Seeds of Change Counseling & Consulting, LLC

02/13/2026

We continue highlighting Black pioneers in mental health for Black History Month!

Today we celebrate Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark. Dr. Clark, and her husband, Dr. Kenneth Clark, completed research on racial identification and preference that would be pivotal in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case. After graduating from Langston High in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Dr. Clark began her university studies at Howard University in math and physics. Here she would meet her future husband who convinced her that she would have increased employment opportunities in the area of psychology, while also fulfilling her dream of working with children. She would earn both her bachelor's and master's degree's from Howard, with her master's dissertation titled "The Development of Consciousness of Self in Negro Pre-School Children." Dr. Clark and husband Kenneth went on to complete the famous "Doll Study" as part of their doctorate research at Columbia University. The doll study, Dr. Mamie Clark's idea, surveyed Black children, most of whom attended segregated schools by asking them to identify the children’s various attitudes about Black and white dolls and racial identity in effort to study the children's perceptions of their own racial identities. Around that time, Dr. Mamie Clark had worked in a law office connected with Thurgood Marshall who ran the Brown v Board case. Lawyers invited the use of the Clark's research, and had them recreate their findings for the case in 1954. Dr. Mamie Clark spent much of her career working with New York's homeless Black teens, eventually opening The Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem to address the lack of appropriate services for Black children in the area. She was also a pivotal member of the team who started the national Head Start program.
We thank Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark for her many contributions, many of which children continue to benefit from today. Sources: https://feministvoices.com/profiles/mamie-phipps-clark
https://www.history.com/.../brown-v-board-of-education...

02/11/2026

🌱 Therapy isn’t just for when things fall apart.
It’s also for when you’re:

A child learning how to handle big feelings

A teen navigating friendships, school pressure, or identity

An adult juggling work, relationships, and burnout

Mental health support looks different at every age, but growth is always possible. Therapy helps people build skills, gain insight, and feel less alone at any stage of life.

If you’ve been wondering whether therapy is “for you” (or your child)… it probably is. 💚

Growth starts with a conversation.

02/07/2026

✨Final post in our series on beginning therapy ✨

This one is about perinatal therapy, or therapy specific to those actively pursuing become parents, or navigating the complex transition to parenthood. Finding a counselor with specific training in perinatal work can be helpful if you have experienced postpartum mood shifts, a traumatic birth, struggles with fertility, loss, identity shifts, or relationship changes as you navigate this major life change.

We are happy to help people in the mental health realm, and have lots of wrap-around resources to share in order to best support our clients in this population. We also welcome babies in the office!

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https://www.seedsofchangecc.com/post/understanding-perinatal-therapy-key-differences-and-similarities-with-general-therapy

Finishing up our series on beginning therapy, this post highlights similarities and differences of perinatal therapy, versus therapy for other populations.

02/06/2026

We are celebrating Black History Month by highlighting Black pioneers in mental health all month.

We start with Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, professor of social psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Eberhardt received her bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati and master's and doctorate from Harvard University.

Dr. Eberhardt's work largely focuses on racial bias. Her interest in this area comes from moving from a predominantly Black neighborhood to a predominantly white neighborhood in childhood, where she noticed the large differences for Black residents between the two communities in regards to negative Black bias and stereotyping.

In 1994 she completed postdoctoral study on stereotyping and intergroup relations at the University of Massachusetts. She also completed postdoctoral work at Stanford in 1995 in the area of stereotype threat on academic performance.

She has taught at both Yale and Stanford, and helped to develop SPARQ (Social Psychology Answers to Real World Questions) at Stanford. SPARQ creates meaningful conversation amongst members of many groups and occupations to create change in the area of racial associations in education, business, criminal justice, and other important societal intersections.

All of Dr. Eberhardt's ongoing work is in the areas of racial bias and stereotyping, and primarily its effect on relationships, social treatment, and the educational and justice systems. We thank Dr. Eberhardt for her work and ongoing focus in these areas of social psychology.

Listen to her TED talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVNb53lkBuc

Sources:https://web.stanford.edu/.../about-jennifer-eberhardt.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Eberhardt

02/06/2026

Postpartum brain biology 🧠

02/05/2026

Happy International Play Therapy Week! While our practice works with all ages, all of our staff is play therapy trained to be able to work with children. For more info on what play therapy is and why it works check out the comments below.

02/05/2026

Therapy helps teens practice:
• Expressing emotions
• Setting boundaries
• Building confidence
• Navigating peer pressure

Being heard changes everything.

02/04/2026

Happy National School Counseling Week! School counselors are an integral part of any school building, helping students learn and thrive through the comprehensive programming they provide. We love our local school counseling community who often partners with us to provide collaborative care to our school aged clients.

A special school counseling week shoutout to our very own Ms Samantha Kates who is also a full time school counselor. Samantha was recently recognized by some of her students at a basketball game as their “most impactful person.” So proud of you!👏

02/03/2026

When children are loved for who they are, it can help them grow into adults who see differences not as divisions, but as something to celebrate.

02/02/2026

First day in the new office! We can’t wait for our clients to arrive 😍