Mentally Flexible

Tom Parkes
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Booking Overview

Mentally Flexible features psychotherapist Tom Parkes interviewing mental health professionals and researchers about psychology, creativity, and building greater psychological flexibility. It’s a strong fit for PR angles around wellbeing, therapy practices, and evidence-based approaches that are accessible to a general audience.

Metrics

Episodes: 88

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

30s Ad: 58 - 72, 60s Ad: 69 - 83

Host

Tom Parkes - Tom Parkes is a psychotherapist and the host of Mentally Flexible. He leads meaningful, open-minded conversations aimed at helping listeners build mental flexibility, exploring psychology, mental h...

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Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Psychotherapy and mental health credentials (e.g., licensed clinician such as LPC), plus/or academic research credentials (PhD) or recognized leadership in evidence-based therapy modalities (e.g., ACT/contextual behavioral science) and/or published authorship. Creatives and content-creation professionals are acceptable when their work is grounded in therapeutic psychology and mental health education.
Required Achievements:  
Peer-reviewed research and/or university faculty role, Published books and/or bestselling therapy texts, Leadership roles in clinical psychology or therapy communities, Clinical training/publications (e.g., ACT training credentials), Credible clinical practice specializing in relevant issues (trauma, perfectionism, shame)

Recent Guest Discussions

Paul Eastwick, PhD - Attraction And Relationship Assumptions; Dating Dynamics; Context And Attraction Over Time; Partner Choice.

Jason Luoma, PhD - Evolution Of Act; Experiential Learning For Clinicians; Psychedelics And Healing; Shame/stigma/emotion Functions; Future Of Psychedelic-assisted Therapy.

Jennifer Bohle, LPC - Values Guiding Creativity; Perfectionism And Self-trust; Creative Process And Audience Growth; Attention/digital Habits.

Recent Topics

Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Psychology, Trauma, Creativity, Act, Psychedelics, Emotion, Values, Shame

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Mentally Flexible
:

Tamara Hubbard, LCPC | Parenting Through Food Allergy Anxiety with ACT

May 08, 2026

Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC, is a licensed clinical professional counselor with more than 20 years of clinical experience. IShe specializes in helping parents of children with food allergies find the balance between managing anxiety and living fully. An active allied health member of professional allergy and immunology organizations, Tamara is a national speaker and has created several widely used resources within the allergy community. She is also the author of May Contain Anxiety: Managing the...

Paul Eastwick PhD | Rethinking Attraction: Why Your “Type” Isn’t What You Think

April 02, 2026

My guest today is Paul Eastwick, a social psychologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, whose research focuses on attraction, romantic relationships, and the gap between what we think we want and what actually unfolds in real life. His latest book, Bonded by Evolution, challenges a lot of common assumptions about dating and compatibility.In this episode, we explore: Why many of our inherited “rules” about attraction—like mate value, having a type, or alpha/beta dynamics—d...

Jason Luoma, PhD | ACT & Psychedelic Science

March 05, 2026

Today’s guest is Jason Luoma, PhD. Jason is a clinical psychologist, researcher, entrepreneur, and psychotherapy trainer based in Portland, Oregon. For over two decades, Jason’s research has focused on shame, stigma, and the interpersonal functions of emotion, with more recent work centered on psychedelic science. He served as Principal Investigator on one of the first MDMA-assisted psychotherapy trials in the Pacific Northwest and has contributed to multiple NIH-funded clinical trials in rol...

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