When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, the whole family feels it. Parents worry. Siblings feel confused or left out. Partners carry more than their share. And often, nobody in the family knows what to do next — or where to turn for help themselves. Family support services exist for exactly that…
Sometimes the most helpful person to talk to is someone who has been through something similar themselves. That is the idea behind peer support: support from a trained peer specialist who has lived experience with mental health challenges and recovery, and who uses that experience to help others. Peer support is not therapy, and it…
If you have been thinking about counseling, you probably have questions: what actually happens in a session, what kind of problems therapy helps with, and how do you even start? Here is a straightforward look at what counseling is and how it works at A Body & Mind Health Services. You do not need to…
Looking for a therapist is hard enough without adding insurance to the mix. If you have Medicaid and live in or near Boise, here is a straightforward way to approach the search — what to check, what to ask, and what to do if the first option does not work out. You do not need…