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Perinatal Mental Health Matters: Why Support for Mothers, Fathers, and Families Cannot Wait
By Dr. Lizette Solis, PhD, LCPC Pregnancy, birth, and the transition into parenthood are often described as joyful milestones. They can be and they can also bring profound physical, emotional, relational, and psychological changes. For some parents, the experience includes anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, trauma symptoms, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, overwhelming stress, grief, or changes in mood…
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From Summer Slow-Down to School Startup
Helping Your Family Land Softly When the Season Shifts By late July, most families have found their summer rhythm — later mornings, looser schedules, more time together and less structure holding it all up. Then, almost overnight, the school supply lists appear, the calendar fills back in, and everyone is expected to snap into a…
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Finding Support: Therapy for High-Achievers
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re the person everyone leans on. You’re the one who remembers the birthdays, handles the crisis at work calmly, shows up for everyone else’s hard days and somewhere along the way, you stopped asking who shows up for yours. From the outside, you look like you have…
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A Letter To Mothers:
May has a way of arriving all at once. School concerts, graduations, teacher gifts, end-of-year celebrations, shifting routines, and the emotional sprint toward summer. It’s also Mental Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day. And in the middle of all of it, there are the moms quietly carrying the invisible mental load for their families. The…
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The 6 Principles of Trauma-Informed Leadership: What It Really Looks Like In Practice
Trauma doesn’t stay at the door when people come to work. Whether we name it or not, trauma shows up at work — in how we communicate, how we handle conflict, how we respond to feedback, and how power moves through an organization (SAMHSA, 2023). And yet, “trauma-informed leadership” is often misunderstood. It’s not about…
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Private Practice
I’m happy to share that I’m partnering with a wonderful colleague and joining her practice as Clinical Therapist. My areas of focus are: trauma- leadership development- women’s issues- major life transitions- racial identity- fertility- grief and loss. You can find me at Balance Psychotherapy using the link below https://www.balancepsychotherapy.com/meet-lizette Please feel free to share with…
