The CA Podcast
The Constructed Awareness® Podcast invites listeners to explore the principles of CA and their applications in therapy, personal growth, and everyday life.
Hosted by CA founder and developer Tyler Orr, PhD, the podcast features thoughtful conversations with clinicians and other guests about awareness, therapeutic relationships, trauma-informed care, and the many ways our experiences are shaped by thoughts, bodily sensations, and the world around us.
Whether you're newly discovering Constructed Awareness® or have been integrating the model into your work, each episode offers opportunities for reflection, curiosity, and continued learning.
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Episode 7: Integrating CA & Expressive Arts Therapy
Tyler Orr welcomes counselor Lei Rhyne, LPC, to explore the integration of Constructed Awareness® and Expressive Arts Therapy. Together, they discuss how creativity and personal expression can support deeper awareness and open new possibilities within the therapeutic process.
Episode 6: CA and Nonviolence
Tyler Orr welcomes psychotherapist Jandira Zaki to explore the principle of nonviolence within Constructed Awareness®. Together, they reflect on how shifting from trying to change a client's experience toward holding space for awareness can influence therapeutic relationships and everyday interactions.
Episode 5: Constructing Emotions
Tyler Orr and Phil Stillman, LCSW, PhD, explore the theory of constructed emotion and how language, culture, and lived experience shape our emotional worlds. Their conversation considers how CA's three building blocks of experience can deepen awareness and understanding within the therapeutic process.
Episode 4: The CA Orientations
Tyler Orr welcomes clinicians Jamie Morehart and Christina Kantzavelos to explore CA's three orientation styles: mental, sensation, and external. Through personal reflections and clinical experiences, they discuss how our patterns of awareness influence relationships, self-regulation, and the ways we engage with the world.
Episode 3: CA and EMDR
Tyler Orr and Ann Simmons explore how Constructed Awareness® can be integrated with EMDR therapy. Drawing from their clinical experiences, they discuss how CA's awareness-based approach can complement EMDR and offer additional possibilities for traumatic memory processing.
Episode 2: CA and Chronic Pain
Tyler Orr and integrative psychotherapist Christina Kantzavelos explore chronic pain through the lens of Constructed Awareness®. They discuss how the brain, body, and personal experience interact in the perception of pain, and how greater awareness may support therapeutic exploration and pain management.
Episode 1: The Origin Story of CA
Tyler Orr welcomes Stephanie Levin, LCMHC, to explore the origins and development of Constructed Awareness®. Tyler shares how his experiences as an EMDR therapist and his personal and professional journey contributed to the creation of CA and its mindfulness-based, nonviolent approach to trauma therapy.