therapy

News4’s Eun Yang gets expert advice on choosing a therapist and the right treatment for mental health issues.

A growing number of people – especially children – have discovered a need for mental health care recently. News4’s Eun Yang got professional advice on the different types of therapy available and how to choose the right one.

A Wisconsin Police Department adopted a stray dog to the task force after it was found and trained to be a therapy dog.

More people are staying up too late as a way to reclaim control of their lives, but sleep suffers.

Many people try to use social media as a source of “fitspiration,” but obsessing over how others look can make us feel bad about ourselves, and hurt our mental health. Clinical social worker and therapist Dr. Courtney Tracy talks about how we can use social media carefully, and explains researchers’ growing concerns about social media causing suicidal thoughts in teens.

We often see adoption on our social media feeds in the most glowing light — with loving adoptive parents and happy children celebrating their new family. Less often do we focus on the trauma that adoptees experience, nor do we see the difficult journey of adoptive parents. NBCLX contributor Nathan Willis explores how the trauma of adoption is treated.

Dr. Ebony Butler created My Therapy Cards, which encourage assessing one’s emotions, writing in a journal and many other ways of examining the self and bettering mental health. The cards can be used on your own, in a group of friends, or along with a therapist. Butler says the cards can help people who don’t have access to mental health...

Our country faces not one mental health crisis, but several. The first is the stigma around mental illnesses. The second is the difficulty of finding help. NBCLX contributor Alex Wohleber talks to people on the front lines of the crisis. Visit lx.com/mentalhealth for more stories and resources.

Arnold Guevara started with his Huntington Beach, California-based horse therapy program two weeks after losing his dad in a work accident. “Where I grew up there was sometimes shooting and fires and things like that,” he told NBCLX. “And it gets me worried because I feel like… that’s going to happen to my family.” On one of his first...

Only about 30% of Black adults with mental health issues actually receive treatment each year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Dr. Ebony Butler created “My Therapy Cards” to help Black women specifically focus on their own mental wellness.

Therapists Eboni Harris and Eliza Boquin discuss the mission behind their initiative, Melanin & Mental Health, which is trying to expand access to therapy in communities of color by providing a directory of Black therapists and using social media, podcasts and merchandise to normalize mental health conversations.

A growing number of people around the world are coping with some form of grief in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. For some, it is the grief of losing a loved one or a familiar way of life. It can even be grief over the loss of touch. Celebrity therapist Esther Perel explains for The New York Times how...

CoronavirusOnlineTherapy.org is made up of more than 3,500 volunteer therapists providing free or low-cost services to frontline workers in the U.S. The group has received more than 7,000 requests in the last two weeks and a shout-out from actress Kristen Bell.

The coronavirus is disrupting almost everyone’s life. Some people are suddenly isolated and many have lost jobs — a recipe for stress and mental health struggles. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports a therapy practice in Alexandria is finding new ways to bring help and advice into the community.

Before the pandemic, a surfer organization gave children with special needs a much-needed beach day