Access to mental health care should be a right, not a privilege. In this Big Idea episode, we take a look back at conversations with mental health professionals at Antioch,…
Helping Overcome Addiction
Across the country, Antioch alums are finding and creating different roles to accomplish the common goal of helping people in their moments of need.
Antioch’s Showbiz-to-Psychology Pipeline
Your first session with a new therapist. They call you into the office. You take a seat on the couch and mentally prepare to process life’s challenges—all the while thinking, in the back of your mind, This person looks familiar. Only in LA, right?Well, no…
Antioch Launches Center for Latinx Mental Health
Generations of Latinx people in the United States have faced discrimination, racism, and many other sorts of oppression…
By App or By Internship
It’s the rare student enters a program with the specific intention to build a brand new nonprofit…
Teacher and Student Publish Article on Family Violence, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Resilience
What are the root causes of family violence? And how can therapists and communities work to help families transcend adversity so that they are able to realize post-traumatic growth and…
Lily Dulan ‘03, ‘06
Lily Dulan ‘03, ‘06 (Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Clinical Psychology) was featured in PsychCentral’s podcast, Inside Mental Health. In the Giving Grief Meaning After a…
With New Workbook, Martha Straus Helps Parents and Children Manage Big Emotions
“It’s part of our job description as parents to remain reasonable—to have access to a rational adult brain—when our kids start falling apart,” writes Dr. Martha Straus in her latest…
Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner Recipient of the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award
When Dr. Devona Stalnaker-Shofner, EdD accepted the 2021 NARACES Social Justice Award at the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES) conference on October 8th, she envisioned her accomplishment and…
Latinx/e Communities Deserve Culturally Responsive Mental Health Care
everyone. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Mariaimeé Gonzalez about the work she is doing to make sure that counseling for Latinx communities is done by diverse individuals who understand the unique issues they face here in the US.
Art Therapy Can Provide Healing Beyond Words
Words sometimes limit our ability to express ourselves and our experiences, however, using art in a therapeutic space provides an opportunity for a different kind of communication. In this episode, we talk with two practitioners and professors of art therapy, Amy Morrison and Beth Donahue, about the benefits of this alternative and engaging form of therapy, and how their new online program has made this profession more accessible than ever.
NCSPP Students of Color Council
At the 2019 annual conference of the National Council of School and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP), an organization that brings together psych educators from graduate programs in psychology across…