Finding Your Way Through Therapy
Join Steve Bisson, LMHC as he unravels the complexities of therapy and counseling. Engage in straightforward dialogues, enriched with insights from special guests sharing a like-minded perspective. Each episode presents valuable, easy-to-digest information designed to help you perceive therapy, and those who partake in it, in a grounding, relatable manner.
Finding Your Way Through Therapy
E.185 Finding Your Way: Embracing Change and Supporting First Responders
The episode unveils an exciting rebranding journey for the podcast, focusing on trauma, grief, and first responder experiences. The host seeks audience feedback and emphasizes enhanced engagement and targeted content in future episodes.
• Announcement of the podcast rebranding
• Reasons for focusing on trauma and grief
• Importance of audience engagement and feedback
• Introduction of bonus episodes and new formats
• Collaboration with organizations for community support
• Goals for the podcast’s renewed mission and vision
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Hi and welcome to Finding your Way Through Therapy. A proud member of the PsychCraft Network, the goal of this podcast is to demystify therapy, what can happen in therapy and the wide array of conversations you can have in and about therapy Through personal experiences. Guests will talk about therapy, their experiences with it and how psychology and therapy are present in many places in their lives, with lots of authenticity and a touch of humor. Here is your host, steve Bisson.
Speaker 2:Alors, bienvenue à l'année 2025 et la saison numéro 12. Welcome to the year 2025 and season 12 of Finding your Way. Yes, I'm already kind of telling you what I'm going to talk about today, which is a rebranding, so I know you can see it. If you're on YouTube, you see I'm fading out the name, but it will now become Finding your Way. How long? Not so long, actually, because I'm actually working on rebranding my whole podcast. There's a few reasons for that, and I want to make sure I share them with you because I don't want you to think well, he's doing this just to X, y, z reasons. No, I'm doing it for specific reasons. So the first thing I want to say is this I've been thinking about a rebranding for about three to six months now. Why do I want to rebrand? Part of it is because I want to get back to what I actually wanted to do. So I wanted people to know about how to find their way through therapy, and I thought I did that really well. For what? 185 episodes give or take. Now we're going into season 12. And one of the things I've been thinking about is finding ways to make my work a little more concrete. And then what I mean by that is this while I do like a lot of the subjects we talked about, really, I think you figured out so far as my audience that I like first responder stuff. I really like talking about that. I like to talk about trauma and I do like about talking about grief. I also like to talk about how to coach people and particularly people who are, you know, looking, you know, more executive positions. So these are all the things that I've been very excited about.
Speaker 2:When I think about all the podcasts that I've done, so, instead of me trying to always keep it as general as I can which probably is going to be, you know, always going to be tough for me to get a audience when you keep it so general what I'm going to do is I'm going to start making it a little more specific, and so I talked about the subjects that I want to talk about. I'm not a hundred percent sure I'm going to do that, but I might go in order, and sometimes I'll repeat a couple of times, and they're not all going to be interviews. Why? Because I think that I need to talk more about what I do in regards to these things, because there's a lot of that missing from the podcast. So am I criticizing myself? I guess I am, but I'm also wanting my audience to kind of figure out where I'm coming from and what I enjoy. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to throw you to a commercial. I'm going to come back on the other side. So please listen to this very important message from freeai GetFreeai. Yes, you've heard me talk about it previously in other episodes, but I'm going to talk about it again because GetFreeai is just a great service.
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Speaker 2:And, yes, we're going to be calling it Finding your Way for a short while. We're going to change to another name. I have a great name in mind. I'm not sharing it right away because there's going to be some kinks to work out, but ultimately I'm going to be changing the name to something else which will reflect a little more about what I want to talk about and also, kind of like, hopefully get people to look at what I do in a different way. Why do I also want to do this is because I really think that the highest you know we talked about in the last season.
Speaker 2:You know I've had a few good hits on different things that may not be related to those subjects, but when I do those episodes that I enjoy, I feel I get more referrals. So that's interesting, right, so I get more downloads on certain things, but I get more referrals by talking about stuff that you know I really work on trauma, grief, first responder stuff and even the coaching part. So that's part of what I want to do and I want to really make my brand, straight to the point therapy, my therapy on brand with the podcast um, also linked to Gambit counseling, which is my joint venture with my business partner, bill Dwannells. So I'm just trying to make everything like in order. So you know, I want to make sure that everyone enjoys it, but I also want to make sure that I enjoy it, because sometimes, you know, while there's a lot of great guests I've had, I was just doing it just to do it, and if I don't have anyone, I'm just going to chit chat. I'm going to be doing my own stuff. You know, one of the other ideas that I have is I really want you listeners to come back. So, you know, if you're on YouTube, you know like this channel and even like this video and subscribe, as well as anyone who's on any of the other major podcast platforms.
Speaker 2:But what I'd like to do is release bonus episodes. Sometimes I go along with some of the guests, and it's not that I don't want to go long still, but I want to make it a little more concise so people can really enjoy it. Again, looking at how things go, people like shorter podcasts. I'm going to go with that. Do they like short? Short? Are they like 30 to 45 minute range? Yeah, roughly, and if I have more things to talk about, we're going to create bonus episodes.
Speaker 2:Where those bonus episodes are going to go, I don't know yet, but I will encourage you to keep on listening, because this is a progress. One of the things I can tell you for sure is by the 200 episode, which will probably be recorded for April, I will have the full rebrand done. The other part that is probably boring to you. So you see this background pretty much the same for the last three and a half years. I'm going to be changing. I, I have a space I I have now rented. I'm really thinking about doing everything from there. I just have to work out a few gigs, so you may see some interviews from there and some interviews from here right now, but eventually it's just going to be coming from that new studio that I'm currently working on and I will keep some of my regulars right.
Speaker 2:So what I mean by that is this will the mental men go away? Well, no, because they're the mental men, One of them being my mentor and other people that I truly respect and really have talked to for a long time in my career. I want them to come back, talk about stuff. Are we going to talk about trauma, grief? Are we going to talk about mentorship? Are we going to talk about coaching? I don't know yet. We'll figure it out, but that's how that group goes. We sometimes look at what's going on in the world right now when we talk about that, but we also talk about our experiences. So that won't change. Would I love to have someone like Stephanie Simpson back.
Speaker 2:Of course, if you listen to that episode, we were talking about going for meeting in New York and doing something there, and this is not out of the realm of possibility. We're still working on it. So, and that's the stuff that I'd like to do. I also invite you to listeners to tell me what you want to hear. So one of the things that I don't, you know, sometimes, again, I tell you I get feedback, but I'm really talking to like, if you saw right here, it's going to be the same in my new studio, looking at a screen with a camera on top, there's no one giving me feedback, and when I get the feedbacks, you know it's usually positive, but the most positive feedback have been about the first responder meetings Not meetings, but the first responder podcasts. There's been also great feedback on the trauma and the grief when we talked about coaching.
Speaker 2:I know Stephanie Simpson's episodes really just stay on top most of it. So I really want to do that. I also want to do it for me, obviously, because it's my podcast. I do whatever I want. But again, listeners, give me your feedback, tell me what you think. I have a couple of names in mind. It will represent a little bit more of what I do and hopefully that will bring people in. And that's the stuff that I'm hoping to do.
Speaker 2:You know, as I get involved with the Mindful Guardians, which has been something that is near and dear to my heart, I'm working with a bunch of therapists in Massachusetts and we're trying to create a nice kind of like networking for all therapists who work with first responders. I have a few friends. We talk about grief and trauma regularly and I get a lot of referrals for that. So really want to keep everything in line with everything I do. And, yeah, humor is going to be still part of it. Although I'm kind of not funny tonight, listen to this some other time maybe you'll find it funny, who knows? But ultimately that's the goal right now and I wanted to share it with you.
Speaker 2:Resilience is key and I want to see it in action and, you know, I want people to be able to talk about all those things and being able to move forward in their lives with you know. You know, whether it's first responders, whether it's supporting other people who are having trauma or issues with grief. So, anyway, if you are smart enough, I'm dropping a few hints of possible names for the future, for the podcast, when we relaunch in April 2025. It's very exciting to me consulting with a bunch of people. I want to consult you, my audience please write back. And, speaking of which you know, for episode 186, this was actually something I wanted to release in December and I'm like, eh no, this is a lot more important to start thinking about the rebranding. So, on Finding your Way, we're going to have Dave Roberts, who you know talks about grief and trauma, and I'm looking forward to having that conversation with him.
Speaker 1:And I hope you join me then abuse issue. Please reach out to a professional counselor for consultation. If you are in a mental health crisis, call 988 for assistance. This number is available in the United States and Canada.
