Mental Health News Radio

Kristin, Julie Raines

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Booking Overview

Mental Health News Radio focuses on exploratory, stigma-aware conversations at the intersection of mental health, neurodivergence, relationships, and spirituality. It’s a strong fit for PR pitches from clinicians, educators, and advocates who can speak to nervous-system/trauma-informed lived experiences and relational healing.

Metrics

Episodes: 659

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.9k subscribers

Instagram: 16.0k followers

Contact Information

info@mhnrnetwork.com

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Host

Kristin - Host of Mental Health News Radio; leads exploratory discussions on mental health, neurodivergence, relationships, and spirituality. (Specific public bio details weren’t provided in the provided epi...

Julie Raines - Cohost mentioned in the episode “Late Diagnosis, Real Life: From Masking to Meaning with Jeff Thompson.” She is a writer (Substack: https://substack.com/@julesraines).

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Clinicians/therapists and/or credible practitioners/educators in sex/intimacy, trauma-informed care, and somatic/nervous-system approaches; plus lived-experience advocates (especially neurodivergent adults/late-diagnosed individuals) who can speak to relationships, masking, and recovery. Public writing and advocacy presence appears important (e.g., Substack/TikTok/website links).
Required Achievements:  
Published online presence (e.g., Substack/TikTok), Founded or leads a related service (e.g., autism clinic), Visible advocacy work in autism/ADHD/neurodivergence, Practitioner credentialing in intimacy/trauma/somatic modalities

Recent Guest Discussions

Alicia Deer - Fangirling And Parasocial Attachment; Masking; Identity Performance Online; Emotional Attachment And Internet Intimacy For Neurodivergent People.

Andre Lazarus - Intimacy As Safety And Vulnerability; Touch And Nervous-system Regulation; Dissociation And Masking; Emotional Safety; Communication In Relationships; Relational Healing.

Jeff Thompson - Late Autism Diagnosis; Identity Collapse And Mask Fall; Suicidal Ideation/burnout And Recovery; Purpose Through Helping Others; Building Businesses Aligned With Neurodivergent Wiring.

Recent Topics

Mental Health, Neurodivergence, Trauma, Intimacy, Autism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Mental Health News Radio
:

Whatever Happened to That Guy? An Autism, Art, and Recovery Update with Motesem Mansur

June 22, 2026

Seven years after his original appearance on Mental Health News Radio, artist and author Motesem Mansur returns with an update on his life, his art, and the journey from surviving difficult environments to finding stability, purpose, and peace.He shares how leaving unsafe situations transformed his mental health, how becoming an artist-in-residence helped him rebuild his life, and why creating art remains one of the most important ways he regulates his mind and emotions. Together, we talk abo...

Over-Functioning: When Being Helpful Becomes a Survival Strategy

June 16, 2026

For many of us, over-functioning doesn't look like a problem. It looks like competence. It looks like generosity. It looks like being the reliable one. In this candid conversation, Kristin and Julie Raines explore the hidden costs of becoming the emotional engine behind relationships, families, friendships, and entire social systems. Together they unpack how over-functioning becomes automatic, why many women were conditioned to equate worth with self-erasure, what happens when burnout removes...

Fangirling, Neurodivergence & the Internet’s Parasocial Fever Dream

May 08, 2026

What happens when hyperfixation, fandom culture, loneliness, attraction, projection, and neurodivergence all collide online?In this wildly honest episode, Kristin sits down with Alicia Deer to talk about fangirling, parasocial relationships, emotional attachment, identity performance online, masking, attraction, internet intimacy, and why neurodivergent people often experience connection so intensely. Funny, uncomfortable, self-aware, and surprisingly healing — this conversation goes way deep...

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