On May 3, 138 people were part of the 3rd annual Community Block Party! Guests gathered at the Lagunitas Brewing Community Room for an evening of festivities, food, and fun. While building community and breaking down stigma surrounding mental...
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LGBTQ2SIA Mental Health Resources Here at The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center (NCC), we recognize that people in the LGBTQ2SIA community face discrimination, prejudice, denial of civil and human rights, harassment, and family rejection. Not...
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Recently I was reading an interview in Mother Jones with Eric Holthaus and David Wallace-Wells, who regularly write about climate change. The title of the article was “People Need to Be Scared About Climate Change. They Also Need to...
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and NCC Board Member Nancie Potter chose to mark the occasion by hosting her happy hour Party with Purpose on May 18, 2019. Almost 50 people enjoyed wines, Italian appetizers, cupcakes, live music, and art...
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As part of NCC Board Member Nancie Potter’s Party with Purpose, NCC is raffling off this gorgeous painting donated by Jennifer Pepin. Jennifer is an artist and owner of J. Pepin Art Gallery in Northwest Portland. The gallery not only...
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Prioritize mental health When you or someone you love is dealing with a mental health concern, it can be a lot to bear. Remember that mental health is the key to everyone’s well-being. Normalizing mental illness is essential, because in...
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At the end of March, two survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2017 and the father of a victim in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 died by suicide. As the communities of Parkland and Newtown...
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In the past two weeks, two amazing and talented people have died by suicide: brilliant economist Alan Krueger and Olympic track cyclist Kelley Catlin. If you are thinking about suicide, there is help. If You Have Suicidal Thoughts If you think...
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The Psychological Impact of Hibernation On Wikipedia hibernation is described as a “state of inactivity commonly observed in the winter months. For some species, hibernation functions to conserve energy when sufficient food is...
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How to Override Our Brain’s Responses to Someone Else’s Feelings With Valentines Day rapidly approaching…. It is no secret that within relationships we are expected to support each other emotionally but what does this support mean? ...
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Some of you may be frantically scrambling to buy for everyone on your gift list, and we want to gently and lovingly remind you to take a pause. Check in with yourself. Is gift-giving really the spirit of the season? Are gifts what we remember, or...
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As mental health professionals, if we could give any gift for the holidays, it would be this: Permission to care for yourself as you are right now. There is a tremendous cultural pressure to rejoice, to spend time with family, to buy gifts, to...
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