Destigmatizing Suicide and Suicidal Ideation If you or someone you know is dealing with thoughts of suicide, you can call or text 988. As a therapist-in-training, the thing that most scared me about starting to provide counseling to clients was having to discern whether or not a client is suicidal. I was taught how to ask questions and provided with checklists, but getting better at crisis response (in any context) requires real-world practice. I felt nervous every time I would go through...

Understanding Trauma and Vicarious Trauma Trauma is a very common reason people seek therapy, but it’s also a complex topic that can be oversimplified on social media. There are common trauma responses, but trauma also affects people uniquely based on a number of factors. Even defining the word trauma can be difficult. Most people could name examples of traumatic things, but how do we decide that one thing is traumatic and another is not? One of the most essential things to understand is that...

Many girls and women are undiagnosed with ADHD, meaning they are also lacking support and treatment for a mental health condition that can have rippling effects in their lives. Women are more likely to be diagnosed in adulthood than as a child, even though ADHD typically onsets by adolescence. This means many women spend years feeling the impacts of ADHD, which often leads to lower self-esteem and other negative emotional effects. On the other hand, men are much more likely to get an ADHD...