Lamya K Broussard Psychotherapy Practice

03/24/2026

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Certified Trauma Informed Senior Grief Clinician who support students grieving, this is one of the best grief informed approaches to processing grief and loss that I've seen.

It highlights anticipatory grief with a family member suffering from a terminal illness. Also, it debunks and destigmatizes talking about death in our society and especially with our young children.

These kind of beautifully complex conversations, especially intergenerationally, models healing and the importance and power of normalizing grief. It helps set a child on a healthy life trajectory as it relates to coping with grief throughout their life.

It makes me a very proud and hopeful Social Worker to see this kind of trauma and grief informed work continue🩵

02/08/2026

Remembering & honoring Martin Luther King Jr. last month with our beloved Broad & Olney Family.

As service to my community, I continue to provide a holistic care approach every Saturday, that includes mental health and wellness support.

This day, I provided therapeutic sensory play for adults that explored our attachment styles and procesed our interpersonal conflict patterns & disruptive relationships.

When we're able to seek healing at an individual level we can then build healthy and healing in our communities.

02/08/2026

Martin Luther King Jr. community service programs last month.
As Resident Psychotherapist at Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, we joined the city of Philadelphia MLK Day of service with Global Citizens 365.
We provided love letter writing for our refugees, immigrants and asylee seekers and made care packages them.
Additionally I facilitated Courageous Healing Circles for the community members either coping with anticipatory grief and immigrant loss, members supporting those at risk of deportation or individuals coping with personal losses seeking emotional support.
As some released tensions and fears through tears, all were courageous in showing up for themselves and greatly appreciated the safe healing space to be seen, heard and supported. Also, they looked forward to receiving the mental health wellness take away messages to reflect on as needed.

01/18/2026

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy, I look forward to providing my clinical services in a Courageous Healing Circle for the community.

In partnership and as Resident Psychotherapist with Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, we'll continue to be culturally responsive in standing and supporting the wellness of our immigrants, refugees and asylees. We're also inviting their neighbors, friends, family and other concerned individuals & citizens impacted, to join the circle to take a pause, recharge, retool and engage in therapeutic self-care.

01/18/2026

It's always such a joy for me to provide my services to my communities most in need and impacted.
In my practice, providing culturally responsive and practical coping skill building is key during our time of great political instability, as our nervous system is keeping score...
This past Friday in collaboration with Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, I held a Courageous Healing Circle. Participants learned and experienced how to reset and regulate our vagus nerve fight, fright and freeze reactions to our stress.
This was practiced through somatic based coping skills to help move our pain, stress, grief and trauma trapped in our bodies. Such skills included body orienting, scannning, grounding breathwork and bilateral stiumulating lotion techiniques they can use anywhere and time.
I'm also so appreciative for our haitian creole and spanish speaking translators who ensured healing was accessible to all. Regardless of our native tongue, pain is universal and yearns for the same language of healing and wellness.

01/09/2026

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!