Between Sessions with Berries

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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 

  1. 8h ago

    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 for the unpredictability that comes with parenting. For mental health professionals thinking about starting or growing a family, the question isn't just clinical; it's logistical, financial, and deeply personal. Ashley Comegys knows this terrain from the inside. She's a licensed clinical social worker, the owner of a multi-state online therapy practice for women, a military spouse who has relocated her practice three times, and the host of The Therapist Mom podcast. In this conversation, Ashley shares how she built a business flexible enough to survive cross-country moves and three maternity leaves, what she considers before taking on certain client populations, and the AI documentation shift that finally got her notes under control. In This Episode, We Cover: How Ashley built a fully online, multi-state practice around three military relocations.Why private practice offers real flexibility for parents, without pretending the deeper challenges disappear.What to think through before choosing a niche if you're planning to grow your family.How Ashley prepares clients and sets up a transition plan before going on leave.Why financial planning matters just as much as clinical planning when preparing for maternity leave.How switching to an AI documentation assistant helped Ashley catch up after her third child.Ashley's advice for building a practice that fits your life instead of building your life around work.Mentioned in the episode: Maternity Leave Playlist: www.raisedtoempower.com/maternity-leave-playlist Connect with Ashley Comegys: Website: https://www.raisedtoempower.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raisedtoempower/ Podcast: https://www.raisedtoempower.com/podcast ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    Maternity Leave Planning for Therapists in Private Practice with Ashley Comegys

  2. 5d ago

    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 misused even by the payers themselves, and getting it wrong can put both your reimbursement and your caseload at risk. In this episode, Kym sits down with Susan Frager, MSW, a credentialing and billing consultant, coach, and instructor for mental health professionals, billers, and administrative staff. Susan breaks down the terminology insurers routinely get wrong, walks through what actually happens when a supervisee gets licensed, and explains why some of the biggest billing platforms in the industry are more connected to insurance companies than most practice owners realize. In This Episode, We Cover: The real difference between incident to billing and supervisory billing.Which major insurance companies allow supervisory billing, and where the rules get complicated.Why keeping supervisee caseloads small helps protect your practice from audit triggers.What happens in the gap between a clinician getting licensed and getting fully credentialed.How to find out whether an insurer allows supervisory billing without wasting time on hold.Why some of the biggest billing platforms are connected to the insurance companies themselves.What a price transparency data dive actually helps practice owners figure out.Join Susan Frager, MSW, on July 17 for a free webinar on supervisory billing for provisionally licensed clinicians. Learn which insurers actually allow it, how to bill it correctly, and how to avoid the audit triggers that come with getting it wrong. Save your seat: https://psychbillingcoach.com/upcoming-webinars/ Connect with Susan Frager: Website: https://psychbillingcoach.com/ Schedule a consultation here: https://psychbillingcoach.com/schedule/ New Yorker feature: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/the-professional-healthinsurance-ceo-nagger The Rescue Biller® – take a peek here: https://psychbillingcoach.com/rescue-biller/ Webinars and other useful materials: https://psychbillingcoach.com/shop/ Blog: https://psychbillingcoach.com/billing-blog/ ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    What Group Practices Get Wrong About Supervisory Billing with Susan Frager

  3. Jul 14

    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 find themselves managing perception, criticism, and their own confidence all at once, without much guidance on how to do it well. David Blatt spent more than three decades coaching at the highest levels of professional and international basketball, including a run to the NBA Finals with the Cleveland Cavaliers. In this conversation, he talks with Kym about what actually holds people back under pressure, how he handled career transitions that were often sudden and out of his control, and what it takes to rebuild someone's confidence after things don't go as planned. In This Episode, We Cover: Why chasing results instead of focusing on the process makes pressure worse.How David learned to filter out criticism without shutting out everyone around him.What it took to navigate three major career changes, including one he never saw coming.The real order between responsibility and accountability, and why it matters.A simple approach to rebuilding someone's confidence after a setback.How to tell whether a team's struggle comes down to strategy or culture.Is leadership something people are born with or something they build over time?______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    Leading Through Pressure and Noise with David Blatt

  4. Jul 7

    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 is the weight of decisions you are not sure you are ready to make. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym talks with estate lawyer David Rosati, co-founder of Succession Wills, about why this task gets put off more than almost anything else and what actually helps people move through it. David has spent over a decade in estate planning, and he is honest about the emotional reasons wills stall, the assumption that quietly keeps people stuck, and how technology is starting to change who can put a proper plan in place. Whether you run a private practice or have just been meaning to deal with it, this conversation makes the whole thing feel a lot less daunting. In This Episode, We Cover: Why wills take longer to finish than almost any other legal task.The two emotional barriers quietly driving the procrastination.Why having no spouse or kids can make a will more important, not less.A reframe that takes the pressure off getting every decision perfect.Where practice owners and business succession fit into the picture.How Succession Wills uses an AI legal assistant, and what it deliberately does not do.What lifetime access changes about keeping your will current.Connect with David Rosati: Website: https://successionwills.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rosati-aa8b91100 Succession Wills LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/succession-wills Succession Wills Facebook: https://facebook.com/successionwills ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    Why Therapists Keep Putting Off Their Wills with David Rosati

  5. Jun 30

    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 your hands and body can put in, or what you do when that well runs dry. In this episode, Kym talks with Robin Valadares, a physiotherapist, clinic owner, and certified financial counselor who spent 14 years watching colleagues burn out or leave the profession altogether. After realizing his earning power was handcuffed to one location and one unit of time, Robin built Financially Fulfilled Pro to teach healthcare professionals the financial plan they never got in school. He breaks down why depending on a single income stream is riskier than it feels, and what financial mobility actually looks like when you start building it on purpose. In This Episode, We Cover: Why a single income source is a concentration of risk most clinicians never recognize.The difference between earning more and keeping more, and why chasing the top line leads to burnout.Where money shame comes from in healthcare and why valuing your time is an "and," not an "or".How to map your starting point, your goal, and the gap between them before chasing any strategy.The investing ladder and where your next dollar should actually go.How to calculate your freedom number using the 4% rule.What financial mobility means when your income no longer depends on your physical presence.Connect with Robin Valadares: Website: https://www.financiallyfulfilledphysio.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/financiallyfulfilledpro LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-valadares Blossom Social: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/robin Recession Guide: https://financiallyfulfilledphysio.kit.com/recessionguide Favourite Booklist: https://financiallyfulfilledphysio.kit.com/booklist ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    How Healthcare Pros Escape the Time for Money Trap with Robin Valadares

  6. Jun 23

    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 mental health professionals name it, they are already deep in it. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Crystal Jones, an LMFT, EMDR-trained therapist, registered yoga teacher, and founder of Couch Talk with Crystal. Crystal talks openly about the warning signs clinicians tend to ignore, why so many therapists resist getting their own support, and how she built a holistic practice that protects her from the back-to-back grind. If you have ever told yourself you should already have it all figured out, this conversation is a reset. In This Episode, We Cover: The early signals of burnout most clinicians miss until they are in it.Why "I'm a therapist, I don't need therapy" is the riskiest mindset in the field.What it means to be a professional secret keeper and the toll it takes.A 30-second practice you can do between sessions to regulate.Why a back-to-back caseload is the fastest recipe for burnout.How Crystal blends EMDR, yoga, and somatic work into one practice.A simpler way to think about meditation when you cannot quiet your mind.Connect with Crystal Jones: Website: https://www.couchtalkwithcrystal.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/couchtalkwithcrys/ ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    Spotting Therapist Burnout Before It Takes Over with Crystal Jones

  7. Jun 16

    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 they make about where to invest next. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Joshua Brummel, co-founder of TherapyFlow, who has managed over 3 million dollars in ad spend and worked with thousands of practices over the past seven years. Joshua breaks down how to finally see where your clients come from, why AI search may be saying things about your practice you don't even know about, and what a CRM actually does that your EHR never will. If marketing has felt like guesswork you fund on a hunch, this conversation gives you a clearer way to think about it. In This Episode, We Cover: The golden referral ratio that tells you when it is time to grow your marketing.The three channels still driving new clients for private practices.How AI search like ChatGPT pulls information about your practice, accurate or not.Why a decade-old review can quietly damage your brand reputation without your knowledge.The people, process, and proof framework for showing up clearly online.What a CRM does that an EHR does not, and the four signs you need one.The context ratio Joshua uses to get content that does not sound generic.Connect with Joshua Brummel: Website: https://mytherapyflow.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuabrummel/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-brummel/ ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    What AI Search Is Saying About Your Therapy Practice with Joshua Brummel

  8. Jun 9

    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 and carry around the low hum of guilt that we probably should be doing better. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym welcomes back Barbara Griswold, LMFT, author of Navigating the Insurance Maze. Barbara spent the first 30 years of her practice not writing treatment plans at all. Then the industry shifted. Insurance companies started using treatment plans as a reason to deny payment and claw back money, even from clinicians with spotless notes, and that pushed her to figure out how to do them fast and teach them. She makes the whole thing far less intimidating and shows how a few repeatable pieces can cover most of your caseload. In This Episode, We Cover: Why most mental health professionals quietly skip treatment plans.The gap between your clinical goals and what insurance actually wants to see.What medical necessity means and why self-esteem goals sink a plan.The six essential elements every treatment plan needs.The two sentences that handle the goals section for almost any client.How often to update plans, including what Medicare expects.The trap that leaves you choosing between fraud and an unpaid claim.Access Barbara Templates for free inside of Berries: Barbara Treatment Plan Template - https://app.heyberries.com/templates/shared/5Cref8DoKj0lLIoyyWpk Barbara Progress Note Template - https://app.heyberries.com/templates/shared/EqGfNafPQoU0PlLyZ6RQ Connect with Barbara Griswold: Website: https://theinsurancemaze.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheInsuranceMaze/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-griswold-mft-b973b69/ ______________ Join the Berries Community - A dedicated space for mental health clinicians to connect, share insights, and grow together. Look for Berries AI Official Community on Facebook at www.heyberries.com/community Brought to You By Berries: Ready to stop dreading your notes? Berries is your AI assistant for mental health professionals. Save time, stay compliant, and get back to the work you love. Learn more at heyberries.com.

    The Two Sentence Treatment Plan Formula with Barbara Griswold
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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 

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  • Creator
    Berries
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
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    © 2026 Between Sessions with Berries
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