River & Moss Counseling

05/07/2026

Garden beds, flowers, camping, and late, late sunsets are in our future... but the melting snow, while welcome, also reveals trash left behind, mold, mud, and things that the snow and ice broke. Sometimes some of what the thaw reveals is ugly and can even be hard to look at, and that can feel wrong when the sun and warmth are returning. Feeling "off" when everyone else seems so hopeful and excited can be lonely.

If your own personal spring is unearthing memories of pain long snowed over or feelings that are uncomfortable, you don't have to do it alone. River & Moss Counseling can walk with you through the hard stuff, and we can welcome the light and leaves as they emerge together. Little by little, day by day, it will become beautiful again, inside and out... and maybe (just maybe) what grows back will be even stronger. 🌱

Reach out today by visiting https://rivermoss-ak.com or call/text 907-313-6403. Appointments are available now.

02/16/2026

“While I breathe, I hope.” — South Carolina State Motto

I’m originally from South Carolina, and I’ve always loved our state motto. It’s not loud optimism. It’s not pretending things are fine. It’s just the simplest truth: as long as I’m still here, all is not lost.

Some days hope looks like action. Some days it looks like rest. Some days it just looks like getting through the day without hardening your heart.

I think of hope less as a bright future and more like this spectacular tree. The Angel Oak on Johns Island, just outside Charleston, SC, is over 400 years old. It has lived through wars, hurricanes, and centuries of change. Deep roots, long seasons, and weathered branches... it just keeps growing despite all kinds of storms.

Hope doesn’t have to be dramatic. Sometimes it’s just digging deep and continuing to be.

02/09/2026

“The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The arc is long. Like seasons. Like healing. Like grief that outlives the headlines.

Some days the bend is almost invisible. Just a subtle turning. A small green shoot. A quiet refusal to accept what is as all that could be.

Maybe justice isn’t a destination. Maybe it’s a direction we keep choosing.

02/02/2026

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” — Rosa Parks

It’s Black History Month.

I keep thinking about how many people are feeling shocked or unmoored by what’s happening in our country right now. For many Black Americans, this moment doesn’t feel unprecedented. It feels familiar.

Black History Month isn’t about neat stories or inspirational soundbites. It exists because endurance, resistance, and resilience have always been required — often without recognition, rest, or choice.

Rosa Parks wasn’t trying to become a symbol. She was tired. She was human. She chose dignity in a moment when giving up would have been understandable.

That kind of persistence isn’t loud.
It isn’t polished.
It isn’t a cliché.

It’s history.
It’s ongoing.
It deserves to be held with care.

12/17/2025

A reminder from the ravens:
You can be loud.
You can be strange.
You don’t have to do the dark alone.

It’s cold right now—
the kind of cold that settles into your bones,
the kind that makes everything feel quieter and farther apart.

The ravens don’t wait it out.
They find each other anyway,
black wings in bare branches,
keeping watch through the long winter.

If the holidays feel heavy or lonely,
remember this:
it’s not about shining.
It’s about staying.
It’s about us, making it together through the darkness.

Look for the other ravens.
We’re here.

🐦‍⬛❄️

11/22/2025

The day didn’t start like this.

It began gray, muted, quiet — the kind of morning where you brace yourself for another stretch of dimness.

Then the sky changed its mind.

Clouds pulled back, the light poured in, and suddenly everything was glowing — snow, treetops, even the air.

The sunlight won’t stay long — not this time of year — but when it shows up, it matters.

You don’t have to be in a season of steady brightness to be healing. You don’t have to feel hopeful every day to be moving forward. Sometimes one unexpected brilliant moment is enough to keep going.

Therapy can be the place where those moments get to count — a space to hold on to the light when it’s here and stay supported when it fades again.

11/17/2025

Winter has crossed the threshold now.
No longer a hint on the air —
a presence.

Snow reshapes the world in silence,
soft edges,
slow breath,
light bending differently on familiar things.

Some hearts rest in this season.
Some ache.
Some do both at once.

At River & Moss Counseling,
there is space for every shade of winter —
for what has been lost,
for what is returning,
for whatever within you is growing quietly in the cold.
You don’t have to face it alone.

11/13/2025

Last night the northern lights absolutely lost their minds over Anchorage. Zero chill. Full sky takeover. Half the city was outside in pajamas and boots, just whisper-shouting, ‘WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.’

Healing can feel like that sometimes — wild, unexpected, a little overwhelming in its brilliance. Other times it’s slow, steady, moss-level quiet. Both are real. Both count. Both deserve a place to land.

At River & Moss Counseling, I’m here for the whole spectrum — the soft shifts, the chaotic breakthroughs, the moments you swear you’re being personally called out by the sky. All of it.

10/26/2025

Looking up at the snow on the mountain and thinking it might be time to find a therapist? My name is Bahiyyih Young, Licensed Professional Counselor in Alaska at River & Moss Counseling, and I'm taking new clients in-person at my office in Anchorage and online statewide. 🙂

Sometimes the people I work with have carried a lot—often across generations. They’re trying to make sense of how those experiences have shaped their sense of safety, belonging, and connection… or how the weight of trauma and systemic oppression still shows up in daily life.

My approach to therapy is trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and grounded in real human connection. I believe healing happens in relationship—with ourselves, with one another, and within the communities that hold us.

I value honesty and directness and try to name the hard things with empathy, curiosity, and sometimes a bit of humor—because the work can be heavy, and we all need room to breathe and laugh along the way.

In therapy, I aim to create a space that feels steady, genuine, and restorative—a place where you don’t have to carry everything alone, and where you can find your way back to safety, connection, and wholeness.

Visit me online at https://rivermoss-ak.com/ or call/text 907-313-6403 to schedule a free 15-minute consult so that we can see if I might be the right therapist for you. 🙃

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10/15/2025

My work & life have benefitted so much from all that Linda Thai has taught me. This is a beautiful example of her work & well worth the watch for anyone looking to help themselves or others calm & regulate.