The Innovative Therapist

✨ Free Resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius If you’re a therapist or helper who feels pulled toward more creative, meaningful, or aligned work… I made something for you. 👉 Uncover Your Zone of Genius This free guide will help you identify the strengths, interests, and patterns that often point toward your most meaningful work. Grab it here: https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone Episode 167: Bey...

✨ Free Resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone Episode 166: We’ve Been Conditioned to Believe Someone Else Has the Answers The problem isn’t that you don’t know what to do. Most of us already know we need better boundaries. We know we need more rest. We know we need to stop people-pleasing. We know we need to spend less time scrolling and more...

Episode 165: Building Outside the Box: Therapy Intensives, Creativity, & Following the Breadcrumbs with Steffeny Feld ✨ Free resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius Download the Guide Here What happens when therapists stop trying to force themselves into systems that don’t fit… and start listening to what actually feels aligned? In this episode of The Innovative Therapist Podcast , I sat down w...

For a long time, I thought I just needed better strategies. Better time management. Better business plans. Better systems. More discipline. What I didn’t realize was that underneath so much of my anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, and exhaustion was a nervous system that didn’t actually trust me to lead my own life. In this solo episode, I’m sharing more personally about: my journey from clinic...

What if healing isn’t just about changing your thoughts, but practicing entirely new ways of moving through the world? In this solo episode, I reflect on my recent conversation with Erica Hornthal and unpack why dance, movement, creativity, and performance have been so unexpectedly healing in my own life. Over the past four years, returning to dance as an adult has helped me notice something impor...

Episode 161: When Insight Isn’t Enough: Dance, Movement, and the Healing Power of the Body with Erica Hornthal A Gift for Therapists & Helpers If you’re a therapist or helper who feels pulled toward more creative, meaningful, or aligned work, I made something for you. Uncover Your Zone of Genius This free guide will help you identify the strengths, interests, and patterns that often point towa...

What does it actually mean to create work, relationships, and community that feel reciprocal instead of extractive? In this solo episode, I’m reflecting on my recent conversation with Lauren Silverstein and unpacking the idea of reciprocity in a much more personal way. Because the more I lean into work that feels aligned, creative, and alive, the less willing I am to spend my time in ways that dra...

Episode 160: Work that gives back: Reciprocity is the missing ingredient to work that actually feels good with Dr. Lauren Silverstein A Gift for Therapists & Helpers If you’re a therapist or helper who feels pulled toward more creative, meaningful, or aligned work, I made something for you. Uncover Your Zone of Genius This free guide will help you identify the strengths, interests, and pattern...

There’s a picture from last weekend that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s a snapshot of me performing a dance I choreographed while my 8-year-old daughter watched from the front row. The dance was about finding spaces where we can be fully ourselves instead of shrinking to fit expectations. Creating it required me to face parts of myself I’ve spent years trying to hide: the parts that are bold, e...

Episode 159: Why I’m Changing My Business (When Nothing Was Broken) Following the Pull Toward More Aliveness, Creativity, and Impact A Question I Couldn’t Shake It started with a simple but uncomfortable question: Why am I changing something that’s working? On paper, everything looked good. A solid therapy practice. Meaningful client work. Flexibility. Stability. No crisis. No burnout spiral. No d...

Episode 158: Why Therapists and Helpers Must Reclaim Personal Power with Sarah Buino ✨ Free resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone You can have all the clinical skills in the world, but if you feel disconnected from your own personal power, your work (and your life) will start to shrink. Hey friends. Welcome back to the Innovative Therapist Podcast. I’m so exc...

Episode 157: Creativity, Fear, & Agency in Uncertain Times (from Conversations with a Wounded Healer with Sarah Buino) ✨ Free resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone You don’t need to be fearless to live creatively — you just need agency, permission, and space to choose. Hey friends. Welcome back to the Innovative Therapist Podcast. This episode is a little...

Episode 156: Goals, Alignment and Mapping Your Magic in Uncertain Times You don’t have to abandon goals to live with more joy and purpose — you just need a different way of relating to them. Hey friends. Welcome back to the Innovative Therapist Podcast . I’m so glad you’re here for this one — it’s our first episode of 2026 ! Today’s episode came from a place of reflection, space, and intention. I...

Therapists, helpers, and creatives — you weren’t made to burn out. You were made to create from your Zone of Genius. 💛 Grab the free guide and start crafting work that energizes (not drains) you. 👉 https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone Episode 155: Listen to This Before You Pivot Your Career or Diversify Your Income If you’re a therapist or helper feeling the pressure to pivot, niche down, diver...

Therapists, helpers, and creatives — you weren’t made to burn out. You were made to create from your Zone of Genius. 💛 Grab the free guide and start crafting work that energizes (not drains) you. 👉 https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone Episode 154: When Play Feels Scary — What Guilt, Grief, and the Fear of Being Lazy Are Really Trying to Tell You If you’ve ever felt pulled toward creativity or p...

Therapists, helpers, and creatives — you weren’t made to burn out. You were made to create from your Zone of Genius. 💛 Grab the free guide and start crafting work that energizes (not drains) you. Episode 153. Dancing Myself Back to Life: What a Solo Taught Me About Healing and Aliveness It’s not every day that you feel yourself come fully alive on stage. This past Sunday at ArtPrize, I had the ch...

Therapists, helpers, and creatives — you weren’t made to burn out. You were made to create from your Zone of Genius. 💛 Grab the free guide and start crafting work that energizes (not drains) you . Episode 152: Therapists & Creatives: Why Creativity Is a Burnout Antidote (+ Life Updates) If you’ve felt the tug between meaningful work and your own wellbeing, you’re not alone. After a slow summe...

Episode 151: Why Creativity Isn’t Optional Anymore for Therapists and Helpers (Season 5 Finale) ✨ Free Resource: Uncover Your Zone of Genius Feeling stuck or burned out? Consider this your permission slip to come alive again. Grab my free Zone of Genius guide here: https://pages.drshawnhondorp.com/zone What if your burnout is actually a signal that it’s time to shift? What if the path back to ful...

Episode 150: Finding Community, Healing Together, and Living in Alignment with Randi Rubenstein What does it mean to find real community in a world that often feels disconnected? In this episode of The Innovative Therapist Podcast, I sat down with Randi Rubenstein for the final conversation in our three-part series on Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Living an Aligned Life. This time, we explored...

Episode 150: Writing, Play, and the Power of Creative Connection with Michelle Ringle & Alyssa Jewell Have you ever felt the quiet nudge to write something down, even if just for yourself? In this heartwarming and deeply thoughtful episode, I sit down with two gifted educators and writers, Michelle Ringle and Alyssa Jewell, to explore the transformative power of creative writing. This conversa...

Episode 148: Recipes That Heal—Creativity, Courage, & Community Care with Elisa Pérez-Arellano, LMSW What does it take to turn pain into purpose—and how can creativity, food, and cultural traditions transform how we approach mental health? In this episode of The Innovative Therapist Podcast , I had the absolute pleasure of talking with Elisa Pérez-Arellano, LMSW —founder of Inclusive Empowerme...

Episode 147: Redefining Success, Healing Through Business, and Sustainable Online Growth with Melvin Varghese, PhD What if your business could be a source of healing—not just hustle? In this episode of The Innovative Therapist Podcast , I had the joy of talking with Dr. Melvin Varghese—licensed psychologist, host of the Selling the Couch podcast, and founder of one of the most thoughtful, heart-ce...

Episode 146: From Actor to Therapist—Reclaiming Identity & Embracing Self-Energy with Adeshola Nnamdi, LMFT What does it look like to live with deep intention—and how can our past lives, creativity, and cultural roots shape the therapists we become? In this episode of The Innovative Therapist Podcast , I had the absolute pleasure of talking with Adeshola Nnamdi, MA, LMFT —an actor who made a p...

Episode 145: Why Creativity Isn’t Optional Anymore—for Therapists, Helpers, and Healers Have you ever felt stuck in your work? Like you’re helping others but losing connection with yourself? You’re not alone. Many therapists, psychologists, and helpers reach a point where something feels off. You love helping people. But deep down, you want something more. You know you’re wired to help in wa...

Episode 144: Finding Your Zone of Genius Through Culturally Immersive Travel with Kelsey Wilson & Amanda Cisneros Have you ever dreamed of experiencing travel in a way that fully immerses you in another culture—where you’re not just a visitor, but an active participant in the local community? That’s exactly what Kelsey Wilson and Amanda Cisneros have built with Travec Travel, a company special...