The Spiritually Curious Therapist
The Spiritually Curious Therapist is a podcast exploring the intersection of nervous system science, mental health, spirituality, and healing.
Hosted by Jodi Silverman, LCSW, this show is for therapists, healers, and curious humans who sense that true healing happens below the level of insight alone. Through thoughtful conversations and solo reflections, we explore trauma, chronic pain and illness, altered states, regulation, meaning-making, and what it really takes to help the nervous system feel safe enough to change.
This is a space for grounded mysticism, where evidence-based practice meets soul-level wisdom, and where healing is approached with curiosity, compassion, and respect for the body’s innate intelligence.
Whether you’re a clinician expanding beyond talk therapy or someone on your own healing path, this podcast invites you to listen differently — to symptoms, to stories, and to what’s asking to be integrated.
The Spiritually Curious Therapist
Psychodrama, Sand Tray & Tarot: Embodied Healing Beyond the Talking Cure with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW-TEP
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What happens when we stop talking about our inner world and start stepping into it? This week, I sit down with Karen Carnabucci, LCSW-TEP, therapist, trainer, and founder of the Lancaster School of Psychodrama, to explore the transformative power of action methods in healing.
Karen shares how psychodrama, sand tray, family constellations, and tarot can reach places that insight and words alone cannot. Together, we explore how the nervous system responds to enacted experience just as powerfully as real-world events, and why that matters deeply for healing.
In this episode:
- What psychodrama actually is (and why you don't need to be an actor)
- The nervous system science behind "do-overs" and enacted healing
- How the "knowing field" in Family Constellations connects to somatic and ancestral experience
- Epigenetics and what we carry from generations before us
- Sand tray as a gentle on-ramp to embodied work
- Using tarot as a therapeutic image tool — without the fortune-telling
- Practical tips for therapists wanting to introduce more body-based work
Resources & Links:
- Karen's website: realtruekaren.com
- Karen's trainings: https://www.realtruekaren.com/training.html
- Karen's socials:
- www.facebook.com/lancasterpsychodrama
www.instagram.com/realtruekaren
www.threads.net/realtruekaren
www.linkedin/in/karencarnabucci
www.substack.com/@realtruekaren - psychodramacertification.org — find certified trainers nationwide
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