Lumen
Lumen is a mental health podcast that explores the psychological patterns shaping our relationships, choices, and inner lives. Hosted by therapists Christopher Mooney, LCSW, and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW, each episode offers grounded, compassionate conversations rooted in clinical insight and real human experience. No jargon. No judgment. Just clear, thoughtful dialogue designed to help listeners better understand themselves and the people around them.
Episodes
10 episodes
Move a Muscle, Change a Thought
In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the powerful connection between movement and mental health. What begins as a conversation about running quickly expands into a deeper look at how ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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33:59
Good Grief: Companioning Loss, Love, and the End of Life with Kat Hurley, LCSW (Part Two)
In Part Two of this two-part conversation, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW continue their dialogue with grief, loss, and bereavement therapist and Fordham University professor Kat Hurley, LCSW—exploring what grief actua...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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36:45
Good Grief: Companioning Loss, Love, and the End of Life with Kat Hurley, LCSW (Part One)
In Part One of this two-part conversation, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW sit down with grief, loss, and bereavement therapist and Fordham University professor Kat Hurley, LCSW to explore what it really means to compan...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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40:08
Boys Don’t Cry: Men, Vulnerability, and the Cost of Silence
"I'm fine." It's a lie that so many men tell. Not only to others, but to themselves. In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the quiet conditioning that teaches boys to “shake it off,” “...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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42:02
Joy as Medicine: Making Therapy Creative, Collaborative, and Human (with Andrew Tepper, LCSW)
In this uplifting episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW carve out some time with guest Andrew Tepper, LCSW, founder of BODA Therapy in New York, to talk about something that often gets overlooked in mental h...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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37:24
Good Enough: Letting Go of Perfectionism
What if perfectionism isn’t your greatest strength, but your most exhausting defense? In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW approach perfectionism not as a badge of honor, but as a trauma-informed co...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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40:21
Why Are We So Tired?
In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the quieter epidemic beneath so much modern distress: exhaustion. Not just physical tiredness, but the kind of mental and emotional fatigue that c...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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43:56
The Negativity Buffet: Why Your Brain Always Goes Back for Seconds
In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW unpack the runaway train of negative thinking—how a single mistake can spiral into shame, catastrophizing, and the feeling that you’re about to get fired ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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42:27
Connected, But Alone: Why Being Seen Is Harder Than Ever
We’ve never had more ways to connect—and yet so many of us feel profoundly alone. In this episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the modern loneliness epidemic and how social media, curated ide...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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43:12
Seeing, Being Seen, and the Survival Responses That Shape Us
In the inaugural episode of Lumen, hosts Christopher Mooney, LCSW and Kenyon Phillips, LMSW explore the meaning behind the name Lumen and how it reflects the heart of therapy: seeing, being seen, and creating a shared sense of u...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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40:22
