Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lesley Broff is a licensed social worker who graduated from The University of Pittsburgh with her Masters degree in Social Work.

Growing up, Christie Werts always felt a little different from the rest of her family. She was more sensitive than everyone else, and her thinner skin didn't make her rocky upbringing any easier, ...

Overcoming trauma is far from a linear journey, and having professional guidance is often the best way to work through a complex set of overlapping mental health issues. Ellie Rose, a therapist on ...

Trauma can be a shared experience, but the journey to process it and overcome is often silenced. A new podcast by journalist Erika Mahoney hopes to change that and create connection. Her father Kevin ...

ETTRICK, Va. — Tony Durham Jr. will walk across the stage at Virginia State University this Saturday to receive his master's degree in Counselor Education, marking a milestone in a journey that began ...

There is a famous scene in the film Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams, playing a therapist, compassionately repeats the line, “It’s not your fault,” to Will, a troubled young man with ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — According to the Brain Injury Association of America, one in ten children in the United States experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. TBIs are, unfortunately, ...

Learned helplessness. I’d heard the term before, but conflated it with weaponized incompetence, a phenomenon where someone (usually the male partner in a hetero relationship) exerts little or no ...