Lamya K Broussard Psychotherapy Practice

12/26/2025

Engaging my Broad & Olney community members during our Holiday Connections Cafe' last Saturday.

We remembered our loved one's we've lost and other non death losses many of us are individually and collectively grieving & coping with during the holidays.

Sacred healing space space was created to allow people to express their special remarks through "a call" to their loss loved one, while engaging their five senses for grounding.

Memorial take aways was also provided to remind us we're connected to our loved one and one another as a community ❤️ 💚🤍

12/15/2025

During this holiday season, remember that grieving makes us human as it is a normal response to loss. We often cope with its multi layered impacts the best we can and with the coping tools we have available to us.

Our Holiday Connections Cafe is a healing space where we'll utilize the 3R's of grief as a tool to help us process our grief from our significant losses.

Therapeutic space to remember and memorialize our loved one's and coping tips & take aways will also be available. This is support for us as we adjust to our new normal without our loved ones, within our disconnected relationships and while holding our anticipatory grief of the unknown many are experiencing in our city & nation.

12/15/2025

Holidays can be a mix of joy and grief for many of us who are remembering a loss of a loved one(s) and/or other significant non death losses.

This can also be a time of collective grief as were experiencing in our Broad & Olney community due to our recent loss of our long time volunteer/ community member. In route to serve us as he loved to do, he was struck by a vehicle and unfortunately succumbed to his traumatic brain injuries days later. Through the difficulties, we're finding healing & strength through community.

We're keeping his memory alive and inviting others grieving personal losses, to join us in our sacred & festive space, for community, connections & support.

11/18/2025

Social Work is such a female presenting dominated field, however, we know mental health challenges affect our black men at a disproportionate rate. So, it's always good to be apart of such necessary mental health conversations from our black male providers for our black men. Especially nice to see my former colleague Ken continuing in the work! Feel free to register to listen in the conversation.

November is recognized as Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.S. Collective returns with a gathering that centers the voices of Black men in social work who are leading conversations on liberation, leadership, and community impact.

Register for this virtual interactive roundtable featuring BTR Rockstar Victor Cabral here - November 18th 7:30pm ET https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd15aU0zvzI8enekSdfCYSyvnnLeB6cCe03pRYK3rgVSdQ2IQ/viewform

11/05/2025

Coming up this Saturday...

~ Honoring our Veterans as Wellness Warriors.
~ Creating space for our new norms of safety, wellness and holistic practices.
~ Providing hope and healing in the middle of a food dessert.
~ Retooling, equipping, grounding, centering and anchoring with careful love and attentiveness to our community needs.

Lamya K Broussard Psychotherapy Practice

11/04/2025

"Childhood Bereavement is a critical issue and an increasingly important national public health priority".

In Philadelphia, 1 in 8 children are projected to experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18. The highest of the nation's counties and there is unclaimed financial support available (see info page) to release some of the unexpected grief related stressors that impact a child's grief process and wellbeing.
-Childhood Estimation Bereavement Model (CBEM) County Level Report

As a Senior Grief Clinician, on a weekly basis I encounter some of these same youth and continue to see their courage and strength as they show up in their different levels of grief. This is in the middle of a school day with other peers they're often meeting for the first time.

Such grief support is an evidenced based grief related protective factor that I'm so appreciative to be apart of with our amazing Philly youth!

11/04/2025

CBEM provides important estimated statistics by state & city that are essential to consider when serving children grieving.
The results indicate 1 in 11 children in Pennsylvania will experience the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 years old...
Although I grew up in Louisiana, at age 17 years old, this stat became my unfortunate reality after one of my older sister's died of cancer. It was a very disruptive time in my life. I'm grateful for my family and a school counselor's support but I can only imagine how much more supported my family and I would have felt with knowledge of supportive grief care and childhood bereavement resources.

11/04/2025

"The Cost of Inaction: The death of a parent, sibling, or other important person in a child's life is one of the most frequently reported disruptive childhood experiences and without appropriate support, can adversly affect lifelong health and wellbeing".
-Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model (CBEM) National Report 2025

11/02/2025

In honor of November National Children's Grief Awareness Month, my job, where I support children grieving as a Cerified Trauma Informed Senior Grief Clinician, will be hosting our very 1st Uplifting Voices Art Show, FREE for ALL!

We'll be exhibiting our student's and families sacred art they've created in our grief groups.
ALL are invited to join us and please feel free to share with others interested in and/or who are also supporting our children & families grieving. See you there!

11/02/2025

I'm so grateful to be able to support, students, youth and families grieving the loss of a loved one in my practice and as a Senior Grief Clinician at my job. It is such a sacred and unpredictable journey no one ask to be on and one that is more bearable with awareness and ongoing support.

10/28/2025

As a Psychotherapist I continue to provide Courageous Healing Conversations for our underserved & at risk communities, including our lovely Broad & Olney community, on Saturdays.

This time with rhytmic breathing, somatic and theraplay based movement that promotes healing in our nervous system and self regulation.

10/28/2025