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
60 episodes
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...
Why Private Practice Feels So Isolating and What to Do About It with Tara Wells
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 ...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Holding Uncertainty With Confidence | 13 min
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 op...
The Five Ms of Mental Health for Clinicians with Dr. Pedro Morante
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 t...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Trusting Your Clinical Judgment | 14 min
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 bo...
What Therapists Get Wrong About Session Notes with Barbara Griswold
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 clien...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Separating Your Worth From Client Progress | 14 min
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 ...
Breaking the Scarcity Mindset and Scaling Beyond One-to-One with Kimberly Parker
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 ce...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Ending the Day Without Replaying Sessions | 14 min
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, wond...
Building a Therapy Brand Online Without Losing Your Voice with Michael Fulwiler
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.
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: You Are Not Responsible for the Outcome | 14 min
Join Julie Grace for a guided meditation created specifically for therapists and mental health professionals who may sometimes feel responsible for the outcomes of their clients' healing. Through breath awareness, mindfulness, and guided imagin...
Why Therapists Stay Stuck in the Cycle of Overworking with Nicole Liloia
Feeling stuck in the cycle of overworking, under-earning, and wondering if there’s a better way to run your therapy practice? Many mental health professionals hit a point where burnout feels inevitable, especially when traditional models don’t ...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: When Empathy Feels Heavy | 12 min
Join Julie Grace for this guided Berries meditation designed for therapists navigating the emotional weight that empathy can carry. Through a gentle body scan, breath awareness, and grounding visualization, this practice helps you identify wher...
The Mindset Shifts Therapists Need to Succeed in Private Practice with Nancy Cowden
Thinking about starting a private practice but feeling stuck in fear or uncertainty? Many mental health professionals dream of working independently, yet worry about finding clients, setting the right fees, or marketing themselves without feeli...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Holding Pain Without Carrying It Home | 10 min
Join Julie Grace for this guided meditation created specifically for therapists and helping professionals. In your work, you may be carrying more than you realize - echoes of sessions, the weight of responsibility, and care that continues even ...
How AI Supports Social Workers and Private Practice with Porter Charles
Burnout, documentation overload, and administrative complexity are stretching mental health professionals thin across hospital systems and private practice. The pressure to stay clinically present while managing endless forms, letters, and insu...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Arriving Fully to This Moment | 10 min
Join Julie Grace for a calming 10-minute guided meditation designed to help mental health professionals arrive fully into the present moment. This grounding practice invites you to step away from your role as space-holder and simply be with you...
How to Simplify Therapy Notes with Maelisa McCaffrey
If documentation feels like the dishes and laundry of your clinical work, you’re not alone. Many mental health professionals were never properly trained in progress notes, treatment plans, or documentation standards, yet we’re expected to “just...
Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Clearing the Previous Session | 5 min
Join Julie Grace for a gentle 5-minute guided meditation created specifically for mental health professionals between client sessions. In your demanding work, it's natural for traces of previous sessions to linger, this practice offers you a co...
Becoming a Better Clinical Supervisor with Amy Smitke
Burnout is not just about client hours and documentation. For many mental health professionals, it starts in supervision. When supervision becomes administrative box-checking instead of real professional development, growth stalls and resentmen...
From Burnout to Six Figures with Denielle Rigoglioso
What happens when your dream job slowly turns into the very thing burning you out? For many mental health professionals, the answer is quiet exhaustion, creeping resentment, and a body that starts sending warning signs you cannot ignore....
Training the Next Generation of Mental Health Professionals with Sindee Gozansky
If you are feeling pulled to mentor, supervise, or support newer clinicians but unsure where to start, this episode is for you. Many mental health professionals feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of supervision, worried about time, liabilit...
