Between Sessions with Berries
You’re the one everyone turns to for support. But who supports you?
From endless documentation and emotional exhaustion to keeping up with clinical demands, mental health professionals are facing burnout like never before. You’ve tried better systems, stricter boundaries, even thought about leaving, but it still feels overwhelming.
That’s why Berries, your AI assistant built for clinicians, created In Between Sessions, a podcast made to help you do more of what matters: caring for your clients and caring for yourself.
Each week, we feature candid interviews with therapists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurse practitioners, and mental health innovators who share what’s working in the real world, not just what looks good on paper. You’ll hear practical strategies for documentation, conversations about burnout and balance, and ways AI can support your workflow without replacing your clinical voice.
Hosted by Kym Tolson, clinical consultant and longtime therapist, this show is brought to you by Berries to help clinicians like you thrive in today’s mental health landscape.
Ready for less overwhelm and more clarity in your week? Hit follow and join us each Wednesday for Between Sessions, your weekly dose of support, strategy, and solidarity from the front lines of mental health care.
Curious about how Berries can help you? Try it for free with 20 sessions on us! See firsthand how our AI assistant can help you streamline your notes and reclaim more time for what you love. Get started at https://heyberries.com
Episodes
81 episodes
Selling Your Practice Without Selling Out with Anahita Lake-Khosravi
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 somewher...
The Mental Rolodex Every Therapist Knows Too Well with Kristine Hoestermann
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 documentatio...
Delegating Without Losing Control with Nicole Lacherza-Drew
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...
Ending the Guessing Game in Mental Health Care with Dr. Steve Rondeau
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 fo...
Why SEO Beats Social Media for Booking Clients with Margaux Flood
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 ...
How Venture-Backed Mental Health Companies Are Reshaping the Profession with Dr. Lisa Lovelace
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...
Maternity Leave Planning for Therapists in Private Practice with Ashley Comegys
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 f...
What Group Practices Get Wrong About Supervisory Billing with Susan Frager
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 mis...
Leading Through Pressure and Noise with David Blatt
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...
Why Therapists Keep Putting Off Their Wills with David Rosati
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 ...
How Healthcare Pros Escape the Time for Money Trap with Robin Valadares
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 ...
Spotting Therapist Burnout Before It Takes Over with Crystal Jones
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 ...
What AI Search Is Saying About Your Therapy Practice with Joshua Brummel
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 t...
The Two Sentence Treatment Plan Formula with Barbara Griswold
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 a...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: You Are More Than Your Role | 20 min
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...
When High Achievement Becomes a Trap with Nichole Coyne
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...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Remembering Why You Do This Work | 20 min
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 reconne...
From Therapy Room to Coaching Business with Carly Hill
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 Betwe...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Sleep After Holding Others | 13 min
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...
What High-Functioning Anxiety Looks Like in Motherhood with Danielle Smith
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 c...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Releasing What You Heard Today | 13 min
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...
Preventing Therapist Burnout Before It Starts with Lorain Moorehead
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...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Closing the Clinical Day | 11 min
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 d...
Closing the Gap in Asian Mental Health Care with Jonathan Llamas
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 address...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Being the Container | 12 min
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 in...
