LDS Mental Health Podcast
Niki Olsen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist and coach who uses mental health skills taught through a spiritual perspective. This is a podcast for faithful women who want healing in their relationships, guidance from God and internal peace. Each week you’ll hear mental health concepts taught through a spiritual lens from a licensed clinical mental health counselor to help you start thinking in a higher holier way.
Episodes
257 episodes
Episode 256. LDS Therapy Insights: The Hidden Reality of Emotional Abuse
Sometimes the person hurting you is the person everyone else loves. This week's Therapy Insights answers two real listener questions about emotional abuse: one from a woman wrestling with guilt over wanting to leave, and one from a widow still ...
Episode 255. When Fear Is Running Your Decisions
Fear doesn't always look like fear. Sometimes it looks like overthinking the same decision for the hundredth time, researching something to death or praying about it again hoping it will finally feel different. Most people don't even realize fe...
Episode 254. Living the Gospel with an ADHD Brain with Brittney King LPC
You've spent your whole life quietly wondering why some things feel so much harder for you than they seem to for everyone else. Scripture study won't stick. Prayers get lost in fifty other thoughts. You forget things you swore you'd remember, a...
Episode 253. LDS Therapy Insights on Toxic Family Relationships
How do you know when a family relationship needs stronger boundaries, more distance or possibly no contact? When family relationships are tied to faith, loyalty, traditions, and belonging, it can be hard to separate Christlike love from the pre...
252. When You Keep Praying but Don’t Hear Answers
If you've been praying and the answer is just...silence, you're not alone. A lot of LDS women are doing everything right on the outside but quietly feeling disconnected from God. And the hardest part? They feel guilty even admitting it. Like ma...
251. When you Don’t “Feel” The Spirit
Have you ever prayed, gone to the temple, or begged Heavenly Father for help and felt absolutely nothing? No peace, no comfort, no emotional reassurance. And then immediately wondered what's wrong with you spiritually? In LDS culture we talk a ...
250. How Emotional Healing Can Help You Feel Closer to God with Allie Allen LCMHC
Some experiences just stick. No matter how much time passes, or how hard you try to move on, they keep showing up in how you feel about yourself, your relationships, even your ability to hear God. And the frustrating part? You can't just decide...
Episode 249. 4 Skills That Change Everything When Your Mind Feels Overwhelming
You wake up already feeling behind. There are a hundred things in your head, you're trying to be present, you're trying to pray, and your thoughts are still louder than everything else. You're not failing. Your mind is overwhelmed, and when you...
248. Clear the Noise and Feel God Again
You love God. You want to feel Him. But your mind is loud, life feels heavy, and you feel stuck in your own head. If that's you, please hear me. That doesn't mean you're failing spiritually. It doesn't mean God left. It means you're human.<...
247. Why You Feel so Torn Inside with JoAnna Bethea ACMHC
As an LDS therapist, one of the most common things I hear from women is, "I feel torn inside." There' is a part of you that wants to be calm and faithful, and another part that's anxious, or exhausted, or just done. Both can be true...
246. When Fear of Letting People Down Runs Your Life with Kelly Dyches
Ever feel like disappointing someone is basically the worst thing that could happen? Like your whole body goes on high alert the second you sense someone might be upset with you?That's not just anxiety. It might be rejection sensitivity...
245. When You Feel Responsible for Everyone’s Feelings With Dr. Amanda Harms
You can feel it the second someone’s mood shifts.The tension. The urgency. The need to fix it… fast.And before you even think about it, you’re carrying something that was never yours to hold.In this conversation with Dr. Am...
244. Parenting in a Digital World with the Screen Guys
In this episode, I sit down with Talmage Erickson from Screen Guys to talk about the impact of kids using cell phones and what's actually happening inside their brains when they're on screens… and what we can do about it without going extreme o...
243. 5 Truths About Your Mental Health That Make Healing Possible
You’re trying.You’re praying.You’re doing all the “right” things.So why do you still feel stuck?!If your mind feels loud, your emotions feel heavy, and your connection with God feels quiet, this episode is going to challen...
242. When Porn Shatters Trust with David Dodini
When trust breaks like this… it touches everything. How safe you feel. How you see yourself. Even how you hear God.In this week's episode, I sit down with therapist David Dodini who works in this space every day. And we talk about what’s...
241. Healing From Emotional Abuse with Becky Bytheway Wengreen LMFT
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t leaving.It’s realizing something is wrong in the first place.You just feel… off. Confused. Second-guessing yourself. Walking on eggshells and calling it “being patient.”In this episode, I sit d...
240. Healing Through Forgiveness with the Sister Connection
Some pain doesn’t feel forgivable.Not because you don’t want peace… but because it feels unfair to let it go.In this Sister Connection episode, two women share what it actually looks like to wrestle with forgiveness when the hurt run...
239. Forgiveness Without Excusing the Hurt
Forgiveness gets talked about a lot.But for many women, it feels like pressure. Like you’re supposed to “move on” from something that still hurts… or make peace with something that never felt okay in the first place.In this episod...
238. After the Kids Grow Up: Reclaiming YOU With Dr. Christy Kane
There’s a moment many women don’t see coming.The house gets quieter.The kids grow up.Roles begin to shift.And suddenly you find yourself wondering:Who am I now?For years you’ve poured your heart into m...
237. Faith in the Infertility Journey with the Sister Connection
Some grief doesn’t have a clear place to go.Infertility can quietly unravel so many things at once. Your plans. Your faith. Your sense of identity. Even the way you see God.In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with the w...
236. Grieving the Loss of a Child with Lawrence and Melissa Stone
Some losses split life into a before and after. And no one hands you a map for the after.In this deeply tender conversation, Lawrence and Melissa Stone share what it actually looks like to grieve the loss of children while trying to stay...
235. Healing Trauma through the Savior with Elisha Harris
Some wounds don’t just hurt. They change how you see God, yourself, and everyone else.In this conversation, Elisha Harris shares how unresolved trauma can keep you stuck in survival mode even while you’re trying to do all the “right” thi...
234. Caring for Everyone While Holding Yourself Together: Ask A Therapist
When you’re the one everyone depends on, it can feel like there’s no space left for you to fall apart. This episode is for the quiet kind of exhaustion that comes from loving people through hard things while trying to hold your own life togethe...
233. Helping Your Child with Disabilities through the School System with Utah Parent Center
Some days, advocating for your child feels like a full-time job you never applied for.In this episode, Niki sits down with Esperanza Reyes from the Utah Parent Center to talk about what it actually looks like to support a child with disa...
232. Creating Connection in Blended Families With the Sister Connection
Blended families don’t usually struggle because people don’t care.They struggle because love feels complicated, loyalty feels divided, and everyone is carrying history into the room.If you’ve ever wondered, “Why is this so hard?” thi...