by Sean Szeles, LPC When confronted with perceived threats, our bodies are wired to go into fight, flight, or freeze mode. Grounded in...

by Josh Ramirez, LPC Working in a school is a challenging experience. Almost daily, staff are faced with juggling a gamut of tasks. These...

by Kristen Killinger, MS “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso When it...

Here we are approaching the end of a second full school year under the pandemic; a second year where school has not been “normal.” While...

By Josh Ramirez, LPC School Based Therapist/Team Leader and Outpatient Therapist “Communication leads to community, that is, to...

by Sean Szeles, LPC Being a teenager in America is not what it used to be. In the past decade, the suicide rate has increased by nearly...

By Christine Peace, Behavior Coach Consider a time when you were among others but felt like you didn’t belong; what could have made that...

By Josh Ramirez, LPC School Based Therapist/Team Leader and Outpatient Therapist In recent years, mental health wellness has gained much...

Jeff Wickard, MS Transition Classroom Therapist/Team Leader “Knock, knock?” “Who’s there?” “Nobel.” “Nobel who?” “Nobel, that’s why I...

By Christine Peace, Behavior Coach When was the last time you were curious? What occurred that made you experience the childlike...

By Myleah Diehl, MS, NCC A few weeks ago, I was presented the opportunity to de-stress in a Himalayan salt room with the School-Based...

By Christine Peace, Behavior Coach How would you define “spirituality”? Despite being an abstract, subjective concept, one general...

Traumatic events trigger biological changes in the human brain that can impact brain development, especially in children. For individuals...

By Joshua Ramirez, MA, LPC When discussing personal and professional growth, a frequently-drawn comparison is to that of plants. Some...

How Drama, Art, and Dance Can Help Promote a Socially and Emotionally Healthy Classroom By Trynaty Thompson, LSW As teachers, we...

By Jeff Wickard, MS Growing up on a family farm without many friends nearby was difficult for me as a child. I always wanted to go across...

By Myleah Diehl, MS, NCC The COVID-19 pandemic affected us all greatly. We are still looking at some of the long-term effects that months...

By Christine Peace, Behavior Coach Do you ever find yourself experiencing one thing in the moment, and getting tripped up by some...

By Katelin Herr, School Based Therapist I started doing Adopt-A-Cow through Discover Dairy last school year because Steelton-Highspire...

By Trynaty Thompson, LSW How expressive arts use the brain, body, and imagination to facilitate the healing process. What is Expressive...