Between Sessions with Berries

AI scribes have shifted mental health professionals from writing their own notes to reviewing someone else's version of the session, and that shift comes with real risk. It's easy to sign off on a note without catching an error, without confirming a client actually consented to being recorded, or without knowing what happens to that audio once the session ends. In this episode, Kym talks...

Insurance audits used to be rare. Now AI systems built into insurance company billing platforms are flagging patterns fast, and codes like 90837, multiple sessions per week, and long-term maintenance therapy are all under closer watch. For mental health professionals who rely on these codes regularly, that shift can raise real questions about what actually holds up under review. In this episode, K...

If your usual marketing playbook has suddenly stopped filling your caseload, you're picking up on something real. What worked reliably for years, referrals, directories, a decent website, isn't carrying the same weight anymore, and most mental health professionals are left guessing at what actually changed. In this episode, Kym talks with Danielle Swimm, LCPC, business coach for therapis...

Most mental health professionals settle into a fee early in their career and never really question it. $120 an hour, $150 an hour, whatever felt normal when they started, and the ceiling just becomes the ceiling. Kym sits down with Allyson Clemmons, a social worker who sees about 10 clients a week, charges $400 a session, and earns over $180K a year from her private practice while living abroad in...

Scaling a group practice can feel like it forces a choice: chase the growth and risk losing sight of why you started, or protect your values and stay small. Most mental health professionals who build past solo practice hit this tension somewhere along the way, especially when the offers start coming in. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym talks with Dr. Anahita Lake-Khosravi, a p...

Most mental health professionals are running a mental Rolodex between sessions, trying to remember what a client said three sessions ago while staying present for what they're saying right now. Add a full caseload, insurance-driven documentation, and a body that doesn't always cooperate, and that load gets heavy fast. Kym is joined by Kristine Hoestermann, LICSW, mental health innovator,...

Most mental health professionals are trained to provide therapy, not to run a business. Billing, scheduling, marketing, and documentation pile up fast, and without a system in place, it's easy to end up managing a practice that runs you instead of the other way around. In this episode, Kym talks with Nicole Lacherza-Drew, PsyD, founder of CouchSide Coordinators, a virtual administrative suppo...

When a client cycles through medication after medication with no real improvement, it is easy to label them treatment-resistant and run out of ideas. Referring out to a psychiatrist often just means more trial and error, with no clear answer for why nothing seems to be working. Kym sits down with Dr. Steve Rondahl, founder of Axon EEG Solutions and a naturopathic doctor who has analyzed more than...

If you've sunk hours into Instagram or TikTok content hoping it would turn into new clients, you know how draining that cycle can be. Between chasing hooks, filming, and reposting when nothing seems to land, it's worth asking whether there's a better use of your time. Kym sits down with Margaux Flood, LCSW, group practice owner, and marketing strategist for private practice clinicia...

Independently owned group practices are disappearing, and it's not always because owners are doing something wrong. Insurance companies and venture capital have moved deep into group practice ownership over the past few years, and mental health professionals across the country are watching clinics they used to know get bought, merged, or folded into something bigger. In this episode of Betwee...

Building a family while running a private practice can feel like a math problem with no clean answer. Sick kids interrupt session days, maternity leave threatens months of income, and caseloads built around trauma work don't always leave room for the unpredictability that comes with parenting. For mental health professionals thinking about starting or growing a family, the question isn't...

If you run a group practice and want to bring on provisionally licensed clinicians, figuring out how (or whether) you can bill for their work gets complicated fast. Every insurance company defines the rules differently, the terminology gets misused even by the payers themselves, and getting it wrong can put both your reimbursement and your caseload at risk. In this episode, Kym sits down with Susa...

Running a practice, leading a team, or stepping into any kind of leadership role brings its own pressure, and burnout doesn't always show up the way people expect. Mental health professionals who step outside the traditional clinical path often find themselves managing perception, criticism, and their own confidence all at once, without much guidance on how to do it well. David Blatt spent mo...

A will is one of those tasks that can sit on your list for years. Not because it is complicated to start, but because something about it makes you want to look away. Part of it is the discomfort of thinking about your own mortality. Part of it is the weight of decisions you are not sure you are ready to make. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym talks with estate lawyer David Rosa...

Most clinicians graduate ready to help people and completely unprepared to manage the money that career generates. School trains you to be excellent in the room. It says nothing about what happens when your income is tied entirely to the hours your hands and body can put in, or what you do when that well runs dry. In this episode, Kym talks with Robin Valadares, a physiotherapist, clinic owner, an...

Burnout rarely announces itself. It shows up as irritability before your next client, fatigue that lingers even after a full night of sleep, or that pull to shut down completely the second you walk through your own front door. By the time most mental health professionals name it, they are already deep in it. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Crystal Jones, an LMF...

You are spending money on marketing, but if someone asked you which ad, directory, or referral brought in your last three clients, could you actually answer? Most practice owners can't, and that single blind spot quietly shapes every decision they make about where to invest next. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Joshua Brummel, co-founder of TherapyFlow, wh...

Treatment plans might be the one piece of documentation mental health professionals dread most. Most of us were never taught how to write one, what insurance actually wants to see, or how often to update them. So a lot of us quietly skip them and carry around the low hum of guilt that we probably should be doing better. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym welcomes back Barbara Gr...

Join Julie Grace for a 20-minute guided meditation created for mental health professionals who need a gentle reminder that they are more than the role they embody. Through breath awareness, visualization, and a releasing exercise, this practice invites you to temporarily set down your clinician identity and reconnect with the whole human being that you are. This meditation guides you through a ful...

Many mental health professionals are high achievers by nature. The drive to do more, do it right, and never let anyone down can look like ambition from the outside while quietly running you into the ground from the inside. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Nichole Coyne, LCSW, a clinical therapist and coach who specializes in perfectionism, people-pleasing, and b...

Join Julie Grace for a 20-minute guided meditation created specifically for mental health professionals navigating burnout, fatigue, and emotional exhaustion. This practice gently invites you to step back from the weight of the work and reconnect with the deeper values, care, and meaning that first brought you to this path, without forcing positivity or denying difficulty. Through breath awareness...

Burnout in private practice is more common than most mental health professionals talk about openly. Back-to-back sessions, income ceilings, no time to breathe, and a growing sense that there has to be another way. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Carly Hill, an LCSW turned business strategist, to talk about what it actually looks like to transition from private...

Join Julie Grace for this 13-minute guided sleep meditation created specifically for mental health professionals at the end of a long day. After hours of holding space for others, this practice gently invites you to be held in return, releasing the emotional and physical weight you may have carried through your work. Through body awareness and soothing imagination, this meditation guides you from...

Most moms know things will change when a baby arrives. What's harder to anticipate is how much the internal experience shifts, especially for high-achieving women who have always relied on productivity and drive to feel grounded. When the old coping strategies stop working, and the to-do list keeps growing, something has to give. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down...

Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation created specifically for therapists who need to release the stories, images, and emotional echoes that linger after sessions. This practice gently invites you to arrive in the present moment and to honor the weight of what you've heard today without carrying it forward. Using calming visualization, this meditation guides you to let the words, feelings,...