Most mental health podcasts speak at you - offering clinical frameworks from a distance. This show speaks from experience. Katrin Aslani is a registered psychotherapist who spent 16 years inside the corporate pressure cooker before becoming the person who helps others survive it. She doesn’t just understand burnout, ADHD, and chronic stress academically - she navigated them personally, then trained to treat them professionally. Using integrative, somatic, and mind-body approaches, this podcast bridges the gap between what therapy teaches and what real working life demands - practical nervous system tools for Ottawa residents and professionals who are tired of being told to “just breath”
Your calendar is full, your brain is loud, and you keep pushing even when you are running on fumes. Then the moment you try to rest, your body revs higher, your mind spirals, and relaxing feels oddly terrifying. We name that pattern for what it often is: the productivity trap, where busyness becomes camouflage for a nervous system that does not feel safe. We walk through polyvagal theory (Dr. Stephen Porges) in plain language and map the autonomic nervous system as a three-step ladder: ventr...
12 Oct 2026
S1 Ep9 What If “Anxiety” Is Actually Your Nervous System Calling For Context
If you’ve ever stared at your inbox like it’s written in another language, forgotten why you opened the fridge, or felt your energy collapse so hard that coffee can’t touch it, you’re not alone and you’re not broken. We’re talking directly to women with ADHD and the partners watching them change, especially through the messy reality of late 30s and 40s hormones. When a physician says “your labs are normal” and reaches for an antidepressant, it can leave you feeling dismissed, misdiagnosed, an...
7 Oct 2026
S1 Ep8 Executive Overload
Your jaw is tight, your shoulders are creeping up, and a single dish feels like Mount Everest, even though nothing bad is happening. That disconnect is one of the clearest signs of executive overload, and it’s not laziness or a moral failure. I’m Katrin, a psychotherapist and ADHD woman who knows the burnout loop firsthand, and I’m walking you through what’s actually happening when your brain hits that “blue screen” moment and you can’t start, can’t decide, and can’t breathe deeply. We unpac...
1 Oct 2026
S1 Ep 7 What If The Loneliness Loop Is Self Made
A single unanswered text can feel like a friendship funeral, and if you have ADHD you might be painfully familiar with that whiplash. We dig into rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) as more than “being too sensitive” and explain why it lands as physical, agonizing emotional pain. For us, the key is mechanics: an ADHD nervous system that detects possible rejection fast, predicts danger from old experiences, and flips into fight or flight before logic even shows up. We walk through what’s happ...
30 Sept 2026
S1 Ep7 Your Brain Predicts Rejection Before It Happens
Your phone stays silent for a few hours and suddenly you’re planning the funeral for a friendship. If that sounds familiar, we’re talking about rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) and why it hits so hard for so many people with ADHD. I’m Katrin Aslani, therapist and nervous system nerd, and I’m pulling RSD out of the “you’re just too sensitive” box and into what’s really happening: fast, body-first threat detection that can feel like physical pain. We break down the mechanics behind the spir...
23 Sept 2026
S1 Ep 6 Seventeen Tabs Later, Nothing’s Done
Your brain can be brilliant and still feel impossible to manage. If you’ve ever sat down to do something important and ended up reorganizing a spice drawer, opening 17 tabs, or waiting until panic finally kicks you into action, there’s a reason and it’s not laziness. I’m Katrin, psychotherapist and recovering people pleaser, and I’m walking you through the part of the brain I call your “CEO”: the prefrontal cortex, where planning, organization, prioritizing, impulse control, task initiation, ...
16 Sept 2026
S1 Ep5 The Awkwardness of Pause
Your phone isn’t stealing your attention because you’re weak. It’s doing it because your brain is doing exactly what it was designed to do: chase rewards. I’m Katrin, a registered psychotherapist, and I’m digging into the dopamine cycle that keeps so many of us stuck in scrolling, overworking, online shopping, and that restless feeling of “I never have enough time.” We start by clearing up the biggest myth: dopamine isn’t the happy chemical. It’s the wanting and anticipation system. That’s w...
9 Sept 2026
S1 Ep4 What If Your Patterns Are Protection
Your life can look “fine” on paper and still feel like you’re stuck on the same painful loop. Different job, different city, different partner, same ending. That’s often not a willpower problem, it’s a nervous system pattern. We talk about trauma in a wider, more honest way: not only catastrophic events, but also the quiet experiences of being dismissed, walking on eggshells, feeling invisible, growing up too fast, or learning that love had to be earned. Sometimes trauma is what happened to ...
2 Sept 2026
S1 Ep3 When Your Body Won’t Calm Down
Your shoulders are up, your jaw is tight, and your brain is saying, “Nothing is wrong.” That disconnect is one of the clearest signs that the nervous system is running the show. We unpack why anxiety is not just a thought pattern, but a full-body experience, and why many people can understand their trauma, ADHD, burnout, or chronic stress and still feel frozen in the same habits and symptoms. We break nervous system regulation down in plain language, using a simple “security system” le...
26 Aug 2026
S1 Ep2 What To Do After An Adult ADHD Diagnosis
Getting diagnosed with adult ADHD can feel like someone finally hands you the missing context for your entire life, but it can also bring a wave of grief for all the years you spent blaming yourself. We sit with that messy mix of relief and loss, and we talk honestly about the question we hear most: “Okay, so I have ADHD. Now what?” If you are newly diagnosed, considering an ADHD assessment, or supporting a partner, child, friend, or coworker, this conversation gives you a clearer next step t...
19 Aug 2026
S1 Ep1 Burnout Is Not A Personality Trait
Your body doesn’t “randomly” fall apart after years of pushing. It sends signals, and when we ignore them long enough, it eventually pulls the plug. We’re telling the most personal origin story behind Clear Path Psychotherapy: how a high-performing career, chronic endometriosis pain, and years of people pleasing quietly stacked up until burnout stopped being a word and became a full shutdown. We talk about the kind of burnout that still looks functional from the outside: emails answered, din...
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