The Practitioner's Heart: Practical Buddhist Wisdom for Therapists and Healthcare Professionals
The Practitioner’s Heart offers practical Buddhist wisdom to help therapists and healthcare workers stay grounded, open, and connected in their work and daily lives. Hosted by psychologist and Buddhist practitioner Poh Gan, this podcast explores how to integrate mindfulness, compassion, and awareness into real‑world clinical practice—beyond theory and into lived experience. Each episode includes gentle reflections, sharing of buddhist teachings, and conversations with fellow practitioners walking a similar spiritual path. Whether you’re seeking to calm a busy mind, deepen your inner resources, or reconnect with purpose, this is a space to feel supported, inspired, and be part of a community of helpers cultivating clarity and an open heart.
The Practitioner's Heart: Practical Buddhist Wisdom for Therapists and Healthcare Professionals
Latest Episodes
When Therapists Grieve: Love, Loss and the Dharma Practice
In this solo reflective episode, I explore what happens when therapists grieve while continuing to hold space for the pain, trauma, and loss of others. As therapists, personal loss can still leave us feeling shattered, dysregulated, foggy, over...
Buddha Nature, Therapist Wellbeing & Coming Home to Pure Awareness: A Reflection on Buddhist Psychology, EMDR, IFS, ACT and the Healing Power of Sangha Community for Therapists
In this solo episode, Poh shares insights from the first Bodhi Inner Path Circle reflective book club, where a small group of therapists gathered online to read and contemplate a chapter from Dynamics of the Mind by Reverend Ming-An Ch...
Coming Home to Ourselves: Trauma, Cultural Identity & Compassionate Healing - A Conversation with Dr Bee Lim
In this rich and heartfelt conversation, I sit down with Dr Bee Lim — clinical psychologist, accredited EMDR practitioner, author of Welcome Home: Healing Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness, and co‑founder of Mind Health Collective...
Beyond Cognitive Insight: Why Therapists Need Embodied Clarity
In this episode of The Practitioner’s Heart, we explore the powerful difference between cognitive insight and embodied clarity — and why this distinction matters so deeply for therapists, psychologists, counsellors, socia...
How Buddhist Wisdom Can Help Us Stay Human in the Age of AI
In this reflective and heartfelt episode, host Poh Gan explores a question many modern therapists quietly hold: How do we stay grounded, wise, and spiritually aligned in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence?