S4E79 | Jon Uhler LPC - Understanding the Stages and Process of Therapy for Survivors

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 and Church Protect, 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.

Last week, Jon continued our deep dive journey into the systems and parts chart where we dove into the next layers of programming within a survivor’s system and the related parts to that layer using Jon’s experience working with DID survivors as well as the IFS model Jon refers to often in our show, and today we are going to be continuing our journey into ‘what to expect in therapy and with your therapist’ if you are a survivor. Jon’s work is groundbreaking as he is able to educate us on both ends of the abuse spectrum with both his decades of working with survivors in a therapeutic setting as well as his work in solitary confinement working with some of the world’s most dangerous predators and sexual deviants. Both ends of the spectrum truly make Jon an authority in his field and in this community and I couldn’t be more grateful and honored to get to share his decades of research with all of you. I encourage you all to go back and listen to our entire series if you haven’t been following along as there are so many amazing episodes that cover a variety of topics including triggers, what to expect from your therapist, systems and parts, the psychology of psychopathy, journaling, removing shame and guilt, and so much more. Jon is a wealth of knowledge and as usual, we’ll be covering a lot in today’s episode so grab a pen and paper as we dive deeper into another amazing episode led by a true leader and hero in our community!

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

CONNECT WITH THE IMAGINATION:
EMAIL: imagineabetterworld2020@gmail.com
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Website: https://standbysurvivors.com/