Counseling & Wellness Collective

12/19/2025

Navigating the holidays can be hard - and you don't have to do it alone.

If you're feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or carrying old stuff that tends to resurface this time of year, support is available.

Jen Clancy, LCPC, offers virtual therapy from the comfort of your own space. She's EMDR trained and works from a trauma-informed lens, helping teens, adults, couples, and families gently work through the deeper layers.

🤍 Weekend availability
🤍 Now accepting new clients
🤍 Learn more about Jen and get started here: https://www.counselingandwellnessco.com/jennifer

11/25/2025

The holidays should be a time of joy, yet many LGBTQIA+ children may feel apprehensive. Here are five essential ways to support them during family gatherings. Your love and acceptance can make all the difference!

Read more: https://wix.to/COAc2e3

The holidays can be a fun time to gather as a family; however, for LGBTQIA+ youth, you may see signs of apprehension or isolation around members who are non-affirming. They may have been approached by family members in the past who think the child expressing their LGBTQIA+ experience is offensive. Y...

11/21/2025

Introducing Open Canvas, a trauma-processing therapy group for teens.

This a safe, creative group for teen girls who have experienced sexual trauma. Using expressive art forms, teens externalize distressing memories, process emotions, and connect to peers.

🎨Trauma-informed, ITR-and-EMDR approach
🎨Creative, expressive art activities
🎨Safe, supportive peer environment
🎨Strengthens emotion regulation, self-expression and coping skills

Group Details
◽️Teen girls aged 14-17 years old
◽️Group Leader: Elia Cullum, LGPC
◽️State Date: Thursday, January 29th, 2026
◽️Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
◽️90-minute sessions for 15 weeks
◽️Cost: $125/per 90-minute session - superbills can be provided

Space is limited. For more information, please contact us at admin@counselingandwellnessco.com

10/09/2025

🌈 As we continue to create a supportive world for LGBTQ+ youth, we need to show up and listen. Learn how to better support the young ones in our lives in our latest blog post - written by our Graduate Intern, Brooks Stroman! Read more here: https://wix.to/QDMEwjJ

In today's climate, it is important for parents and guardians to show up for their kiddos (the youth). Right now, kids who are of the LGBTQ+ experience may be feeling like they can't be open in their surrounding environments. Children may also unknowingly be in value-diverse spaces. Here are some wa...

09/11/2025

Our Graduate Intern, Brooks Stroman currently has a few openings for new clients!

If cost has been a deterrent to starting therapy, this is a wonderful opportunity to begin your healing journey!

Working with a graduate intern offers many benefits:
✨ Reduced sliding scale rates
✨ A fresh perspective grounded in the latest clinical training
✨ Extra layers of support — all sessions are closely supervised by a seasoned licensed clinician

Brooks is especially passionate about:
🤍 Creating a safe, open space to explore thoughts, feelings, and life’s ups and downs with curiosity and presence
🌿 Incorporating movement, play, and outdoor experiences as powerful tools for self-expression and healing
🏳️‍⚧️ Affirming and supporting members of the LGBTQIA+ community with understanding and care

If you or someone you know has been thinking about starting therapy, this is a great time to take that step. Visit our website www.counselingandwellnessco.com to get started!

09/09/2025

🎉 Happy Work Anniversary Charlotte & Claire! 🎉

Here’s to another year of healing, growth, and impact together!

08/27/2025

Congratulations are in order for our very own Claire Howard on becoming an LCPC! 🤍

We are so grateful to have you on our team! Here's to the next chapter! ✨

07/03/2025

We're sending a huge congratulations to all of the amazing providers, practices, and small businesses recognized in Baltimore's Child 2025 Reader's Choice Awards.

We’re honored to be in community with so many compassionate, dedicated folks showing up for kids and families across Maryland.

A special shoutout to:
🖐️ Kids Thrive Therapy
💆‍♀️ Sweet Willow Massage & Wellness
🩺 Maryland Pediatric Group
☕️ Our neighbors Aveley Farms Coffee Roasters — thanks for keeping us fueled!

and to our own Chea Weltchek - who is pretty amazing, if we do say so ourselves! 💗

06/09/2025

Feeling the summer chaos? 🌞 Check out our latest post for 5 strategies to help you stay calm and collected during those sunny, hectic days.

Read more here: https://wix.to/d9S7jaB

Summer can be a joyful season - but also a chaotic one, especially when routines shift and emotions run high. These simple tools can help you stay grounded, strengthen connection with your kids, and create more moments of calm. 1. Set a Summer Intention Choose a word or goal for the season - like pr...

06/01/2025

At Counseling & Wellness Collective, you’re welcome exactly as you are. Our space is safe and affirming for all cultural backgrounds, identities, and orientations.

This month and always, we stand with you, we see you, and we’re so glad you’re here.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

05/07/2025

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🌿

Taking care of your mental health isn’t selfish, it’s essential.

When we pour into our own healing, we make room to grow, to feel better, and to live more fully.

Therapy, rest, boundaries, connection - whatever it looks like for you, tending to your mind is an act of strength. 🤎

04/07/2025

𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐤𝐞.

You're trying to love them, support them, and guide them...
→ without being 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩
→ without making it worse
→ without losing your mind

You wonder:
• Am I being helpful or overbearing?
• Do they need therapy... or do 𝘐 need therapy... or both?
• How do I give them space while still showing up?

It can feel like walking on eggshells.
And the truth is - this is 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 first time going through this part of their life too. So, be gentle with yourself.

Here are 3 simple ways to support your teen and ease some of that pressure:

1️⃣ Focus on connection over correction
Before offering advice or consequences, lead with curiosity and empathy. Listen more than you speak. Sometimes your teen doesn't need a solution, they just need to feel seen and heard.

2️⃣ Model emotional regulation
You don't have to be perfectly calm all the time, but showing them how to process hard feelings without shutting down or lashing out gives them a blueprint for handling their own emotions.

3️⃣ Create space for therapy (if and when they're ready)
Whether it's for your teen, for you, or for both of you, therapy can be a powerful support. It's not about something being "𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨". It's about having a safe space to navigate the complexity of this stage, together or separately.

We have amazing therapists at Counseling & Wellness Collective who specialize in working with teens and families. We're here to hold space for both of you. You're not alone and you're doing better than you think.

Visit www.counselingandwellnessco.com to get started today!