Finding Your Voice with Jason Carrasco, LMFT
Finding Your Voice is a podcast about resilience, truth, and the courage it takes to be seen.
Hosted by Jason Carrasco, LMFT, this show creates space for real people to share real stories—in their own words. As a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist and lifelong student of human resilience, Jason has spent years sitting with people in their most vulnerable moments—moments that challenge identity, spirit, and the will to keep going.
What he’s learned is simple and powerful:
Human beings are capable of surviving the unthinkable.
Jason speaks with everyday people, mental health clinicians, artists, musicians, activists, and professionals who have dedicated their lives to helping others. Together, they share insight, experience, and practical wisdom meant to educate, empower, and offer hope.
This podcast is grounded in one core belief:
Healing doesn’t only happen in a therapy session.
Healing happens in community.
It happens when someone brave enough says, “I’ve been there… and you can make it through, too.”
Finding Your Voice isn’t about perfection.
It’s about truth.
It’s about courage.
It’s about becoming whole.
If you’re seeking understanding, connection, or a reminder that you’re not alone—this space is for you.
Welcome to the conversation.
Welcome to Finding Your Voice..
Episodes
19 episodes
Understanding Suicidology: UCLA Professor Dr. Mark Kaplan on the Science of Suicide
Content advisory: This episode includes direct conversations about suicide, suicidal thoughts, firearms, substance use, and related mental health concerns. Please listen with care. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call ...
The Light After: Finding Hope and Purpose Beyond Trauma
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening."Sometimes the first step toward th...
Inside the Criminal Mind: A Forensic Psychologist Explains Human Behavior
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening.“Some people need not be in society...
Bestselling Author Andrea Cagan: The Art of Finding Your Authentic Voice
In this episode of Finding Your Voice, Jason sits down with bestselling author, celebrated ghostwriter, editor, and writing teacher Andrea Cagan for an intimate conversation about storytelling, vulnerability, and the healing power of p...
UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura: Americans in Waiting, Immigration and Our Shared Future
In this episode of Finding Your Voice, UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura reflects on how immigrating from Japan to the United States at age three shaped his identity and his life’s work in immigration law. Drawing from his book Borde...
Isami Miyashita Reclaiming Her Voice: Survival, Faith, and Healing
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening.In this powerful episode of Fin...
Sex Therapy, and Building Intimacy
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes. Please take care of yourself while listening.What if the greatest barrier to intimacy isn't sex itself—but the shame, fear, and unhealed wounds we carry into our relati...
OCD: Recognizing the Signs and Finding Help
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions, often reduced to stereotypes about cleanliness or organization. In reality, OCD is a complex disorder marked by distressing intrusive thoughts, overw...
Voices of Pride: A Natural Connection
In honor of Pride Month, Jason Carrasco sits down with social justice advocate, community leader, and consultant Hector Trinidad Placencia for a thoughtful and deeply human conversation about identity, belonging, resilience, and the power of co...
Human Trafficking in Plain Sight
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening.In this episode of Finding Your...
Part 2 The Reality of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women: Stolen Voices
In Part 2 of this deeply moving two-part conversation, and return to continue sharing the heart behind their work with and the ongoing movement surrounding Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW).Together, we explore the spiri...
Part 1 The Reality of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women: Stolen Voices
In this powerful first installment of a two-part conversation on Finding Your Voice, host Jason Carrasco sits down with Teyana Viscarra and Norm Sands from Way of the Sacred Mountain to explore the devastating reality of Missing and Mu...
The Mission Continues: Jim Zenner, Director of LA County Military & Veterans Affairs
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening.In this powerful episode of Fin...
Running Toward the Fire: Los Angeles County Fire Department Captain Eric Eastlund
In this episode of Finding Your Voice, I sit down with Los Angeles County Fire Department Captain Eric Eastlund, a leader, a servant to his community, and a man who understands what it means to show up in the middle of chaos.Eri...
Behind the Badge: Trauma, Crisis, and Finding Humanity
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes mature themes and discussions of suicide, violence, abuse, and trauma that some listeners may find distressing. Please take care of yourself while listening.In this episode of Fin...
Dr. Jaime Brown on “Finding Our Humanity: Culture, Courage, and the Power of Community”
In this episode of Finding Your Voice, I talk with Dr. Jaime Brown, leader at Brite Psychological Services, for a powerful and honest conversation about identity, strength, and what it truly means to heal.We discuss:<...
Dr. Melanie Cain: From Service to Healing
In this inspiring episode of Finding Your Voice, I speak with Dr. Melanie Cain, a Native American psychologist whose journey into the field of psychology is as powerful as the work she does today.Dr. Cain shares her path to...
Music, Therapy, and Finding Your Voice
In this episode, I talk with Daniel French, one of the founding members of Las Cafeteras, for a conversation that moves beyond music and into meaning.We explore the power of music as healing, the overlap between creativity ...
When Love Hurts: Intimate Partner Violence
In this powerful and deeply important episode of Finding Your Voice, I’m joined by Elizabeth Eastlund, MSW, with extensive experience working with survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV).Together, we break down what in...