Healing Pathways Psychological Services

06/12/2026

🌈✨ Join Wisdom Institute at Sacramento Pride 2026! ✨🌈

We are honored to be returning to Sacramento Pride with our Su***de Prevention & Community Resourcing Booth, offering connection, creativity, and meaningful conversations for all ages.

💙 Stop by and enjoy:

🫧 Bubbles of Love – send a little joy into the world
🎨 Face & Body Paint – express yourself with pride
🌟 Temporary Tattoos – fun designs for all ages
🧊 Ice Cup Challenge – test your courage and support a great cause
🎁 Amazing Giveaways – resources, prizes, and surprises throughout the weekend
🤝 Su***de Prevention Resources & Support – learn practical ways to support yourself and others

📍 Sacramento Pride Festival 2026
📅 Saturday, June 13, 2026 | 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📅 Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
📍 Capitol Mall, Sacramento

🏳️‍🌈 Sacramento Pride March
📅 Sunday, June 14, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Begins at Southside Park and proceeds to the State Capitol
🎉 Grandstand viewing and announcements at 10th & R Streets

Sacramento Pride is one of the region’s largest celebrations of LGBTQ+ community, culture, advocacy, and belonging, featuring hundreds of vendors, entertainment stages, family activities, and opportunities to connect.

Whether you’re coming for the march, the music, the community, or simply to celebrate who you are, we’d love to meet you.

💜 Look for the Wisdom Institute booth and help us spread hope, connection, and belonging—one bubble, one conversation, and one act of kindness at a time. Look for booth 203.

***dePrevention 🌈💜🫧

08/17/2024

Crushing stigma, inspiring wellness!

From Simone Biles to Michael Phelps, read the stories of athletes who have spoken candidly about their mental health struggles to raise awareness about living with a mental illness.

08/17/2024

Healing begins with the body. At Healing Pathways, we focus on calming the body’s response to trauma, helping it shift from a state of danger and alertness to one of relaxation and control. This essential step allows us to then address the mental and emotional aspects of trauma, paving the way for true healing.

08/16/2024

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08/02/2024

📢 Help Us Understand Gaslighting!

One of our clinicians, Kary Newman, MA and doctoral candidate, is conducting research on gaslighting and needs your input. Your experience and insights are invaluable. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey and contribute to this important study.

Here’s the link to the survey:
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Thank you for your support! 🌟

Informed Consent Agreement

Please review the material below carefully before giving your consent. You are being asked to participate in a research study. The purpose of this study is to examine difficult experiences in romantic relationships (e.g., gaslighting, communication difficulties, and isolation, among others) and how individuals of all genders and sexual identities react to those difficulties. This research is being conducted by Kary Newman, a doctoral student at the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University, Sacramento, CA. The research study is being done under the supervision of Dr. Emil Rodolfa.

Participants and Procedures

We are asking anyone who is 18 years of age or older and living in the United States (US) who has been in a romantic relationship in the last five years to participate in this research study. If you agree to be in this study, you will be asked to complete an online questionnaire. The survey questionnaire will ask you questions about your demographics, difficult relationship experiences, psychological health and physical health.

Voluntary Nature of the Study

Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you may refuse to complete the study at any point during the online questionnaire or refuse to answer any questions with which you are uncomfortable. You will not be penalized for withdrawing.

Benefits

There are no direct benefits to you for participating in this study. However, your participation will add to scientific information and may contribute to a reduction of stigma regarding difficult experiences in romantic relationships.

Risks

The possible risks in this study are limited and are no greater than those that may occur during daily living. Although there are no foreseeable risks, if you experience any distress as a result of this research, please seek help or you may call the SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.

Confidentiality

All information collected will be anonymous and will be kept private. Your name will never be connected to your results or to your responses to the questionnaires. Information that would make it possible to identify you or any other participant will never be included in any sort of report. The results of this study may be published in scientific journals however you will never be recognized as one of the participants.

Here’s the link to the survey:

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