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September 2026
Guest Host Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Sarah Stasica
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina interviews Sarah Stasica, the founder of Medical Trauma Support and host of the Medical Trauma Support Podcast.
Sarah Stasica is a trauma-informed practitioner, mental health peer specialist, and somatic educator committed to helping both clinicians and individuals recognize medical trauma for what it is and respond to it with the nervous-system-informed care it deserves. Sarah supports people on their healing journey and clinicians looking to deepen their trauma-informed practice through education, peer support, and somatic approaches that honor the body's wisdom.
September 2026
Episode 417 – Lyme Disease with Christina Kantzavelos
We discuss the lived experience of navigating Lyme disease, sharing stories of loss, resilience, and the search for answers in the face of complex symptoms. Through personal and professional reflection, we connect with the challenges and triumphs faced along the journey toward healing and understanding.
Questions arise about why some people become gravely ill while others remain symptom-free after similar exposures, prompting us to re-examine the intricate links between trauma, nervous system regulation, and chronic illness. We learn how even the smallest bacteria can transform our lives, discover surprising facts about testing and healing, and find hope in stories of transformation and renewed purpose.
September 2026
Unexpected Grief: Where Joy & Sorrow Collide with Christina Kantzevelos
Caitlan Siegenthaler and Christina Kantzevelos realized that they both had grief experiences at their weddings.
So they recorded this episode to explore questions like:
What about times when you are unexpectedly grieving?
What happens when joy and sorrow show up at the same time?
What do we do when the way people show up for big events surprises us or catches us off guard?
This podcast episode is for you if a relationship changed after you got married or if you’ve felt joy and sorrow in the same day or hour. It’s a conversation that we wish happened more often…
August 2026
Why Authenticity Is the Missing Link in Reproductive Health with Christina Kantzavelos
What if your body isn’t broken… but responding intelligently to a life that doesn’t feel like yours? In this Reproductive Rebel conversation on SZN 5, EP 31, Adrienne Irizarry sits down with Christina Kantzavelos to explore the often-overlooked truth: your mental and emotional authenticity directly shapes your reproductive health.
We go beyond surface-level “stress” conversations and into the deeper terrain— where nervous system regulation, identity, partnership dynamics, and truth-telling all intersect with fertility, hormones, and cycle health. This episode is for the woman who feels “off” in her body… for the couple trying to conceive without clear answers… and for anyone ready to ask: Where am I not being real—and what is it costing me? Together, we explore:
Why authenticity is a biological need—not a luxury
How chronic emotional suppression disrupts hormones + cycles
The nervous system’s role in fertility for both partners How misalignment in relationships impacts conception *The hidden cost of being “high-functioning” but disconnected
What it actually means to feel safe in your body again
This is not about doing more. It’s about becoming honest enough that your body can finally exhale. Because a regulated body can receive. A real life can sustain. And readiness isn’t forced—it’s felt.
August 2026
Guest Host Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Alanna Brennan
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina interviews Alanna Brennan. Alanna is a Womb Worker, Vocal Coach, and Somatic Practitioner devoted to helping women reclaim their Divine Feminine power.
Through her own deep journey of womb healing, she has studied and integrated multiple modalities to bridge ancient feminine wisdom with modern nervous system science.
Alanna is the founder of Womb Reclamation, where she is passionate about guiding women to reclaim their voices, reconnect with their bodies, and remember: your voice matters, your truth matters, and you are worthy of taking up space.
July 2026
Nervous System Regulation 101: Healing Chronic Illness from the Inside Out
Chronic Illness & the Nervous System: Healing the Mind-Body Connection with Christina Kantzavelos
What if chronic illness isn't just something happening to your body, but a signal that your whole system — mind, body, and nervous system — needs attention? In this episode of Thursday Tea with Sami, Dr. Samia Estrada sits down with Christina Kantzavelos, a trauma-informed therapist and holistic practitioner who specializes in chronic illness, nervous system regulation, and mind-body healing.
Christina's path into this work began far from where she expected — doing humanitarian and disaster response work internationally. After contracting Lyme disease, co-infections, and mold-related illness while working abroad, she went from a hyper-independent "Mother Teresa" type to needing help with basic daily care. That experience became the foundation for the integrative, somatic, trauma-informed approach she now offers her own clients.
In this conversation, Samia and Christina explore:
Why nervous system regulation is foundational to physical healing, and what happens in the body when we're stuck in chronic fight-or-flight
The deep, often-overlooked connection between unresolved trauma, chronic stress, and chronic illness
How the post-traumatic growth that can come from chronic illness — and why most people who've been through it wouldn't change their journey
The grief and identity loss that often accompanies a chronic illness diagnosis, and why "going back to who you were before" isn't always the goal
What's missing from traditional, fragmented models of healthcare, and why treating symptoms isn't the same as treating root causes
How isolation shows up for people with chronic illness, and practical ways to rebuild genuine connection and community
Simple, accessible nervous system tools listeners can start using today — including breathwork, tapping (EFT), visualization, and somatic movement
Whether you're navigating a chronic illness yourself, supporting someone who is, or simply want to understand the powerful link between nervous system health and physical wellbeing, this episode offers both validation and practical, gentle next steps.
July 2026
Relational Dynamics in Mold-Affected Homes
Micro Balance Health Products has a conversation with Christina on Relational Dynamics in Mold-Affected Homes.
During the conversation, Christina shared powerful insights, including:
Why unresolved environmental stressors—like mold exposure—can influence nervous system responses
Practical ways to build internal safety, self‑trust, and emotional regulation
How to identify relational loops that keep you stuck and how to gently shift them
The role of daily self‑reflection in healing and creating new relational dynamics
She also introduced her Begin Within Today Symptom Journal, a guided tool designed to help you track patterns, regulate your system, and support your healing journey.
July 2026
Guest Host Series Christina P. Kantzavelos interviews Howard Schubiner
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina interviews Dr. Howard Schubiner, an internist and the director of the Mind Body Medicine Center at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan and a Clinical Professor at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.
He has authored more than 100 publications in scientific journals and books, and lectures regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Schubiner is a senior teacher of mindfulness meditation and the author of three books: Unlearn Your Pain, Unlearn Your Anxiety and Depression, and Hidden From View, written with Dr. Allan Abbass. Dr. Schubiner lives in the Detroit area with his wife of thirty-seven years and has two adult children.
June 2026
Metacognition, Compassion, Sacred Rage, & Love
The Collective, explores Metacognition, Compassion, and transformative power of Sacred Rage in a state of Love with psychotherapist Christina P. Kantzavelos.
Christina P. Kantzavelos, LCSW, is a first-generation licensed psychotherapist, coach, writer, educator, speaker, and chronic illness advocate. She specializes in trauma-informed and somatic approaches, helping individuals worldwide navigate relationships, identity, and personal growth while managing life’s complex health challenges. Christina is the author of Begin Within: A Daily Health and Wellness Journal and the founder of Begin Within Today, a platform that bridges mental health, chronic illness support, and holistic wellness. She strongly believes that we heal in community, and that to fully support the individual, we must look at the collective environment. Much like a flower, we cannot thrive if the soil itself is depleted; we must heal the soil to heal the flower.
June 2026
How to Break the Burnout Cycle and Rebuild With Purpose with Christina Kantzavelos
On Episode 119 of The Real Women Real Business Podcast, Shauna Lynn Simon sits down with Christina Kantzavelos.
Christina explains how survival mode shows up in high-achieving women, including overfunctioning, people pleasing, perfectionism, freezing, and fawning. She also shares why boundaries can feel impossible to hold when the nervous system does not feel safe, and what it really takes to create a business that supports your health instead of depleting it.
Listeners will walk away with practical nervous system tools, a more compassionate lens for burnout recovery, and permission to redefine success in a way that protects their capacity, relationships, and wellbeing.
May 2026
Regulate to Receive: How Your Nervous System Shapes Hormones, Cycles + Conception with Christina Kantzavelos
In this episode of The Reproductive Rebel Podcast, Adrienne Irizarry and Christina Kantzavelos explore the deeper truth beneath fertility struggles: your nervous system is the gatekeeper of conception.
Because the body doesn’t prioritize reproduction when it feels under threat—whether that threat is physical, emotional, relational, or internal.
This conversation reframes fertility through the lens of regulation, not restriction.
Through receiving, not forcing.
We move beyond symptom management and into the energetic and physiological conditions that allow the body to open.
April 2026
The Guest Host Series Christina P. Kantzavelos, LCSW interviews Lauren Auer
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina interviews Lauren Auer. Lauren Auer is a Trauma Therapist who has built a community of nearly 200,000 followers by sharing what she's learned from seeing trauma from every possible angle.
Lauren's path into trauma work was unintentional. What started as a graduate school internship at an agency working with both juvenile offenders and abuse victims turned into a career-defining passion.
Lauren is trained in EMDR, certified in Brainspotting, and holds certifications in Somatic Trauma Healing and Compassion Fatigue. Her approach reflects what she learned in her early years from working: every person's trauma looks different, so every person's healing needs to look different too.
April 2026
The neuropsychiatric impact of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina sits down with Robert C. Bransfield, MD—a board-certified psychiatrist and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association—on the neuropsychiatric impact of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
In this conversation, we discuss the complex relationship between chronic illness and mental health, including how infections such as Lyme disease can affect mood, cognition, behavior, and nervous system functioning. We also explore the importance of integrative and trauma-informed approaches when supporting individuals living with medically complex conditions.
March 2026
The power of the mind-body connection with Dani Fagan
On this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast’s Guest Host Series, Christina sits down with Dani Fagan—a certified trauma-informed yoga, breathwork and meditation teacher and recovery coach specialising in helping folks heal chronic conditions rooted in trauma. She healed years of chronic pain, multiple distressing symptoms and anxiety herself and has helped thousands of others using the power of the mind-body connection, nervous system regulation and compassionate self-attunement.
February 2026
Mold Toxicity and Mental Health Through the Lens of an Integrative Psychotherapist
In this podcast, Christina speaks about mold toxicity and how it can often trigger and prolong mental health symptoms.
Christina Kantzavelos is a neurodivergent, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), life coach, writer, and chronic illness warrior. It is her experience and belief that chronic illnesses are often rooted in trauma(s) that cause a chronic stress/ fight-or-flight response, not allowing the body to prioritize healing.
February 2026
Discussing Trauma, Gaslighting & Resilience on Your Lyme Matters
In Episode 15 of Your Lyme Matters, Christina shares her personal journey, innovative therapeutic approaches, and insights on healing the nervous system, trauma, and mental health challenges associated with chronic illness.
Common challenges faced by the Lyme and Co-infection population such as stigmatization, judgement and it’s impact on well-being and the nervous system discussed along with resilience building strategies, tips when searching for a Lyme-informed therapist.
September 2025
The Trauma Therapist: The Guest Host Series. Christina P. Kantzavelos, LCSW interviews Destiny Winters: Treating Chronic Illness Mental Health Symptoms
In this episode of The Trauma Therapist Podcast, Destiny Winters discusses supporting mental health in chronic illness, sharing insights on nervous system regulation, somatic work, and the importance of specialized, trauma-informed care.
August 2025
Christina Kantzavelos interviews Caitlan Siegenthaler. Combining IFS Therapy and Human Achievment
In this podcast conversation, Christina P. Kantzavelos speaks with therapist Caitlan Siegenthaler about integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Human Design to support self-awareness, emotional healing, and personal growth.
July 2025
Constructed Awareness - Guest Host Christina Kantzavelos interviews Tyler Orr
In this episode of The Trauma Therapist Project, Guest Host Christina Kantzavelos interviews Tyler Orr, creator of Constructed Awareness.
December 2023
The Trauma Therapist Project
Healing Chronic Health Conditions with Christina Kantzavelos
December 2023
The Traveling Therapist Podcast
From burnout to enlightenment: A therapist’s pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago.
June 2023
I Love The Way You Lyme with Michaela Sheranko Walz
Episode 10: "I love the way you help navigate healing through lyme literate therapy + journaling."
October 2023
An Interview With Daisy Ilchovska
Episode 314: Lyme In The Limelight – Co-Interviewed by Christina Kantzavelos
July 2022
I Get What I Want: By Jessie Quirke
Episode 18: Healing the Body and Nervous System after Chronic Illness, Plant Medicine, Brain Retraining with Christina Kantzavelos
December 2021
The Chronic Comeback with Phil Hadfield
Episode 71: How Christina Kantzavelos Survived and Thrived After Battling Various Autoimmune Diseases
September 2021
In It Together: A Podcast by Ride Out Lyme
Storytellers with Lyme: Part 2: Join us for a dialogue with artists and communicators who, through their respective mediums, share their Lyme stories.
July 2021
Still Positive Podcast: Hosted by Dayna Marie
Begin Within with Christina: After being couch bound with heavy Lyme Disease Symptoms, Christina wanted to get some of her thoughts and feelings out onto paper.
June 2021
In It Together: A Podcast by Ride Out Lyme
Journaling Your Way to Wellness with Christina Kantzavelos
May 2021
Tick Boot Camp
Journaling Your Way to Wellness with Christina Kantzavelos
April 2021
Tick Boot Camp
Episode 159: The Lyme Therapist with Christina Kantzavelos
March 2021
Uninvisible Pod with Lauren Freedman
Episode 119: Buenqamino, Lyme & Company
April 2019
Beyond Your Diagnosis
Episode 30: Guest Christina Kantzavelos: Lifestyle Blogging for Those with Food Restrictions and Health Issues
August 2018
The Living Free + Well Podcast
Episode 6: Buenqamino Christina talks Celiac Travel