This week we say goodbye with a special message from Dr. Leslie. Tune in as they reflect on the ending of the season and their decision to make it final for now. Thank you all for taking time out of your days to connect with us. We will always be grateful. Your Therapist FriendsBởi My Therapist Friends

On our last episode of the season, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Dra. Ivonne from @drivonnemejia to our little community. Join us while we explore what community means to us and what keeps us all connected. We hope this can help you feel affirmed and supported through your journey to finding YOUR very own spaces and connections. As a…

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Alo from @thetranstherapist to our little community. Join us while we talk through the overturning of Roe V. Wade and the intersection of what it means to have bodily autonomy. We hope this can inspire you to reflect on how socio-political stress impacts both you and those around …

On this week's episode, we welcome back our beloved Samantha Funes, LMFT. Join us as we share our thoughts and reflections about our experiences with Trauma. We believe that it's important to consider the impact of history and all that we carry in our bodies even if we aren't aware of it. You are not your trauma and liberation is possible through l…

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Mirna from @oaxacalitherapist and @jefascolibros to our little community. Join us while we talk through our relationships with storytelling and ways to reclaim this special practice. We hope this can inspire you to show up with confidence and vulnerability when you share your stor…

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Lindsay from @mindmoneybalance to our little community. Lets talk moneyyyyy. Join us while we talk through the experiences of first-gen folks and the potential barriers to financial literacy. Our hope is that at the end of the day, we can inspire you to meet your financial anxiety…

On this week's episode, we welcome back our beloved Dr. Keith Hermanstyne. Join us as we get curious about alcohol use and the social acceptance of it. We believe that it's important to consider what could be behind the use of alcohol and how everyone's relationship with it is influenced by their environment and the world at large. As always, we lo…

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Samantha Funes, LMFT to our little community. Together, we come together to discuss what makes relationships so challenging and also so fruitful. Join us as we talk about how discomfort can actually help us grow. We are so curious to hear about what your reflections are on this on…

On this week's episode, we welcome back Dra. Kimberly Rios-Lam from @dr.rioslam to our little community. Together, we hold space to talk about our relationships with suicide. We believe that suicide prevention awareness is something that should happen 356 days year round and that it's important to continue having open conversations regardless of ho…

Deniss Pleiner returns for this episode to talk about the difficulties and freedoms of being single. By recognizing that-- like all things in life-- it can be a wonderful and yet not-so-great experience, we can learn to manage and make the best of the moments we are in.Bởi My Therapist Friends

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Tiffany Renee from @luvbluehealing to our little community. Together, we try our best to put words to the complicated experience of intuition. Join us as we talk about why intuition is important to our health and some ways to help us connect to our inner knowing. We are EXTRA curi…

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Dra. Kimberly Rios-Lam from @dr.rioslam to our little community. Together, we explore and redefine what professionalism means for our communities of color in the work force. Can't wait to hear how this topic sits with you. As always, we love hearing from you so please comment and …

On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Luis Cornejo, LMFT from @psychosocial_media to our little community. Our topic of discussion is one that is near and dear to Leslie's heart and influenced by the work of our queer racialized and indigenous ancestors. Join us while we talk through how the rigid rules of the gender …

In this week's episode, @denisspleiner and @drlesliecelis sit down and reflect on the journey of this podcast and the changes that have come in the past year and a half. You'll also hear the announcement of another change that is coming to the podcast: Deniss is stepping back as co-host. Join your therapist friends as they reflect and process chang…

Welcome back to season 2! On this week's episode, we get to start a new friendship and welcome Dr. Keith Hermanstyne to our little community. Our topic of discussion is the ever so controversial Oscar Slap incident of 2022. Join us while we talk through our own personal reactions and "professional insights." We believe this situation has a lot to t…

Welcome back and thank you for celebrating our anniversary with us! In this single standing episode, your therapist friends talk about COVID...again. We share some updates and talk COVID burnout. Hoping y'all find solace in this episode...we see and hear you. As always, we love hearing from you so please comment and engage with us on Instagram @myt…

Welcome to the last episode of our first season! In this episode, your therapist friends talk about gratitude. We explore what gratitude means to us and ways to use it to strengthen relationships and shift emotional experiences. At the end, we show how you can practice gratitude through reflection. As always, we love hearing from you so please comm…

In this second-to-last episode of the first season of My Therapist Friends, your friends talk about what self-care really is and what we do for self-care. As always, we love hearing from you so please comment and engage with us on Instagram @mytherapistfriends to continue the conversation. Please take some time to rate and share this podcast. Your …

This week's episode features a conversation about self-esteem. Listen along as we share some of our ideas about what it is, what influences it and what can help make it grow. As with anything, things take time and practice, but we believe that this is an area where the effort is well worth it. As always, we would love to hear about your experiences…

talk therapy can be cathartic, healing, life changing. But it's not always the answer. In today's episode, your therapist friends talk about when and why therapy might either have to wait.Bởi My Therapist Friends

This week we discuss why sleep can be so hard to get and why it's more than just an individual's issue. We just wanna put it out there.... lack of sleep is a social justice issue. We believe that there are some real world barriers to catching those well deserved "Zs." Listen along as we share some of our personal experiences with sleep struggles an…

Today we talk about the "F" word. Your therapist friends share their journeys with Feminism and what it means to them. What does it mean to you?Bởi My Therapist Friends

This week we discuss if people should be able to claim their Latinx heritage if they aren't Spanish speakers. I mean, hate to spoil the episode, but we know you know what we think that answer is. We share some of our personal experiences with the language and hold space to explore the impact of history on this dilemma. After all, being Latinx means…

We often hear about female friendships being competitive, catty, and destructive and in today's episode we take on the many facets of a female friendship and share our experiences with our female friends. As always, we love to hear from you so please connect with us on @mytherapistfriends on Instagram and share your stories with us! -Your Female Th…

***Trigger warning- content regarding violence against womxn is discussed. This week your therapist friends ask... what the heck does is mean to be a "good" Latina? We talk about what being a good womxn means and how some of these messages from within and outside can impact our mental health. The relationship you have with yourself is precious and …

Oh love, what a complicated thing. It brings good feelings and not so great feelings. In this episode of My Therapist Friends, we share our evolution of our perception of love and how our training as therapists have influenced it. What is your idea/experience with love? We'd like to know! Let's continue the conversation on instagram @mytherapistfri…

In this episode, your therapist friends talk about the act of crying from the perspective of two proud cryers. Deniss and Leslie share their stories, some information about the science behind crying and the meaning of tears. Together they offer ways to help honor this special gift and want to remind you that it's ok to cry. Please take some time to…

In today's episode, your therapist friends talk about the experience of being a minority, and how that affects our mental health. Thank you so much for spending this time with us. Please take some time to rate and share this podcast! Of course, friendships are two ways to please connect with us on Instagram @mytherapistfriends. We have enjoyed hear…

In this episode, your therapist friends talk about moving out of your family home. As you can already guess, being Latinx can make this experience quite different from what is "socially acceptable." Deniss and Leslie share their stories, give some insights into the emotional process of "leaving the nest," as well as some helpful tips about setting …

In this episode, your therapist friends cover anxiety in the latinx community, Deniss shares her experience with anxiety in her family, and Leslie shares her experience with test taking anxiety. Please take some time to rate this podcast to help grow this community! Friendships are two-ways so please connect with us on Instagram @mytherapistfriends…

Are you considering therapy? Your therapist friends think its amazing if you are! We know what it is like to be on the "other side of the couch," so join us as we share our personal adventures with finding our therapist matches. We would love to hear about your experiences and what you feel like you might need in a therapist to give therapy a try. …

As we get closer to the one year mark of this pandemic, your therapist friends reflect on the journey its been and share coping tools and tips that have helped them manage their mental health during this trying year. Conversations are two-way so please connect with us on instagram @mytherapistfriends. We would love to hear your journey, what's help…

***Trigger warning- content regarding sexual assault is briefly discussed. This week your therapist friends ask... what the heck is mental health? We talk about how it was discussed -or lack there of- in our families as we grew up. We explore what might contribute to the stigma and ways to help change that. We would love to hear about your family e…

For this episode, your therapist friends explore the land of health and wellness in latinidad. We share a few of our thoughts and our experiences including an emphasis on the value of non-western healing practices. We would love to hear about your experiences and the practices you've learned from the elders in your family. Let us know on IG @myther…

We're so happy to start this new friendship with you! Get to know us during our first episode, and continue the conversation by following us on Instagram @mytherapistfriends. Your Therapist Friends, Leslie & DenissBởi My Therapist Friends

This episode, your therapist friends talk about the experience of impostor syndrome while being BIPOC. We both exchange stories and give some insight into what we do to help us manage it. Friendships are two ways too so we'd love to hear from you! What has your experience been with impostor syndrome? Let us know! Follow us on instragram @MyTherapis…