Doug Silberstein Interview: Your mental health and COVID-19

Jim Kerns of Raw Idea podcast interviews marriage and family therapist Doug Silberstein.

These are daunting times on many levels. Incessant concerns about health, family, and the economy cause a myriad of mental health challenges that defy simple solutions. 

Doug discusses coping techniques, highlighting the social and emotional demands impacting family dynamics during these trying times.

The Raw Idea Podcast · Your mental health and COVID-19

Doug Silberstein is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice with locations in San Rafael and Santa Rosa, focusing on working with couples, parents, individuals struggling with depression and anxiety, teen boys, and individuals and families dealing with divorce. 

Doug Silberstein is also an EHI Board Member, serving as Treasurer while also an instructor-in-training for the experiential training program and manages the EHI workshop program.

Recommended Online Webinar w/ Bob Edelstein of EHNW

EHNW is hosting a free webinar: An Existential Crisis: Hope and Fear in Uncertain Times

Saturday, April 25, 2020 11 AM – 1 PM  

Please note: Due to confidentiality of participants responses this webinar will not be recorded for later viewing.

We are all in uncharted territory as we face the pandemic and its consequences. None of us have ever confronted anything like this before. 

Many of our existential themes are moving to the forefront such as: 

• We are all inter-connected and we are all alone
• We are facing our mortality and that can help us choose the life we want to live
• We search for answers within the reality that there is always uncertainty
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This salon is open to anyone who wants to discuss their hopes and fears as we respond to the pandemic. 

Everyone is welcome to share or just listen. 

Bob Edelstein, LMFT, will be the facilitator.  Kirk Schneider will also join for part of the webinar to share his thoughts and feelings about CoVID-19 in relationship to the EH perspective. 

We invite you to join us in this conversation. 

This webinar is free. To participate and get the webinar log-in info, you need to register for the salon at https://ehnwpdx.org/ehnw-salons/

Recommended Video: Existentialism at a time of COVID-19

This is a grim time--and certainly an existentially challenging time. It is also a time when we rightly turn to our medical caregivers for life-changing interventions and support. We look to our political leaders, at least the ones we can trust, to turn the gears of government in a healing direction. But far too often we forget to turn to artistic and philosophical sources that provide existential sustenance at a time when psychospiritual "remedies" are spare and the sense of helplessness abounds. I'm speaking of "specialists" in the art of "response-ability" in the face of grave perils, such as Viktor Frankl in "Man's Search for Meaning," Albert Camus in "The Plague," and Rollo May in "Freedom and Destiny." In this interview with Broadcast Journalist Isabella Clarke, we have an intimate discussion about the latter purviews as well as the role of existential-humanistic and existential-integrative approaches to our trying times." ~ Dr. Kirk Schneider

#688 Video: Existential-Humanistic Psychologist Dr. Kirk Schneider reflects on the pandemic

This interview was conducted by U.K. Broadcast journalist and Shrink Rap Radio blogger, Isabella Clarke on March 29, 2020.