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Does Your Child have GAD?

Gary Direnfeld

The child had only seen individual therapists, none of whom knew of the parent’s own anxiety related to childhood experiences. It was only when the new therapist insisted on meeting with the parents first did the one parent’s issue with anxiety related to their past, emerge. That is the nature of GAD.

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Continuing Care After Addiction Treatment in Chicago

Gateway Foundation

Therapy and Counseling. With therapy and counseling, you can learn to identify your triggers and develop coping skills to help you withstand cravings. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects anywhere from 14% to 60% of those with SUD, and the two disorders often feed into each other.

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Addressing Racism and Racial Trauma in Behavioral Healthcare: A Review With the Experts

Relias

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. Dr. Jamila Holcomb is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tallahassee, Florida, specializing in individual, family, and trauma counseling.

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What You Need to Heal

Abuse Survivor

Inner Counsel. This part is like a therapist in my head and provides a lot of self compassion. The difficult thing is to keep talking to myself through the pain and help myself to somewhere else. My self talk was complete garbage for decades. The inner critic is still there but now there is a counselor that also speaks.

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BSW & MSW Scholarship Recipients 2022-2023

University of Connecticut

Scholarship Fund This scholarship is awarded to a student currently conducting their field placement at the UConn Counseling & Mental Health Services. I am interning as a behavioral health therapist doing individual and group therapy. MSW Awards Albert Brown, Jr. I have really enjoyed the environment and work I do there.

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My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

My journal was my first therapist, where I recorded frustration, anxiety and depression. I’ve been at Thompson for over six years as a therapist,” Kathy started. Many were here with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, so common following participation in armed conflict and in some cases, the result of physical or sexual abuse.