Jazmin Crookes, LPC and Karen Jennett, LPC
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Therapists naming the hard parts plainly.
Therapy Tea treats the mental health profession like a real workplace, not a polished calling. Its conversations with counselors and psychiatric nursing voices move through shame, training gaps, burnout, private practice pressure, grief work, and the messy relief of saying the obvious out loud.
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Therapy Tea: Demystifying the Mental Health Profession is a candid show about the lived reality of counseling work. It is not trying to make the field sound serene. The recent conversations lean into the awkward, expensive, confusing, and sometimes isolating parts of becoming and staying a mental health professional. Guests bring concrete paths into the room: supervision in Texas, group practice ownership, psychiatric nursing, grief center work, private practice ambivalence, community-based healing, and training in approaches such as EMDR, somatic therapy, and brain spotting. The tone is warm, but it has teeth. A recurring thread is the pressure on clinicians to act like all-knowing experts when the work often depends more on safety, presence, intuition, and honest connection. The show keeps challenging that performance. It also keeps challenging the narrow career story that says private practice is the obvious finish line. One conversation with Nicole Garcia pushes back on the shame of not wanting that path, treating varied workplaces and multiple roles as valid instead of second-best. Another with Katie La centers perseverance, supervision, spirituality, religion, counseling, and the work of chipping away at old professional systems. The episodes with Tatyana Gustafson bring in psychiatric nursing and the hard-to-explain emotional openness around ketamine-related care. Beth Cortez-Neavel’s conversation connects listening, interviewing, systemic awareness, and healing in community. Alason Polanco’s anniversary re-release gives the show a reflective hinge, emphasizing how much loneliness and out-of-placeness can exist inside the profession. The show is conversational enough to wander. That is part of the point. Small talk, jokes, messy transitions, and direct critique all sit beside real clinical vocabulary. The result is a show for people who want the mental health field discussed with affection and skepticism at the same time.
Made for: Best for counselors, counseling students, supervisors, psychiatric nursing professionals, and therapy-adjacent listeners who want insider conversation without professional gloss. It also suits people curious about how mental health workers think about burnout, training, shame, and career fit.
What sets it apart: Therapy Tea stands apart by treating clinical work as lived labor, not just vocation or technique. Its mix of guest stories, blunt myth-busting, systemic critique, and warm peer connection gives it a texture that feels closer to an honest colleague conversation than a professional panel.
Why, oh why, did I become a therapist? What was I thinking?!? Am I losing it? Or was I just misinformed?.... Join Therapy Tea hosts, Jazmin and Karen, two licensed professional counselors, every other Wednesday, as they, with the help of other mental health professionals, seek to find the answers to these deep, gut-wrenching, existential questions. Each episode, they interview fellow counselors and other professionals working in the mental health field to discuss mistakes they’ve made, career mis-steps, and those “ah-ha!” and “AHHHHHHH!!!!” moments that shift perspective. They cover the real-life practice of mental health work through a pretentious-free lens and r...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Therapy Tea makes the hidden career pressures of counseling legible through candid guest conversations about training, supervision, autonomy and burnout.
Jazmin and Karen treat counseling as a working life rather than a polished calling. Their guest conversations follow career pivots, graduate training, supervision, burnout, workplace autonomy and the pressure to make private practice the default ambition.
Private practice loses its halo when you need career talk from counselors who have actually questioned it.
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A candid look at burnout, safety, and why therapists cannot keep performing certainty.
The episode asks what happens when therapy modalities only get so far and clients are still left wondering what comes next. It is strongest when it pushes back on the polished expert pose that expects clinicians to know everything and keep a facade intact, instead of meeting the…
Private practice is not a moral finish line.
Therapy Tea returns to a conversation with Nicole Garcia around a familiar pressure point in mental health work: the belief that private practice should be the end goal.
A blunt, warm look at therapist work, private practice pressure, and borrowed shame.
Therapy Tea opens with a weather update and a bit of chaos, then settles into a simple but pointed question: what happens when a therapist does not want the private practice script? That frame gives the episode its shape.
A counselor's craft, centered on listening, comfort, and the work of asking better questions.
This piece treats counseling as a craft shaped by listening, prior work, and the patience to let people keep talking. It makes room for open-ended questions, reflective responses, and the way another career can sharpen attention to systemic issues that are easy to overlook.
A candid therapist-to-therapist conversation about supervision, autonomy, and work that fits the practitioner.
This episode follows a therapist talking through how to make the work fit the person doing it, moving from supervision to private practice to EAP work with a steady focus on authenticity.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
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.
The episode picks up part two with last week's guest.
The hosts celebrate their podcast's second anniversary by reflecting on how podcasting has helped them feel less alone in the mental health field through connections with others who share similar struggles and concerns.
This episode continues a conversation about ketamine therapy and the flexible role of nursing in mental health treatment, featuring insights from PMHNP Tatyana Gustafson.
Therapy Tea opens part two with last week's guest, Nicole Garcia, LPC, and stays with the tension around private practice.
Jasmine and Karen open with blizzard talk, client check-ins, and the familiar loose banter that sets the tone.
It opens with February banter and Boston chatter.
This episode introduces a new special series called 'Mental Motherhood' focused on mental health for mothers, created with intentionality to reach and resonate with other mothers in the field.
A guest joins the show for a conversation about aligning with your own energy while building a practice that actually works.
Two therapists discuss their personal lives and introduce an upcoming interview with a fellow mental health professional.