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Mental Health & Wellness Blog for BIPOC Communities
Explore culturally responsive insights and practical tools for navigating anxiety, attachment trauma, relationships, chronic stress, self-worth, and emotional wellness. Written by the clinical team at Wellness Tree Counseling, a Black-owned therapy practice serving New York, New Jersey, Virginia, & South Carolina.
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Surviving Seasonal Depression: How to Cope When the Days Get Darker
Learn what seasonal depression is, why it happens, and how to ease symptoms with simple winter wellness strategies and emotional support.

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Dec 5, 20253 min read


How to Know if You’re Experiencing High-Functioning Depression (Even If You’re ‘Doing Well’)
From the outside, you seem to have it all together. You meet deadlines, take care of responsibilities, and maybe even support others emotionally. But on the inside, something feels off.

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
May 29, 20253 min read


Nature as Medicine: Simple Ways the Outdoors Heal Your Mind
Here are 4 life-changing benefits of Spending Time Outdoors

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Jan 3, 20253 min read


Managing Seasonal Affective Disorder: Tips for Winter Wellness
The winter time is not always a time of joy and festiveness for us all. Here are 5 tips to cope and manage seasonal depression

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Nov 14, 20243 min read


4 Ways to Cope With Depression and Feeling Low
Here are 4 different and gentle ways we can cope with and tend to our depressive symptoms.

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Aug 2, 20243 min read


How Does Physical Exercise Impact Mental Health and Well-being?
Studies have shown that physical activity has numerous mental health benefits.

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
May 20, 20242 min read


4 Reasons Why Exercise is Good For Your Mental Health
Whether it's coming from our New Year's Resolutions or well-intentioned suggestions from our loved ones to begin working out, we often overlook the world of benefits that come from a practice of regular exercising, particularly how much good it can do for our mental health! Let's start with anxiety and depression. Many growing bodies of research continue to support the positive relationship between exercise and mental health. A regimen, or routine of regular physical activity

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Mar 26, 20233 min read


What should I do when I am feeling overwhelmed?
There are times in life when you’re going to feel overwhelmed and stressed. It’s actually a natural part of being human. When you feel stressed, or overwhelmed, people might feel anxious, depressed and lack energy. Those emotions are all normal. Whether it is from work, school, social obligations or just life in general, stress exists and it threatens emotional equilibrium and both of your physical health and mental health wellbeing. According to a 2020 survey conducted by th

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Sep 25, 20223 min read


4 Tips for Dealing with Overwhelming Stress
There are times in life when you’re going to feel overwhelmed and stressed. It’s actually a natural part of being human. When you feel stressed, or overwhelmed, people might feel anxious, depressed and lack energy. Those emotions are all normal. Whether it is from work, school, social obligations or just life in general, stress exists and it threatens emotional equilibrium and both of your physical health and mental health wellbeing. According to a 2020 survey conducted by th

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Apr 27, 20223 min read


So, You’ve Been Diagnosed With Depression? Tips to Cope
You may have wondered or thought of different ways to deal with depression, here are tips on different ways to cope with depression.

Wellness Tree Counseling Team
Oct 7, 20213 min read
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