FLAME with Brad Hook
The Sensible Psychologist: How to Achieve Psychological Flexibility and Happiness
Two decades of private practice earned Dr Carrie Johansson her nickname: the Sensible Psychologist. Her speciality is evidence-based help without the jargon — anxiety, trauma and the skill of psychological flexibility.
Carrie's Denver practice has taught her which tools survive contact with real lives: practical anxiety management, trauma treatment that doesn't re-traumatise, and above all psychological flexibility — the capacity to hold difficult thoughts and feelings while still moving toward what matters.
We cover the sensible versions of the big ideas: what actually reduces anxiety (versus what feels productive), how teams perform better when psychology is handled plainly, and why 'ease and joy' are legitimate clinical goals. Short, warm and immediately usable.
In this episode
- Psychological flexibility — the master skill
- Anxiety management that actually works
- Trauma care that doesn't re-traumatise
- Plain-language psychology for teams
- Ease and joy as legitimate goals
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