The Inked Therapist

Episode Summary : In Episode 12 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight goes deep on rest as resistance — not as a wellness trend or a productivity hack, but as a political and ancestral claim rooted in Black feminist tradition. This episode credits the lineage that built this framework (Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry, Audre Lorde, womanist and abolitionist thought), names grind culture as a system of...

Episode Summary : In Episode 11 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight explores one of the most pressing clinical questions of the current political moment: how do you stay informed without destroying your nervous system in the process? This episode covers the physiology of news overload and why the chronic scroll activates the threat response; credits the Black feminist, Indigenous, and abolitionist...

Episode Summary : In Episode 10 of The Inked Therapist — and the final episode of the first solo arc — Del Knight breaks down what neurodivergent-affirming therapy actually requires. This episode covers the neurotypical defaults baked into standard clinical training, the history of harm caused by ABA and social skills training, the critical difference between accommodating and affirming neurodiver...

Episode Summary : In the second episode of The Inked Therapist's trauma arc, Del Knight goes beyond the language of trauma-informed care to examine what the framework actually requires — and what it's been diluted into by the wellness industry, corporate HR departments, and providers who adopted the vocabulary without building the structure. Drawing on SAMHSA's Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Ca...

Episode Summary : In Episode 8 of The Inked Therapist — and the first episode of a two-part trauma arc — Del Knight, CCTP-II, breaks down one of the most persistent and harmful misunderstandings in the therapy world: that trauma requires a dramatic, identifiable event. This episode draws the distinction between single-incident and complex/developmental trauma, explains why complex trauma is so har...

Episode Summary : In Episode 7 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight — Certified Body Trust Specialist, Center for Body Trust (2024) — introduces the body trust framework and why it's different from body positivity, intuitive eating, or any other self-improvement program dressed in liberation language. This episode names the systems — diet culture, medical fatphobia, wellness culture — that taught mo...

Episode summary : In Episode 6 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight demystifies one of the biggest barriers to starting therapy: not knowing what's about to happen. This episode walks through every stage of a first session — what gets asked, what doesn't, what the therapist is actually doing, what clients are allowed to expect, and what to make of how you feel after. Includes a direct note to anyone...

Episode summary : Del Knight takes four words — 'it could be worse' — and spends an hour unpacking what they're actually doing to your nervous system. What pain minimization is, where it comes from, why comparative suffering is a logically broken system, and what it actually means to let pain be what it is. Funny at the start, real in the middle, liberatory by the end. Topics covered : Pain minimi...

Episode summary: In the final episode of The Inked Therapist's nervous system arc, Del Knight gets specific about what trans-affirming therapy actually means — not the sticker in the window, but the real thing. Five concrete clinical practices, a deep dive into somatic work with trans clients, a direct address to trans and nonbinary listeners about what they're allowed to expect, and an honest not...

In Episode 3, Del Knight answers the question that Episodes 1 and 2 were building toward: what does healing actually look like in practice? The answer — slow, titrated, body-centered, at the client's pace — is unpacked across four clinical pillars, a direct address to the people this approach is built for, and a personal account of why Soma Roots Therapy was built the way it was. Topics covered :...

Episode summary : In Episode 2 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight goes deeper on the nervous system arc — unpacking what 'adapted' actually means, why the story of dysfunction causes additional harm, why insight alone doesn't shift nervous system patterns, and what the foundational shift from combat to curiosity actually makes possible in healing. Topics covered : Nervous system adaptation · Dysfu...

Episode summary : In the first full episode of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight breaks down chronic vigilance — what it is, how it develops, who carries it, and what healing actually looks like. If you've never been able to fully relax even when everything is technically fine, this one is for you. Topics covered : Chronic vigilance / hypervigilance · Nervous system adaptation · Minority stress · Wi...

The Inked Therapist is back. New chapter. Same unapologetic voice. In this pilot episode, Del Knight, PsyD, LPC, LMHC (they/them) — licensed psychotherapist, and cofounder of Soma Roots Therapy — introduces the show, the practice, and the specific kind of person this podcast was made for. Not a general wellness podcast. Not a clinical lecture series. A show for people who have been told, in one wa...