Posts in psychology
Keely Kolmes, PsyD - Psychology of the Internet & Social Media

Dr. Keely Kolmes is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience providing psychotherapy. They are also the founder of Bay Area Open Minds and consult nationally and internationally on digital ethics and technology issues for clinicians.

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Elizabeth Frates, MD - Recipe for a Healthy Mind

Dr. Frates is the Founder of Wellness Synergy, an award-winning professor at Harvard Medical School, and co-author of Life After Stroke. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and then Stanford Medical School. We discuss the importance of nutrition, exercise and sleep for achieving a healthy mind and body.

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Laura Kauffman, PhD - Teenage Brains & Parenting in the Digital Age

Dr. Kauffman is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford. She specializes in working with kids, teens and parents. We talk about the challenges of raising children in the digital age and the effects of technology on a developing brain.

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Jayne Gackenbach, PhD - Virtual Realities & the Mind

Dr. Gackenbach is a dream researcher whose focus is lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness. She holds a Ph.D in Experimental Psychology and her most recent research focuses on video game players and the development of consciousness. In this episode of the FitMind Podcast we discuss virtual worlds, like video games, dreams and VR, and the different effects they have on the mind.

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Dennis Simsek (a.k.a., The Anxiety Guy) - Removing Limiting Beliefs

Dennis Simsek, better known as The Anxiety Guy, is a former pro tennis player and passionate CBT practitioner with the #1 health podcast. In this episode, we discuss a wide variety of topics, including meditation, anxiety, affirmations, ideologies (and the importance of questioning them), and how to remove limiting beliefs.

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Brian Luke Seaward, PhD - Managing Stress in the Digital Age

Dr. Brian Luke Seaward is an expert in stress management, lecturing all over the world on TEDx, PBS and the White House. He's coached several Olympic athletes, various heads of state, Broadway actors, media personalities and CEOs.

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Stan Beecham, PhD - Elite Mental Performance

Dr. Stan Beecham is a world-renowned performance psychologist working with business leaders and Olympic athletes to help them optimize their minds. He wrote Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success.

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William von Hippel, PhD - Evolution of the Human Brain

William von Hippel, Ph.D., is an expert in evolutionary psychology and author of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy.

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