The Constructed Awareness Podcast
The Constructed Awareness Podcast
Podcast Description
The Constructed Awareness Podcast explores the principles of Constructed Awareness (CA) and how they apply to therapy, personal growth, and everyday life. Hosted by CA founder, Tyler Orr, this podcast delves into topics like mindfulness-based and trauma-informed therapy. Whether you're a CA-trained therapist or simply curious about deepening your self-awareness, each episode offers practical insights and thought-provoking discussions to deepen your understanding of the CA model.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on principles of Constructed Awareness, mindfulness, and trauma-informed therapy, with episodes exploring topics such as the origin of CA, its core principles, and its evolution from EMDR therapy. Specific examples include discussions on the roles of awareness in transformation, the three building blocks of experience, and the dynamic understanding of personality within CA.

The Constructed Awareness Podcast explores the principles of Constructed Awareness (CA) and how they apply to therapy, personal growth, and everyday life. Hosted by CA founder, Tyler Orr, this podcast delves into topics like mindfulness-based and trauma-informed therapy. Whether you’re a CA-trained therapist or simply curious about deepening your self-awareness, each episode offers practical insights and thought-provoking discussions to deepen your understanding of the CA model.
Host: Tyler Orr, PhD, LPC
Guest: Lei Rhyne, LPC
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Meet Lei Rhyne, LPC
02:44 What is Expressive Arts Therapy?
07:28 The history and foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy
10:56 Training and certification in Expressive Arts Therapy
12:48 Why expressive arts goes beyond traditional talk therapy
14:31 What an Expressive Arts Therapy session looks like
19:03 Externalizing thoughts and emotions
20:20 How Constructed Awareness complements Expressive Arts Therapy
21:27 Why externalizing experience matters
22:44 How do you actually process emotions?
26:05 Introduction to Constructed Awareness
27:39 The three building blocks of experience
29:30 Understanding orientation
33:32 CA resourcing, tuning, and memory reconstructing
36:16 Lei’s experience integrating CA into clinical practice
38:15 Bringing Expressive Arts Therapy into Constructed Awareness
42:37 What a combined CA + Expressive Arts session looks like
50:26 Using art to understand emotions
52:08 A nonverbal pathway to trauma healing
53:51 Constructed Awareness training updates and reduced tuition
58:00 How to connect with Lei Rhyne
59:00 Closing

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