S4E76 | Jon Uhler LPC - Moving Forward in Therapy When Things Start to Shut Down on the Inside

I’m honored to have back on - our feature presenter for our Tuesday Night weekly podcast event: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider, Licensed Professional Counselor, Founder of Survivor Support, Podcast host of own podcast and channel @JonKUhlerLPC and @UnMaskingTheTransMovement on YouTube, father of 3, husband to his high school sweetheart, survivor advocate, professional knapsack remover, whistleblower, and someone I’m grateful to have on the battlefield with us: Jon Uhler.

In case you are new here or missed Jon’s briefing on his background on the first episode we did together, here is a short recap of Jon’s many accolades and credentials: Jon’s work began over 30 years ago and his education includes attending Epic Bible College, Biola University, Talbot School of Theology, and California State University and Fullerton. He’s worked in both clinical and administrative capacities, outpatient and hospital settings, intensive day treatment settings, residential treatment programs, and in secure (locked) facilities - including over 11 years on Psychology Staff within the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections where he’s logged more clinical contact hours within Solitary Confinement than any Psych Staff in the entire US. Prior to his work with incarcerated men, he spent years working with sexual abuse Survivors, and treating Severely Emotionally Disturbed adolescents in group homes and within the largest intensive psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility for troubled youth west of the MIssissippi.

When Jon is not providing professional therapy or podcasting, he serves in an advocacy role, toward helping increase safety for vulnerable women and minors, who are being placed in harm's way by those pushing dangerous ideologies, public policies, and legislation.

Jon has been doing an ongoing series with us describing two parts to the whole of the child abuse equation. On one hand, he has decades of experience working with the most deviant of all criminals in solitary confinement and on the other hand, he has been working for decades therapeutically with the most wounded of victims and survivors of abuse. Our series has bounced around from understanding a survivor’s systems and parts all the way to getting inside the head of violent and sexual predators and perpetraitors and understanding the psychology of psychopathy as well as of trauma-informed therapy. These episodes have been paramount to many of you listening who are trying - as adults - to heal from and unpack what happened to you as a child and Jon’s research and experience does not disappoint with giving us a greater understanding into the unfathomable parts of abuse and abusers. Today Jon is going to bringing us back to the systems and parts chart that gives us a visual representation into the internal world of DID survivors as well as answering some of your questions. Jon covers a lot in each episode for us and I ask that you all put whatever your doing away and give him your full attention and put on your thinking cap as we continue down the rabbit hole that Jon has graciously and heroically volunteered to lead us down!

Before I finish introducing today’s guest - I wanted to give a couple reminders and updates: If you’d like to be on the podcast as a guest or share any information privately with me, please email me at imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com. You can also use this email if you’d like to be a part of my new book series featuring written survivor testimonies. You can find the video with all the details on how to submit YOUR testimony on any of my podcast channels. And lastly - I’d love your support on Substack where I’m taking up investigative journalism as an outlet for me personally to share about my podcast, guests, and advocacy work and you can Subscribe to me there at www.emmakatherine.substack.com. All my links are in the show notes and I’d love your support across all platforms! Thank you all for caring so deeply about survivors and for helping to make this the safest space on the internet for survivor disclosures!

CONNECT WITH JON:
YouTube: @JonKUhlerLPC & @UnMaskingTheTransMovement
Websites:
https://www.survivorsupport.net/
https://unmaskingthetransmovement.com/
https://www.churchprotect.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/uhler_jon

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