Westfield Counseling Services, LICSW

12/29/2025

12/29/2025

Planning your new year? Well add our FREE concert to your schedule we have more than enough room for everyone!

We have a FREE concert for anyone who wants to attend. This year Sarah's concert will be held at the First Congregational Church. Located at 18 Broad St, Westfield, MA 01085, directly across from the library on the rotary or Elm Street side.

Register at link below:

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https://westath.libcal.com/event/15073178

12/27/2025

12/27/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄✨ If you’re not feeling festive today, feeling a bit lonely, or feeling like you need a little extra support, we’re here for you.

Visit samhsa.gov/find-help for confidential support.

12/24/2025

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12/06/2025

Gentle reminders. 🫀✨

12/06/2025

The Easy 5 Step Practice that Quickly Stops Anxious and Depressing Thoughts https://buff.ly/2mJA8Ox

Grounding is a mindfulness practice you can do anywhere that stops worry and thoughts leading to depression and anxiety.

12/06/2025

What a great idea!

12/04/2025

It makes sense if you have spent years trying to understand what happened to you. When something overwhelms you, the mind believes that clarity will bring relief.

You replay moments. You look for patterns. You try to understand the story so you can finally feel free.

But here is a part of healing most people never hear: Even when you finally get the explanation you always wanted, peace doesn’t always arrive.

Someone can apologize. They can give you their reasons. They can tell you everything you wish you knew then. And you can still feel unsettled afterward.

That’s not because you are unforgiving. It’s because your system is still holding the impact.

Trauma often shows up in the body before you can put words to it. When something is too intense to process in the moment, the brain struggles to integrate it, and the body absorbs what the mind couldn’t hold.

Understanding can organize the story, but it may not release what got stuck in your physiology.

Insight brings clarity, but it doesn’t automatically undo the tension, fear, or activation your system learned to carry.

This is why healing isn’t just about knowing. It’s also about helping the body let go of what it’s been holding.

Through somatic awareness, memory processing, and other integrative practices, your system learns how to complete what it couldn’t complete at the time.

Release isn’t dramatic. It’s often slow, gentle, and felt in small shifts that tell the body the danger has passed.

So if understanding hasn’t freed you, nothing is wrong with you. Your system is asking for a kind of support that reaches both the mind and the body.

When the story makes sense and the body can finally release what it carried, healing becomes possible in a different way.