Brookside Psychiatric Specialists PLLC

12/30/2025

🏡 Week 7 – Brookside Season of Giving Spotlight: Miriam’s House 💛

✨ For the final week of our Brookside Season of Giving, we’re honored to spotlight ✨Miriam’s House✨in Lynchburg, VA. Miriam’s House is committed to ending homelessness by helping individuals and families move into stable, affordable housing, and providing the supports that make long-term stability possible. 🏠

✨Miriam’s House✨ uses a Housing First model, grounded in the belief that housing is a basic human right, and that people can succeed in housing with the right combination of support.

What they do 💪🏼

✨Miriam’s House✨ helps people experiencing homelessness rebuild their lives by offering:
🏠 Connection to stable, affordable housing and housing navigation
🤝 Supportive services and case management to reduce barriers and strengthen housing stability
💼 Help accessing employment, resources, and community supports that promote long-term self-sufficiency 💪🏼

In 2024 alone, Miriam’s House provided housing and supportive services to 274 people, including 139 children, helping families and individuals end their homelessness and move forward with stability and hope. ❤️

🎁 How you can help this week
❤️ Donate to support housing and essential services for individuals and families
🤲 Volunteer or share their mission to help strengthen community support
✨ Help spread the message that safe, stable housing changes lives

Brookside will also be making a contribution this week to support ✨Miriam’s House✨ and their work helping families build safe and stable futures.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).
Learn more about Brookside at www.brooksidepsych.com

12/30/2025

Join the movement to support perinatal mental health by contributing to Postpartum Support Virginia, a trusted resource and cherished partner for families and healthcare providers seeking education, support, and resources on pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care. Please consider donating to an amazing cause!

We are so grateful for the support we received from our community around Giving Day. Thank you!

While we did not meet our goal, we are hopeful that these last posts of the year will reach the right people. Although we continue to work toward closing the $200,000 gap in our funding, in order to meet the most critical needs we have prior to December 31st, we need to raise $10,000. We need your help now more than ever.

Help us support our staff and those we serve with your end-of-year gift.

12/22/2025

12/17/2025

🧸Week 5 – Brookside Season of Giving Spotlight: Little Hands Virginia 👶

✨ This week, we’re honored to highlight ✨Little Hands Virginia✨, an organization whose mission is to ensure that young children have the essentials they need from birth to improve outcomes for life. By supporting economically disadvantaged families, Little Hands helps ensure babies have a healthy, safe start during the most critical early years.

LHVA General About Flyer

What they do 💪🏼

✨Little Hands Virginia✨ bridges the critical gap in access to diapers and baby essentials by partnering with over 130 organizations—including nonprofits, hospitals, food banks, and government agencies—to reach families across Central Virginia.

They provide everything babies need to be healthy and safe, including:
👶 Diapers, wipes, and hygiene items
🍼 Feeding supplies and baby care essentials
🚗 Car seats, pack ’n plays, strollers, and other safety items

🙀Last year alone, Little Hands Virginia distributed over 1 million diapers and served more than 10,000 families, helping reduce stress on parents and support healthy child development. 🤩

LHVA General About Flyer

❤️🎁 How you can help this week

🤲 Volunteer your time—there are opportunities to help in the office, from home, on your own schedule, or with family, friends, or groups
🎁 Donate in-kind items (new or gently used baby and toddler items) or shop their Amazon Wishlist
📦 Host a donation drive with your workplace, school, or community group
❤️ Make a monetary donation to help provide clean diapers and essentials to families in need

As part of our Season of Giving, Brookside will also be making a contribution this week to support ✨Little Hands Virginia✨ and their incredible impact on families in our community.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).
Learn more about Brookside at www.brooksidepsych.com

12/10/2025

🎖️Week 4 – Brookside Season of Giving Spotlight: Military Birth Resource Network & Postpartum Coalition (MBRNPC)🐣

✨This week, we’re excited to highlight ✨MBRNPC✨, an organization dedicated to supporting healthy, safe, and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences for military families across the globe, especially as they navigate frequent moves and changing duty stations. 🪖🎖️

What they do💪🏼

✨MBRNPC✨works to improve continuity of care and equitable access to supports that matter most, including:

🎈Birth options and advocacy for military-connected families🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

🌉Connection to doulas and local birth professionals at different duty stations🌁

✨Access to lactation education/support, mental health care, and culturally competent care✨

❤️🎁How you can help this week
Donate. ❤️ 🎁They accept general donations or direct support of programs like their Helping Hands funding program. Link in our bio

🤲Volunteer to support chapters, events, or organizational needs 🤲

✨Share their mission and follow along!✨

Brookside will also be making a donation this week to support ✨MBRNPC’s✨ work, especially meaningful to us given the military background of several of our team members, and our care of many military families across Virginia. 🎖️

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).

Learn more about Brookside at www.brooksidepsych.com

12/05/2025

✨Season of Giving🎁 please consider donating to 💫Samaritan House🏠 an organization helping adults and children find safety and stability through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and homelessness in Hampton Roads. 💪🏼

12/03/2025

🏠💛 Week 3 – Brookside Season of Giving
This week we’re honored to spotlight Samaritan House —an organization helping adults and children find safety and stability through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and homelessness in Hampton Roads. ❤️

😍Their holiday message says it best: “Because of you, home can finally mean safety.” 🏡

What Samaritan House does

Samaritan House provides safe emergency housing and a wide range of wraparound ✨supportive services✨,including case management, counseling, victim advocacy, children’s programming, transportation assistance, food/nutritional support, and vocational/employment support, all designed to help survivors and families move toward long-term stability.

🎁 How you can help this week:

Shop their holiday donation needs list 🎉check out story! ✨

Send items directly through their Amazon Wish List (link in bio). 🎁

🤩Share this post to help spread awareness and support.

Brookside will also be contributing a monetary donation this week as part of our commitment to supporting our community. ❤️

If you or someone you know needs help and is in immediate danger, call 911. Samaritan House also has a 24/7 hotline: 757-430-2120

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988 (24/7).

Learn more about us at www.brooksidepsych.com

12/01/2025

When a birthing person reaches out to our warmline with a call or text, they are connected to someone who is ready to listen and help navigate next steps. That typically includes care coordination, which supports the individual by connecting them directly to pre-vetted maternal mental health service providers.

It costs approximately $300 for each person we support through the process. Insurance doesn't pay for that. Neither does funding from state or federal sources. We rely on our generous grantors and grassroots donations from within our community to fund this and other critical services.

Want to help? Join us on as we work together and close a funding gap that will allow us to continue to provide this kind of support when it is needed most.

12/01/2025

Ahead of GivingTuesday please consider donating to our friends Postpartum Support Virginia
😔In early 2025, one-third of U.S. larger nonprofits experienced disruptions to their government funding. 😔 Although 💫 PSVa ❤️ receives no state or federal funding, the disruption had a ripple effect on the broader funding environment, including for smaller nonprofits like ours. This has led to increased financial vulnerability, with 36% 😞 of nonprofits operating with deficits and more than half having less than three months of cash on hand, according to a 2025 Nonprofit Finance Fund survey. 🤦🏻‍♀️

As we near the end of the year, we are working diligently to bridge a significant funding gap. ❤️❤️If you can help financially, use the link below: https://postpartumva.kindful.com/?campaign=1148975

If funds are tight for you, too, we can use other kinds of support. 😍 We are doing a big push for Giving Tuesday!! ✨ If you could go to our https://www.instagram.com/postpartumsupportvirginia and amplify our posts by commenting and sharing, that would also help. ✨If you want to invest your time, you can do that, too! Email info@postpartumva.org to get more information.🎁

Help us get a head start on GivingTuesday with your donation today. Become part of a circle of support for birthing people across the Commonwealth.

11/29/2025

Please consider donating to this amazing cause. GivingTuesday

Help us get a head start on GivingTuesday with your donation today. Become part of a circle of support for birthing people across the Commonwealth.

11/26/2025

Postpartum Intrusive Thoughts
Warning: Mentions of postpartum intrusive thoughts (no graphic detail).
Stitching  . Thank you for being so open about your experience. If you choose to watch the original, please do so with care as Alex’s description is fabulous but may be triggering to those who are vulnerable. 💛
Here’s what I want every postpartum parent to know:
 ➡️ Intrusive thoughts are extremely common: about 80% of postpartum moms have them.
 ➡️ Having these thoughts does not mean you’re dangerous, broken, or a bad parent.
 ➡️ Reproductive-trained clinicians (like the providers at Brookside Psychiatric Specialists) hear these thoughts every day and know how to manage them.
 ➡️ You deserve support if they feel sticky, scary, or like they’re driving avoidance or rituals.
When to seek help:
 • They feel hard to shake
 • They feel “true” or you worry you might act on them
 • You’re avoiding normal activities
 • You are concerned
Intrusive thoughts are common, sometimes normal, and treatable when they become more intense. You’re not alone, and help is available.
If you need immediate support, call or text 988 (Su***de & Crisis Lifeline).
Learn more about our practice at www.brooksidepsych.com.
Disclaimer: This video and caption are for educational purposes only and do not constitute medical advice or establish a clinician–patient relationship.