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Some healing wisdom that moves me and my work!

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Some healing wisdom that moves me and my work!

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After a long day of sessions what are some things you do to gain some distance from the hard but healing work and reclaim some space to replenish YOUR own emotional reserves?

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After a long day of sessions what are some things you do to gain some distance from the hard but healing work and reclaim some space to replenish YOUR own emotional reserves?

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What recharges and refreshes your system?

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What’s something new or surprising that you’re learning about yourself while doing this work—big or small?

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What’s something new or surprising that you’re learning about yourself while doing this work—big or small?

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Hey, team! This Padlet was made with the hope to have something this cohort of interns could use to look back on and deepen connection with y’all. And since we are transitioning out of this internship experience we thought it would be helpful to ask some questions and lean on your lived experiences and expertise to inform our next steps to becoming professionals in the field.

And what better source than our own Latinx Talk Therapy team 🫶🏼

Hitting the "+" underneath each section title, feel free to add as little or as much throughout—words, images, emojis, resources and any other artifacts are all appreciated

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If you’re not quite in the mood to share with words, drop down something that represents your relationship to the stars ✨

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What are some nuggets of wisdom you’ve picked up along the way that you feel would’ve been helpful to know as you transitioned from being an intern to being a practitioner?

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What are some nuggets of wisdom you’ve picked up along the way that you feel would’ve been helpful to know as you transitioned from being an intern to being a practitioner?

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I take time for some gentle movement, getting out of my normal space. Love brewing up some coffee or tea too! 

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I take time for some gentle movement, getting out of my normal space. Love brewing up some coffee or tea too! 

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Some things I try: co-regulation practices, providing as much space and time for predictability of upcoming/anticipated discharge.

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Patricia  | Radical Somatic Therapist ✊🏾 on Instagram: "We are anti-oppressive therapists 💁🏽‍♀️⁣.⁣.⁣.⁣.⁣.⁣

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Patricia  | Radical Somatic Therapist ✊🏾 on Instagram: "We are anti-oppressive therapists 💁🏽‍♀️

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13K likes, 380 comments - pat.radical.therapist on December 9, 2023: "We are anti-oppressive therapists 💁🏽‍♀️

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But What Will People Say by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MA, LGPC, NCC

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But What Will People Say by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, MA, LGPC, NCC

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Brown Girl Therapy on Instagram: "Sharing good news right now feels uncomfortable and I want to honor that two things can be true at once. I carry grief and rage AND I feel joy about something I have been working on for THREE years!

Holding this nuance, I am so excited to share with you the cover of my book, But What Will People Say! 

I spent my whole life desperately seeking representation, solutions to my cultural and identity struggles, and resources that helped me feel seen and connected to others.

I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I made it. This book is a culmination of years of my own “failure,” trauma, therapy, education, healing, experiences, and curiosity. AND it’s YOUR stories, experiences, and struggles that have been shared with me. This book is so much— it’s memoir, it’s community, it’s self help, it’s the first of its kind. I cannot wait to share it with you in 6 months!!!

It is now available for pre-order (link in my bio), and pre-orders are so crucial to new authors, so please consider getting yourself — and literally everyone you know — a copy! #butwhatwillpplsaybook"

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1,630 likes, 231 comments - browngirltherapy on November 16, 2023: "Sharing good news right now feels uncomfortable and I want to honor that two things can be true at once. I carry grief and rage AND I fee...". 

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Safeword Podcast, hosted by Casey Tanner, CST, LCPC & Kamil Lewis, LMFT

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Safeword Podcast, hosted by Casey Tanner, CST, LCPC & Kamil Lewis, LMFT

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Listen to Safeword on Spotify. Hosted by sex therapists Casey Tanner and Kamil Lewis, Safeword is sex therapy, unhinged! Because instead of being a blankslate that's just here to support you, we are telling you the details on our own sex lives, relationships, identities and more.

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So far this plain notebook has been holding the fort down...

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So far this plain notebook has been holding the fort down...

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vegan leather journal terra cotta thoughts - designworks ink

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Vegan Leather Journal Terra Cotta Thoughts - DesignWorks Ink

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Shop Vegan Leather Journal Terra Cotta Thoughts - DesignWorks Ink at Target. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Free standard shipping with $35 orders.

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Come Back to Care, hosted by Nat Vikitsreth, LCSW, DT, CEIM

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Come Back to Care, hosted by Nat Vikitsreth, LCSW, DT, CEIM

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Listen to Come Back to Care on Spotify. Are you looking for ways to practice social justice in your daily parenting and nurture your child's development while re-parenting your inner child? You're in the right place. I'm Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, a decolonized and licensed clinical psychotherapist, somatic abolitionist, and founder of Come Back to Care.

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If you’ve made it this far, we’d love for you to drop something, somebody, someplace that reconnects you with the joyful and expansive parts of yourself.

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If you’ve made it this far, we’d love for you to drop something, somebody, someplace that reconnects you with the joyful and expansive parts of yourself.

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Something that you feel will make you (or someone that lands here) smile or laugh or feel seen or validated. Passions, art, coffee shop recommendations, museums, plates of food, furry friends, podcast or books, etc.

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In a few words, emojis, or with an image share how you stay organized?

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In a few words, emojis, or with an image share how you stay organized?

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Remember, that finding that flow state, that rhythm of working and writing notes and sending out emails and neatly stacking appointments/meetings is something that many of us newer to the mental health field are still working on 🥺

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In less than 10 words, how would you explain/portray what you do for work to the little one(s) in your life?

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In less than 10 words, how would you explain/portray what you do for work to the little one(s) in your life?

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Little ones can be inclusive of biological family, chosen family, or otherwise.

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How do you metabolize/process feelings that show up within yourself and within client around discussions of terminating the therapeutic relationship?

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How do you metabolize/process feelings that show up within yourself and within client around discussions of terminating the therapeutic relationship?

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Support Page for Mental Health Professionals on Instagram

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Changes Needed To Support The Therapists Doing This Work by @therapist.to.therapists

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Changes Needed To Support The Therapists Doing This Work by @therapist.to.therapists

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Support Page for Mental Health Professionals on Instagram: "Please share to spread the word 🫶🏾💚!
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Every year I will continue to share this and advocate for change that mental health professionals need!
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People ask why there’s a shortage of mental health clinicians and why this mental health crisis only continues to worsen, well, it’s a systemic issue, it has been for decades. The headlines should be: There’s a shortage of therapists who are burned out and tired of being underpaid and overworked in a broken system that does not value THEIR mental health! 
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Funding for mental health programs has significantly decreased or been taken away all together. Clinics/treatment/diagnostic centers and non-profit mental health centers are closing and lessening in numbers. They refuse to increase the pay for clinicians as health insurance companies pay low reimbursement rates that are not sustainable for clinicians to make a good living. Therapists are amongst the lowest paid masters level earners and often don’t make enough to earn a sustainable living.
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The system is broken. Therapists deserve better. We have been championing this crisis up against this broken system for years. I hope that the world not only begins to care more about mental health care and access by dismantling and rebuilding this system, but I hope they start to care more about the foundation, which are the Therapists who have been carrying this and doing this work. We deserve better in 2024. 👏🏾✨
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941 likes, 16 comments - therapist.to.therapists on May 6, 2024: "Please share to spread the word 🫶🏾💚!
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Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine

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Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine by Inclusive Therapists

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Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine by Inclusive Therapists

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Student activists in resistance for a free Palestine: we continue to be in solidarity with you. For those newer to protests, keep one another safe, stick together, center the most directly impacted, create accessible spaces, mask up, uplift and lean on one another. Remember mutual aid, peer support, ancestral love & wisdoms. You are equipped!

For those of us in positions of power: clinicians, supervisors, professors - how are WE responding to their movement? Are we relying on them? WE should be doing the most, putting OUR bodies on the line, not THEM.

Please scroll down to see the spreadsheet below for: Wellness, Legal, Bail and other resources. We will continue to update the spreadsheet as more resources come in.

Please feel free to share widely!

Mental Health Liberation Offerings

At Mental Health Liberation, we're holding mentor and peer support spaces for Liberatory Student Support Circle members. Join us here or donate to support us here.

The BIPOC Therapy Fund application cycle opens next week. Please sign up for the newsletter through the website to be notified.

In love & solidarity for collective liberation. From Turtle Island to Palestine, until we're all free.

Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine
Scroll spreadsheet to the right for more info:

Image descriptions: 2 graphic images in peach, upper right corner has MHL logo (yellow circular sun sitting in a soft green half bowl, with two interlocking branches of greenery growing from the bottom to the top)

Footer: MentalHealthLiberation.org/support @MHLiberation

illustrations of hands raising heart-shape graphics of watermelon, Congo and Sudan flags, and fists held up in solidarity

Image 1: Resources & Support for Student Activists

Wellness, Legal, Bail & more

bit.ly/activists-resources

Image 2: BIPOC Therapy Fund

Donate Fundraise Amplify

Liberatory Student Support Circle

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Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine

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Blog Post posted by Melody Li about Support & Resources for Student Activists for a Free Palestine on Inclusive Therapists.

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Liberatory Student Support Circle, hosted by Inclusive Therapists

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Liberatory Student Support Circle, hosted by Inclusive Therapists

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Mental Health Liberation | Nonprofit BIPOC Mental Health Care - Liberate, Heal, Thrive! Therapy Fund & Support for Black, Indigenous & People of Color

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Nurturing BI&POC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students studying mental health, social work, and psychology, we're uplifting the next generation of mental health advocates and activists.

We warmly invite BI&POC students to cultivate our sacred space, extend mutual support, and actively guide this movement.

Together, we will hold a liberation-oriented space to process and affirm student experiences, to critique current institutional structures & barriers, to express hopes and desires, and to reimagine education that equips and liberates.

This is an ongoing process to co-create empowering spaces and resources to support student wellness and aspirations. We invite you to come be in community, to receive validation and care, and share your visions!

Join the Circle: scroll down to the application form.

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Liberatory Student Support Circle - Mental Health Liberation | Nonprofit BIPOC Mental Health Care

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Decolonize & Mobilize Liberatory Student Support Circle Join The CircleDonate & Support Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Nurturing BI&POC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) students studying mental health, social work, and psychology, we're uplifting the next generation of mental health advocates and activists.

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Incoming interns, y'all should apply!

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Applicants must:

be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or noncitizen nationals;

be master's or doctoral students in psychology, nursing, social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, or substance use and addictions counseling;

commit to enter careers in behavioral health services for ethnic and racial minorities who have a mental or co-occurring mental and substance use disorder immediately upon graduation.

It is not required for applicants to identify as ethnic minorities; however, African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are especially encouraged to apply.

Additional eligibility by discipline and training level:

Marriage and Family Therapy

Master's eligibility

must be enrolled in a program with an MFT identity

Doctoral eligibility

must be enrolled in a program with an MFT identity

Mental Health Counseling

Master's eligibility

Doctoral eligibility

be enrolled full time in a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited doctoral counseling program

be board-certified by holding the National Certified Counselor (NCC) credential

If the applicant is not currently board-certified, they must document all of the following:

a full state license as a professional counselor

a passing score on the National Counselor Examination (NCE) or the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE)

a commitment to apply for the NCC credential and to complete the application within the shortest possible timeframe after notification of the MFP award

Nursing

Master's eligibility

must have an active registered nurse license;

must be enrolled full-time in an accredited master's degree behavioral health (psychiatric mental health/substance use) program in nursing.

Master's-level curriculum and plan of study must embody behavioral health disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery that are under girded with theoretical and clinical science.

Doctoral eligibility

must have a master's degree or completed at least nine (9) credits related to psychiatric/mental health nursing or substance use

must be enrolled as a full-time doctoral student in a fully accredited nursing program in psychiatric/mental health nursing or substance use

must have an active registered nurse license

Psychology

Master's eligibility

be enrolled full-time in a terminal master's program in psychology that:

prepares students to be license-eligible practitioners

is on APA's list of eligible programs

is not accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs, not a marriage and family therapy program and not an addictions program

Doctoral eligibility

be enrolled full-time in an APA-accredited doctoral program

No fellowship support is available during a student's internship year.

Social Work

Master's eligibility

Doctoral eligibility

must hold a social work master's degree from a CSWE-accredited program
In certain cases, social work doctoral students who are license-eligible in a partner IMFP field are eligible to apply for the social work doctoral fellowship as part of the IMFP. Remember that you can only apply to one discipline per application cycle.

Substance Use and Addictions Counseling

Master's eligibility

must be enrolled and be in good standing in one of the following programs:

a Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)-accredited master's addictions counseling program or other master's counseling program with a concentration in addictions

a regionally accredited master's addictions counseling program or other master's counseling program with a concentration in addictions

an addictions program accredited by the National Addictions Studies Accreditation Commission (NASAC)

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The Interdisciplinary Minority Fellowship Program (IMFP) is a newly awarded, grant funded program from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to identify, select, and support the training of ethnic minority graduate students who work on co-occurring mental and substance use disorder.

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Alma Empowering Minds Scholarship & Mentorship Program (2025)

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Alma Empowering Minds Scholarship & Mentorship Program (2025)

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Another great funding opportunity, incoming interns!

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Alma Empowering Minds Scholarship & Mentorship Program - American Psychological Foundation

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Through the Alma Empowering Minds Scholarship, graduate students from historically marginalized communities have the opportunity to receive financial support towards their master’s degree and ongoing mentorship from an experienced clinician. Alma firmly believes that empowering the next generation of providers has the power to drive transformative change, fostering a culture of compassion, empathy, and understanding for all. Alma is on a mission to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. Through the Alma Empowering Minds Scholarship, graduate students from historically marginalized communities have the opportunity to receive financial support towards their master’s degree and ongoing mentorship from an experienced clinician. Alma firmly believes that empowering the next generation of providers has the power to drive transformative change, fostering a culture of compassion, empathy, and understanding for all.

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Affirmations for Activists by Kendra Appe, LMHC

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Affirmations for Activists by Kendra Appe, LMHC

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Kendra Appe, LMHC on Instagram: "These are affirmations I wrote for myself, based on my own experience as well as conversations with my community. 

I am sharing them in hopes that they might speak to you, too, and offer some validation and strength as we work together towards a better world for all. 🕊❤️‍🔥🍉

#activism #ceasefirenow #wellbeing #innerstrength #socialaction #therapy"

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87 likes, 18 comments - kendraappecounseling on February 2, 2024: "These are affirmations I wrote for myself, based on my own experience as well as conversations with my community. 

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Talking to my remote coworkers - my family about how I’m feeling.

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Something one of my clients taught me they learned in DBT that helped me organize myself and write notes right away: the opposite of emotion is action. As soon as you think of doing it slowly start to action action toward it, roll with the uncomfortability!

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Anti-Carceral Responses to Suicidality for Mental Health Workers Flow Chart (this tool was created by @sunandspirittherapy for a workshop for @projectlets)

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Anti-Carceral Responses to Suicidality for Mental Health Workers Flow Chart (this tool was created by @sunandspirittherapy for a workshop for @projectlets)

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m on Instagram: "introducing the Anti-Carceral Responses to Suicidality for Mental Health Workers Flow Chart! this tool was created by @sunandspirittherapy for our workshop for @projectlets annual series, Anti-Carceral Approaches to Suicide. 

the workshop functioned as a guide for the extensive folder of curated resources for mental health and care workers looking for ways to response to self-harm or suicidal crisis instead of reaching for emergency services, linked at bit.ly/mh-worker-resource-drive, and this one-page tool, linked in the drive as ‘responding to suicidality map’, works as a quick guide to the options you have at your disposal. 

almost all of the tools included in this drive have been made by people with lived experience of madness, mental illness, trauma, disability, psychiatric incarceration, or peer activism, who have spent decades tirelessly working to make sure that people stay safe from the carceral mental health system. for more extensive descriptions of each tool, as well as descriptions of the current state of psychiatric incarceration and updated legal information regarding provider liability (you have WAY more leeway than you think), check out the [SLIDES] Mad Skills Drive Guide pdf everything in the drive is free, please share this with anyone who you believe may benefit from it! 

Image IDs in comments below"

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7,124 likes, 58 comments - mad.subjectivity on February 12, 2024: "introducing the Anti-Carceral Responses to Suicidality for Mental Health Workers Flow Chart! this tool was created by @sunandspirittherap...". 

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I talk to other people about hard feelings and happy ones too!

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I talk to other people about hard feelings and happy ones too!

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To the incoming cohort of clinical interns, we wish you the best of luck! We truly are rooting for you. Please know that you did not arrive where you are by accident. Remember that you are part of a community of clinicians and mental healthcare professionals that want nothing more but to see you thrive. Lean on one another, share your experiences. And, even when you find yourself deep in self-doubt, caught in a trance of unworthiness, wrestling with imposter syndrome—never hesitate to seek the guidance you deserve. You are the future of this profession, and you have everything that it takes to make a profound impact in the communities you hope to care for!

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In this video, I provide instructions on how to navigate Padlet. I explain the purpose of the Padlet and how it can help deepen relationships among the team. I guide viewers through the process of creating separate posts under each section, adding comments, and leaving their name for identification. No specific action is requested from the viewers, but I encourage them to explore the different sections and respond to what resonates with them.

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One march, two march, we all march for Aries!!!

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One march, two march, we all march for Aries!!!