Between Sessions with Berries

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,...

Burnout rarely announces itself. For many mental health professionals, it builds slowly, often in the gap between doing meaningful work and losing the spark that made the work feel meaningful in the first place. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Lorain Moorehead, LCSW, EMDR approved consultant, clinical supervisor, and faculty associate at Arizona State Universit...

Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation designed specifically for therapists at the close of the clinical day. Through gentle awareness and movement, this practice offers your nervous system a clear, intentional signal that your work for the day is complete - helping you disengage from the outward orientation of clinical presence and return to yourself. This Berries meditation moves through arriv...

Mental health stigma is a barrier many clients face, but for those from Asian communities, it often runs deeper. It's wrapped up in family honor, generational silence, and the belief that struggling is something to be hidden rather than addressed. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Jonathan Llamas, psychiatric nurse practitioner and founder of Mind and Heart,...

Join Julie Grace for this guided meditation designed to help therapists strengthen their inner sense of stability - the steady, grounded presence that their clients rely on. Through breath awareness and gentle self-observation, this practice invites you to notice your natural responses when strong or complex emotions arise in the room, building awareness without judgment. This meditation guides yo...

Going from a busy agency or school system to solo private practice can feel like stepping into a vacuum. The coworkers, the structure, the built-in community, it's all gone. And for many mental health professionals, that shift is lonelier than they expected. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Tara Wells, LCSW, and founder of the Unpacked Mastermind, to talk a...

Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation created specifically for therapists navigating the uncertainty that is inherent to therapeutic work. In those moments when a session ends without resolution, when a question lingers, something remains open, or clarity hasn't yet arrived, this practice offers you a grounded space to pause and simply be with what is. Through sound and body awareness, thi...

Mental health professionals are often the last ones to apply what they know to themselves. The pressure to keep showing up for clients, students, and colleagues can quietly chip away at the foundation that makes good clinical work possible in the first place. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Dr. Pedro Morante, clinical director at Psych Up Mental Health Services...

Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation created specifically for therapists navigating self-doubt and decision fatigue. In this Berries meditation, you are invited to gently land in the present moment, notice where uncertainty lives in your body, and simply be with it -  without judgment, without pressure to resolve anything. Through breath awareness and grounding visualization, this practice gui...

Most mental health professionals know they need to keep session notes. What they often don't know is that the notes they're writing may not hold up when it matters most, whether that's an insurance audit, a licensing board complaint, or a client requesting records. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Barbara Griswold, LMFT and author of Navigating th...

Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation created specifically for therapists who find their sense of worth entangled with their clients' progress. If you've ever measured your effectiveness through what changes in another person, this practice offers a compassionate space to notice, breathe, and gently release that weight. Through peaceful visualization, this meditation invites you to re...

Most mental health professionals enter the field knowing the work will be heavy. What they don't always expect is being handed a narrative that says financial struggle comes with the territory. For too many clinicians, that story becomes the ceiling. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Kimberly Parker, LPC-LCDC, CEO of Revive to Thrive Wellness Center, doctora...

Join Julie Grace for this guided meditation created for therapists at the end of a long workday. When you care deeply about your clients, it's natural for the mind to keep replaying sessions - revisiting moments, second-guessing responses, wondering if you missed something. This practice gently invites your mind to close the workday, release rumination, and simply rest. Through body awareness...

Most mental health professionals were never taught how to market themselves. They graduate with clinical skills and almost no guidance on how to show up online, attract the right clients, or build a brand that actually reflects who they are. In this episode, Kym sits down with Michael Fulwiler, marketing strategist, copywriter, and founder of Fullwiler Media and the Therapy Marketer newsletter. Wi...