Food For Mood: What You Eat Affects Your Mental Health
By Haneen Ahmad, MSW, LICSW Can nutrition affect your mental health? TOTALLY. If you are anything like me, good food makes your heart and soul dance. People underestimate the power that food can have over your mental health. Your brain on food is a much…
How To Cope When The Holidays Are Hard
By Kelly Clark The air is colder, lights are being hung, shopping carts are full, and the radio is telling us that it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Is it really though? For some people, it is far from the most wonderful time…
Healing Trauma Through Yoga
By Rose Hahn In this article, I’m exploring the intersection between two big wellness topics making the rounds in newsrooms, social media, and mental health outlets today: yoga and trauma. It might seem these topics have little to do with each other. But the truth…
Stress & Youth: Signs and Strategies
By Sarah Dochow Have you ever thought “Oh how I would love to be young and stress-free again?” Well, the thing is young people, like adults, experience stress. It can show up in a lot of different ways. And can stem from a variety of…
6 Tips For Mental Wellness This Holiday Season
I don’t know about you, but this year feels like it is flying by. I feel like I was just handing the kids popsicles and now Thanksgiving is around the corner and I’m buying snow gear. As a therapist, this time of year is known…
How To Talk To Your Kids About Drugs
There is often a direct correlation between mental health and drug abuse. Just like we are great about caring for our children’s physical health, routine doctor visits, shots, etc, we have to be mindful of our children’s mental health as well. Part of that is…
11 Things No One Tells You About Becoming a Therapist
By Haneen Ahmad There have been some seriously rewarding moments in my career as a therapist over the past decade. I have supported individuals and families through trauma, anxiety, births, deaths, and every type of transition and adjustment in between. It hasn’t always been pretty,…
The 8 Things You Should Do to Reduce Decision-Making Anxiety
By Haneen Ahmad So there she sat, on my couch, drowning in a puddle of anxiety over whether or not to move out. Big choice. I get it. Harder choice to make once coupled with anxiety. I think we reviewed the pros and cons list…
EMDR Therapy: Transforming the Healing Process
By Haneen Ahmad Imagine this. You have past trauma you want gone. I can’t make it disappear but I can make it a hell of a lot less triggering. You probably want to do away with the anxiety and depression that may be a byproduct…
Growth Mindset: How Your Beliefs Impact Your Success
By Haneen Ahmad Have you ever thought about what type of learner you are? What was the learning process like for you as a kid, and did you notice any patterns? Did you always think you were the best? Did you give up when things…