Piece of Mind Counseling Services, PLLC

08/04/2026

08/03/2026

Moving Forward ✨

Change will likely always feel uncomfortable, because it asks you to release what you know for what you’re becoming. That discomfort isn’t a sign you’re failing—it’s often a sign you’re growing in real time. When you focus on small steps, supportive people, and your deeper “why,” the path forward starts to feel more steady. Trust the process, especially when it feels messy, and keep returning to what matters most. Every meaningful transformation begins with one brave step—take yours, and let momentum meet you on the way.

Identify one small change you can make this week

Write down why this change matters to you (your “why”)

Reach out to someone who can support you (encouragement or accountability)

Protect one steady routine (sleep, meals, movement, or a short ritual)

Practice self-compassion when things feel hard—then try again tomorrow

07/30/2026

Cherish the Moments.

Spend time with those who make your world brighter.

Who do you call a friend? Who truly supports you and can be yourself around them?

07/22/2026

If you’ve put in the effort, shown up, learned your patterns, and figured out where things began but still don’t feel better, you’re not alone. There’s often a real gap between understanding something and actually feeling it resolve. Many people get stuck there.
Talk therapy helps you understand your story, and that’s important. But it often can’t reach the part of memory that stays in the body—the images and physical feelings that remain long after you’ve made sense of things. Insight alone doesn’t always reach that level, and for many people, that’s where the distress remains.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy(ART) helps at that level. In a session, moving your eyes back and forth calms the body’s threat response while you focus on the memory. This lets your brain reprocess the experience where it’s still stored—not just as a story, but as something your body still feels. The images connected to the memory can change, and the physical reactions often change too.
Many people who thought they had tried everything find that ART helps in ways other treatments didn’t. It’s not necessarily that those other treatments failed, but this one works on a different level.
Find an ART-trained therapist near you at ARTworksnow.com

06/29/2026

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet" said Eeyore, in a Glum sounding voice.

"We just thought we'd check on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All.

Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging around with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There.
No more; no less.

Illustration - EH Shepard

06/28/2026

Happy International Pride Day!

06/18/2026

When is the last time you rested???

06/11/2026

This is a copy/paste from another group I’m in:

CAQH just rebranded as DataSpring.

What does that mean?

Here’s what actually happened, and why it should alarm every therapist, counselor, and independent provider in this country.
CAQH has existed since 1998 as a nonprofit. Health plans had governance roles through membership, but there was no ownership, no shareholder structure, no fiduciary stake. It functioned as an industry utility. Imperfect, payer-influenced, but nominally neutral.

That ended on January 6, 2026.

CAQH is now formally owned by twelve shareholder companies representing UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, Elevance Health, Humana, and a coalition of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans. The board chair is a UnitedHealth Group executive. Every seat at the governance table belongs to a major commercial payer. This is not membership. This is ownership.
Five months later, today, it rebranded as DataSpring.

So why does this matter? Ask yourself why the largest insurance companies in the country would invest in and take formal ownership of a platform that collects data on every provider who bills insurance.

CAQH is not just a credentialing database. It is the mandatory infrastructure that sits upstream of:
✦ Every provider enrollment decision
✦ Every network participation determination
✦ Every directory listing that patients use to find you
✦ Every credentialing process

Owning that platform means owning the chokepoint. It means first access to intelligence on providers across 4.8 million provider records.

For payers already investing in vertically consolidated platforms like Headway and Alma, ownership of the upstream credentialing infrastructure is not a coincidence. It is a strategy.

We have spent years documenting how administrative burden is used as a weapon against independent providers. These are not accidents of a broken system. They are features of a system now owned by the entities who benefit from them.

The nonprofit fiction is gone. The conflict of interest is now structural and on the record.

State insurance commissioners, advocates, and task forces working on MHPAEA enforcement and provider directory accountability need to be asking: can we mandate reliance on a system of record that is owned by the parties we are trying to regulate?

Share this. The behavioral health workforce pipeline is already under attack from every direction. Providers deserve to know who just bought the gate.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-health-plans-become-caqh-owners-to-shape-the-future-of-healthcare-data-302653963.html

/PRNewswire/ -- CAQH, the trusted data connector at the core of healthcare, announced that it is now owned by twelve shareholder companies affiliated with the...

06/08/2026

Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) produces positive differences noticed between sessions. Its accelerated effect means many clients find less a rapid, meaningful change – faster results than traditional talk therapy.

This is a list of some of things clients will notice after processing unresolved issues in just 1-3 sessions - most notice a significant positive difference in just 1 session!

Learn more about ART and SAF-T at www.pieceofmindcounselingservices.com
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Contact us today to schedule a free 15 minute consultation on the phone or begin the intake process. Taking new clients now...in person or telehealth.

06/03/2026

Some topics already covered are:

* Understanding the Sensation Awareness Focused Technique in Accelerated Resolution Therapy

* Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches to Therapy: Finding What Works Best

* Why More People Are Choosing Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) for Mental Health

* Be Yourself: The Power of Embracing Your Individuality

* And more...