Anxiety: Symptoms, types, diagnosis, and treatment
Anxiety feels like a state of dread or worry. All of us experience this in small doses which is a normal stress response. It serves a purpose to help us find that extra push for an upcoming situation that can be stressful like a big exam or a wedding.
Mental Health Tip of the Week: Going No-Contact.
Going no-contact. Completely detach yourself from the person and the individual(s) they bring into your life who are toxic, negative, emotionally immature, and complicit in the harmful and disruptive drama.
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
Mental Health Care for Women Veterans
I specialize in treating women veterans. I provide the most effective, personalized care for women veterans to address their unique mental health challenges and the best practices for treating them. Women veterans experience a higher rate of clinical depression and Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD).
Mental health tip of the week: Strong Boundaries
Strong boundaries are your best friend. When you want someone not welcome in your life to stay away, you have to set and enforce strong boundaries. Staying away can include staying away from your family, your friends, your spaces, your online life, your exes, your work, everything…all the way “away”.
The X-Podcast: real conversations about mental health
Our mission is to teach our community listeners about mental health through psychoeducation and to inspire them through social change.
Mental health tip
It’s natural for us to want to react or respond to someone behaving in unacceptable ways. Most times it’s just a bad mood, unpleasant behavior, or something else. However, there are times when mental health issues are present playing a big role in the behavior.
Acculturation and Mental Health
Acculturation is experienced when a culture tries to adopt the ideas and customs of a different culture that is not its own. This process involves adopting and learning the values, traditions, and behaviors of other societies or groups different than theirs. This often occurs when an individual moves to a new country and tries to adopt the customs of their new environment. It also occurs when a country is colonized by another country and adopts the customs of the colonizing country.
Gender Dysphoria Counseling and Therapy
Gender dysphoria is not the same as simply conforming to the stereotypical gender role behavior we are expected to conform to. It involves severe distress because of a very strong and pervasive need and desire to be another gender. This can be expressed in different ways.
Mental Health Tip: When Dealing with Online Harassment
There are several reasons why harassment might appeal to those who do it. First, it's possible that the harasser never learned how to manage his or her emotions. So when they see something that ticks them off online, they lash out to deal with those feelings.
Counseling and Therapy for Diverse Women: Cisgender, Transgender, Non-binary, and Woman/Feminine Identified
Counseling and Therapy for Diverse Women: Cisgender, Transgender, Non-binary, and Woman/Feminine Identified.
Mental Health Services for Diverse Women
We started providing our mental health services with one goal in mind: to help diverse women (cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and woman/feminine identified) with their healing and well-being journey towards good mental health.
22 Natural Remedies for Anxiety
There are a broad range of natural methods that can play an integral role in relieving mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety. Natural remedies can also be integrated into first-line conventional types of treatment. These can include lifestyle changes, developing healthy habits, incorporating self-soothing practices, and establishing a strong supportive network.
Women’s Mental Health
Women experience a variety of different mental health concerns that include anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressor-related disorders. Women experience symptoms differently than men do and are at greater risk for some types of mental health conditions. Women must receive mental health treatment that addresses their unique needs as women.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is Clinical Depression
MDD is clinical depression and is considered a mental health condition. In addition to a depressed mood and loss of interest, it affects appetite and the ability to think clearly. It is a chronic condition and usually occurs in episodes that can last a few weeks, months, or more, some people experience several episodes in their lifetime.
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The X-Podcast: Real Conversations About Mental Health
break free from anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressors.
We help women and woman/feminine identified people who want to break free from their anxiety, depression, dysphoria, and trauma/stressors.
mental healthcare for women
Summerville Women’s Mental Health Studio (SWMHS) understands that traumatic experiences may affect the lives and health of women. We are trauma-informed and are specifically trained to help you feel comfortable and safe at your sessions. We understand and acknowledge how trauma affects your life and we are committed to improving your care.
Meet Xiomara A. Sosa
Clinical Mental Health Counselor Xiomara A. Sosa, a holistic, integrative board-certified Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) focuses on combining evidence-based treatment with alternative therapies.