The Gritty Therapist

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The Gritty Therapist 🌼Helping therapists get Gritty, grounded + scrappy.
🎙️Hosts Gettin’Gritty Podcast
🪻Clinical Resources

11/04/2026

Your content doesn’t need to look like another therapist’s content in order to be valuable. I have no training, degree, or certification to make content and produce videos.

Mental health therapists- as you’re scrolling social media, remember what you’re good at. Comparison is a thief, and so I have released that pressure.

All I do is make something useful, honest, funny or deeply human. Then post it. 💜

New Podcast Alert ✨🎙️🪻You don’t have to know your niche on the first day of graduate school—or even the first day of you...
11/03/2026

New Podcast Alert ✨🎙️🪻

You don’t have to know your niche on the first day of graduate school—or even the first day of your career.

Katie’s niche developed through experience, relationships, mentorship and a willingness to walk toward something that once felt intimidating.

Your path may not arrive as one sudden moment of certainty. Pay attention to the work that keeps pulling you back. Notice the clients and topics that spark your curiosity.

Sometimes you choose your niche. Sometimes, slowly, it finds you.

Listen to our recent podcast: New Therapist Imposter Syndrome: Building Confidence, Finding Your Niche, and Starting a Private Practice with Katie Pankonin. Comment PODCAST to get our link to listen!

Sunday night replay spiral? You’re not the only one.Before your brain runs through every session again, try this: write ...
11/01/2026

Sunday night replay spiral? You’re not the only one.

Before your brain runs through every session again, try this: write down three moments from this week that went right.

Not toxic positivity. Evidence.

Save this for your Sunday 🪻✨

A truly terrifying story:The session ended.The next client arrived.The notes kept piling up. Repeat over and over 👻Thera...
10/31/2026

A truly terrifying story:
The session ended.
The next client arrived.
The notes kept piling up.
Repeat over and over 👻

Therapists carry a lot—client stories, clinical decisions, documentation, full calendars + the pressure to keep showing up grounded through all of it.

So this Halloween, consider this your reminder that being behind on a task doesn’t mean you’re failing at the work.

Take a breath. Eat the candy. Finish what actually needs to be finished—and let “good enough” be enough for tonight.

Happy Halloween, gritty therapists. 🎃💜

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Omaha, NE
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