Trauma in Children and Adolescents

Trauma in Children and Adolescents By Julie DeFalco, LCSW and Clinical Director of Child & Adolescent Services One may ask, how can multiple children be in the same situation, even the same family, and one have trauma and one not? It’s not only the event but how...

Recovery is Not Linear

Recovery is Not Linear By Emily Fry, LCMHC, LCAS, NCC Clinical Director of Substance Use and Addiction Services Since 1989, September has been deemed National Recovery Month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This was to help...

Generational Trauma

Generational Trauma By Julie DeFalco, LCSW and Clinical Director of Child & Adolescent Services Recent research has shown that trauma can be passed down in families through genetics and environment. Here, we will focus on the environmental component. Parents often...

Managing Your Mental Health in a Pandemic

Managing your Mental Health in a Pandemic By Sarah R. Coates, LCMHC, NCC When asked to write about navigating your mental health in the COVID pandemic, I found myself confronting my own fears, doubts and uncertainties.  It’s all we’ve been talking about since March....

Healing Complex Trauma within our Mind, Body, and Spirit

Healing Complex Trauma within our Mind, Body, and Spirit By Dr. Mark A. Stebnicki, Psychotherapist PTSD awareness is essential for understanding the human spirit and soul hunger for healing the wounds of complex trauma and disaster. Our experience of complex trauma...

Spiritual and Religious Trauma

Spiritual and Religious Trauma By Phil Guistwite, M.Div., M.S., LMFT Company Chaplain and Clinical Director for Mental and Behavioral Health Services This is such an important and expansive topic for therapists and clients to consider. All humans are spiritual, even...