cyberpsychology Research Network, and is a member of the advisory board of the Hague Justice

Eric Casell, MD, MACP graduate of the New York School of Medicine, Dr. Cassell trained in internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and served as the U.S. Public Health Service Fellow in infectious disease in the department of public health of Cornell University Medical College. He has been published extensively and has had numerous clinical and academic appointments, including Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Adjunct Professor of Medicine on the Faculty of Medicine McGill University and Attending Physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital.Dr. Cassell is a celebrated author with numerous books including “The Nature of Clinical Medicine,” “Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine,” “Changing Values in Medicine,” “The Place of the Humanities in Medicine,” “Talking with Patients,” “The Healer’s Art” and “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine.”

Robert Brian Levy Sensei is the founder and chief instructor of NOLA Aikido, where he teaches this art of peace to children and adults of all ages in metro New Orleans as well as at seminars in the US and in Europe. He holds the rank of 4th dan (black belt). A native of Louisiana, Brian Sensei has spent more than twenty years practicing aikido, primarily in Europe. He returned to New Orleans in 2007, where he first established the dojo in Bywater before moving to its present location in New Orleans’s Mid-City. In addition to Aikido practice, he has also pursued in-depth studies of qigong, daito-ryu aikijujitsu, as well as other contemplative and integrative practices. Other pursuits include languages, language revitalization, translation, theater, visual arts, and spoken word performance.

Katy Bowman, MS and Kris Kaliebe, MD. With radical, science-based health directives, Katy Bowen, MS has taken the health-and-wellness world by storm with her bold “exercise is not movement” platform. A biomechanist by training and a problem-solver at heart, she has helped thousands reduce chronic pain, increase bone density, and improve metabolic health through better movement. The founder of Nutritious Movement, Katy is the bestselling author of multiple books. Diastasis Recti (2016), Whole Body Barefoot (2015), Don’t Just Sit There (2015), Move Your DNA (2014), Alignment Matters (2013), and Every Woman’s Guide to Foot Pain Relief (2011) have been sold and translated worldwide.

Charles B. Dew teaches the history of the South and the Civil War and Reconstruction at Williams College, where he is Ephraim Williams Professor of American History. A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, he graduated from Woodberry Forest School in Virginia and Williams College prior to completing his Ph.D. degree at the Johns Hopkins University under the direction of C. Vann Woodward. He is the author of four books: Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works; Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge; Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War; and The Making of a Racist: A Southerner Reflects on Family, History, and the Slave Trade. Two of these books, Ironmaker to the Confederacy and Apostles of Disunion, received the Fletcher Pratt Award, given by the Civil War Roundtable of New York for the best non-fiction book on the Civil War in its year of publication. Bond of Iron was selected as a Notable Book of the Year by The New

Corey Walsh, LDN, RD draws upon 22 years of Dietetic experience, both in medical and psychiatric hospitals. Individual nutrition counseling, groups, and public speaking are the areas she has focused on since 2006.Corey is an expert in helping individuals create a bridge between their nutritional health and their emotional health. Individuals struggling with Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Diabetes Mellitus, and chronic dieting find Corey to be insightful and on target with their troubles. She is nurturing, positive, and supportive, which allows people of all ages and sex, to feel safe and comfortable to delve into some of their most painful issues. Corey is as easily relate-able to a 13 year old young woman struggling with dieting and body image issues, as to a 39 year old man looking to improve over all health and wellness.When it comes to weight loss, Corey is not a quick and easy diet. In all areas she educates, helping individuals strategize on new skills leading them in

Michael Mithoefer, M.D., is a psychiatrist practicing in Charleston, SC, where he divides his time between clinical research and outpatient clinical practice specializing in treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with an emphasis on experiential methods of psychotherapy. He is a Grof-certified Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator and is trained in EMDR and Internal Family Systems Therapy. He and his wife, Annie Mithoefer, recently completed a MAPS-sponsored Phase II clinical trial testing MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. A paper about their study was published in July 2010 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. They are currently conducting a second trial with veterans who have PTSD resulting from service in the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as psychotherapy training programs for MAPS researchers. Dr. Mithoefer is the medical monitor for MAPS-sponsored clinical trials in Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and Colorado. Before going into psychiatry in 1995 he practiced emergency medicine for ten years, serv

Dr. Rigamer is the Medical Director for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans. He is responsible for increasing access to quality health care for vulnerable populations. He is a practicing psychiatrist in the Daughters of Charity community health centers where he leads an initiative to integrate primary care and behavioral health. He directed Louisiana Spirit and other disaster relief programs for victims of Hurricane Katrina. In 2007 he opened the first Program for All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) in New Orleans. He was named a 2008 Healthcare Hero by New Orleans City Business magazine. Prior to joining Catholic Charities, Dr. Rigamer served the U.S. Department of State as Medical Director advising the Secretary of State on international health issues and the health needs of Foreign Service diplomats and their families. He served in U.S. Embassy posts in Europe, the former Soviet Union, and South Asia. Dr. Rigamer has held positions with Kaiser Permanente HMO and Ochsner Clinic and was a Pea

Dr. Joshua Smyth is a Professor of Biobehavioral Health and of Medicine at Penn State and Hershey Medical Center. He also serves as Associate Director of Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) and as the Academic Director of the Dynamic Real-time Ecological Ambulatory Methodologies [DREAM] Initiative within the Survey Research Center at Penn State. He is a researcher, teacher, writer and mentor.Most broadly, Dr. Smyth’s research reflects the application of the biopsychosocial model to meaningful health-related processes, contexts, and outcomes. Three more narrowly defined areas – and the integration between them – comprise the bulk of his research program:1. What are the effects of experiencing stress or trauma on psychological and physical well-being and how can such effects be observed?2. Can stress, affect, and health be assessed in a manner that permits the understanding of biopsychosocial processes in real time and in context?3. Can psychological interventions improve health and well-being

Cynthia Sue Larson, MBA, DD, "The Quantum Optimist," is the best-selling author of Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity, who is endorsed by Dr. Larry Dossey, Fred Alan Wolf, and Stanley Krippner. Cynthia is an intuitive life coach who helps people find love, meaning and prosperity by visualizing and accessing new worlds of possibility. She has a degree in physics from UC Berkeley, an MBA degree, a Doctor of Divinity, and a black belt in Kuk Sool Won. Cynthia hosts "Living the Quantum Dream" on the DreamVisions7 radio network, and has been featured in numerous shows including the History Channel, Coast to Coast AM, and BBC. Cynthia Sue Larson's newest book, "Quantum Jumps," describes the science of instantaneous transformation emerging from the convergence of recent research findings in Physics, Biology, and Psychology. Cynthia reminds us to ask in every situation, "How good can it get?"

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