Mind Reading: Behind The Humor, TikTok Star Chris Olsen Is Busting Mental Health Barriers

If Chris Olsen—content creator and newly a purveyor of his own coffee brand Flight Fuel—were wondering about the impact of the clips from his real-life therapy sessions he posts on social media, he recently got a resounding affirmation.

“Chari D’Amelio came up to me at an event and said my therapy videos were the reason she got back into therapy, because she had had a tough time with a therapist before but seeing mine helped her get back into it,” he says of his fellow social media star.

“And I remember thinking, ‘This is actually impacting people.’ There are plenty of people who feel like it’s just giving them a lighthearted moment and then there are other people who are really starting therapy or restarting therapy because of the videos. It reminded me that the medium of TikTok can be so much more impactful than just something we aimlessly scroll on.”