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mentalhealthprofes
Jul 11, 20233 min read
Let’s Celebrate BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month
By Pamela L Tippit, LPC-S July is Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Awareness Month. This year’s theme is...
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mentalhealthprofes
Jun 7, 20232 min read
Self-Care For Helping Professionals: REAL Self-Care Requires Sacrifice by Pamela L. Tippit, LPC-S
In the context of therapists and helping professionals, self-care goes beyond indulging in spa treatments and focuses on the foundational...
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mentalhealthprofes
May 10, 20234 min read
Music Therapy 101
By Stephanie Bolton MA, MT-BC Board Certified Music Therapist, Fellow, Association for Music and Imagery (FAMI) One of the most common...
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mentalhealthprofes
Mar 21, 20234 min read
Disability Distraction by Anneliese Knop, ALC
Disability Distraction: What Counselors Get Wrong When Treating Clients with Disabilities, Chronic Illness, and Chronic Pain I am very...
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mentalhealthprofes
Feb 2, 20232 min read
The Power of Play
by Stephanie Hase LICSW, PIP, RPT In honor of International Play Therapy Week Feb. 5-12, Stephanie Hase, LICSW, PIP, RPT shares some...
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mentalhealthprofes
Nov 30, 20223 min read
Stress Management Tips for the Holiday Season
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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Sep 10, 20222 min read
Supporting BIPOC Clients Ja’Vae Parham, ALC, NCC
by Ja’Vae Parham, ALC, NCC Historically there has been a stigma on mental health across the communities of Black, Indigenous, and People...
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mentalhealthprofes
Aug 18, 20223 min read
The Feeling Phenomenon: How to Complete Your Communication With Clients by Anneliese Knop M.S., ALC
“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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Jul 11, 20227 min read
5 Years of MHPNA!
With this year marking 5 years of the Mental Health Professionals of North Alabama's existence, Christina and I wanted to take some time...
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mentalhealthprofes
Jun 1, 20224 min read
Music + Therapy = Music Therapy! YES!
by Stephanie Bolton MA, MT-BC, Certified Music Therapist One of the most common misconceptions about music therapy is that the person...
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mentalhealthprofes
May 3, 20224 min read
Ace on the Couch by Anneliese Knop
Disclaimer: This is not a professional case study, but a story from my personal life I have permission to share. She never had crushes...
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mentalhealthprofes
Mar 4, 20222 min read
Am I Codependent? By Pamela L. Tippit, LPC-S
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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Feb 8, 20225 min read
Women with Autism by Jessica Penot LPC, MS, ADC
I never had a passion for working with those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. All the stereotypes associated with autism didn’t...
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mentalhealthprofes
Dec 2, 20215 min read
How Many Colleagues Do You Have Who Have Disabilities?
by Anneliese Knop No re-read what I just wrote. Did your brain substitute “client” for “colleague?” There are two key reasons why we...
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mentalhealthprofes
Nov 7, 20213 min read
How have you been sleeping?
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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Oct 14, 20214 min read
The Tissue Box and My Observations
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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Communication is the Key in Marriage by Holly Walker, LPC-S
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...
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mentalhealthprofes
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Recovering From Burnout by Louisa DiLeone
Recovering From Burnout As a therapist and recovering perfectionist, I often dive into what I myself need to learn. Being ambitious,...
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mentalhealthprofes
Jun 14, 20216 min read
Just Two Therapists: How Did MHPNA Get Started??!! by Pam & Christina
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...
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