Hosted by Collective Counseling Solutions COO Brie Hawk, the new show talks candidly with therapists about what it takes to build a sustainable life in the work. The first episodes arrive November 10 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
Collective Counseling Solutions (CCS) announced the launch of After The Hour with Brie Hawk, a podcast for therapists about their careers and lives, beyond the clinical hour. Every session ends the same way. The client leaves, the door closes, and the therapist is left with everything that just happened. Nobody really talks about that part. After The Hour does.
The show is not about modalities or theory. It is about the career: its sustainability, its business, and the strange reality of being someone’s most trusted confidant for fifty minutes and then going to pick up your dry cleaning.
Each episode is an in-depth conversation with a therapist at a different stage of the road. Some have been doing this work for decades and have learned to trust its ebb and flow. Others are still figuring out how to get through the first few years. Guests bring unusual paths, strong opinions, and things they have never gotten to say out loud in a professional setting.
The podcast is hosted by Brie Hawk, a Licensed Professional Counselor and Chief Operating Officer of CCS. Brie brings a clinician’s understanding of the work and an operator’s view of what keeps practices running, which lets her ask the questions therapists actually want answered.
“So much of what therapists carry never gets talked about in a professional setting,” said Brie Hawk, host of After The Hour and COO of Collective Counseling Solutions. “Not the clinical stuff, the career stuff. How you make it sustainable. How you run the business side without losing yourself. What you do with the weight of the day when you get home. I wanted a show where therapists could hear each other be honest about all of it, and realize the struggle they thought was theirs alone is actually pretty normal.”
“Therapists are the heart of everything we do at CCS,” said Nicholas Mancini, CEO and Co-Founder of Collective Counseling Solutions. “After The Hour is our way of giving something back to that community: real conversations that make the work feel a little less isolating and a lot more worth doing for the long haul.”
Where to Listen
The first episodes of After The Hour with Brie Hawk are available beginning November 10, 2026. Listeners can follow the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. New episodes release every two weeks.
For the therapist who has wondered whether the struggle is normal, whether the career is sustainable, or whether anyone else finds this job as strange and worthwhile as they do, this show proves they are not alone.
About Collective Counseling Solutions
Collective Counseling Solutions is a national network connecting clients with insurance-accepting therapists. CCS supports clinicians and private practices so they can focus on the work that matters most. Learn more at collectivecounselingsolutions.com.
