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When you step into the world of counseling, you quickly realize it’s not just about listening or offering advice. It’s about transformation. It’s about guiding people through their darkest moments toward a brighter, more hopeful future. But how do you, as a counselor, elevate your practice to meet the needs of an ever-diversifying world? How do you become a leader who truly understands and embraces multicultural responsiveness? That’s where New Seasons Counseling comes in. T

By Dr. LaVerne Collins Black Mental Health Did Not Begin With the DSM When most clinicians are trained to understand mental health, the starting point is familiar: diagnostic criteria, symptom clusters, treatment modalities, evidence-based interventions. We are taught to look for pathology, impairment, and dysfunction — to identify what is “wrong,” and then determine how to treat it. But what happens when the frameworks we rely on were not built to fully interpret the lived r

Feeling Everything Would Just Be Too Much Over the next couple of weeks, I will be sitting with anniversary reminders of some of the biggest losses of my lifetime. I have learned that some grief doesn’t stay in the moment where it began. It lingers. It gets folded into the family stories, the community rituals, the “way things are.” Over time, it stops being just an event and becomes a kind of inheritance—a quiet companion passed from one generation to the next. This is what

When you step into the world of counseling, you quickly realize that every person you meet carries a unique story. Their culture, background, and experiences shape how they see the world and how they heal. You might ask yourself, How can I truly support someone whose life is so different from mine? The answer lies in embracing inclusive mental health practices that honor diversity and foster genuine connection. This journey is not just about learning new techniques. It’s ab