Colors Out Loud: Unfiltered Mental Health Conversations for BIPOC Communities
COLORS OUT LOUD is for anyone who's ever left a hard conversation wishing they'd said more — the ones holding multiple identities, doing the internal work quietly, and craving mental health conversations that don't feel like a lecture or a demographic checkbox. If you're BIPOC, in therapy, thinking about therapy, or just tired of wellness content that skips the nuance, COLORS OUT LOUD is for you. Hosted by the therapists of Colors of Austin Counseling, this weekly mental health podcast brings clinical insight out of the therapy room and into your ears. COLORS OUT LOUD brings unscripted conversations beyond the therapy couch with a healthy dose of joy, because healing doesn't have to be heavy to be real. Each week, expect a mix of solo clinician takes, guest interviews, and roundtable conversations on grief, identity, burnout, relationships, and the mental health topics — plus recurring segments like *Ask a Clinician* and *One Next Step*, so you always leave with something to try. DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational purposes and isn't a substitute for therapy or crisis support.
Episodes
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In this episode, Roy Mong, LPC-Associate (supervised by Marissa Rivera, MA, LPC-S), and Lina Guerrero, MPA, LCSW, LCDC, get personal about spiritual and religious trauma.
Roy shares how he came to faith in high school, and how his career in evangelical missions turned into spiritual abuse. And Lina talks about growing up Catholic, the rituals and community that held her together, and the rigidity and hyp...
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Chris Martinez, LCSW, EMDR Trained and Jene Gutierrez, LMFT, both therapists at Colors of Austin Counseling, launch a new series inside Colors Out Loud: therapists breaking down how movies portray therapy and mental health.
First up is Backrooms, Kane Parsons' film that grew out of an internet creepypasta. The film features a therapist who follows her client into an endless maze of rooms, which the film ...
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Roy Mong, LPC-Associate (supervised by Marissa Rivera, MA, LPC-S), and Lina Guerrero, MPA, LCSW, LCDC, sit down to chat about ADHD — specifically what it looks like within social location and cultural context for BIPOC communities.
Both Roy and Lina share their own late-diagnosis stories (Roy still early in his journey, Lina diagnosed as an adult in 2021) to unpack the model minority mask, the diff...
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Therapists (and real-life friends) Lina Guerrero, MPA, LCSW, LCDC, and Claudia Hernandez Vargas, LCSW sit down for a conversation about what it actually means to be Mexican — as women, as clinicians, and as descendants of both the colonized and the colonizers.
They trace how "first-gen" status, colorism, indigenous ancestry, assimilation, and generational privilege show up in their families, their ...
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Welcome to Colors Out Loud!
In this first episode, Vanessa Flores Newton, LCSW-S, CDWF, shares the story of why Colors of Austin Counseling exists — and why she decided to build a room that didn’t exist. She takes y'all back to 2018, when she was a solo practitioner with a waitlist that wouldn't stop growing, and walks through what it took to build a team of therapists who actually look like ...
Welcome to the Colors Out Loud podcast, where unfiltered mental health conversations happen.
We know that the most useful and life-changing mental health conversations didn't happen in a therapy session. I'm a therapist, but I also know that they usually happen in the car, at dinner, or even at 1 a.m. when you find yourself asking, "Wait, is this normal?"
So we wanted to bring those conversations that happen beyond the therapy ...
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