Center for Greater Healing

03/02/2026

Happy Social Work Month 2026!
This March, we celebrate the social workers who uplift, defend, and transform lives.

At Center for Greater Healing, a group private therapy practice, social work is at the heart of everything we do. Our clinicians:
✨ Uplift clients’ voices and experiences, providing trauma-informed, individualized care
🛡️ Defend dignity, justice, and access to mental health support
💫 Transform lives and communities through compassionate therapy and advocacy

Social workers are more than therapists — they are guides, advocates, and allies in the journey toward healing. We are honored to walk alongside our clients and communities, creating spaces where growth and resilience can flourish.

To the social workers on our team and across the profession: your dedication makes a difference every day. 💙

02/24/2026

Checkout these groups for Folx in Wood County!

🌈 Members, you’re Invited to Gay for Good at the Harbor's Connection Center!

Join our LGBTQIA+ Support & Discussion Group every Tuesday from 5–6 PM for meaningful conversations, connection, and community. 💬✨

📅 March Topics:
• Mar 3 – The Biology of Gender
• Mar 10 – Clothing & Self-Expression
• Mar 17 – Belonging
• Mar 24 – Empathy & Sensitivity
• Mar 31 – Certainty & Facts

Facilitated by Chelsea, this is a welcoming space to explore identity, share experiences, and build support.

Membership is FREE! To become a member of the Connection Center: You must live in Wood County and be receiving any form of mental health service.

02/24/2026

Our nervous systems learn from what we’ve lived through.

Trauma and ongoing stress can shrink our window for handling stress, especially when safety hasn’t been consistent or guaranteed.

Therapy isn’t about forcing calm. It’s about creating safety, building trust, and giving the nervous system more room over time.

Your body has been doing its best — and you deserve compassion and kindness along the way.

02/20/2026

Equity asks different questions than equality.

Equality asks whether care exists.
Equity asks who can actually access it.

Access to mental health care isn’t distributed equally — and that matters.

Equity means care that is accessible and affirming of identity, culture, and lived experience.

On World Day of Social Justice, we’re reflecting on how mental health systems can better serve people facing structural barriers — and why access itself is a form of care.

02/16/2026

Upcoming event from OUTlaw at UT Law School to assist community members with Gender Marker and Name Changes!

*This clinic is only available for Lucas and Wood county residents.

02/12/2026

If resting makes you anxious, guilty, or on edge; you’re not broken.

For many LGBTQ+ folks and trauma survivors, rest was never safe. Stillness meant being watched, criticized, or hurt.
So your nervous system learned to stay alert.

That’s not a self-care failure.
It’s survival.

Healing isn’t forcing rest.
It’s helping your body learn that safety is possible again. Slowly, gently, at your pace.

You don’t have to earn your rest.

02/11/2026

Lucas County and Surrounding Counties
Birth Certificate & Name Change Clinic
Monday, February 23rd
12 PM to 7:30 PM

1301 Jefferson Ave, Toledo, OH 43604
Hosted in the Equality Toledo Offices Above Planned Parenthood

Residents of Lucas & surrounding counties can receive help with name changes and birth certificate corrections, if available.

Trained attorneys and notaries will be available all day to help complete forms and answer any questions. Snacks will be available and the food pantry will also be open.

What we’ll have:
- Trained volunteer attorneys
- Trained volunteer notaries
- Free lunch and snacks
- Food pantry will be open
- Community Resources

Who is eligible:
For name change:
- Residents of Lucas County, or surrounding counties, for at least 60 days

For correction of birth certificate s*x marker:
- Residents of Lucas County, or accepting surrounding counties, for at least 30 days, and born in Ohio.

(SUGGESTED)
WHAT TO BRING:
- Your questions!
- Government-issued photo ID
- Copy of birth certificate

Financial assistance will be available for those who qualify. Applications will be taken on site.

COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH FILING:
- $100 - name change (Lucas)
- $85 - birth certificate correction (Lucas)
- $70-95 - name change (Wood)

02/10/2026

Pride doesn’t erase stress.
Self-acceptance doesn’t stop harm.

Chronic stress, microaggressions, systemic violence, and the need to stay alert can wear on the nervous system — even when you deeply love who you are.

Exhaustion is not a sign you’re doing identity wrong.

It’s a sign you’ve been adapting.

Rest is allowed.

02/06/2026

One week away!

Join the Glass City Pride Band at Mott Library from 2:45-5pm while we make friendship bracelets and watch a cheesy movie!

02/06/2026

We meet TOMORROW!
2/7 at 11am at Grindhrs Co.

Reminders going out today, if you’d like reminders for March’s meeting, sign up here: https://forms.gle/1ESx26RLApAMyU4CA

Looking forward to sharing coffee, conversation, and community!

02/05/2026

All therapy should be trauma-informed.

Trauma-focused work can be helpful when the timing is right and care is well-supported.

What matters most is safety, trust, and fit.

02/05/2026

February is Black History Month. This year’s theme, “A Century of Black History Commemorations,” invites reflection on how Black history has been preserved, honored, and carried forward, often in the face of erasure.

At Center for Greater Healing, we recognize that Black communities have long held their own traditions of healing, resilience, and care. We approach this month with humility, listening, learning, and respect, and we remain committed to practicing therapy in ways that are ethical, culturally responsive, and accountable beyond this month.

To find a local Toledo event follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/y3zrz48d