For today's episode, we sat down for a second time with Matthias J. Barker, a licensed

mental health counselor who gained a lot of popularity on TikTok and Instagram when he started

posting videos about mental help.

As a counselor, he became increasingly curious about healing from trauma.

In this episode, Matthias helps us understand the possible connections between our own pain and childhood experiences and the unwanted behaviors we're engaging in.

He also shares practical tools for engaging in and moving past those behaviors, including how to identify the root cause of what we're avoiding,

the benefits of opening up to someone trusted, like a therapist, and the encouragement that

real healing is possible. We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

Matthias, it's so good to have you back for our listeners who have probably seen you on

TikTok or social media.

Matthias is a licensed mental health counselor.

And the last time you spoke with Fight Theta Drug was actually your last day in a group

practice, I believe.

So can you tell us a little bit about what your practice

and work has looked like since then? Well, okay, so things kind of took off on TikTok and

Instagram pretty rapidly right around kind of the beginning of the pandemic. And so I think that was

a time that everyone was really looking for maybe support in their

mental health and people were struggling in all sorts of different ways. And so, yeah, I just so happen

to be posting TikToks like these little videos about all sorts of different topics in mental health.

So part of that was right place, right time. And then what resulted was a lot of people maybe jumping on my

wait list. I'm a therapist. And so I see people in a clinical practice. And so the group practice,

the owner of the group practice came to me and said, hey, we need to take you off of our website.

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