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Called to Healing13. Called to...Season 1 ReflectionsJoin us as we reflect on the last season. From our technical difficulties to our own transformations We cover it all. Please don’t forget to leave us a review, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our patreon. We would love to financially support our guests for season 2 and keep the show ad free.Thank you for lending us your time and your support.MentionsMissed mention from the previous episode: Cunningfolk (2015) - The Green Bottle MethodThis method is one of many, it just happened to be the on...
2026-01-1221 min
Called to Healing12. Called to...Money, Money, Money (BBHMM)The business of being a mental health practitioner running your own private practice is something that we see people discuss on social media, but these conversations are often lacking in nuance. Many of the general public think therapists just want to take your money, but don’t know much about what goes on behind the scenes, both emotionally (how do we reach the people who can’t afford to see us?) and financially (how do we price our services and what’s the deal with insurance?).Mentions in this EpisodeBook: Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen...
2026-01-061h 09
Called to Healing11. Called to...Bad SupervisionIn this episode, we talk about what makes a bad supervisor and some terrible supervisory experiences we have had, as well as what we think defines good supervision.Reminder 1: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Mentions in this EpisodeWright-Constantine Structured Cultural InterviewLily’s & Elise Tea House, Detroit, MIGrand America Hotel - Afternoon Tea, Salt Lake City, UTAdditional Notes...
2025-12-151h 07Called to Healing10. Called to…Conferences, Training, & Certs Oh My!In this episode, we talk about how professional training is like an MLM and the ways in which entry into the mental health field is gatekept monetarily. As always, we share personal experiences and stories. As a reminder, episodes are recorded in advance and may not align with current time context.Mentions in this EpisodeInclusive Therapists - on Facebook and Instagram @inclusivetherapistsIDHA-NYC - Institute for the Development of Human Arts. Please note their end of year celebration and fundraiser on 12/7/25. This is an organization that can benefit from and deserves your...
2025-12-011h 11Called to Healing9. Called to...Getting & Keeping ClientsMentions in this Episode:In this episode, we discuss how power and subjugation is wrapped up in how we solicit and are able to maintain clients.Instagram: @mothersagainstgen0cides (change the zero); @inclusivetherapists; @cteacconsulting @theantiableistdoc (Dr. Dyette’s other business pages)Our Instagram is @calledtohealing. We are no longer on Spotify, but you can find us on Apple Podcasts, Zencastr, and YouTube for our video episodes.Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/calledtohealing.Make a ONE TIME donation to help us keep this ad free and help with production co...
2025-11-181h 02Called to Healing8. Called to...Our Clinical PersonaWho we are and how we show up in the room is often referred to as “clinical persona,” and directly relates to our clinical niche(s). However, it is also wrapped up in power and oppression and messages we were given, either overt or covert, about what was appropriate or acceptable.Reminder 1: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Mentions in this episode:Understanding Therapeutic Neutrality from the Chicago Psyc...
2025-09-151h 05
The Doctor Coach School™ PodcastFrom Oppression to Liberation: How Dr. Ksera Built a Practice on Her Own TermsThis week I got to sit down with someone I admire deeply. Dr. Ksera Dyette, also known as The Anti-Ableist Doc, joined me for a powerful conversation.Y’all, this conversation had me shook. Dr. Ksera is a licensed clinical psychologist, Black Caribbean immigrant, queer, dynamically disabled, neurodivergent, and the founder of Rooted Justice Private Practice Coaching, a program for BIPOC/PGM clinicians ready to build liberatory private practices that work for their clients and for themselves.In this episode, Dr. Ksera shares: 👉🏾 Her story of immigrating from Trinidad at age five, nav...
2025-08-1854 minCalled to HealingEpisode 7: Called to...Our Clinical NicheWhat in the world is a clinical niche? What is the relationship of the niche to power, oppression, and ownership? We discuss this in detail.Reminder: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Our Instagram is @calledtohealing. We are on Spotify, and you can find us on YouTube for our video episodes and we are now on Apple Podcasts!!Join our Patreon at: patreon.com/calledtohealing.Make...
2025-08-041h 13Called to HealingEpisode 6: Called to...Think Like a Business OwnerMental health practitioners are not trained to think like business owners and business principles have a messy relationship with capitalism. Collective care is complicated and mental health practitioners don’t often include their care in the equation – from telehealth vs. brick and mortar office to cutting overloaded caseloads, we cover a lot.Yes, we know there were a lot of microphone troubles this episode. If you want us to not be amateur editors, please support the pod financially!Reminder: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our firs...
2025-07-281h 05Called to HealingEpisode 5: Called to...Self CareIn this episode, we talk about what self-care looks like for us as two mental health practitioners and we wrestle with somatic healing and its relationship to wytness.Reminder: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Mentions: @pat.radical.therapist on Instagram. Radical Mental Health & Somatics, founder of @liberatorywellnessnetwork. Post Title: What if Dysregulation is a Form of Resistance? Dated: Jan 30, 2025.Our Instagram is @calledtohealing. We are on Spotify...
2025-07-071h 04Called to HealingEpisode 4.5: Called to...A DisclaimerThis is a brief note about events going on in the decolonizing community that took place just last week, 4 months since we recorded episode 5. We encourage you to take a quick listen, before you delve into our next Episode. Until next time, Rest easy.
2025-07-0702 minCalled to HealingEpisode 4: Called to...Not Answering the CallIn this episode, we wrestle with a long-held concern that mental health practitioners do not really choose the profession and what would it actually mean or look like for that to occur. This was, like all our conversations, an imperfect one. We hope our out loud struggle helps other healers out there.Reminder: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Mentions: Dr. Dyette’s Rooted Justice Coaching Program for therapists wanting li...
2025-07-021h 00Called to HealingEpisode 3: Called to...Graduate School - Part 2In this episode, we dive into co-host, Blanca Torres’ experience in graduate school. This episode underscores the ways in which mental health graduate programs perpetuate and are built upon oppressive systems.Reminder 1: As usual, this episode is not meant for tiny ears.Reminder 2: We recorded our first few episodes in batches, so our time context may not align with release dates.Mentions: Finch, a “self-care” and productivity appInstagram is @calledtohealing. We are on Spotify, and you can find us on YouTube for our video episodes.Patreon at: patreon.com/ca...
2025-06-0258 minCalled to HealingEpisode 2: Called to...Graduate School - Part 1In this episode, we dive into co-host, Dr. Ksera Dyette's experience in graduate school. She discusses the highs, the lows, the middling and more. From not being sure what she wanted to do, to not having enough money to fill her gas tank, to discriminatory experiences in school, a lot is covered, and it is still not everything.Our Instagram is @calledtohealing. We are on Spotify and you can find us on YouTube for future video episodes.You can join our Patreon at: patreon.com/calledtohealing. Please note that our Patreon subscribers get first dibs...
2025-05-1950 minCalled to HealingEpisode 1: Called to...The BeginningOn this episode, meet your hosts Dr. Ksera Dyette (she/her) and Blanca Torres (she/her), two queer, intersectional, feminist clinicians at different points in our career journey's. Hear who we are, what brings us to the podcast world, and how addressing the injustices in the mental health field have long been a part of our clinician DNA. Please note that we recorded this episode in January 2025 and we are very aware, as we expected, a lot of nonsense has happened since then. Please note, there may be some strong language at times and topics might be triggering, so e...
2025-05-0539 min
Depresh Mode with John MoeHoliday Survival for People With Complicated MindsIt’s that time of year when tv commercials and store decorations implore you to feel merry and jolly (words we only use this time of year). And if you do feel that way without any complications or nuance, well, good on ya. But for people who live with depression, anxiety, problematic stress reactions, this season can be a real minefield.We’re joined this week by two therapists who are also friends of the show.Dr. Ksera Dyette talks about strategy come holiday time and how to protect yourself from toxic or problematic family memb...
2022-12-1950 min
FANTIWhat Was SaidMentioned in the show(Solo) ho Jeff commented on the episode Shine Bright (ft. Danyel Smith)Dr. Ksera Dyette, PsyD, BCB had thoughts about jarrett’s issues with people who don’t respect the “Do Not Disturb” notification on his phone, from the episode Social Media Is Work Too (ft. Jonta’ Harris and Denver Sean)Kim (she/her) had a song recommendationWe had several listeners write in about the tipping episode The Tipping Point, including Milika who told us about NPR’s Throughline episode “The Land of the Free” about the...
2022-06-231h 01Depresh Mode with John MoeThe Language of Mental HealthThe English language is constantly growing and evolving, and so is our usage of that language. We don’t refer to people with mental illness as “lunatics” anymore. At least we shouldn’t. But there was a time when that was a commonly accepted term.Even language that we think to be more enlightened can fall out of favor. Person-first terminology has become popular in recent years. That’s where you don’t say “Tom has depression.” You say, “Tom is a person with depression,” in an effort to convey that Tom is a person above anything else. But the person...
2022-05-1658 minDepresh Mode with John MoeJarrett Hill and the Quest for the Therapist Who Knows What You’re Talking AboutBefore he was a podcast host, radio personality, or a journalist breaking major political news, Jarrett Hill was a kid growing up gay in a religiously conservative environment. So when it was time to come out, it meant defying the homophobic words of his pastor who had urged parents to not let their kids grow up to be “sissies”. He had first started seeing therapists as a result of his parents’ protracted divorce and went intermittently over the years. Finally, with the help of a particularly observant therapist, he put it together that a pattern of thinking and behavior he had...
2021-05-2455 minDepresh Mode with John MoeWhat To Expect When The Virus Is Gone But COVID Trauma Goes OnLook, we’re all going to be messed up for a while from COVID. Some of us a lot, some of us a little, some for a very long time, others for not as long. But it’s trauma. It’s an event more powerful than the brain can handle and that means mental health repercussions down the road. So let’s talk about what might happen. Dr. Ken Duckworth, medical director of NAMI, provides insight into how trauma works. Then therapist Dr. Ksera Dyette tells us the trauma signs she’s already seeing in her practice.Visit the...
2021-04-2651 min
Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & CultureRU111: DRS KSERA DYETTE & NATASHA HOLMES on education, psychology, race, gender, systemic violenceKsera Dyette, PsyD. is a 31-year-old, cisgender, Black West Indian woman, who is a Licensed Clinical & Forensic Psychologist in Massachusetts. She is an immigrant, intersectional feminist, and social justice-oriented clinician and her unique story informs her clinical work. As a person with multiply intersecting marginalized identities, Dr. Dyette does not get to hide some of these more important aspects of her identity and so though she is analytically oriented, she believes that the practice of being "blank," is a concept that did not have therapists who looked like her in mind. Dr. Dyette maintains a private practice part-time called Cup...
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