About your host
Chris McDonald
Welcome to “Yoga in the Therapy Room: The Nontraditional Therapist’s Guide to Integrating Yoga into Your Therapy Practice.” This podcast is designed to empower mental health therapists with the knowledge and confidence to integrate yoga into their sessions safely and ethically. Whether you’re new to yoga or looking to enhance your therapeutic toolkit, our trauma-informed approach ensures that you can incorporate simple, easy-to-use yoga practices tailored to your clients’ needs.
Chris McDonald is a Licensed Holistic Therapist with a group virtual practice, “Path to Hope Counseling” in North Carolina. She is a 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher and offers gentle yoga to clients in session, workshops and private yoga sessions.
She specializes in treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma and grief in young adults in transition. She teaches clients trauma informed yoga, meditation and Brainspotting. Chris also offers Therapy for Therapists and wrote the book “Self-Care for the Counselor” and the Companion Workbook.
She is passionate about helping other Mental Health Therapists and created “The Holistic Counseling Podcast” in April 2021. She loves teaching other Therapists how to integrate yoga into clinical sessions ethically and safely. Her favorite holistic daily routines include yoga and meditation.
Answering the call to build your holistic practice
The Nontraditional Therapists Guide to Integrating Yoga into your Therapy Practice hosted by Chris McDonald, a Licensed Therapist, and is for Therapists who want to deepen their knowledge of holistic modalities and build their practice with confidence. She challenges Therapists to take the journey within to discover what holistic strategies they connect with and begin integrating into their practice.
Join us as we explore practical techniques, discuss the latest research, yoga philosophies, and share expert insights to help you seamlessly blend yoga with traditional therapy methods. Discover how yoga can support trauma recovery, reduce anxiety and depression, and foster a deeper connection with your clients enhancing therapeutic rapport.. Additionally, learn how these practices can serve as a powerful form of self-care for therapists, enhancing your own well-being and resilience. Deepen your knowledge of different yoga traditions and practices, and learn how to keep these practices accessible for all clients, regardless of their physical abilities, diverse background or experience with yoga. Experience the added benefit of personal and professional transformation, enriching both your therapy practice and your own life.
If you’re a Mental Health Therapist looking for the most up-to-date holistic treatments and wanting to learn the best practices for using them in treatment, The Holistic Counseling Podcast is for you! Chris helps you take your practice to the next level with a thriving holistic counseling practice that you can offer with confidence.
Tune in to “Yoga in the Therapy Room” and start your journey towards a more holistic and effective therapy practice today.
Podcast Reviews From Listeners Like You
The podcast is like the spiritual love child of my favorite podcasts the Practice of the Practice and Super Soul Sunday. Thank you so much. Only discovered it recently and have already felt so supported.
Excited to learn what a robust embrace of holistic mental health there is lately. I especially loved episode 40 How Thoughts Become Reality with Cassidy Rey and continue to be inspired by her on IG. Joanna Sapir’s episode on marketing a holistic practice literally helped inform an intake that day, which resulted in welcoming my ideal client to my practice.
I’ve been a Reiki Master since 2000 and started reading Tarot in 1999, but there was such little understanding and awareness. I only “came out’ with these alternative offerings for my otherwise classical psychotherapy practice a few years ago.
It’s really nice to feel like I’m not alone in encouraging my clients deepen their spiritual connectivity while also offering traditional mental health guidance.
Love this podcast!! As a group practice owner, I am always grateful to have a podcast to point my clinicians to in order to learn about integrating holistic modalities. Chris does such a great job at breaking it down and giving practical ideas on how to not only integrate these practices into your practice, but also into your own life. She is enjoyable to listen too and has a friendly, welcoming energy.
As a Retired Holistic Psychotherapist myself, I’m always thrilled to see the conversation of holistic therapies being made available far and wide. I’m honored and grateful to be invited as a guest on Chris’ podcast and for her willingness to focus on holistic modalities and have the voices of many guests who can validate perspectives beyond the mainstream. This is necessary and helpful for us as clinicians and also the healing of our clients.