Kindman & Company

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🫶

Dani, Liz and Logan all provide queer-affirming care at Kindman & Co., offering spaces where you can show up fully as yourself, without judgment or having to explain your identity.

We are proud to support the LGBTQIA+ community during Pride Month and always. At Kindman & Co., we believe therapy should be inclusive, identity-affirming, and rooted in respect for every lived experience.

Before AAPI Heritage Month comes to a close, we want to name the mental health impact of the “model minority” narrative.

For many Asian American and Pacific Islander individuals, the pressure to succeed can become deeply tied to safety, belonging, family loyalty, and survival. High achievement is often celebrated, but the emotional cost is rarely discussed.

Perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional suppression, and the belief that worth must be earned through productivity can all become nervous system adaptations to pressure, racism, migration stories, and intergenerational expectations.

At Kindman & Co., we believe healing includes questioning the stories that taught us we had to perform in order to deserve care.

AAPI Heritage Month is not only about celebrating brilliance. It is also about making space for the emotional realities many AAPI people continue to carry beneath the surface of “success.”

So remember, healing can look like redefining achievement, choosing rest, and allowing identity to exist beyond expectation.

Rupture does not always look like conflict.

Sometimes it is the strange shift in energy you cannot quite name.
The gut feeling that something feels off.
The quiet disconnect, the pause, the withdrawal, the part of you that starts protecting before you even fully understand why.

These smaller moments matter.

In the latest Kindman & Co. podcast episode, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Madison explore how rupture can show up in subtle ways, why our nervous systems are so quick to protect us, and how repair can become one of the most powerful pathways to deeper trust, healing, and connection.

Together, they unpack what successful repair can actually feel like, why it can be so transformative in therapy and relationships, and how moments of tension often become the doorway to something stronger.

This is a conversation about communication, nervous system protection, relational repair, and the kind of healing that happens when we stop avoiding the hard moments and learn how to move through them.

The latest episode is live now and ready to listen.
Tap the link in our bio to tune in. 🎙️

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to name something clearly:
Affirmation is mental health care.

For trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and questioning folks, emotional well-being is often shaped by much more than “stress.” It is shaped by the daily realities of dysphoria, misgendering, transphobia, fear, invalidation, and the exhaustion of moving through spaces that do not always feel safe.

These experiences can live deeply in the nervous system through anxiety, hypervigilance, grief, shutdown, and the painful feeling of disconnection from self and others.

That is why Beyond the Binary exists.

A therapist-led group for trans, nonbinary, gender-expansive, and questioning folks who are ready for more than survival. A space to process identity, difficult emotions, healing from harm, and the joy of being deeply seen in community.

Mental health healing becomes possible when you no longer have to explain your existence first.

You deserve spaces where your truth is met with care, connection, and affirmation.

Even therapist founders are still talking to the younger versions of themselves.

This post features Kaitlin and Paul Kindman, not just as the founders of Kindman & Co., but as two humans who were once the little versions of themselves you see in these photos.

Before the titles, before the work, before the responsibilities and expectations of adulthood, there were younger parts learning what it meant to be safe, loved, and enough.

It can be so easy to stand in front of the mirror and criticize the adult version of yourself.
To call yourself lazy, behind, not doing enough, too emotional, too sensitive,
or not where you “should” be.

But when you pause and remember that you are still speaking to the younger parts of yourself, something softens.

You are not only the grown adult carrying today’s pressures. You are also every younger version of you who needed encouragement, gentleness, reassurance, and someone to believe in them.

This is why self-talk matters so deeply.
The way you speak to yourself can either repeat old wounds or become part of the reparenting process.

At Kindman & Co, we believe emotional vulnerability is not weakness. It is part of healing.
Even therapists, founders, and helpers are human enough to need softness too.

So let this be your reminder to speak to yourself in a way that the younger you would have needed.

Save this for the days your inner critic gets loud.
Share it with someone who needs the reminder that they are still worthy of gentleness.

This AAPI Heritage Month, we are reflecting on the wisdom, care, and resilience carried through Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

So much of healing in AAPI communities lives beyond traditional therapy language. It lives in food, ritual, sacrifice, discipline, family systems, migration stories, silence, devotion, and the ways care is often shown through action rather than words.

At Kindman & Co., we know healing is deeply shaped by culture. For many AAPI individuals, identity work includes holding complexity: gratitude and grief, family loyalty and boundaries, resilience and exhaustion, pride and invisibility.

This month is a powerful reminder that wisdom does not only come from textbooks or clinical spaces.
It also lives in cultural memory, intergenerational stories, and the values communities pass down every day.

AAPI heritage offers so many lessons on collective care, endurance, and what it means to hold one another through hardship.

There is so much healing wisdom already present in the stories we come from.

Mother’s Day can stir up so much more than celebration.

For some, it’s a day of deep gratitude and connection.
For others, it can bring grief, estrangement, longing, complicated family dynamics, or the ache of missing what never was.

This is true not only for mothers and mother figures, but for the children, adult children, and families holding the many layers of these relationships.

Today, we want to acknowledge all of it.

To the mothers, the grandmothers who raised you, the chosen mother figures, those longing to become mothers, those grieving a loss, those navigating distance, and the children carrying love, hurt, memory, or unanswered questions, there is space for your experience here.

If today feels especially tender, a gentle place to begin can be asking yourself:
What would feel most supportive for me today?

That might mean setting boundaries, limiting social media, reaching out to someone safe, creating a ritual of remembrance, spending time in nature, or giving yourself permission not to participate in the day at all.

However this day meets you, may you offer yourself the same compassion you so often give to others.

Cinco de Mayo is often reduced to celebration, but at its core, it is a story of resistance, resilience, and what communities carry through generations.

For many Latina women, those stories do not only live in history.

They can live in the body through family sacrifice, migration, silence, hyper-independence, over-functioning, and the pressure to always be the strong one.

What was once resilience can quietly become survival patterns that shape how we move through relationships, boundaries, rest, and self-worth.

At Kindman & Co., we know healing deepens when those inherited stories are spoken out loud in community.

That is the heart of Chillona is Chingona, our bi-weekly, in-person Latina therapy group.
A space for Latina women to explore cultural expectations, inherited strength, family roles, and the parts of themselves that have had to survive for too long.

This Cinco de Mayo, may we honor not only resilience,
but the healing that becomes possible when we no longer have to carry it alone.

Burnout is often framed as a personal problem.

We are told to manage our stress better, set better boundaries, meditate more, work harder on “balance,” or simply become more resilient.

But what if burnout is not just about the individual?

In many cases, burnout is deeply connected to the systems we move through every day. Workplaces that demand constant productivity, cultures that reward overworking, financial pressure, and environments where rest or boundaries are discouraged can slowly wear people down.

When that happens, it can be easy to internalize the experience as a personal failure.

But often, burnout is a signal that something around us needs attention too.

On the Kindman Out of Session podcast, our therapists Liam and Sarah sit down to talk about workplace burnout and mental health, exploring why burnout is often a systemic issue rather than an individual shortcoming.

Out of Session is a space where we intentionally leave our therapist selves at the door and have honest, sometimes messy conversations about what it actually means to be human in the world we are living in.

If quotes from this conversation resonates with you, you can listen to the full episode and explore more through the Kindman Out of Session podcast!

What does it really mean to practice therapy relationally?

For many clinicians, relational therapy represents a shift away from focusing only on techniques or interventions and toward understanding how healing unfolds within the therapeutic relationship itself.

Level One of How to Be a Relational Therapist is designed to help clinicians begin building that foundation.

Across this 4-module training (12 CEU hours), participants will explore the core ideas that shape relational work. Together we will look at the role of therapist vulnerability in building trust, how here-and-now awareness can become a powerful intervention, and why the therapist’s humanity is not something to hide in the therapy room but something that can deepen the work.

This training also invites clinicians to rethink some of the assumptions many of us were taught in our early training. We will explore topics such as therapist neutrality, the impact of power and privilege in the therapy room, and how moments of rupture, conflict, and activation can become opportunities for deeper relational understanding.

Through demonstrations, interactive theory, dyad work, and small-group practice, participants will begin integrating relational skills into their sessions in ways that strengthen connection and support meaningful clinical outcomes.

Just as importantly, this training is designed to foster community. Our cohort model reflects the heart of relational work itself. Learning happens not only through theory, but through relationship and shared reflection with fellow clinicians.

By the end of Level One, participants will leave with practical tools they can begin using immediately, a deeper understanding of relational psychotherapy, and a supportive community of clinicians committed to relational practice.

Enrollment for the 2026 cohort is now open.

If you are a therapist interested in building a stronger relational foundation in your work, you can learn more through the link in our bio.