Interviews
Explore podcast conversations featuring Trish Ruggles as a guest, covering a range of topics in therapeutic treatment. These interviews offer valuable insights into the treatments and experiences of individuals and families, drawn from over two decades in the field.
Each feature highlights a different conversation, platform, and area of focus.
Hopestream
Hopestream delivers expert guidance and emotional support for parents navigating their child's substance use and mental health struggles. Hosted by Brenda Zane, Mayo Clinic Certified health coach and CRAFT-trained Parent Coach who nearly lost her son to addiction, this podcast goes beyond "how to get them into treatment" to address the full ecosystem of this journey.
Decoding Today’s Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Landscape, with Trish Ruggles
When your child needs treatment, the decisions are hard enough. When they're an adolescent, the landscape gets significantly more complicated.
Trish Ruggles is a licensed clinical professional counselor and therapeutic educational consultant with over 15 years of on-the-ground experience matching young people to the right treatment settings. In this episode, she walks through the full spectrum of mental health and substance use options, the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how to figure out what fits your kid's specific therapeutic and academic needs.
If you're in the thick of it right now, or want to understand your options before you need them, this one is worth your full attention.
Breaking Down Wilderness Therapy Myths and Realities, with Trish Ruggles
When most parents hear "wilderness therapy," they picture punishment camps and survival ordeals. Trish Ruggles has spent over 15 years in the field and has a very different story to tell.
What makes wilderness therapy work isn't the fresh air or outdoor skills. It's the removal of noise. When you pull a struggling adolescent out of their always-on life, the volume drops on everything keeping them stuck. No bedroom door to hide behind. No delivery apps. No distractions between them and the actual work of facing themselves.
Trish is refreshingly clear-eyed about who it's for and who it isn't. But for the kid locked in their room, the one running the streets, or the teen who's already learned to game the residential system, wilderness creates something that a building simply cannot: a space where you can't phone it in.
Autism Learning Lab
The Autism Learning Lab Podcast explores autism through expert interviews, personal stories, and practical strategies for individuals, families, caregivers, and professionals. Hosted by Chris Blankenship, the podcast offers conversations that support autism education, parent guidance, neurodiversity-affirming care, personal growth, wellness, and skill development.
Each episode brings together real experiences and professional insight to help listeners better understand autism, support neurodivergent individuals, and navigate the spectrum with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.
Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood - The Harm of “Lazy Diagnosing” in Mental Health
In this special conference edition of the Autism Learning Lab Podcast, recorded during the Autism Symposium in Georgia, host Chris Blankenship is joined by Dr. Tony Meiners and Trish Ruggles for a powerful conversation about autism misdiagnosis, “lazy diagnosing,” and the harm that can happen when mental health treatment does not fit the person receiving care.
The episode explores how autistic individuals, especially autistic women and high-masking adults, are often misunderstood within traditional mental health systems. Trish and Tony discuss how misdiagnosis can lead to burnout, masking, mistrust of providers, medical trauma, and years of ineffective or harmful treatment.
The episode also explores the importance of neurodiversity-affirming care, adapting therapy to the individual, and rebuilding trust after harmful treatment experiences.
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