MintLeaf Blog —
Mental health content
from licensed therapists.

For those of you who feel nervous about starting therapy for the first time or maybe in a long time. I want you to know that's completely normal, it's how most of us feel when we are starting therapy...

I was at seminary not really because I knew what I wanted to do with my life, but because I enjoyed studying religion, theology, philosophy, and all that good stuff. But I was still sort of wandering, and I met this woman...

Stress over work has been a reality for a lot of us far before the pandemic began. In fact, according to a 2017 study completed by Mental Health America, Inc...

We all feel anxious from time to time. Sometimes, though, we can start to feel a little too anxious. Too much anxiety can make it difficult to focus, cause muscle tension, sleep disruption, make us feel irritable...

We’re living in weird times. To be more specific, we’re living in times of ambiguous stress. How worried should you be about COVID-19? Will you have a job next week? Will your kids need childcare until August? A lot of things about life as we know it are shifting rapidly...

A key component of a formal social work education is the development of a self-care routine. Self-care is the ongoing process of prioritizing personal needs to ensure that a caregiver remains healthy enough to meet the needs of the people in their care...