Today's guest is Eden Garcia-Balis— a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has over nineteen years of experience in the mental health field. She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Airport Marina Counseling Service (AMCS)— a nonprofit, community-based mental health clinic in California.

Today's guest is Judith Joseph, M.D., M.B.A.— a board-certified psychiatrist and researcher, Chair of Women in Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Medical Center, and founder of the first research lab to study high-functioning mental health conditions. She posts social media content for over 1 million followers and recently received a Congressional Proclamation from the U.S. House of Representatives for her social media advocacy and research.

Today's guest is Dr. David Rosmarin— an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a program director at McLean Hospital, and founder of Center for Anxiety—a practice that services over 1,000 patients per year in multiple states. Dr. Rosmarin studies the relevance of spirituality to mental health and his work has been featured in CNN, NPR, Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

In this week's solo episode, I react to mental health posts on Reddit! I give my most honest responses to mental health storytimes and share my best advice on a bunch of mental health questions.

Today's guest is Dr. Roberto Olivardia— a clinical psychologist and lecturer at Harvard Medical School and founder of a private practice that specializes in treating ADHD, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, OCD, eating disorders, and other issues that face students with learning disabilities. Dr. Olivardia also has lived experience as someone with ADHD and learning differences, as well as being the parent of two teenagers with ADHD and Dyslexia.

Today's guest is Dr. Jessica Gomez— a bilingual licensed psychologist and executive director of Momentous Institute. Dr. Gomez has over 17 years of experience working to create healthy communities that provide children with access to quality education and mental health services.

In this week's solo episode, I discuss my ultimate mental health hot takes! I give my most honest takes on what works and what doesn't when it comes to your mental health and share some of my favorite mental health tips I've learned throughout my recovery.

Today's guest is Jeff Kallil— a life coach and entrepreneur who helps lead and manage five family businesses. As a life coach, Jeff is deeply dedicated to reigniting the spark of self-belief in others and rebuilding their self-worth— a mission born from his own healing journey through emotional and narcissistic abuse.

Today's guest is Dr. Maddy Ellberger, PhD, LCSW— a licensed clinical social worker and adjunct professor at Columbia University who received her Masters and Doctoral training in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University and New York University. She is the founder of Downtown Behavioral Wellness, a therapeutic practice that utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR).

In this week's solo episode, I discuss why we invalidate our emotions and the power of self-validating! I share what self-validation is and how it's used in DBT, the two most common ways that people self-invalidate, why we self-invalidate and the consequences of doing so, the cycle of self-invalidation, three skills you can use to start validating your emotions, how to make self-validation a habit, goals to set and exercises to practice so you can start self-validating, and your most-asked questions on self-invalidation. If you want to stop judging yourself for your emotions and start accepting your feelings, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

Today's guest is Dr. Emily Anhalt— a psychologist, emotional fitness consultant, and the CoFounder and Chief Clinical Officer of Coa, the gym for mental health. For the past thirteen years, Dr. Anhalt has been working clinically with executives, founders, and tech employees, and has conducted extensive research with prominent psychologists and entrepreneurs about how leaders can improve their emotional fitness. We discuss how she started specializing in emotional fitness, the seven traits of emotional fitness that can help you succeed, key ways you can start to build your emotional fitness including becoming more mindful and self-aware, what emotional push-ups are and examples you can try yourself, why people often prioritize their physical health over mental health, the dangerous effects of having low emotional fitness, how to differentiate emotional fitness from other similar psychology terms, the benefits of incorporating building your emotional fitness into your routine, predictions on future trends that will embrace emotional fitness, and important emotional skills all teens (and parents!) should know.

Today's guest is Amy Dahl, MS, RD— a Registered Dietitian who has been working in the field for 15 years. She has been able to help many patients work towards improving their relationship with food by understanding all of the important and critical roles different types of food provide. We discuss what to expect when meeting with a dietician for eating disorder recovery, the often-overlooked health effects of eating disorders and whether knowing these effects can reduce disordered eating, common fear foods and food myths debunked, how treatment varies for people struggling with binge eating versus restrictive eating, ways that teens can create a healthier relationship with food, red flags that a teenager has an unhealthy relationship with food, how teens can support a friend or loved one who they suspect has an eating disorder, ways that parents can support their teen's eating disorder treatment, and how the recent popularity of Ozempic may be affecting body image and eating behaviors. 

Today's guest is Terri Cole— a licensed psychotherapist, global relationship and empowerment expert, and the author of Boundary Boss-The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen and (Finally) Live Free. She has worked for over 20 years with a diverse group of clients that includes everyone from stay-at-home moms to celebrities and Fortune 500 CEOs, teaching them how to establish and maintain healthy boundaries and create and sustain vibrant relationships. We discuss why she became so interested in boundaries as a therapist, what boundaries can look like for each individual, red flags that you aren’t setting enough boundaries in your relationships, the benefits of setting boundaries, how a lack of boundaries can cause people-pleasing and self-abandoning, how to set effective boundaries in your relationships— including with authority figures such as parents or teachers—, what to do when someone doesn’t respect your boundaries and when to take space from them, when people manipulate others under the guise of boundaries, and the secret to feeling more empowered in our relationships.

In this week's solo episode, I share advice on how you can improve and maintain your interpersonal relationships this holiday season! I discuss what interpersonal effectiveness looks like in DBT, the physical and mental health benefits of positive social relationships, setting goals for your relationships, how to achieve your relationship goals and avoid personal obstacles in your relationships, and four skills you need to know to better your relationships. If you're looking for effective ways to resolve conflict, strengthen your bond, and advocate for yourself in your relationships, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

Today's guest is Ana Tueme, a senior psychology and Spanish double major at Simmons University and volunteer Crisis Counselor at Crisis Text Line with over 200 hours of experience helping those in crisis. In this episode, we discuss how she got started volunteering with Crisis Text Line, what to expect when first reaching out to Crisis Text Line, skills she’s learned as a volunteer that have helped her be a better support system to people struggling, what most teens who reach out to Crisis Text Line are struggling with, advice for teens struggling with depression and anxiety, and how you can become a volunteer for Crisis Text Line.

In this episode, we discuss Dr. Shairi Turner’s—the Chief Health Officer of Crisis Text Line—earlier career experiences working with minority public health policy and juvenile justice, adverse childhood experiences and how those can impact teen mental health, the current teen mental health epidemic and its causes, trends in teen mental health based on Crisis Text Line’s research on millions of teens, how Crisis Text Line works and how it has been able to help so many teens and college students, and what she’d like to see change in the next few years with mental health resources.

In this week's solo episode, I share some of my favorite DBT skills and dialectics that changed my life! I discuss why DBT is so unique compared to traditional talk therapy, key assumptions to operate under when learning DBT skills, what dialectics are and how to practice a dialectical mindset, my favorite dialectics that completely changed how I think, and how you can learn other life-changing DBT skills including radical acceptance and willingness. If you're looking to learn more about DBT and start practicing DBT skills in your daily life, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!

Today's guest is Dr. Justin Puder— a licensed psychologist who mainly works with teens and young adults around many mental health difficulties including anxiety, depression, trauma, and loneliness. He also creates social media content under the handle @amoderntherapist to reduce stigma surrounding mental health through vulnerability, knowledge, and humor. We discuss advice for people whose siblings are struggling, differences between how millennials and Gen Z view therapy and mental health, the impact of stigma and misinformation, ways that stigma affects men’s mental health, the role of social media when it comes to being vulnerable, tips for teens on starting therapy, how to sert achievable goals in therapy, advice for parents and teens on navigating a parent requiring their teen to go to therapy, and a daily practice teens can do to help their mental health.

Today's guest is Amanda E. White— a licensed therapist and founder of the Therapy for Women Center, a group therapy practice serving clients in 27 states. She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen, the host of the Recovered-ish podcast, and the author of the book Not Drinking Tonight and its corresponding workbook. We discuss her past struggles with mental health and addiction and how that inspired her to become a therapist, what she wishes she knew going into college, navigating substance use in college, how to recognize when substance use is becoming a problem and getting help, how she started her popular Taylor Swift Therapy series on TikTok, what your favorite Taylor Swift songs might mean about you from a mental health perspective, and tips on how to find the right therapist for you.

In this week's solo episode, I share some of the psychology behind behavior and explain exactly how you can change your behaviors! I discuss why changing your behavior is a lot easier than changing your emotions, why acceptance is critical when it comes to changing your behaviors and how to practice radical acceptance, how our behavioral patterns develop, the four methods of behavioral change in DBT, why you might have engaged in problem behaviors and what could have gone differently, strategies for how to increase more successful behaviors and decrease unwanted behaviors, and an exercise you can try at home to practice changing your behaviors. If you're looking to correct your problem behaviors and implement more successful ones but don't know where to start, then this episode is a MUST-LISTEN!