The Truth About Mental Health: What They Don’t Tell You

What if understanding your personality could change your relationships—and your mental health?
In this heart-opening conversation, I sit down with Christa Hardin, MA—relationship expert, best-selling author, and host of the Enneagram & Marriage Podcast—to explore how the Enneagram can be a powerful tool for self-discovery and connection.

Christa breaks down the nine Enneagram types, sharing how each one impacts the w...

What does healing really look like when you ditch the quick fixes and take your power back? In this soulful and honest episode, I sit down with Sofia Fiotaki, a holistic anxiety coach on a mission to help women overcome social anxiety from the inside out.

Together, we explore the contrast between life in Crete and Australia, and how culture, family dynamics, and environment shape our mental health. Sofia opens up about ...

What if your brain isn’t just remembering trauma but predicting it? In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Brian Tierney—somatic psychologist, neuroscience professor, and psychotherapist—dives deep into the science of healing. We explore the power of the cerebellum in trauma processing, the default mode network’s role in processing reality, and how bodywork and energy play a critical role in transformation.  

Dr. Brian ...

In this episode, I meet again with Jessica Parente, to go through a live brainspotting session where I show how vulnerable and powerful deep healing looks like. Jessica is an ANCC Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and trauma-informed coach.

We dive into:

🔹 How brainspotting helps process trauma stored in the subconscious

🔹 The connection between childhood wounds and adult relationships

🔹 Why p...

Mental health is more than just managing symptoms—it’s about healing at the root. This week, I sit down with Jessica Parente, an ANCC Board-Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach, and Level IV Brainspotting Practitioner. Jessica bridges the gap between Western medicine and holistic healing, combining low-dose medication with powerful modalities like Brainspotting, Polyvagal Th...

In a world where facts are nearly indistinguishable from fiction, how do you know what to believe? This week, I sit down with Jonathan Davis, a former U.S. Army Special Operations Civil Affairs Soldier and author of the Question Things book series, to expose how propaganda shapes our reality—and how to break free from it.

We explore:
 🔎 Why fact-checkers, media, and even Wikipedia push agendas—and how to see through the...

In this solo episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the reality of the mental health system—how therapists are forced to work within a framework that often manages symptoms instead of truly healing people.

I dive into:
 💡 Why many trauma therapies fall short in fully integrating and neutralizing trauma
 💡 How insurance dictates treatment, making powerful healing modalities inaccessible
 💡 The problem with long...

In this powerful episode, I’m joined by Mary Wagstaff, a holistic alcohol coach who helps high-achieving women break free from alcohol—not through willpower or labels, but by reclaiming their intuition, nervous system regulation, and feminine power.

We dive deep into:
 ✨ The nervous system-alcohol connection – How alcohol mimics trauma’s effects and keeps women stuck in stress cycles.
 ✨ The feminine approach to heali...

In this enlightening episode, I’m joined by Dr. De’Nicea Hilton Harper, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Holistic Well-Being Consultant, to explore a whole new way of looking at health. We dive into how the body communicates what’s really going on beneath the surface—beyond just our thoughts—helping us understand ourselves on a deeper level.

Dr. De’Nicea also shares a powerful perspective on health as a journey rather than...

In this powerful episode, I sit down with Donna Marston, a Certified Recovery Support Worker and Family Recovery Advocate, to discuss her deeply personal journey as a mother of a son with a substance addiction. Donna shares the hard lessons she learned about "unhelpful helping" and how she had to heal her own mind and emotions before she could truly support her son’s recovery.

We also dive into how she now helps other paren...

My name is Andrea Clark, and in this very first episode of The Truth About Mental Health I’m sharing my raw and unfiltered journey—from surviving childhood abuse to navigating a mental health system that prioritized medication over true healing. I became a licensed family therapist to help others, only to realize that the system I trusted was failing those who needed real solutions. So, I walked away—relinquishing my licen...