Catalyst for Healing

About Catalyst for Healing

Where traditional mental health care meets innovation, insight, and hope. Hosted by Maria Lloyd, LMFT, Catalyst for Healing explores groundbreaking therapies, transformative healing journeys, and real conversations that go beyond symptom management and into true emotional freedom. Each episode dives into real stories, new healing approaches, and how to move beyond survival into true emotional wellness. If you're ready for deeper healing and lasting change, this podcast is your starting point. Be sure to subscribe now!

Publisher

Maria Lloyd (LMFT)

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jun 2024

Latest episode

2 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

11 of 67 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Beyond the Scale: Healing the Emotional Roots of Stress-Related Eating

   Send us a text In this conversation, Sandy Zeldes draws on over 25 years of expertise in nutrition and emotional healing to illuminate the deeper roots of weight gain, stress eating, and burnout among high‑achieving women. She emphasizes the role of trauma, ancestral nutrition, and unconscious patterns like perfectionism and people‑pleasing, while demonstrating how Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can release emotional blockages and foster lasting transformation. 🌿 Key Takeaways Sandy Ze...

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   11 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Beyond Talk Therapy: Energy Work, Parasitic Programs & the F.I.X. Code Technique

   Send us a text In this episode of Catalyst for Healing, Maria Lloyd sits down with Stacey Nye, co-founder of the F.I.X. Code technique, to explore a groundbreaking approach to emotional healing. Stacey opens up about her personal journey through anxiety and depression, revealing how energy work and the F.I.X. Code method helped her reclaim clarity and peace. Together, they unpack the concept of “parasitic programs,” the energetic signatures of emotional pain, and how targeted techniques...

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   28 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   DBT in Real Life: Relationships, Regulation, and Radical Acceptance

   Send us a text In this powerful and personal episode, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Hufsa Ahmad opens up about her journey into the field of therapy, shaped by her own experiences with mental health and cultural stigma. Together, we explore the transformative framework of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), its origins, and its practical applications in everyday life. Hufsa breaks down the four core components of DBT—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal...

Inside a recent episode

Beyond the Scale: Healing the Emotional Roots of Stress-Related Eating

Published 2 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The points we use. And it's like an emotional version of acupuncture. So you don't have to believe in it. You don't have to believe me. You know, it's just it just works. It's been working for, you know, over 30 years. And there's a whole bunch of history to it that, you know, I don't know that you want me to go into. But it utilizes the meridian points and very effectively, I might add, helps us release stress, fears, worries, doubts. Just if you want to just do surface level, what you're dealing with right now. It helps to lower cortisol, of course. There's studies, lower blood pressure. But it's really effective with trauma and childhood. you know, the stuff that's hard to access for us. […]

Who has been a guest on Catalyst for Healing

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Amanda Fuchs
• Dr Melissa Mondala
• Jessica Summers
• Saturnino Iniguez
• Monique Alvarez

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

63,691

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

75

Social presence

90

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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