Podcasts, Interviews & Conversations
This work doesn’t live in a vacuum. It lives in dialogue.
CPR With Kim — Reviving Minds, Inspiring Hearts
Silvana talks about her own healing journey, how she helps providers and clients heal from oppressive messages that enter life and the therapy room.
Relationship As Medicine — What Grad School Didn’t Teach Us
Silvana talks about what happens when we emphasize diagnosis and prescription over the therapeutic relationship and holistic healing. We explore what it takes to decolonize therapy and coaching practices. We discuss why the process starts with decolonizing ourselves—examining the values, biases, and systems we’ve unconsciously absorbed.
Deeply Rested Podcast — Love, Joy, and Liberation:
A Shame-Free Approach to Decolonization
Silvana talks about what decolonization is and what this means as a service provider. Decolonization is not about perfection, but about taking intentional steps towards a more inclusive and just business.
Intentional Therapist — The Impact of 'Scripts' and Oppressive Systems on Our Self-Care
Silvana talks about the multiple messages or “scripts” female mental health clinicians are socialized into — around professionalism, productivity, caregiving, and what it means to be a “good therapist.” We name the harm of these oppressive scripts and imagine more liberatory ways of practicing and being.
Am I A Bad Therapist? — Decolonize Your Practice
Silvana joins Allie and Kathryn to talk about unsupportive systems in mental health that can make you feel like you are not good at being a therapist.
The Heart-Centered Therapist (now A Simple Therapy) — Decolonize Your Therapy Practice: Recognizing Oppressive Systems in Mental Health
Silvana and Sindee talk about how to recognize oppressive systems in mental health that impact clients and therapists. We explore practical examples of how to decolonize our personal and professional selves.
The Abundant Practice Podcast — Decolonizing Your Practice
Silvana joins Allison to share ways in which you can make your practice more accessible & what unconventional ethical therapy can include.
A Therapist Can't Say That — Balancing Goals and Healing in Therapy: Navigating The Tension
Silvana talks about how to decolonize therapy by assessing where we’re actually trying to go with clients, how to help them heal not just get better, and how to make sense of the sometimes different agendas between client and therapist by using connection and curiosity.
Money Skills For Therapists — Decolonizing Through Connection
Linzy and Silvana explore the connection between implicit and overt messaging and therapists’ relationship to money. Silvana shares practical ways to push against systemic oppression while also increasing personal and professional well-being.
Therapists Next Door — Dirndls and Decolonizing Mental Health
Silvana talks about how to decolonize private practices, the importance of community and much more!
gatHER and HEAL — Decolonize Your Private Practice and Beyond
Silvana breaks down what it means for clinicians to: (1) work within a colonized system, (2) what we can do about it, (3) and how to embody decolonization even beyond our practices.
Our voices are not just personal — they’re political. And when we speak up from the margins, we make the center listen.
Want to interview me?
If you host a podcast, panel, or publication rooted in communal justice, decolonial work, mental health and healing, or collective liberation — and you want to talk about the intersections of identity, grief, unlearning, and liberatory practice — I’d love to be in conversation with you.
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