The Traveling Therapist Podcast

Dr. Alisha Powell has a bachelor's and master’s degree in social work and a doctorate degree in Psychology. She has experience working in a variety of settings that have included long-term care, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and residential treatment centers working with clients from all walks of life. Alisha became curious about travel social work due to her love for travel and has taken nu...

Mary Jo Harmon recently obtained a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Memphis.  As the first college graduate in her family, she embraces a dynamic curiosity to create a career path less traveled. She returned to graduate school after a lengthy career in IT Management and made a goal early in her academic program to achieve both a high-compensation career while embracing a...

James Rumbaugh resigned from the school system on June 30th and opened up his full-time private practice on July 1st. The Rumbaugh's Family hit the road on Sept 1st just the 4 of them, James, his wife Liz, and two boys in a travel trailer for a year.   In this episode, James and Liz Rumbaugh will discuss about themselves and share a bit about their relationship. Liz will discuss how it is goi...

We are spending the winter in Florida. A different airbnb on the beach every month. We opted for month to month since it’s such a huge discount to book that way. We’ve brought our second car back into the equation! What a relief to have so much space!! We are starting to discuss our Spring and Summer plans out west! So excited for what’s to come. I’ve been working on a number of projects and the b...

Sarah Leitschuh is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who practices in Eagan, Minnesota. Through her work with The Vibrant Therapist Consulting, LLC, Sarah supports other therapists in discovering how to do their work in a way that energizes them and doesn’t leave them depleted when it comes time for personal interests and relationships.  Sarah is on a mission to help reduce therapist overwh...

Karin Hatch is married with two boys who both live away, one in England and one in Canada. She and her husband decided to relocate to Las Tortugas in a beautiful villa in Carriacou, another island north of Grenada in the Grenadines.   She is a Clinical Psychologist Applied Developmental Specialist and had her private practice for 28 years. Her niche population is 0-5 years but due to covid, she wa...

Kaci Schmitt is a wealth-building mentor for therapists and the owner of Invested Therapist™. Outside of running Invested Therapist™, Kaci is a therapist in private practice who educated herself about personal finance, including investing for retirement and other financial goals. When she saw the impact learning about investing for retirement had on her own life, she created a second business to h...

Maria Hernandez is by default a psychotherapist. She enjoys sharing this in the hopes that it may encourage those in the helping professions and Human Services, such as counselors, social workers, case managers, and employees of nonprofit organizations, to think about opening their own private practice. It has developed into her passion throughout the years. She takes pleasure in assisting others...

We've been on the road for eight months now, and we've seen some amazing sights! We just finished up a trip to Niagra Falls, and it was incredible. The power and beauty of those falls are truly awe-inspiring.   But that wasn't our only stop on this trip. We also visited Vermont and Maine, both of which were beautiful in their own ways. And now we're in the Poconos, which is def...

For today’s episode, we have Sydney Conroy, a first-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge at the PEDAL Research Center. Her current work focuses on the voices and experiences of children in play therapy sessions, as well as issues including trauma, the COVID-19 epidemic, and social discomfort. Sydney has experience working with children and families in both a private practice at Eastside...

Dr. Abigail Hitchen is a licensed psychologist in California with a telehealth credential for Florida. She has Iowa roots but was mostly raised in Oregon, and spent the last ten years in Southern California.   She has a background in Latinx mental health and migration patterns and social justice and was involved in several projects at the San Diego/Tijuana border. She started 100% telehealth in 20...

For today’s episode, we have with us Sara Barroso LMHC who is a licensed therapist in Massachusetts. Sara's practice focuses on helping people who are dealing with complex trauma, disordered eating, body image problems, depression, and anxiety. Sara has spent the last ten years traveling and has spent the last year residing in Tanzania. Her tele-health private practice was established in 2021...

Lisa Lovelace is a therapist who, before 2012, didn’t offer online therapy. That’s when she began noticing the appeal of an online therapy practice and started doing online therapy. She was doing online therapy before it was such a big thing and so popular! Then, Lisa quickly added on a few colleagues and her practice grew significantly in the first three years alone! Synergy eTherapy was one of t...

We have been to so many places in the last month!! The month started with a trip through Virginia to see our families. We went to Lynchburg, Williamsburg, Chesapeake and Richmond then on to West Virginia for a few weeks. We really are starting to feel the cost of these airbnbs. Yikes. Monthly rentals are starting to seem more appealing, price wise. We got to try skiing on artificial turf and I got...

Erin Carey is the founder of Roam Generation, a PR agency focused on helping travel, leisure and luxury brands, experts and destinations share their unique and inspiring story with the world.   Erin has over 20 years of communications experience in the corporate environment and has interviewed in excess of 1000 people throughout her career. She has an inquisitive nature and loves to ask the big qu...

Join us in today’s episode as we have Amber Priestley, a therapist and business coach with multiple interests who loves to travel and discover new places! Amber is dedicated to providing other therapists with a tested formula for starting and expanding wildly successful counseling practices. In her private practice, clinical therapist Amber likes to work with stressed-out professionals and couples...

In today’s episode, we have Andrea Shipley. She is an LPC and a nomadic therapist who built her own private counseling practice, sold her house, and converted a 2002 Thomas school bus into her traveling home office. She’s been exploring and working from the road since 2019 and doesn’t have plans to settle down any time soon. Andrea also created a small group coaching program where she helps people...

Join us for this episode as Sheryl Smith takes us on a journey through Japan and Asia.  Sheryl traveled to Okinawa to the University of Okinawa where she was a cross cultural psychology assistant of Psychologist Dr Kevin Flanagan.  She flew to Tokyo and ran support groups at The International Publications Education and Communication (IPEC) for East/west relations. She traveled to Kyoto, Osaka, Shi...

This month started in Fort Lauderdale and ended in Asheville, NC.    This episode covers a lot of ground!  An update about Inspirato the luxury travel club I joined.  Some ways I’ve incorporated exercise into my travel.  The ups and downs of launching the Experts’ Guide to Becoming a Traveling Therapist course and new income streams I’m launching over the next few months.  I share about my stay in...

I met with Patrick Casale who discusses his journey from community mental health to thriving entrepreneur. He talks about how he made the transition, what he's been up to since, and some of the challenges he's faced along the way.   It was really interesting to hear about Patrick's journey and get some insights into the entrepreneurial mindset. He's definitely someone who is th...

For today’s episode, we have Chelsea Sanburg who is a licensed mental health counselor. Together with her husband, they have accomplished what they set out to do after years of consciously creating a life that allows for a healthy work/life balance. Even though getting there wasn't always simple, it was worthwhile and along the way, they discovered that travel is a mindset and that it can be...

On this episode of The Traveling Therapist, I met with Steven Mollura. Steven travels in his built-out travel van “Eloise”. Steven and I discuss van life and tips on how to navigate no plumbing, wifi and generally living out of a van. He shares about loneliness on the road and how to plan the perfect amount of downtime when traveling.    Steven is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor specializing in...

Join us for this episode with Ruthie Kalai. Ruthie recently traveled to Portugal for a month where she continued to see clients and the country as part of a unique digital nomad travel club. In this episode, Ruthie shares her tips, tricks and experience with being A Traveling Therapist.    She has been a therapist for over 20 years but was always stuck working in schools. It wasn't until she...

This episode discusses my journey over the last month as a digital nomad, entrepreneur, and creator of side hustles. I discuss the pros and cons of the digital nomad lifestyle, how to make money online, and the challenges I've faced along the way. As you may already know, I'm a big fan of having a side hustle to supplement my income and over the years I've developed 8 of them! In th...

Lisa Jellison is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in the State of California. In 2018, Lisa closed her successful private practice of 9 years in Redding, CA and decided to live abroad and travel. Now she lives in Paraguay, and enjoys traveling all over South America while working in her online private practice.   Lisa grew up in Redding, Califor...