Laura Strong PsyD

02/21/2026

02/20/2026

Research shows that you can boost your mood by identifying 3 things that went well over the past 24 hours and then let yourself know why it matters to you.
Give it a try!

02/15/2026

Using your 5 senses is a great way to get out of your head and into the moment:
What do you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste?
The more detailed you get, the better.

02/11/2026

Currently accepting new patients. Telehealth openings on Wednesdays and Thursdays. In person appointments on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

02/02/2026

Give something new a try today!

01/15/2026

Do you suffer from migraines or headaches? Research shows that learning an effective progressive muscle relaxation routine can significantly reduce the frequency and intensity of migraines. Skills can be taught in 1-2 sessions. Sessions available in person or via telehealth.

Photo credit: Harvard Health

10/27/2025

Currently accepting new clients for telehealth and in person sessions. BCBS PPO and Medicare insurance accepted. Licensed in most states. (Photo credit: Peachey Counseling).

07/15/2025

From NPR today on the importance of connection:
Doctors are writing “social prescriptions” to get people engaged with nature, art, exercise and volunteering in the same way they would prescribe pills or therapy. Research has shown it can help with mental health, chronic disease and dementia. The method worked for Frank Frost. He gained weight and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his 50s. A doctor found out he used to love riding a bike as a kid and gave him a prescription for a 10-week cycling course for adults getting back into cycling. The prescription led to Frost developing friends, losing 100 pounds and getting his diabetes under control. Julia Hotz, the author of The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging, shares details on the health approach.

05/26/2025

We have probably all heard how the appendix does not do much, but it turns out it does a lot. And recently, scientists discovered that it impacts mental health (in addition to numerous other affects on gut health). Children who had their appendix removed were 20% more likely to have mental illness as adults. Researchers are now working on treatments to avoid appendectomies so it does not put more people at risk for mental illness.

Childhood appendectomy, but not appendicitis without appendectomy, was associated with a significantly increased risk of mood and anxiety disorders in adulthood.

05/19/2025

As a nation we are struggling with intellectual humility (IH). This basically means we have a hard time thinking we do not know everything, become rigid in our views, and have intellectual arrogance. Luckily there are ways to reduce your IH-starting to recognize that you don't know what you don't know, increase your curiosity, you are less likely to get stuck in your views when you talk to others and listen, and truth is not found alone, it happens in groups. To read more check out

The willingness to actually listen to others and to display your ignorance in a world full of know-it-alls is a bold move that now has a name—intellectual humility. It’s not only a developable skill, but it could just end the culture wars.

05/12/2025

Mercy Health and the YMCA are teaming up to host a free Dementia Care event on the 14th at 5:30pm. Registration is required: