Small shifts for real emotional change.
Celeste The Therapist is a warm mental health show built around small, practical shifts in how people notice their bodies and patterns. Brief Daily Shift episodes sit alongside longer interviews on harder subjects, from nervous system overwhelm to family harm.
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Celeste The Therapist works like a daily reset with room for deeper work. The show alternates between brief Daily Shift reflections and longer interview conversations. Its central concern is emotional awareness in the middle of ordinary life: the moment a body tightens, a thought starts racing, or a person decides to stay quiet just to keep the peace. Celeste often starts with a familiar reaction and slows it down. Overthinking becomes a clue. Irritability becomes information. Shutting down becomes a nervous system response rather than proof that something is wrong with a person. That framing gives the show its warmth. It is not soft because it avoids difficult subjects; it is soft because it refuses to turn difficulty into shame. Recent episodes spend time with dysregulation, overwhelm, boundaries, people-pleasing, forward movement, and the quiet evidence of personal growth. The Daily Shift format is especially direct. A single idea is repeated, reframed, and brought back to the body through breathing, grounding, space, or a small next step. The longer episodes widen the lens. Brad Watts speaks about sibling sexual abuse, the confusion parents can face, and the need to bring hidden harm into conversation. David Swanson speaks about staying grounded when the world feels out of control, including the limits of social media, protest, emotion, and embodied capacity. These interviews are conversational, but they are held with care. Celeste often reflects a guest’s point back into practical language for the audience. The show is at its strongest when it connects emotional insight to an action small enough to try today. It does not promise a complete reinvention. It notices the pause before reacting, the boundary spoken a little more clearly, the courage to send one email, make one call, rest, or say no. That modest scale is part of the appeal. Celeste The Therapist gives mental health reflection a steady rhythm for people who want support that feels human, plain, and repeatable.
Made for: For listeners who want accessible mental health reflection around regulation, boundaries, overwhelm, trauma, and everyday self-trust. It especially suits people who prefer warm guidance over jargon-heavy analysis.
What sets it apart: The show blends short, ritual-like emotional resets with longer conversations that can handle serious material without losing steadiness. Its clearest signature is translating body reactions and emotional patterns into small, concrete next steps.
Shifting the way you think starts here.Celeste the Therapist is a mental health and emotional wellness podcast created to support you in real, everyday life — not just when you're in crisis, but as a daily practice of awareness, regulation, and intentional living.Hosted by licensed mental health counselor Celeste Viciere, LMHC, the podcast offers grounded conversations and therapeutic insights to help you better understand yourself, your patterns, and your emotional world.The Daily ShiftAt the heart of the podcast is The Daily Shift — a short, daily ritual designed to help you pause, regulate, and reconnect with yourself, even on your busiest days. Each episode offers one simple perspective…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Celeste Viciere connects emotional awareness to practical action through brief reflections, structured teaching, and candid guest conversations.
Celeste Viciere moves between two-minute reflections, solo teaching series, and longer conversations with guests. Her practical focus is the space between recognizing a pattern and changing it: noticing resistance, naming emotions, tracking bodily activation, and acting before…
Celeste gives you two-minute shifts and longer conversations for patterns that refuse a quick pep talk.
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A plainspoken look at sibling sexual abuse and the family crisis around it.
The piece handles sibling sexual abuse plainly, with Brad Watts giving a direct definition and Celeste pushing on the practical questions parents face when a family is in crisis.
A calm look at limits, attention, and the body's signals.
The episode follows Celeste and David Swanson as they talk through what it means to stay grounded when attention runs hot. Chicago wind, social media, and the body all stay in view, and the discussion keeps returning to practical limits: one neighborhood, one body, and the…
A reflective account of how listening to friends can turn inherited certainty into public responsibility.
Celeste's conversation with Dave Capozzi traces allyship to the point where inherited belief no longer felt settled. They met through work at a homeless shelter, and Dave remembers being 26 when friends' response to criticism of the church unsettled assumptions he had carried…
A compassionate guide to recognizing healing in the choices that still feel difficult.
Integration, in this episode, is framed as the work of catching emotional patterns in real time and finding a steadier response. In the final installment of her six-part series on adult children of emotionally immature parents, Celeste keeps healing concrete: noticing patterns…
Small changes, self-awareness, and the steady work of turning action into change.
Celeste the Therapist podcast returns to Jermaine Morris for a conversation rooted in self-awareness without judgment. The strongest thread is simple: change begins with small, repeatable moves, not a dramatic reset.
A grounded conversation about limits, body signals, and naming emotions before urgency hardens into burnout.
Celeste frames her conversation with David Swanson around a familiar but often hard-to-catch pattern: the body staying on alert before the feeling underneath has been named.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Celeste The Therapist brings back Dave Capozzi, a longtime friend she met at a homeless shelter, to talk about white guilt, systemic racism, and what being an ally looks like in practice.
Celeste opens the final part of a six-part series on adult children of emotionally immature parents by turning toward integration and what it can mean to move forward.
Celeste opens the show with thanks.
Celeste Viciere hosts Daily Shift 125 as part of the Regulation Shift series, focusing on how overwhelm disconnects us from our bodies.
Celeste Viciere hosts pastor David Swanson to discuss staying grounded amid political and social chaos.
This episode features an interview with Pastor Shaun Marshall discussing how to find peace and purpose during life transitions and adversity, drawing from his book and pastoral experience.
This solo episode offers practical strategies for staying emotionally grounded and resilient when overwhelmed by heavy world events, without shutting down.
Celeste’s “living or just existing” question turns survival mode into a test of whether daily routines crowd out presence, joy, and personal goals.
Celeste brings Brad Watts back to talk about sibling sexual abuse.
This episode explores the various manifestations of dysregulation, such as overthinking, irritability, and shutting down, emphasizing that it's a natural body response seeking safety and that awareness is the first step toward self-support.
This episode explores how the body's nervous system reacts to perceived threats before the mind can process them, and offers practical tips for regulation through physical support rather than just mental control.
This episode explores how feelings of being overwhelmed are often physical nervous system responses rather than overreactions, and offers practical approaches to support the body through regulation techniques.
This episode emphasizes that meaningful personal growth comes from small, consistent shifts in behavior and mindset rather than dramatic overnight changes.
Celeste welcomes David Swanson back to the show.
This episode explores the personal cost of being overly accommodating and people-pleasing, emphasizing the importance of setting boundaries and being authentic to maintain self-identity and healthy relationships.
Therapist Celeste interviews her friend Dave Capozzi about understanding white guilt and becoming an ally, drawing from their shared history working at a homeless shelter and discussions on race.