A plainspoken look at first responder addiction, stigma, and the cost of silence.
Mind On Mental Health keeps its focus on addiction, recovery, and the mental health strain first responders carry into work and home. Andy Dean and Dr.

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The Mind on Mental Health Podcast explores a variety of mental health and substance use related topics in under thirty minutes per episode. Topics such as how to utilize positive coping skills, manage triggers and how to change your thought process are discussed. Each podcast features interviews with therapists and psychiatrists from Penn Medicine - Princeton House Behavioral Health in Central New Jersey.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Andy Dean makes clinical distinctions clear while preserving the emotional complexity that brings people to therapy.
Andy Dean turns clinical mental-health questions into direct, approachable conversations with working therapists and psychologists. He asks what complicated grief permits, why avoiding fear can reinforce anxiety, and how cancer or new parenthood can alter a person's emotional…
Grieving someone who hurt you gets room here, without a demand that you make it neat.
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A plainspoken look at first responder addiction, stigma, and the cost of silence.
Mind On Mental Health keeps its focus on addiction, recovery, and the mental health strain first responders carry into work and home. Andy Dean and Dr.
A plainspoken case for exposure therapy that favors careful pacing over avoidance.
The episode treats exposure therapy as a practical clinical tool, not a slogan. Andy Dean and Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karen keep the patient and therapist on the same side, and they do not start with the hardest step. They start with something the patient can actually do.
Practical guidance for culturally aware mental health care with Hispanic families.
Andy Dean and Yulitza Avalar keep the focus on practical support for Hispanic clients without turning care into a checklist. The most useful guidance is plain but steady: learn a client’s cultural background, pay attention to family dynamics, and stay aware of the values that…
A clear, plainspoken look at when fear fits and when anxiety starts to take over.
Andy Dean and Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karin draw a clear line between ordinary anxiety and an anxiety disorder by looking at context, intensity, and whether the fear actually fits the situation.
A grounded, humane look at harm reduction in addiction care.
This episode keeps its focus on harm reduction in substance use treatment, with Andy Dean interviewing Ken Pecoraro of CPC Behavioral Health in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
A plainspoken guide to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, with a clear look at the pressures around them.
This episode covers perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and the way social media can shape parents' mental health. Lisa Tremaine and Andy Dean also talk through depression, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and psychosis in plain language that families can use.
Direct, practical talk on perinatal mental health and the support new parents actually need.
This episode looks at perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in a plain, direct way, and that helps. It covers therapy options and the risk factors pregnant moms should keep in mind without turning clinical material into a lecture.
A grounded look at art therapy as process, context, and group work.
Art therapy sits at the center of this episode, and the conversation stays with what the process can reveal rather than treating the finished piece as the point.

Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.

Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.

Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.

Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.


Host Andy Dean interviews therapist Diane Wiltshire about the complex role of guilt in the grieving process.
Andy Dean interviews Dr.
Andy Dean and Dr.
Mind On Mental Health host Andy Dean, a licensed clinical social worker, interviews Lisa Tremaine, founder and director of the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Eatontown, New Jersey, about PMAD treatments and pregnancy risk factors.
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Host Andy Dean interviews Dr.
Andy Dean interviews Ken Pecoraro on the shift from abstinence-only to harm reduction in addiction treatment, discussing the impact of the opioid epidemic and debating the disease model's role in personal responsibility.
Host Andy Dean interviews Dr.
Licensed clinical social worker Andy Dean interviews therapist Diane Wiltshire about the complex relationship between grief and trauma.
Andy Dean, a licensed clinical social worker, speaks with Diane Wiltshire, a licensed social worker and primary therapist in Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health's women's IOP in Princeton, New Jersey.
Host Andy Dean interviews Jenna Patterson, an art therapist, about who benefits most from art therapy, including people with PTSD, psychosis, or grief who struggle to verbalize emotions.
Andy Dean, a licensed clinical social worker, talks with Siani Young and Rachel DeGrow, both therapists at Penn Medicine Princeton House Behavioral Health in North Brunswick, New Jersey, about what new clinicians actually face.
Andy Dean interviews Lisa Tremaine.
Andy Dean welcomes Yulitza Avalar back for a conversation about how providers can better support the Hispanic population.
Andy Dean talks with Lisa Tremaine, the director and founder of the Center for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Eatontown, New Jersey, about the barriers that can keep a mom from reaching out for help when mental health issues start to surface and about the signs that it may be time to get professional support.
Andy Dean brings on Jenna Patterson to talk about art therapy.
Andy Dean and Ken Pecoraro are back for the second episode in a three-part series on the role families play in addiction treatment.
Andy Dean interviews Jenna Patterson, an art therapist, to explore how art therapy differs from other forms of therapy, focusing on credentials, the therapeutic process, and the importance of trained interpretation.
Andy Dean interviews Dr.
In the third and final part of a three-part interview series, host Andy Dean (LCSW) discusses evidence-based therapy modalities for substance use treatment with Ken Pecoraro (LCSW, LCADC), who brings 30 years of specialization in addiction treatment.
Andy Dean is interviewed by Ken Pecoraro and spends the conversation on how anxiety gets treated.
Andy Dean, a licensed clinical social worker specializing in anxiety disorders, is interviewed by Pete McCleary about mistakes he made in his own anxiety disorder recovery, based on his psychoeducational work for a new treatment track.
This episode explores how daily trauma and stress impact the mental health and addiction issues of first responders, featuring insights from a clinical director on hidden factors like family history.
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In this episode, host Andy Dean is interviewed by Pete McCleary about a new psychoeducational curriculum for anxiety disorders, focusing on the importance of understanding anxiety rather than just feeling it.
Andy Dean, a licensed clinical social worker, is interviewed by Pete McCleary about his new psychoeducational curriculum for anxiety and mood disorders at Princeton House Behavioral Health.