<![CDATA[Talking With Umaa]]>f92dc5f6-0eec-58c5-8dcf-e6fec514d62fWed, 02 Sep 2026 12:21:41 +0000Captivate.fmMatt Cheneyhttps://artwork.captivate.fm/51cd8a61-c212-471d-bb42-2a8bf788f631/TWU-PodcastCover-Apple.jpgTalking With UmaaMatt CheneyMatt CheneyTalking With Umaa is a curious corner for the things we leave unnamed. Host Umaa Thampu is a Gestalt psychotherapist working at the intersection of therapy, identity, culture and power. Each episode is one unhurried, rigorous conversation with a practitioner, writer, scholar or artist whose thinking changes how we understand the inner life — and what history, race, class, migration, queerness and power are doing inside it. This is not a therapy-advice show. There are no tips and no quick fixes. It is a thinking space: guests bring the concepts they have built, Umaa puts those concepts under pressure, 'Where does this idea fail?' and 'Who does it leave out?' Every episode ends with something you can take into your own practice, workplace or family before the next one arrives. Who it's for: therapists, counsellors, psychologists, supervisors and trainees who want language for what their training never covered. Educators, organisers, HR professionals and faith leaders who need more than a slogan. And anyone who reads seriously about power and belonging and wants a conversation that does not flatten it. What you'll hear: racial dynamics and racial trauma. Migration, caste, class, queerness, faith and belonging. What happens in the body when race or power enters the room? Complicity, harm and repair. The limits of clinical models that pretend context does not exist. And the specific, human, unexpected stories underneath all of it. How it works: we start with where a guest comes from and how they see. We put that lens inside the real systems they work in — where those systems hold people and where they fail them. Then we test the ideas rather than admire them and turn them into questions you can use. Released in seasons. New episodes and the notes, resources and reflection prompts that go with them are announced first through the Talking With Umaa newsletter. Umaa Thampu is MBACP accredited, trained at the Gestalt Centre London, and a member of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network.https://talking-with-umaa.captivate.fmfalseserialnopodcastWelcome to Talking With Umaa (Trailer)Welcome to Talking With Umaa (Trailer)I'm Umaa Thampu.

I sit with people who build, care, teach and challenge — across medicine, education, technology, community and the arts.

These are slow conversations. We follow where someone comes from, what they're shaped by, and how they practise inside the systems they inhabit.

You'll hear how a life becomes a lens, how that lens meets friction, history and responsibility, and what it takes to stay human while doing meaningful work.

Each episode leaves you with something small to try. A question. A pause. A different way of noticing. Human, rigorous, useful.

Follow the show wherever you listen, so the first episode finds you.

Notes, resources and reflection prompts arrive through my newsletter:

Talking With Umaa → https://umaathampu.substack.com

More about my practice → https://www.talkingwithumaa.com

]]>I'm Umaa Thampu.

I sit with people who build, care, teach and challenge — across medicine, education, technology, community and the arts.

These are slow conversations. We follow where someone comes from, what they're shaped by, and how they practise inside the systems they inhabit.

You'll hear how a life becomes a lens, how that lens meets friction, history and responsibility, and what it takes to stay human while doing meaningful work.

Each episode leaves you with something small to try. A question. A pause. A different way of noticing. Human, rigorous, useful.

Follow the show wherever you listen, so the first episode finds you.

Notes, resources and reflection prompts arrive through my newsletter:

Talking With Umaa → https://umaathampu.substack.com

More about my practice → https://www.talkingwithumaa.com

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