Summary: Shara is a licensed psychotherapist that provides therapeutic support to enhance the lives of others with specializations in grief and loss, veteran behavioral health, mindfulness, and trauma counseling. As a Navy brat and a former military spouse, she understands the issues that arise from deployments and family separation. In This Particular Episode You Will Learn: Shara's background and experience Being the child of a military service member Abandonment and detachment as a military child Transition out of the military through the eyes of a child Experience as a military spouse Cultural Competence in mental health counseling Military spouse clinicians supporting military spouses Military service compounding challenges in the family Posttraumatic Growth Links Mentioned in This Episode: Shara's Counseling Story HST035 Family Systems with Joshua Kreimeyer Shara's Social media: LinkedIn Twitter You can be sure to find future episodes of Head Space and Timing, and all of the CYPOV Podcast Network Shows, by subscribing through your Podcast player of choice, like iTunes. Using an app makes subscribing and listening to podcasts (both ours and others) so much simpler. Just subscribe to Change Your POV Podcast within your app and it will automatically update every time a new episode is released. Do you want to check out Duane's latest book, Combat Vet Don't Mean Crazy? Check it out by finding it on Amazon
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