Introducing The Therapy Guy, a fantastic podcast all about everything mental health related. If you have any questions or want and information about different types of therapy or what to expect in a counselling session.
Each episode will include tips, information and advice to help you improve your mental health and wellbeing.
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Hi and welcome.
My name is Alan and I'm gonna refer
to and known as the Therapy Joy.
So welcome to this brand new podcast.
This is our first podcast in a host series of
different ones that we're going to be talking about.
And this is just an introduction to myself, to what we're
going to be talking about and to get some of your
feedback on what it is you'd like to hear us talking
about and obviously me, myself and everything therapy wise.
So what are we going to be
talking about over the comings episodes?
Well, everything therapy, hopefully it's going to make it
fun and interactive for you guys to listen to.
Also, we're going to be covering areas like different
types of therapy, why you should go into that,
why you should try those, therapies the benefits, as
well as the pitfalls for yourself.
We'll also be discussing with you things like
how you can relax, maybe use mindfulness, what
helps some people and what doesn't help others,
and the reasons behind that.
We want to make it as interactive and it's fun for
you to listen to as well as us for doing it.
We intend to bring in some co hosts, some people
that are experts in their field or have experience, and
even some clients that can actually relate and tell their
personal experiences around how therapy helped them, what they found
difficult, and hopefully encourage people to get the right things
to help them in their lives.
We really hope that you find it interesting.
It's one of the biggest things that I really want
to do, is make it fun and engaging and something
that you want to listen to with each week and
each episode that we do, in each episode, we'll be
covering a different area and we'll be spending a bit
longer than we're doing today to actually get to the
nitty gritty of everything that you're going to hear.
So I'm going to tell you a bit about myself.
My name is Alan.
I'm a company director of two mental health
companies based in Plymouth in the UK.
And for the people that know they can hear the Devonshire
accent or the janner in me, that's what it's called.
So I'm quite proud of my accent.
I know some people love it.
It's one of those things like marmite.
You love it or hate it, but I suppose I'm
stuck with it now, unless I want to take some
speech lessons, which I have no intention of doing.
Hopefully you'll love it too and it will grow on you.
While these episodes carry on, I'm going to be
telling you a little bit about myself now.
I started work in construction and I was
in the construction industry for many years before
I retrained, because as I was getting older,
I don't want to be outside so much.
It gets a bit cold when you get older.
And I decided to retrain as a therapist after
taking some courses and really finding it engaging and
really liking the neural science and finding the brain.
The brain really fascinates me.
I love all those science geeky
facts that we sometimes get.
But it's also really interesting because
it's the thing that powers us.
It's the thing that drives us, really.
Hopefully it will help engage you listening to this sort
of podcast and you'll learn some new things and you'll
be able to find out different things about areas that
can help maybe yourself, people in your life, your company,
business, whatever it is that's right for you.
Please get in touch.
Gave me some feedback on what you've heard so
far and hopefully you'll listen to the second podcast
that we've got coming out and we'll have a
few episodes that follow from that and I look
forward to interacting with you.
Take care for now.
See you later. The Therapy Guy.