Your Anxiety Toolkit

The New York Times named this one of their 6 Podcasts to Soothe an Anxious Mind back in 2024, and it has only gotten better since. Kimberley Quinlan is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in anxiety and OCD, but she dedicates substantial episodes to the depression that so often travels alongside anxiety disorders. With 430 episodes and a near-perfect 4.9-star rating from over 800 reviews, the show has built one of the larger dedicated followings in the mental health podcast space. Quinlan is refreshingly practical in her approach. She does not spend twenty minutes on theory before getting to what you can actually do. A typical episode picks a specific problem — social anxiety in group settings, the depression spiral that follows a panic attack, perfectionism-driven burnout — and walks through science-backed strategies you can start using immediately. Her tone sits in a comfortable spot between clinical authority and genuine warmth. She clearly knows her research, but she also talks openly about her own mental health journey in ways that make the advice feel tested rather than theoretical. The show publishes weekly and episodes run about 30 to 45 minutes. Quinlan frequently brings on guest experts for specialized topics and answers listener questions with the kind of specificity that makes you think she actually read the whole email. For anyone dealing with depression tangled up with anxiety, panic, or obsessive thinking patterns — which, honestly, describes most depression — this podcast addresses the full picture rather than treating each condition in isolation.