Kinnected
The mental health podcast that centers collective care and relationships that outlast empire. Hosted by two BIPOC mental health professionals located in the so-called United States, Tolu Mejolagbe LPC, LMHCA and Gitika Talwar, PhD.
Kinnected
Latest Episodes
Season One Finale: Exploring ways that mental health can be a collective responsibility, not a therapist's responsibility alone
You do not need more willpower. You need more relationships. For the season one finale of Kinnected, we ( Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals in the United States) look back at what the ten epi...
How therapist-initiated peer support groups can foster collective care
A support group that keeps meeting after the facilitator leaves may sound like the script from a movie, but it actually happened and it changed how we think about community care. In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental he...
Healing in-community: What If Individual Therapy was not the only way to access care
In today's episode, Tolu and Gitika bring their licensed mental health professional hats to the idea of support groups and communities as worthy additions to individual therapy. We chew on the question of what actually helps people come togethe...
Collective Care Without The Romance: Some ways to navigate conflict in relationships
Community is supposed to be where we feel held, but what happens when it is also where we get hurt? We sit down as two licensed mental health professionals to talk about the side of collective care that rarely gets named: the inconvenience, the...
Might brave spaces help us build more authentic relationships with each other?
Tolu is away at a training and we are trying something new! Bonus episodes where we record solo, share poems or other writings that we want to share with each other and YOU! So in this episode, I record one of my favorite poems, a poem that als...
