The Fig Tree Framework Podcast
Mental Health Through a Biopsychosocial-Spiritual Lens
Hosted by Tina Motley, Founder of Fig Tree Therapy
The Fig Tree Framework is a podcast from Fig Tree Therapy exploring mental health, relationships, healing, trauma, healing, faith, identity, and human flourishing through a whole-person lens.
Each episode brings thoughtful conversations about what it means to heal and grow as whole persons — body, mind, relationships, and spirit.
This podcast is for those who want more than surface-level conversations about mental health. We explore how clinical insight, lived experience, neuroscience, relationships, and Christian faith can work together to deepen our understanding of healing, wisdom, responsibility, grace, and hope.
New episodes explore the intersection of mental health, faith, neuroscience, relationships, and whole-person healing.
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Episode 0: Introducing The Fig Tree Framework
In this introductory episode, Tina Motley shares the heart behind the podcast and explains the biopsychosocial-spiritual framework that guides the conversations to come.
This episode lays the foundation for the podcast by exploring why mental health must be understood through a whole-person lens — body, mind, relationships, and spirit. Tina reflects on how clinical insight, neuroscience, relationships, lived experience, and Christian faith can work together to deepen our understanding of healing.
In this episode, Tina discusses:
- Why she launched The Fig Tree Framework
- What the biopsychosocial-spiritual model means
- Why mental health is often viewed through an incomplete lens
- How faith and science can work together
- Why spirituality matters in healing
- What listeners can expect in future episodes
Latest Episode
Episode 1: How Can Our Behavior Change Depression? with Dr. Kelly Lambert
Dr. Lambert coined the phrase “behavior-ceuticals” to describe how meaningful behavior, effort, movement, and engagement can support brain health and emotional well-being. In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Lambert discusses what rats driving tiny cars can teach us about neuroplasticity, depression, and the healing power of purposeful action.
What We Explore
On The Fig Tree Framework, we talk about the many dimensions that shape mental health and healing, including:
- Anxiety, depression, trauma, and emotional health
- Faith, psychology, and Christian counseling
- Relationships, attachment, identity, and purpose
- Neuroscience, neuroplasticity, EMDR, DBT, and evidence-based therapy
- Spiritual formation, resilience, responsibility, grace, and hope
Why This Podcast Exists
Mental health is often discussed through an incomplete lens. Some approaches focus mainly on biology. Others focus on thoughts and emotions while overlooking relationships, meaning, purpose, or spirituality.
At Fig Tree Therapy, we believe people are more than symptoms, diagnoses, or coping skills. We believe true healing involves the whole person.
The Fig Tree Framework was created to offer conversations that are clinically grounded, spiritually thoughtful, and rooted in a Christian understanding of human dignity, suffering, growth, and restoration.
About the Host
Tina Motley is a licensed therapist with nearly 20 years of clinical experience and the founder of Fig Tree Therapy in Richmond, Virginia. Through her work as a therapist, practice owner, leader, and student of behavioral health leadership, Tina has developed a passion for helping people understand mental health through an integrated framework that honors both sound clinical practice and a Christian worldview.