Reclaiming Your Strength: How EMDR Therapy Empowers Healing from Racial Trauma
Have you ever walked away from an interaction feeling unseen, unheard, or simply like you didn't quite belong? Maybe a seemingly harmless comment left a sense of feeling invalidated, a microaggression chipped away at your sense of self-worth, or witnessed an...
Navigating Interracial Relationship Dynamics From A Therapeutic Point of View
From cultural differences to societal expectations, partners in interracial relationships must navigate a complex landscape. This blog post will explore interracial relationship dynamics through a therapeutic lens, offering insights and strategies to help couples...
EMDR Therapy: Considerations and Applications of this Trauma Therapy Approach
What is EMDR? When traumatic experiences are unprocessed, they become “stuck” or stored in the brain in an ineffective way. This leads to a variety of emotional concerns such as anxiety and depression or psychological difficulties such as believing “I’m not good...
Telehealth Therapy: The New Normal for Mental Health Care
Since 2020, telehealth therapy has emerged as a transformative force in the healthcare industry, and has increased accessibility to medical services and mental health therapy. This innovative approach, fueled by advancements in technology and a shifting healthcare...
Therapy For Depression: Shedding Light on Depression in the BIPOC Community
Depression is a complex and often misunderstood mental health condition that can affect individuals from all walks of life. Within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community, however, there are unique challenges and factors that can contribute to the...
Trauma Therapy for Person of Color LGBTQ+ Individuals
The American Psychological Association describes trauma "an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical. Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks,...
Navigating Anxiety: When You Constantly Worry About Worse Case or “What if…” Scenarios?
The constant stream of information bombarding us on social media, news outlets, and phone apps as well as the demands of work, family life, and relationships, in this fast paced world has contributed to the rise in symptoms of anxiety. The National Institute of Mental...
Trauma Therapy For The BIPOC Community
Trauma comes in many forms, from childhood abuse to combat experiences, natural disasters, car accidents, home invasion, intimate partner violence, racialized experiences, generational experiences of war, displacement, disenfranchisement, and more. These traumatic...
Body Dysmorphia and the Black Experience
1. What is body dysmorphia? Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is a mental health diagnosis commonly referred to as "body dysmorphia". It is categorized by preoccupation with a real or imagined flaw/imperfection in one's appearance, which causes the person living with...
Sunday Scaries and Your Mental Health
Imagine this-you are having a great Saturday full of fun with your friends and family. You go to sleep being full of gratitude. You wake up in the morning and Bam! It hits you, you have a whole new week ahead of you with tasks, obligations and the end of weekend...
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