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 M (https://www.re-membercounseling.com/) and Gitika T, https://www.pranhwellness.com/therapist-ally
Season One Finale: Exploring ways that mental health can be a collective responsibility, not a therapist's responsibility alone
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! 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 episodes (including that one bonus episode!) taught us about collective care, sustainable mental health, and the kind of connection that can actually outlast empire. We talk candidly about capacity, burnout, and how our...
22 Jun 2026
How therapist-initiated peer support groups can foster collective care
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! 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 health professionals in the United States, talk through Gitika’s experience launching a virtual student support group in May 2020, right as COVID upended campus life and Zoom became the new therapy room....
19 Jun 2026
Healing in-community: What If Individual Therapy was not the only way to access care
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! 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 together, stay together, and care for each other in ways that last? We reflect on the human hunger for shared meaning, belonging, and a sense that we are not carrying life alone. In this episode, we trade st...
18 May 2026
Collective Care Without The Romance
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! 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 exhaustion, the conflict, and the fear that showing up again will cost too much. If “find your people” has ever felt like a punchline after religious trauma, workplace exploitation, activist burnout, ...
4 May 2026
What If The Most Human Space Is Not Safe But Brave
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! 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 also has some contested history! “Safe space” is one of the kindest phrases we use in community work and also one of the easiest to overpromise. When humans gather, we bring scars, gaps in knowled...
28 Apr 2026
Can Solidarity Hold Difference Without Erasure: how might our values guide collective care?
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Values show up when things get real: the job offer that looks good on paper, the conflict you keep avoiding, the moment you realize you’re exhausted from making the same hard choice over and over. We’re Tolu and Gitika, two licensed mental health professionals, and we’re back to talk about values as a lived practice for mental health, relationships, and collective care in a world shaped by oppression and survival-mode thinking. We unp...
6 Apr 2026
Collective Grief Rituals For A Busy World
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Grief doesn’t come with an action plan. It shows up, it changes the air in the room, and it refuses to be “solved” by working harder or thinking differently. Today we sit with what happens when death and loss break into ordinary life, and why grief can feel like love with nowhere to go. We also talk about the quiet social rule so many of us learned: apologise for your sadness so nobody else has to feel it. We zoom out to collective grief an...
31 Mar 2026
Limits That Keep Love Alive: setting boundaries without cutting people off
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! “Boundaries” can sound like a clean solution, but real relationships are messier than a script. We start from that tension and ask a more honest question: how do we set limits in relationships without turning connection into control, and without abandoning ourselves to keep the peace? We break down what boundaries actually are and why the term can feel weaponized. A boundary is about what I will do in response to what happens, not a way to ...
24 Mar 2026
What If Dependence Is Not Weakness But Reality
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! We explore interdependence as a grounded practice of collective care, not a feel-good idea, and we name how it reshapes the way we do relationships. We unpack the responsibilities that come with being connected, including conflict, repair, and showing up for each other through the hard parts of being human. • interdependence as “hanging between” and living among each other • dependence as a spectrum, including healthy dependence and c...
17 Mar 2026
What If Rest Is A Relationship You Practice
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! We explore how relationship, rest, and even play become the real infrastructure for sustainable care work. the energetic difference between employee life and entrepreneurship survival mode, fluctuating income, and learning new systems building a practice through relationship, referrals, and consultationshifting from transactional networking to care-based net-weavingmicro moments of rest through slowing down and orientingrecon...
7 Mar 2026
Kinnected: Relationships will Outlast Empire
Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! What if the most durable force in a collapsing world isn’t power, but relationship? We kick off Kinnected by tracing how our paths crossed through decolonizing therapy, shared immigrant lineages, and a stubborn belief that care grows stronger underground. From that starting point, we make a case that relationships will outlast empire because reciprocity, not extraction, is what sustains life. Together we unpack the everyday web of interdepe...
29 Dec 2025
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Send us your feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Welcome to Kinnected, the mental health and wellness podcast! We are your hosts, Gitika Talwar, a psychologist and mental health practitioner, and Tolu Mejolagbe, a mental health counselor. Based in the United States but with ancestors in other parts of the world! In this podcast, we are passionately exploring interconnectedness—a journey that takes us beyond the traditional focus on individual wellness. We'll be looking at the qualit...
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