Boundaries are a fascinating subject; challenging, life changing and necessary. As an expert for over 12 years on boundaries and relationships, Joan Casey is passionate about others understanding the impact of boundaries on relationships at home and work. Her up-beat practical style brings hope, solutions and entertainment.
Joan is available for interviews, discussion panels and presentations. She is available for radio, television and in-person media needs.
She is available at short notice and will gladly accommodate your needs whenever possible. Sound bites, short presentations or more in depth informational interviews will be delivered for your program or copy.
"Everyday We Are Training Others How to Treat Us!"
Interesting boundary topics include:
Boundaries and:
The Workplace
Dealing with Employees and Employers
Your At Home Business
Parenting: Being Popular or Being a Parent
Romance: Picking your Partners
Sex and Love
Co-dependence
Fear of Abandonment
Stress: Guilt, Resentment and Over-responsibility
Assertiveness and Self Confidence
Addictions
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Trauma: The Aftershocks
The Victim Dance
Communication: Mixed Messages
Quotes from interviews and presentations:
"If everyone you know likes you, then you are doing something wrong. It is impossible to have everyone like you, unless you are shape shifting all the time. And even then someone won't like you. There are people who don't even like Mother Teresa."
"What is more important to you; your integrity or a bunch of smiley faces around you?"
"It is not interesting what other people are doing around you. There will always be someone trying to bulldoze you or letting you treat them like a doormat. That is life. What is interesting in is what are you doing in the face of these people?"
"Everyday we are training other people how to treat us."
"What has happened? Parents are more interested in their kids liking them than in giving them good parenting. If your kids like you all of the time you are doing something wrong."
"There are templates that get created in childhood from traumatic experiences these can then create a victim pattern. We need to reactivate a healthy freeze-fight-flight response and get rid of the victim pattern."
"Everybody thinks boundaries are only about saying "no". That's just one part of healthy boundaries. Healthy boundaries are also about saying "yes".
Bio:
Joan Casey MSW, founder of Boundaries: Solutions for Life, is an international trainer of experience and depth, drawing on wide range of approaches from improvisational comedy theater, shamanic tradition, rituals and symbolism to developmental psychotherapy, brain/body connections, and neurological and trauma repatterning. She has been featured on KIRO radio for her easy-to-use self treatment methods and expertise on trauma. Her interviews are dynamic, fun and insightful as she clarifies difficult concepts and shares practical tools.
Past President of INDEPTH, the Institute for Developmental Education and Psychotherapy, Joan has held positions on degree committees at Antioch University and LIOS- Leadership Institute of Seattle, as well as being degree preceptor for the Holistic Nursing Certification Program. With her upbeat style, Joan has been a popular presenter at conferences for the ITAA-International Transactional Analysis Association, the AHNA-American Holistic Nurses Association, and INDEPTH, and at special focus trainings for Bastyr Naturopathic College, Academy for Coach Training, Seattle Massage School, Boeing Management Association, Headstart and more. She holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington.
Testimonials
"She is an awesome person, intuitive, fun and dynamic. You’d never know personal growth could be so fun." - Rebecca Holt, Seattle, Washington
I have gained immense value as a therapist from Joan’s practical and definitive approach to helping clients understand boundary issues. She is truly a gifted therapist with an open heart and great sense of humor. I highly recommend that you take this workshop. You’ll go back to your practice with a sense of aliveness and excitement accompanied by a deeper sense of your own issues. - Martha Russo M.A., L.M.P.
"A great leader with practical answers to questions." - - Bryan Ableidinar
"I liked Joan’s humor, combined with her knowledge it led to a fun and entertaining yet effective and "healing soul" workshop. Well, worth the money." - S. Andra
