Behavioral Wellness Clinic

02/20/2026

When anxiety, racing thoughts, or dissociation take over, sensory grounding can help tether you back to the present moment. 🌿

Sensory grounding is a practical, accessible tool that brings attention back to what’s happening right now through the five senses.

Here are a few simple techniques to try:

✨ Describe an object nearby
What does it feel like? Is it warm or cold, light or heavy, smooth or rough? What does it look like? Smell like?

🔤 Engage your focus
Find every letter from A to Z in the room — on signs, books, artwork, or labels. A simple challenge that redirects racing thoughts.

🎶 Listen intentionally
Turn on music and identify different instruments. Notice when the volume shifts or when the rhythm changes.

🐾 Connect through touch
Cuddling a pet and paying attention to warm fur, purring, and the rise and fall of breathing can be deeply grounding.

🍋 Use strong sensory input when needed
An intense sensory experience — like a very sour candy — can provide an extra boost for stress tolerance during overwhelming moments.

Grounding doesn’t have to be complicated. It just needs to reconnect you with your senses and the present moment.

Save this for when you need a reset. 💛

02/17/2026

Heal. Reconnect. Remember who you are.

This spring, join us in Negril, Jamaica for a 7-day retreat focused on deep healing, cultural connection, and personal transformation. Through guided ceremonies, integration circles, workshops, and community, participants are supported in releasing intergenerational trauma, reconnecting with ancestral wisdom, and rediscovering inner peace.

Come as you are. Leave grounded, connected, and renewed.

Learn more: https://bewellpsych.ca/event/racial-trauma-healing-jamaica-this-summer/

02/10/2026

This is not your typical training—and that’s the point.

Join us March 19–22, 2026 in Montego Bay, Jamaica for Treating Racial Trauma & Anti-Racism with Dr. Monnica Williams. Designed for clinicians seeking both depth and restoration, this experience offers focused, anti-racist clinical training in the mornings and unstructured afternoons to rest, explore, and reconnect with yourself.

The program includes 12 CEs and counts toward Certification in Treating Racial Trauma (Level 1). Early bird pricing is $775 through January 22.

Spots are limited and this event is expected to sell out.

Learn more and secure your spot:
https://ebtrainingsolutions.com/event/2026-03-19/treating-racial-trauma-anti-racism

02/06/2026

When someone lives with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, the fear they feel about their appearance isn’t vanity—it’s an internal alarm that feels real, urgent, and overwhelming.

Avoidance, reassurance, and constant self-monitoring can become exhausting, and many people struggle in silence, feeling misunderstood or alone.
With compassionate, evidence-based care, it’s possible to rebuild a sense of safety, challenge the patterns that keep fear in place, and reconnect with life in meaningful ways.

If appearance-based fear is affecting your life, support is available—and change is possible.

Learn more: https://bewellct.com/blog/when-appearance-becomes-fear/

Learn how Body Dysmorphic Disorder turns appearance concerns into fear, avoidance, and distress—and how evidence-based treatment can help.

01/29/2026

Social relationships aren’t just about close friends or family. They can be found in small, everyday moments too—like a familiar barista or the voice at a local game.

Connection builds safety, invites vulnerability, and reminds us of something important: mental health is a group activity.

Keep nurturing your relationship with yourself and with others—they help us practice being ourselves.

01/26/2026

OCD is complex, often misunderstood, and frequently misdiagnosed. Treating it effectively requires specialized, evidence-based training.

Our OCD Therapist Training is a 16-week virtual program led by Monnica Williams, an experienced OCD clinician providing in-depth training in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

Designed for practicing clinicians, the program focuses on real-world skills for assessment, hierarchy building, exposure planning, and troubleshooting complex presentations, including scrupulosity and sexual obsessions.

The training begins February 4, 2026, meets Tuesdays from 11:00 AM–12:00 PM EST, is fully virtual, and offers 13 CEs.

Register and learn more:
https://bewellct.com/services/ocd-therapist-training/

As an additional resource, we encourage clinicians to read the International OCD Foundation white paper, America’s OCD Care Crisis, which highlights the urgent need for specialized OCD care:
https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Full-Report-Americas-OCD-Care-Crisis-12-9-2025.pdf

01/22/2026

Supporting someone with Body Dysmorphic Disorder can feel confusing—and reassurance alone often isn’t the answer.

BDD isn’t about vanity or insecurity. It’s a serious mental health condition that deeply impacts how someone sees themselves and moves through the world. What helps most isn’t fixing or convincing—it’s compassion, patience, and understanding the emotional pain underneath the fear.

You don’t have to say the “perfect” thing. Being present, validating their distress, and encouraging support can make a real difference.

If you’re supporting a loved one with BDD, you don’t have to figure this out alone. Compassionate, evidence-based care can help both individuals and families find steadier ground. 🤍

Learn more: https://bewellpsych.ca/blog/supporting-a-loved-one-with-body-dysmorphic-disorder/

01/16/2026

OCD is complex, often misunderstood, and frequently misdiagnosed. Treating it well requires more than general clinical skills—it requires specialized, evidence-based training.

Our OCD Therapist Training is a 16-week virtual program designed to help clinicians confidently assess and treat OCD using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). You’ll gain practical, real-world skills for hierarchy building, exposure planning, troubleshooting, and working with nuanced presentations like scrupulosity and sexual obsessions.

Begins February 4, 2026
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Fully virtual | 13 CEs available
Developed by leading OCD experts

Register today and learn more:
https://bewellct.com/services/ocd-therapist-training/

As an additional resource, we encourage you to read the International OCD Foundation white paper, America’s OCD Care Crisis, to better understand the urgent need for specialized OCD care:
https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Full-Report-Americas-OCD-Care-Crisis-12-9-2025.pdf

01/14/2026

Gaslighting isn’t communication. It’s emotional brain gymnastics.
If someone keeps changing reality and then blames you for noticing, that’s not healthy.

Healthy communication sounds like:
“Let’s figure this out together.”
“I see why that upset you — here’s what I meant.”

If your relationship feels confusing, therapy can help you sort what’s real from someone else’s version of it.

Book a session today at the Behavioral Wellness Clinic and get support that helps you trust your reality again.

Learn more: https://bewellct.com

01/07/2026

At Behavioral Wellness Clinic, therapy is more than a treatment—it’s a human relationship.

Our caring clinicians provide evidence-based care for OCD, racial trauma, depression, and more, always centered on your values, culture, and life goals.

You don’t have to walk through it alone—we’re here to walk with you.