Meet The Team
Anika Mehta
Creator and Co-host
Anika is a Clinical Psychology PhD candidate. With a background in neuroscience, her clinical work is focused on personality disorder, childhood and complex trauma and emotion dysregulation--- working to understand how these experiences are shaped in the brain. She has completed training in community mental health, hospital outpatient units and at the Veterans Affairs. She specialized in DBT and psychodynamic practice, specifically in attachment theory. Her research interests include studying the effects of therapeutic alliance.
​Apart from her clinical work, Anika is a huge hopeless romantic. Born in the wrong century and wrong continent, you can usually find her dreaming about living her life in a Jane Austen novel, complete with afternoon tea, society balls and waiting for her own Mr. Darcy.
Ashton Scherrer
Creator and Co-host
Ashton is a Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Neuropsychology PhD candidate who is an absolute book nerd, and always has too many tabs in her brain open! Her heart will always be in the midwest, but California will be her forever home…once internship is over, of course! Ashton is completing her internship program working with patients in a rural hospital setting and outpatient setting. Throughout her training, Ashton has specialized both in neuropsychology and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The cross roads of how our childhoods make us who we are and how our biological processes work to make sense of those childhoods is Ashton’s therapeutic sweet spot. Her research interests have varied greatly from locus of control to hepatic encephalopathy to executive functioning of people who are incarcerated. Ashton is passionate about social justice activism, educating future generations of psychologists, and can always be found participating in workshops, webinars, and podcasts! Ashton is your expert on making an out-of-state move to grad school, balancing your work and lifestyle, how our brains work, and how we work with our brains
Kyle Scherrer
Editor and Consultant
Kyle has a background in Media Studies, and has previously worked as co-producer and editor on former podcasts. When he is not working, he spends his time with his cats and is a proud member of the Free Masons. He will soon be joining Ashton and Anika in the field of Clinical Psychology.
Hormazd and Sonali Bhandari | StoryRoad Pictures
Production Consultants
Hormazd and Sonali are a partnership that started at Met Film School in London between a writer and a producer, and spanned the next six years (and counting!), from Ealing to LA. They specialize in storytelling from concept to shooting and delivery of fresh, thoughtful content.