Food Allergy Treatments: Tips to Navigate Emotions, Decisions & Power Struggles; Guest: Marte Matthews, LMFT [Ep. 8]

Exploring Food Allergy Families

Whether you've just learned about, or are considering or currently taking part in food allergy treatments, this episode will offer insights into the emotional aspects of treatments - a focus not always openly explored.
My guest on this episode is Marte Matthews, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice who also works with allergic patients at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University.
Marte and I explore the following topics:

• Important factors to think about when considering food allergy treatments
• Assessing your own and/or your child's feelings about and motivations for treatments
• How to navigate possible thought/feeling hurdles during all phases of treatment
• Key communication strategies that are especially helpful during the treatment and maintenance phases
• Assessing/addressing your child's treatment-related anxiety
• Separating your own anxiety and stress from your child's (how and why)
• Tips to move through possible power struggles throughout the process
• Guilt related to NOT pursuing treatments or FOR pursuing treatments

[This episode is also beneficial for healthcare providers and fellow therapists wanting to better understand the potential emotional experiences and struggles patients have during treatments, and how to help them through it.]

So grab a cup of coffee and take advantage of two family therapy-trained and allergy-informed therapists in one spot! And please let us know if this topic resonated with you by leaving a rating or review, or by sharing!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

• Read more about exploring the emotional aspects of food allergy treatments on the Food Allergy Counselor Directory & website blog
  
  
• Check out Marte Matthew's private practice services on her practice Facebook page.
  
  
• Learn more about the Exploring Food Allergy Families podcast by visiting: www.FoodAllergyFamilies.com
  
  
• Visit the Food Allergy Counselor Directory & website for food allergy-related mental health resources and an allergy-informed therapist directory: www.FoodAllergyCounselor.com

CONNECT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA!

• Connect with the Food Allergy Counselor Directory & website / Exploring Food Allergy Families podcast on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/FoodAllergyCounselor
  
• Connect with host & licensed therapist, Tamara Hubbard, LCPC:
  Twitter: @TherapistTamara, Instagram: @TherapistTamara