For a primer on this topic, check out the post written in 2024 from my colleague, Kim, by clicking here! After learning about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its affects from Kim's post, you can learn about organizations who are allies in supporting those who experience PTSD below. Home Base Program Located in Charlestown, MA, the Home Base Program is a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program dedicated to healing the invisible wounds of war including PTSD for...

There is wellness found in the intentional application of written and expressed words! As an expressive therapist, I have explored a diversity of tools and creative resources to engage with mental health. When I think of poetry as a therapeutic intervention or for wellness, I associate this as an off-shoot of bibliotherapy - click here to read more about this approach from a post I wrote in 2022! Poetic language can be found in a diversity of expressed words whether poetry, stories,...

Let’s take a few minutes to go back to the fundamentals of grief and loss! Over the years, Looking Glass Counseling has talked about grief and loss in a variety of ways. For this edition of Monday Mental Health Moment (MMHM), we will look at the stages of grief. For some additional information on how to cope with loss, check out a post I wrote in 2023. Once you have read that post, come back to this paragraph. As we sit with the notion of loss, what are the stages of grief? Commonly we look...