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Inclusive Healing: The Power of LGBTQ Therapy

Clear Behavioral Health

Since our inception, Clear Behavioral Health in Los Angeles, CA has committed to meeting the specific needs of the LGBTQIA+ community in California. By integrating specialized counseling services with educational programs and partnerships with LGBTQIA+ organizations, Clear Behavioral Health fosters a culture of inclusivity and empowerment.

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Expressive Arts Therapy: Unlocking Emotional Wellness

Lightwork

At LightWork Therapy and Recovery , a mental health treatment center in Woburn, Massachusetts, we’ve seen how powerful creative expression can be in treating mental health issues. Our clients find new ways to communicate their deepest thoughts and feelings, breaking free from the limitations of spoken language.

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International Women’s Day: Interviews with Drs Joanne Fegan, Maeve Doyle and Atiqa Rafiq

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. I enjoyed the team working, the holistic approach and the very human touch that psychiatry employs in delivering health care. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist? Do any challenges remain?

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

His research ranges from Indigenous youth resilience and narrative medicine to the diagnostic metaphorssuch as chemical imbalance or traumathat reshape identity and possibility. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social. I have no mental health problems.

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

Mad in America

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Her way of coping with the family and our situation had stopped working. She just broke.

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Quitting Is Strength: Changing the Narrative on Tobacco Use in the Military

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

What if the greatest threat to our veterans health isnt on the battlefield, but in their pockets? And among veterans living in poverty or without health insurance, tobacco use rates are as high as 60%. And at its core, its about protecting the health and wellbeing of those who served to protect us.