Between Sessions with Berries

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. What Therapists Get Wrong About Session Notes with Barbara Griswold

    1D AGO

    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 client requesting records. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Barbara Griswold, LMFT and author of Navigating the Insurance Maze, to talk about what actually needs to be in a compliant progress note. Barbara has spent decades helping therapists avoid losing money, and she's distilling that experience into the practical documentation guidance most clinicians never got in grad school. In This Episode, We Cover: Why out-of-network and private pay therapists are not off the hook when it comes to documentation.The one detail most EHRs get wrong that triggers insurance clawbacks.The four cornerstones of a strong progress note and what to include in each section.Why listing "supportive listening" as an intervention can work against you.How to document medical necessity in every note without overhauling your entire process.Barbara's progress note template, now available inside Berries.Barbara’s Template in Berries You can now access Barbara’s template directly in Berries and use it in your own sessions. Go to Templates → select Barbara’s template → click Add to Library. 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.

    34 min
  2. Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Separating Your Worth From Client Progress | 14 min

    6D AGO

    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 offers a compassionate space to notice, breathe, and gently release that weight. Through peaceful visualization, this meditation invites you to reconnect with your true role: not to walk the path for your clients, but to walk beside them with presence and care. You'll work to soften the beliefs that tie your value to outcomes, and return to a grounded sense of professional identity rooted in how you show up, not in results. Berries Meditations offers mental health professionals a place to pause and reset. Created by Berries, these brief guided meditations are crafted to support the wellbeing of those who dedicate their days to caring for others. Link to med: https://we.tl/t-Lf6W7oMBgO0YpSB6 Music used: “Ajna” by Antonio Celotto: https://open.spotify.com/track/2bwnslwoUscOvpin9KNS5Z?si=675bbd7062614097 ______________ 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.

    15 min
  3. Breaking the Scarcity Mindset and Scaling Beyond One-to-One with Kimberly Parker

    APR 7

    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 ceiling. In this episode of Between Sessions with Berries, Kym sits down with Kimberly Parker, LPC-LCDC, CEO of Revive to Thrive Wellness Center, doctoral candidate, clinical supervisor, and speaker, to talk about what it actually looks like to reject that narrative and build something bigger. Kimberly shares how she moved from a packed caseload to a diversified practice, why she's passionate about cultural humility in the therapy room, and how she's learned to protect her energy while holding multiple professional roles. In This Episode, We Cover: Why "just see more clients" is doing more harm than good for new clinicians.How surrounding yourself with the right people shifts your money mindset.What pushed Kimberly out of the one-to-one model, and what she built instead.The difference between cultural humility and cultural competency.How she monetized her love of teaching into a continuing education business.The self-care structure she created after burnout and an autoimmune diagnosis.What mental health professionals should know about AI and responsible use.Connect with Kimberly Parker: Website: https://revive2thrivewc.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyparker_lpc/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/R2TWC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-parker-ma/ ______________ 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.

    29 min
  4. Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: Ending the Day Without Replaying Sessions | 14 min

    APR 2

    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, wondering if you missed something. This practice gently invites your mind to close the workday, release rumination, and simply rest. Through body awareness and guided imagination, this meditation helps you create a clear boundary between your professional and personal life. You'll finish with a calmer mind and a quiet reminder: the care has already been given, and nothing more is required of you now. Berries Meditations offers mental health professionals a place to pause and reset. Created by Berries, these brief guided meditations are crafted to support the wellbeing of those who dedicate their days to caring for others. ______________ 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.

    14 min
  5. Building a Therapy Brand Online Without Losing Your Voice with Michael Fulwiler

    MAR 31

    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. In this episode, Kym sits down with Michael Fulwiler, marketing strategist, copywriter, and founder of Fullwiler Media and the Therapy Marketer newsletter. With over a decade of experience in mental health marketing, including nearly nine years at the Gottman Institute, Michael breaks down what content marketing actually means for private practice and why most mental health professionals are skipping the most important step before they ever write a single post. In This Episode, We Cover: Why content marketing is a value exchange and how it builds trust before a client ever books.The two-part niche formula most mental health professionals overlook.How to pull content ideas directly from patterns you already see in your practice.What content pillars are, and why sticking to two or three topics strengthens your brand.Where to draw the line between personal and professional when sharing online.What AI can and cannot do for your content marketing.Why SEO is not dead and what generative engine optimization means for your practice.How to build an email list and why it outlasts any social media platform.Connect with Michael Fulwiler: Website: https://michaelfulwiler.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelfulwiler/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfulwiler/ ______________ 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.

    41 min
  6. Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: You Are Not Responsible for the Outcome | 14 min

    MAR 26

    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 imagination, this Berries meditation offers a compassionate space to release the pressure of outcomes and acknowledge where your responsibility ends and your client's begins. You'll return to a grounded, unburdened state, trusting that the care and skill you offer continues to unfold in your clients' lives long after the session ends, in their own time and in their own way. Berries Meditations offers mental health professionals a place to pause and reset. Created by Berries, these brief guided meditations are crafted to support the wellbeing of those who dedicate their days to caring for others. ______________ 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.

    14 min
  7. Why Therapists Stay Stuck in the Cycle of Overworking with Nicole Liloia

    MAR 24

    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 support flexibility or financial growth. In this episode, Nicole Liloia, social worker turned business strategist, shares how she broke out of burnout and built a sustainable, multi-income stream business. She walks through practical strategies to increase profitability, simplify systems, and rethink how mental health professionals approach documentation, marketing, and scaling without sacrificing their lives. In This Episode, We Cover: Identifying the real reasons therapists stay stuck in overworking cycles.Increasing profitability before adding new income streams.Avoiding the myth of passive income in therapy businesses.Using niche clarity and market research to create offers that sell.Simplifying systems to reduce burnout and improve efficiency.Building visibility through proactive marketing strategies.Leveraging AI tools to support documentation, marketing, and planning.Connect with Nicole Liloia: Website: https://nicoleliloia.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicoleliloia/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/liloia.nicole/ ______________ 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.

    38 min
  8. Meditation for Mental Health Professionals: When Empathy Feels Heavy | 12 min

    MAR 19

    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 where tension and residue from your sessions may be living in your body, and offers a compassionate, non-judgmental space to simply notice and release. This meditation supports sustainable empathy by guiding accumulated heaviness downward and out of the body, using the grounding pull of gravity and the earth as a natural reset. You'll return to a steadier internal equilibrium, reminded that you can remain present in your work without absorbing, and that when you do, you can always let it go again. Berries Meditations offers mental health professionals a place to pause and reset. Created by Berries, these brief guided meditations are crafted to support the wellbeing of those who dedicate their days to caring for others. ______________ 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.

    12 min
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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
    52
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Between Sessions with Berries
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