Her Time to Talk: Therapy Lessons Made Relatable Through Characters You Love
Her Time to Talk is a feminist mental health podcast for women who are tired of chronic guilt, anxiety, people-pleasing, and burnout—and want real tools to feel better. Hosted by Meagan Clark, MA LPC NCC BC-TMH, licensed counselor and founder of Her Time Therapy, PLLC, Season 2 features the signature format “If ___ Were My Client”, using the books and TV shows you love to make therapy relatable, fun, and actionable.
Each episode unpacks the psychology behind characters that feel way too relatable and uses their stories to help you understand your own patterns, including:
- Chronic guilt and difficulty for asking for what you need
- People-pleasing and anxiety around disappointing others
- Difficulty setting boundaries without guilt or panic
- Emotional labor and always being the one who keeps it all together
- Burnout from overfunctioning and never resting
- Losing yourself in relationships or caretaking roles
- Trauma responses like fawning, self-silencing, or self-abandonment
- Low self-trust and fear of asserting needs
- Reclaiming your voice, autonomy, and sense of self
Mental health content can feel heavy or abstract, but this podcast meets you where you are—through the stories, characters, and books you already connect with. By exploring these characters through a therapy-informed, feminist lens, Her Time to Talk provides practical strategies to reduce anxiety, set limits, and finally make space for your needs.
This podcast is for women who want:
- Practical tools they can use today
- Therapy insight that actually makes sense
- A fun, story-based way to explore mental health
- A feminist perspective that names the social conditioning behind their patterns
At Her Time Therapy, I work with women who carry a high emotional load—chronic guilt, people-pleasing, burnout, and trauma shaped by lifelong pressure to overaccommodate and stay quiet. This podcast is an extension of that work: a way to make therapeutic insight accessible, relatable, and empowering.
Tune in if you’re ready to stop shrinking yourself, understand your habits, and take steps toward confidence, clarity, and self-trust.
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Episodes
32 episodes
Intentions Over Resolutions: A Feminist Approach to Mental Health and the New Year
As we close out season one of Her Time to Talk, this special end-of-year episode invites you to step into the new year with intention, self-compassion, and clarity rather than pressure, perfectionism, or burnout.Women are consta...
Why Women Overthink: A 2-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck
Many women find themselves caught in distressing cycles of overthinking. You replay a moment again and again, searching for clarity or safety, only to feel more overwhelmed and disconnected from yourself. In this episode, we explore why these p...
The Mental Health Benefits of Taking Action
In this episode of Her Time To Talk, Megan explores why activism is not only compatible with therapy, but essential to mental health and feminist clinical practice. Drawing from her experience at the October 18th No Kings protest in Sa...
Are Women Really Ruining the Workplace?
This week, Meagan and Sydney take a deep, unflinching look at the New York Times conversation that asked whether liberal feminism has “ruined” the workplace. The original title alone sparked widespread outrage, and the discussion that followed ...
Lurah’s Time To Talk: Saying No Without Shame This Holiday Season
The holidays often highlight the invisible labor women carry—managing everyone’s happiness, absorbing tension, keeping the peace, and pretending everything’s fine. But what if this season could feel lighter, more honest, and less about obligati...
Chloe’s Time To Talk: Finding Calm in the Chaos of the Holidays
The holidays are supposed to be a time of joy and connection—but for many women, they can also bring body image struggles, food-related anxiety, and emotional overwhelm. Between family dynamics, social expectations, and the pressure to “enjoy e...
Melanie's Time to Talk: Life of a Healing Girl
In this episode, Meagan sits down with Her Time Therapy clinician Melanie Maldonado to talk about identity, feminism, and what it really means to live the “life of a healing girl.” Drawing inspiration from Taylor Swift’s newest era, ...
Sydney’s Time To Talk: What It Means to Thrive in a World Not Built for Your Brain
In this episode, Sydney opens up about her late ADHD diagnosis and how understanding her neurodivergence completely reshaped the way she approaches work, relationships, and self-compassion. She reflects on her early experiences navigating caree...
Erin’s Time To Talk: Unlearning Shame, Reclaiming Pleasure
Sex educator and Her Time Therapy practicum clinician Erin Brandt joins us to talk about what most women were never taught: how to build a shame-free relationship with your body, advocate for your pain, and expand pleasure beyond orgasm-...
No One Taught Us This: Perimenopause 101 (with Erin Brandt & Lurah Patrick)
What if the mood swings, night sweats, anxiety, and brain fog aren’t “just you”—but a totally normal phase no one taught you to expect? In this candid conversation, Erin Brandt (sex educator turned counseling intern) and Lurah Patrick...
You’re Not Lazy: The Real Reasons Change Feels Impossible
We all know that 2 a.m. moment. You’re lying awake replaying all the ways you wish your life looked different. You can see the vision, you even know the steps, but when the morning comes you find yourself frozen. You scroll, clean the kitchen, ...
Nicole’s Time to Talk: Healing Fertility Trauma with Mind–Body Medicine
Fertility isn’t just a medical issue — it’s a cultural, emotional, and deeply personal journey. In this episode of Her Time to Talk, we’re joined by Nicole Lange, a practitioner who brings together Chinese medicine, trauma-informed car...
Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault Revictimization
Why do so many survivors of sexual assault experience more than one assault in their lifetime? It’s a heartbreaking but necessary question—and one that deserves compassionate, evidence-based answers.In this episode of Her Time to Tal...
Janice’s Time to Talk: The Blind Therapist Who Truly Sees You
Meet Dr. Janice Moran, one of our newest clinicians at Her Time Therapy and a fierce advocate for disability-affirming mental health care. In this episode, Janice sits down with Meagan to explore how her lived experience as a blind woman inf...
Protecting Your Therapy Coverage Amid Medicaid Cuts: Practical Steps to Keep Your Mental Healthcare
With new federal legislation quietly reshaping Medicaid, millions of women are at risk of losing access to the care they rely on—especially mental health care. In this timely and deeply personal episode, we break down what’s really happening wi...
Beyond Happily Ever After: How Feminist Romantasy Rewrites Healing
In this episode of Her Time to Talk, we explore a deceptively simple yet revolutionary tool for women's mental health: reading fiction for pleasure.Meagan shares why fantasy romance books, often dismissed as “just smut,” can actually ser...
Kimberly’s Time to Talk: Divorce as an Act of Self-Love and Authenticity
Divorce isn’t always a failure. Sometimes, it’s the most loving thing we can do for ourselves. In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Her Time Therapy clinician Kimberly joins Meagan to share her journey through a...
Angie’s Time to Talk: The Potent Legacy of Living Authentically - Pearls of Wisdom from a Trans Elder
What does it mean to live a life that’s truly your own? In this unforgettable Pride Month episode, we’re joined by Angelique Piwinski, a trans elder, educator, and sharp-witted New Yorker whose story stretches from the Stonewall Uprising...
When Leaders Attack Mental Health and Healthcare, Women Pay the Price
Today’s episode is a call to awareness, a call to action—and above all, a call to compassion.At Her Time Therapy, we practice from a feminist counseling lens, which means we don’t view mental health in a vacuum. Systems, policie...
Therapy Costs & Insurance 101: How to Afford the Care You Deserve
Therapy can be life-changing—but figuring out how to pay for it shouldn’t be a full-time job. In this episode of Her Time to Talk, we break down Insurance 101 for mental health care: what terms like deductibles, copays, F codes,...
Lauren's Time to Talk: When Motherhood Isn’t Just Joyful—The Unspoken Unraveling of Matrescence
This week on Her Time To Talk, we're joined by therapist, mother, and assistant practice manager at Her Time Therapy—Lauren Veazey—for an intimate and powerful conversation about the emotional reality of new motherhood.La...
Adriana's Time to Talk: Healing in the Language of Your Heart—Why Culturally Aligned Therapy Matters
In this powerful episode, we’re joined by Adriana Martin De La Torre, a bilingual, bicultural therapist at Her Time Therapy who also works with...
Julie's Time to Talk: When Faith Hurts—Understanding Religious Trauma, and Reclaiming Your Power
In this powerful episode of Her Time To Talk, Meagan Clark sits down with licensed professional counselor Julie, who practices in Missouri and Colorado, to explore the complexities of trauma healing. Julie shares her insights on trauma...
Built to Break Us: Why Depression Hits Women Harder—and How to Heal
In this powerful episode of Her Time To Talk, we’re exploring a topic that hits close to home for so many women: depression. We unpack the complex web of biological, societal, and political factors that contribute to why women a...
How to Get the Most from Online Therapy
Online therapy has changed the way people access mental health care, offering flexibility and accessibility without sacrificing effectiveness. But how can you make sure you’re getting the most out of your sessions? In this episode, we explore w...