Elemental Health

03/14/2026

Elemental Health is honored to be a sponsor, once again, and to have Dr Khan presenting. It gives us an amazing opportunity yearly to truly “Partner” with all our counselors and therapists in private practice in taking care of all of our patients/clients in the community. If you haven’t been or haven’t registered, yet, please do so, as this is a conference you do not want to miss!

03/06/2026

Celebrating all the Social Workers this month and every month! So thankful for all that you do.

02/25/2026

Elemental Health was proudly represented by Kim McGrew and McGowan at last night‘s Planting Seeds of Hope event at the LSU Pete Maravich Assembly Center hosted by the Rain Will Bring Flowers Foundation, in partnership with LSU Athletics, the Joe Burrow Foundation, Our Lady of the Lake Health, and the LCLUB, bringing athletes, families, the military, and our community together for powerful stories of resilience, meaningful dialogue around youth mental wellness, focusing on preventing youth su***de.

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02/21/2026

Proud to be a Sponsor!

👏 Please help us welcome Dynamic Therapy Specialists, Elemental Health, and the Louisiana Department of Health – Medicaid as vendors at Active for Autism 2026!

Stop by their booths at the event to learn more about the amazing services they provide to support children, families, and our community:

Dynamic Therapy Specialists – pediatric speech, occupational, and developmental support.

Elemental Health – mental health services including therapy and care coordination.

Louisiana Department of Health – Medicaid – helping families access essential health and therapy services.

We’re excited to have them join our AFA family this year! 💙

01/25/2026

Elemental Health will close on Monday, January the 26th, precautionarily, given the weather event.
Please monitor this page or the Instagram one for updates for Tuesday.
Please stay safe, warm and as always, in case of emergency, call 911, head to your nearest ER, or call Regions Behavioral Hospital at 225-408-6060.

01/21/2026

If you’ve tried everything but therapy… it’s time to try ✨Elemental Health✨

Baton Rouge, we’d love your support💛
Vote Elemental Health for Best Mental Health Services in the Advocates 2026 “Best of Baton Rouge”!
Your vote helps more people find treatment services that actually works.
Cast your vote today via the link in our bio, or by copying the QR code on this post! Your support is much appreciated 💛✨

01/11/2026

We at Elemental find the LGPS INVALUABLE for our clinicians, and hence have committed ourselves to being a sponsor for as long as they’ll have us!
If you’re a professional in the mental health space and do any type of group work, you won’t find a more fruitful event than one of LGPS’s meetings!

01/05/2026

💙Supporting mental wellness changes lives— and we’re honored to be part of the Baton Rouge mental health community.

Elemental Health IOP is being nominated for The Advocate’s ‘Best of Baton Rouge’ 2026! If our IOP has made a difference for you or someone you love, we’d be so grateful for your vote for “Best Mental Health Services.”

🗳️Vote today and help us continue providing compassionate, quality care. Vote the BEST!

01/03/2026

Shared from LinkedIn post by Eric Arzubi, MD ():

It's 1961.
A 17-year-old girl is locked in a psychiatric ward.
The doctors don't expect her to survive.
She would go on to revolutionize how we treat the "untreatable."
She spent 26 months there.
Seclusion rooms. Electroshock.
Burning herself. Banging her head against walls.
But Marsha Linehan made herself a
VOW:
She would get out of hell.
And she would find a way to help others escape it too.
Decades later, she did exactly that.
She created Dialectical Behavior
Therapy (DBT).
A treatment that would save countless lives.

Here's what Marsha Linehan taught
US
that we desperately need today:
1/ Acceptance and Change Aren't
Opposites
L, Traditional therapy pushed only for change
- Linehan realized this felt invalidating
to people in extreme pain
- The breakthrough: Hold both.
Radical acceptance AND commitment to change.
2/ Validation Is a Clinical Intervention
-> Before you can help someone change,
they need to feel understood
-> Validation isn't agreeing.
It's acknowledging their pain makes sense.
-> People can't hear solutions until they feel heard.

3/ Skills Can Be Taught
→ Emotional regulation isn't a personality trait.
It's a skill set.
→ Distress tolerance can be learned.
Interpersonal effectiveness can be practiced.
→ What was once called "untreatable" became teachable.
4/ Meet People in Their Crises
→ DBT includes phone coaching between sessions
→ Skills aren't useful if they're only practiced
in the therapy room
→ Real change happens in real moments.
5/ Your Suffering Can Become Your Purpose
→ Linehan didn't hide from her past.
She used it.
- In 2011, she publicly revealed her own hospitalization
→ Lived experience isn't a liability.
It's credibility.

Linehan gave us one phrase that captures her life's work:
"The goal is to build a life worth living."
Not symptom-free. Not cured. Worth living.
She understood that healing isn't about erasing pain.
It's about creating meaning alongside it.
60+ years after that locked ward, are we helping people build lives worth living?
Or just managing their symptoms?

www.ElementalHealthBR.com

01/02/2026

Ellie took a trip to NYC

01/01/2026

From all of us at Elemental Health, have a Happy New Year!

For our neighbors who might not feel so optimistic (or have a loved one who is struggling), call to find out how we can help you BE a Happy New YOU in 2026.

Starting a new year doesn’t mean having everything figured out.
It means taking the next step with support.

Support that meets you where you are.
Elemental Health Intensive Outpatient Mental Health Therapy Program.

12/18/2025

Day 5! Ellie on the Telly!
😂