Mental Health

Social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, teachers, parents and pastors are working together to understand and create viable options for those who deliberately harm themselves.  As conversations have become more open and stigma has decreased, a growing number of individuals are acknowledging how self-harm has touched their lives—at home, school, work, or church. This blog will focus on myths pertaining to cutting, possible ways to inflict pain and reasons for self-harm, psyc

For generations, mental health has been treated differently than physical health—spoken about in whispers, minimized, or avoided altogether. Yet mental health affects how we think, feel, connect, work, and live every single day. At Unity, we believe it’s time to change the narrative: mental health care is health care, period. 🩵Why stigma still exists Mental health stigma often comes from misunderstanding. Many people were taught that struggling emotionally means being “weak,

When many people hear the words human trafficking, they picture something distant — a problem happening in other countries or big cities, far removed from everyday life in Southwest Louisiana. The truth is much harder to face: human trafficking is happening right here in our neighborhoods, often involving children and adolescents we interact with every day. As a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and co-owner of Unity Psychiatry and Correctional Health Alliance, I p