THE IMPACT OF GRIEF Written by: Dr. Dawn Joosten-Hagye, PhD, LCSW, GC-C Loss, a universal experience, involves adjustment and adaptation to changes and transitions that arise throughout each person’s life course. Such adaptations and adjustments occur most often when individuals experience either normative developmental losses or non-normative losses that may be unexpected, anticipated, ambiguous, complicated, …
COPING WITH TRAUMA RELATED SYMPTOMS A trauma is a scary and disturbing event where safety is threatened. Trauma can be experienced directly, such as sexual assault/rape, combat, child abuse, intimate partner violence, being in a serious car accident, or a natural disaster. Traumas can also be terrible events that are witnessed. For example, murder, suicide, …
Join us every quarter for The Collective Connect, a mental health networking group for behavioral healthcare professionals held in Newport Beach, CA. This community gathering is hosted by The Mental Health Collective in an effort to unite Orange County’s brightest behavioral healthcare minds. THE COLLECTIVE CONNECT’S NETWORKING GROUP MEETS IN FEBRUARY! On Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 …
SEVEN TIPS TO TREAT STRESS AND BURNOUT If you are like thousands of other Americans right now, three years post-pandemic stress has caused a lot of changes in everyday life, and the biorhythms of your own body. According to the World Health Organization, stress related mental health impairment like anxiety and depression has seen an …
Breathing techniques focus on activating the parasympathetic nervous system to signal to the brain that the body is safe. Deep breathing incorporates a slow and steady inhalation to exhalation ratio, which automatically regulates our body’s natural anxiety and hyperarousal response systems. Here are 4 breathing techniques proven to be effective in the management of mental …
The Collective is so proud our very own Sound and Meditation Teacher, Sophie Pyne, MSW, LCSW who was recently featured on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show for her surf therapy work through Waves of Recovery. SURF THERAPY Waves of Recovery is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that helps people get sober and overcome mental health struggles …
How Taking an Individualized and Multi-Interventional Approach to Mood Disorder Treatment is Helping Clients Live Their Best Lives MOOD + ANXIETY DISORDERS Mood and Anxiety Disorders represent a category of mental health conditions where the primary symptom or challenge is maintaining a stable emotional state and suffering from overwhelming feelings of worry, panic, or fear …
MENTAL HEALTH & FAMILY GATHERINGS How do you maintain mental health through the holiday season? Trauma therapist, Sarah Douglas, LMFT, shares a “Cope Ahead” plan. Click the video below to learn more. ABOUT SARAH DOUGLAS, LMFT Sarah Douglas, originally from Ontario, Canada, earned her, bachelors degree in psychology from Trent University. She went on to …
An interview with Clinical Director, Dr. Kristen Zaleski, Ph.D., LCSW Providing Attachment Therapy and Neuro Informed Therapy is the core of the mission at The Collective as discussed by Clinical Director, Dr. Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW in a recent interview. Click in and listen to Dr. Zaleski explain why the two forms of therapy go …
As Clinical Director, Dr. Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW, understands that providing neuro-informed, attachment focussed, evidence-based treatment is the best way for The Mental Health Collective in Orange County, California, to treat and support adults living with mental illness and trauma disorders. Dr. Kristen Zaleski Programs Functional Recovery DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? Send our team …
