Tiffany Griffiths, Psy.D. & Associates, Inc.

02/25/2026

Staff Highlight ✨

02/21/2026

02/17/2026

We are living through a completion cycle.

This year carries the energy of a 9…endings, karmic closure, and integration paired with the archetype of the Snake: shedding, shadow, truth rising.

Look around.

Polarization.
Collective nervous system dysregulation.
Institutions losing trust.
Environmental strain.
Fear amplified.

This is what completion looks like before it feels like renewal.

Snake energy reveals what has been hidden. Nine energy demands closure. Together, they create disruption not as punishment, but as reorganization.

And then comes the 0.

Zero is not nothing.

In spiritual traditions, 0 represents the void, the fertile field before form. The pause between identities. The moment when what was has dissolved, but what will be has not yet crystallized.

Psychologically, this is the most uncomfortable place to stand.

The nervous system prefers certainty. Even unhealthy certainty. The void feels disorienting because it removes the scaffolding we leaned on. Old narratives fall apart. Familiar roles loosen. Institutions wobble.

But the 0 is creative.

In therapy, we see this constantly. When someone completes a long-held pattern, there is a moment of emptiness. “If I’m not who I was, who am I now?” That pause is not regression. It is reorganization.

Collectively, we are in that pause.

If we rush to fill the void with more fear, more reactivity, more polarization we rebuild the same system in a new disguise.

If we tolerate the discomfort of not knowing, if we regulate, integrate, and stay grounded, something new can emerge that is not rooted in the old trauma.

After the Snake comes the Horse.

Movement. Embodied courage. Aligned action.

The future will not be built by the loudest reactions. It will be built by those who can stand calmly in the void long enough to create something wiser.

Completion is here.
The void is here.
Reorganization is possible.

This is not collapse.

This is transformation in process.

02/16/2026

Today I listened to Ashley Judd speak about gender-based violence, and I felt both tremedous grief and resolve.

Gender violence is not a “women’s issue.” It is a public health crisis. It is a mental health crisis. It is a human crisis.

As a psychologist, I see what this does to the nervous system. Hypervigilance. Shame. Dissociation. Self-blame. The body carrying stories it never consented to hold. These are not weaknesses. They are adaptive responses to threat.

As a human being, I see something else. Violence flourishes where there is disconnection from empathy, from accountability, from the sacredness of another person’s body.

We cannot meditate our way out of injustice. We cannot spiritually bypass anger when anger is a clean signal that a boundary has been crossed.

Anger, when it is conscious, protects.
Grief, when it is honored, restores connection.

Silence, however, protects harm.

Prevention requires more than awareness. It requires emotionally literate boys and men. It requires systems that believe survivors. It requires workplaces and communities that refuse to normalize coercion, harassment, or domination.

Gender violence is a wound in the collective nervous system. Healing it demands both tenderness and courage.

Every time we believe a survivor, we restore dignity to the body.
Every time we teach consent, we interrupt a lineage of harm.
Every time we choose accountability over comfort, we strengthen the culture.

Healing is not passive. It is active, embodied, and sometimes fierce.

I will continue to stand for a world where power is measured not by control, but by how safely we hold one another.

The work is not optional. It is ours.

If you or someone you love has experienced gender-based violence, support is available:

• National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 800-656-HOPE (4673) or online.rainn.org
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233) or thehotline.org

And if you are in Northeastern Pennsylvania, our practice provides trauma-informed therapy with clinicians trained to work with complex trauma, shame, attachment injury, and nervous system healing. You do not have to carry this alone.

Reaching out is not weakness. It is the beginning of restoring safety in the body, in relationships, and in the larger culture we are shaping together.

02/14/2026

As a provider serving individuals on Medical Assistance in Pennsylvania, I feel compelled to speak up.

Over the past several years, I have raised concerns about what I believe to be rampant inefficiencies and potential fraud within the system that oversees HealthChoices in Northeastern Pennsylvania. I brought these concerns directly to leadership at NBHCC, the nonprofit created to oversee the managed care organization responsible for administering the Medical Assistance program in this region. My concerns were dismissed.

What troubles me deeply is this: why do we have a management entity overseeing another management entity? In all other parts of the state, that I am aware of, this extra layer does not exist. Every additional administrative layer costs money. And that money comes from taxpayers and ultimately from services meant for vulnerable Pennsylvanians.

Meanwhile:

• Providers have not received meaningful rate increases in years
• Reimbursement rates remain significantly below (30%) those of commercial insurers.
• Administrative paperwork is exhausting and often redundant.
• Providers are refusing to accept Medical Assistance.
• Clients are waiting longer for care at a time when mental health needs are at historic highs.

This is not sustainable.

When reimbursement fails to keep pace with inflation and operational costs, small and mid-sized practices struggle to survive. When providers leave the system, patients lose access. When oversight structures lack transparency, public trust erodes.

This is not about politics. It is about stewardship. It is about making sure taxpayer dollars are used responsibly and that funding intended for care actually reaches care.

If you are a provider seeing similar issues, speak up. If you are a community member who cares about access to mental health services, ask questions. Transparency and accountability are not attacks, they are responsibilities.

Our communities deserve better. Our patients deserve better.

Use your voice!!!

The federal government released the largest Medicaid claims dataset in history today — 227 million rows covering over $1 trillion in spending. We downloaded all 10 gigabytes and filtered it for Lackawanna County.

Six local providers billed a combined $75.8 million through codes that federal agencies have flagged nationally for fraud risk. One small Carbondale-based company alone accounted for $46.7 million — ranking it 21st in the entire country for ABA therapy billing, ahead of large multi-state health systems. Its LinkedIn page lists 2 to 10 employees.

We're not alleging fraud. We are saying the numbers raise questions worth asking. Full analysis here: https://www.lackawannaconnect.com/news/doge-hhs-medicaid-lackawanna-county-analysis

02/11/2026

I’ve been reflecting on how we support veterans after the uniform comes off because service doesn’t end when deployment ends. Trauma, moral injury, and the loss of identity and community can follow people home in invisible ways.

A recent report from ABC News highlights a major new investment in Australia to expand veteran “rehabilitation” beyond paperwork and payouts toward reintegration, community, and real-world functioning. That includes funding for social and wellbeing supports (think surf therapy, yoga, skill-building, community programs), and coverage for newer clinical options like M**A- and psilocybin-assisted treatments in tightly regulated, eligibility-based contexts, alongside medicinal cannabis for certain conditions.

This matters. Psychedelic-assisted therapy isn’t a shortcut and it’s not right for everyone, but when it’s done responsibly (screening, preparation, skilled clinical support, and integration afterward), it may help some people soften the grip of PTSD and reconnect with meaning, relationships, and life.

Supporting those who help preserve our freedom can’t just be symbolic. It has to look like accessible, evidence-informed care, earlier intervention, and a system that treats veterans like whole human beings…mind, body, community, and spirit ❤️🇺🇸🍄.

A $740 million program will expand support for veterans and include funding for social activities such as yoga and language classes, with new treatment including M**A and psilocybin for the worst forms of PTSD also funded for the first time.

02/09/2026

Last night’s Super Bowl halftime show was a perfect little terrarium of modern pop culture: one artist, one stage, a hundred million nervous systems, and, inevitably, some folks trying to turn art into a culture-war.

Because that’s what pop culture is now. Not just entertainment but also a mirror. And mirrors don’t always flatter.

Some voices on the right rushed to frame the show as “anti-American,” “divisive,” “too political,” or the familiar panic-button: “Why isn’t it in English?” Turning Point USA even tried to counter-program the whole thing, like multilingual music is a national emergency. And that’s the tell, isn’t it? Not that the performance was “threatening,” but that the existence of someone else’s joy, language, and culture can feel threatening when your identity is built on being the default setting.

But here’s what I can’t stop thinking about: the closing message…

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

Not “love” as a Hallmark sticker. Love as a discipline. Love as a refusal to be psychologically hijacked. Love as the grown-up move when the collective nervous system is begging us to choose tribal outrage.

Hate is loud, but it’s also brittle. It needs constant fuel—constant enemies, constant humiliation, constant dopamine hits of “us vs. them.” Love is quieter, and it’s harder… because love requires strength. Love requires curiosity. Love requires staying human when someone is trying to recruit you into being a weapon.

So sure, people can argue about the setlist, the language, the symbolism, the politics. That’s the circus.

But the core message was simple, and frankly, medicine for this moment:

If we’re going to “fight,” let it be with love. With dignity. With solidarity. With the kind of courage that refuses to become what we fear.

Because hate multiplies hate.

Love ends the equation ❤️🇺🇸.