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Celebrate the Day of Encouragement with Us
Saturday, September 12 is the National Day of Encouragement. In honor of this, we reached out to our staff and asked them to share their favorite encouraging quotes. We believe there is no better time than the present to spread positivity and lift each other up....
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10 Facts About the U.S. Census
Are you interested in advocating for more resources to support your family? Would you like your voice to be heard and represented in continuing to develop the future of your community? Completing the 2020 Census is part of that journey! You ask, “Well what is the...
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Sunset Sip 2020: A Virtual Success
When we decided to host Sunset Sip 2020 virtually, we did not know how successful the event would be, but not to our surprise so many of you joined us online and showed your support on the evening of August 28, 2020. Nearly 95 people attended our first virtual Sunset...
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Everyone Has A Journey Explained: Story Recap
Everyone Has A Journey is this year’s theme for Sunset Sip, and what a journey these past months have been. Our clients, our staff, our supporters and our surrounding communities have all been navigating through life in a new way we never predicted. Although this has...
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Everyone Has A Journey Explained Pt. 3
Everyone Has A Journey is this year's theme for Sunset Sip, and what a journey these past months have been. Our clients, our staff, our supporters and our surrounding communities have all been navigating through life in a new way we never predicted. Although this has...
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Everyone Has A Journey Explained Pt. 2
Everyone Has A Journey is this year's theme for Sunset Sip, and what a journey these past months have been. Our clients, our staff, our supporters and our surrounding communities have all been navigating through life in a new way we never predicted. Although this has...
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Everyone Has A Journey Explained Pt. 1
Everyone Has A Journey is this year's theme for Sunset Sip, and what a journey these past months have been. Our clients, our staff, our supporters and our surrounding communities have all been navigating through life in a new way we never predicted. Although this has...
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Honoring Minority Mental Health Month: Thoughts from a Latina Therapist
The stigma of mental health in the Latino/x community and the heartache we are facing as a nation after watching the tragic murders of beautiful Black lives at the hands of our “protectors” comes with a mouth full of rants, tears and despair. However, it’s an...
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Honoring Minority Mental Health Month: Reflections On Racial Injustice Pt. 3
In honor of Minority Mental Health Month, two Guidance Center clinicians sat down together and had a hard conversation on the racial injustices the Black community endures. Today, we are sharing the last video in this three-part series. In part one, Angelina...
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Honoring Minority Mental Health Month: Reflections On Racial Injustice Pt. 2
In honor of Minority Mental Health Month, two Guidance Center clinicians sat down together and had a hard conversation on the racial injustices the Black community endures. Last week, Angelina Palma-Williams, LCSW and Stevie McBride, LMFT shared their heart-felt...
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Honoring Minority Mental Health Month: Reflections On Racial Injustice
As we continue honoring Minority Mental Health Month, two Guidance Center clinicians sat down together and had a hard conversation on the racial injustices the Black community endures. Current events have been highlighted in the news lately, but these experiences are...
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Honoring Minority Mental Health Month: Self-Care Strategies
July is Minority Mental Health Month, and with the current events encompassing our nation, this month looks very different today than it has in the past. There is a lot of sadness, pain, hurt, confusion, and so many other emotions. There is an uprising that has swept...
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10 Ways You Can Make Sure Your Kids Have Fun This Summer
Summer is in full swing, but this summer looks markedly different than any other summer before. As we continue to deal with the global pandemic and prepare for a second wave, many families are still social distancing as much as possible to slow the spread. So many of...
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SUMMER ACTIVITIES TO HELP YOUR KID’S MENTAL HEALTH (PT. 2/3): Reading
In this three-part series, we are sharing activities that you can do with your children to ensure they still have a great summer, while also attending to their mental health. In part one of this series, Clinical Therapist, Christal Avila, LCSW offered a strategy to...
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Summer Activities to Help Your Kid’s Mental Health (Pt. 1/3): Cooling Down Space
The first day of summer is only weeks away and it brings an onset of various emotions – different than ever felt before. Instead of last-day-of-school parties, children are logging off of Zoom and closing their laptops to signify the end of the school year. Family...
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Gay Pride Month: A Celebration of Diversity
When I tell people what I do for a living, I often get the response, “wow, that must be so hard, how do you do that?” While I can easily explain the day to day workings of being a therapist at The Guidance Center and the amazing work we do, what I can’t explain is...
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PTSD Awareness Month: Hope and a Call to Action
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed (exposed to) a traumatic event or events such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other...
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Creative Arts for Positive Mental Health
Clinical Therapist Sarah Duncan, AMFT - Process, Performance Art, Fall 2018 During our bi-monthly art therapy supervision, therapists working toward art therapy registration as well as board certified and licensed art therapists explore the use of art materials in...
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Former Client Turned Therapist Offers 3 Tips on Managing Your Mental Health During the Coronavirus Pandemic
I came to The Guidance Center for help in 2014 after experiencing significant trauma in my life that severely impacted my mental health. I was in my early 20’s taking care of my son and my little sister. At that time, I went from working 16-hour days to not be...
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A View of the Coronavirus Pandemic from A Clinical Therapist
Had I known the Wednesday before the "Safer at Home" order was going to be my last time drinking coffee and laughing with my friends during group supervision, I would have baked some cupcakes, hugged them tight and told them how much I’d miss them. I would have played...
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