🎧 Now Serving.. A Side of Therapy brings real conversations from the heart of Izzo Therapy — a bilingual, culturally responsive practice based in San Mateo and San Carlos. Hosted by Dalton Huckaby, each episode explores ADHD, mental health, identity, relationships, parenting, and healing. Whether you’re starting therapy, navigating life transitions, or simply curious about what happens beyond the couch, you’ll find connection, insight, and a side of real talk.
Now Serving.. A Side of Therapy
Claim This Podcastby Dalton Huckaby | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist | # 146802
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🎧 Now Serving.. A Side of Therapy brings real conversations from the heart of Izzo Therapy — a bilingual, culturally responsive practice based in San Mateo and San Carlos. Hosted by Dalton Huckaby, each episode explores ADHD, mental health, identity, relationships, parenting, and healing. Whether you’re starting therapy, navigating life transitions, or simply curious about what happens beyond the couch, you’ll find connection, insight, and a side of real talk.
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June 10, 2026
Metal Mania: Heavy Metal, Mental Health & the Healing Power of Music with Jeff Watson, LMFT |
<p></p><p>Can heavy metal music actually improve your mental health? The answer might surprise you.</p><p>In this episode of Now Serving, host Dalton Huckaby, LMFT 146802, sits down with Jeff Watson, licensed marriage and family therapist and former music industry professional, for a conversation that challenges everything you think you know about aggressive music and emotional wellbeing.</p><p>Jeff's path to therapy runs directly through the music world. Before becoming a clinician, he spent years working in digital marketing for bands, immersed in the cultures that form around music communities. That experience gave him something most therapists don't have: a deep, firsthand understanding of what it means to belong to a fan community, and why that belonging can be genuinely life-changing.</p><p><strong>Music as a Clinical Tool</strong></p><p>Jeff doesn't just talk about music in sessions. He uses it as a targeted intervention. Different genres serve different clinical purposes, and matching the music to the emotion is the key. When a client comes in flooded with anger or overwhelmed by stress, meeting them with aggressive metal music validates what they're feeling rather than asking them to suppress it. The music says: what you're feeling makes sense. That validation alone can be therapeutic.</p><p>This isn't intuition. It's backed by research. A study published in the National Library of Medicine found that fans of extreme music, including heavy metal and hardcore, regularly use the music to regulate sadness, enhance positive emotions, and experience catharsis. Critically, listening to aggressive music did not increase hostility or elevate heart rate in these listeners. For people who already love the genre, it does the opposite: it helps them process and release.</p><p><strong>The Community That Metal Built</strong></p><p>One of the most powerful themes in this conversation is belonging. Heavy metal has always attracted people who feel like outsiders, people who don't fit neatly into mainstream culture and who have often spent years feeling unseen or misunderstood. The metal community doesn't just tolerate those people. It actively welcomes them.</p><p>Jeff and Dalton explore how metal concerts function almost like church for many attendees. There's a shared ritual, a sense of collective experience, and an unspoken code of looking out for one another, even in the middle of the pit. For someone who has never felt like they belonged anywhere, that experience can be profound. Community is one of the most consistent protective factors in mental health, and for a lot of metal fans, this subculture is where they found theirs.</p><p><strong>Sense Memory and the Brain</strong></p><p>The conversation takes a fascinating turn when Dalton shares an anecdote about a client with a traumatic brain injury. This client has no functional short-term memory. Day to day functioning is profoundly affected. And yet, this same client retains an encyclopedic, near-perfect recall of song lyrics spanning decades of music.</p><p>se verbal or cognitive access to their own history is limited.</p><p><strong>Flow States, the Amygdala, and Singing at Full Volume</strong></p><p>Jeff introduces one of the episode's most memorable ideas: that singing along to familiar music at full volume can induce a flow state. Flow is that mental space where self-consciousness drops away, time distorts, and you are fully absorbed in the present moment. It's meditative. And according to Jeff, belting out a song you know by heart is one of the most accessible paths to getting there.</p><p>Part of what makes this work neurologically is the effect on the amygdala, the brain's threat-detection center. When we're caught in anxiety, rumination, or emotional flooding, the amygdala is running the show. </p><p><br></p>
June 3, 2026
Shadow Work & Belief Systems: How to Finally Change Your Habits with Chris Warnes
<p>In Part 2 with business coach Chris Warnes, host Dalton Huckaby, LMFT 146802 breaks down the psychology of lasting change — how childhood belief systems shape your behavior, what shadow work really requires, and why the habits you choose today are the recipe for who you become tomorrow. Real talk, no shortcuts.</p><p><br></p>
May 27, 2026
The Psychology of Scaling: Unlearning Limiting Beliefs with Business Coach Chris Warnes
<p>What happens when a licensed therapist and a business coach sit down to talk strategy? You get a masterclass in applying psychological principles to real-world leadership. In Ep. 042, Dalton Huckaby, LMFT 146802 and business coach Chris Warnes break down how subconscious programming, communication alignment, and unlearning limiting beliefs are the real keys to scaling a business — and building a team that actually believes in the mission. Whether you're a therapist, entrepreneur, or leader, this conversation will change how you think about growth.</p><p><br></p>
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