By Pamela L Tippit, LPC-S July is Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month. This year’s theme is...

In the context of therapists and helping professionals, self-care goes beyond indulging in spa treatments and focuses on the foundational...

By Stephanie Bolton MA, MT-BC Board Certified Music Therapist, Fellow, Association for Music and Imagery (FAMI) One of the most common...

Disability Distraction: What Counselors Get Wrong When Treating Clients with Disabilities, Chronic Illness, and Chronic Pain I am very...

by Stephanie Hase LICSW, PIP, RPT In honor of International Play Therapy Week Feb. 5-12, Stephanie Hase, LICSW, PIP, RPT shares some...

by Stephanie Bolton MA, MT-BC Sing with me now– it’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, everywhere I go…. The holiday season is fully...

by Ja’Vae Parham, ALC, NCC Historically there has been a stigma on mental health across the communities of Black, Indigenous, and People...

“I feel like she’s not really listening to what I’m saying. Like she has this idea of what my problem is and goes off on a tangent and...

With this year marking 5 years of the Mental Health Professionals of North Alabama's existence, Christina and I wanted to take some time...

by Stephanie Bolton MA, MT-BC, Certified Music Therapist One of the most common misconceptions about music therapy is that the person...

Disclaimer: This is not a professional case study, but a story from my personal life I have permission to share. She never had crushes...

Often, when I meet clients in my practice they are coming in because they are aware that they are sad, angry, anxious, frustrated or a...

I never had a passion for working with those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. All the stereotypes associated with autism didn’t...

by Anneliese Knop No re-read what I just wrote. Did your brain substitute “client” for “colleague?” There are two key reasons why we...

by Layla Niemann, LICSW, PIP If there is one health metric I LOVE to get nerdy about, it is sleep! I became interested in this treatment...

by Holly Walker, LPC-S A counselor friend of mine said she dubbed her client seating area as “the crying couch” and I’ve referred to the...

At my bridal shower many years ago, those in attendance were asked to write down one bit of advice for me on an index card for me to...

Recovering From Burnout As a therapist and recovering perfectionist, I often dive into what I myself need to learn. Being ambitious,...

What gave you the idea for a group such as this? Christina: After I graduated with my MSW in 2007, I didn’t have a Social Work supervisor...