À PROPOS DE CE PODCAST 🔗
Extending Branches is a mental health podcast inspiring hope, healing, and growth for people who know life is more complex than quick answers. Hosted by Dr. Mike Courtney, the show explores anxiety, depression, burnout, boundaries, relationships, grief, trauma, self-care, and the connection between faith and emotional health. Through honest conversation and lived experience, each episode offers practical wisdom and faith-informed insight that respects professional mental health care. If you are struggling, searching, or supporting someone you love, Extending Branches reminds you that healing begins with honesty and showing up.
Animateurs :
Fréquence de mise à jour:
every 17 days
Durée audio moyenne:
30 minutes
Entretiens avec des invités
Anglais
États-Unis
14 épisodes
depuis 2 mars 2026
episodic
DERNIER ÉPISODE 🔗
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with Kevin O’Dea, lead pastor of Lancaster Christian Academy, a K-12 private Christian school in Smyrna, Tennessee. Kevin shares how a short-term job became a 25-year calling, why he leads as a pastor first, and why LCA took a step …
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ÉPISODES PRÉCÉDENTS 🔗
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with his wife, Doris Courtney, for the conversation he has been building toward for 20 years. After a series of affairs cost them their marriage, their finances, and their place in ministry, Doris was left living with her sister wit…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with Tracey Robison, clinical director at Branches and his friend of more than 20 years, to trace the small decisions that shaped both of their lives. Tracey tells how a ninth-grade home economics assignment pointed her toward couns…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with Brad White, men's minister and associate pastor at New Vision Baptist Church, for a conversation that starts as a reunion between two families who met around a lunch table decades ago. Brad shares how a call to ministry he…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with pastoral counselor and life coach Bill Robison to talk about the father wound: how a father’s presence, absence, words, and example can shape identity, confidence, relationships, and the way we approach fatherhood ourselves.
To…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with counselor Madison Grissom to talk about polyvagal theory: how our nervous systems respond to safety, stress, connection, and overwhelm. In simple, practical language, they explore why we may overreact, shut down emotionally, or…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with counselor Chandler Coley to talk about performance anxiety: what happens when pressure crosses the line from helpful focus into fear, panic, and self-doubt. Drawing from Chandler’s experience as a former athlete and his work as…
Ever feel busy and productive—yet unsure what you’re actually aiming at? In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with Christian life coach Tim Bell to talk about why goal setting isn’t just another performance checklist, but a way to ask honest questions: Who am I becomin…
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney talks with counselor Kaci Jacobellis, ALPC, about social anxiety in teens and how parents can help.
They explain the difference between normal social nervousness and diagnosable social anxiety, why adolescence can intensify fear of judgment …
In this episode of Extending Branches, Dr. Mike Courtney sits down with Tracey Robison, Clinical Director at Branches, to talk about the hidden weight of trauma and the hope of healing. Together, they explore what trauma really is, how triggers show up in everyday life, why grief and painful experi…
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