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The Mind and Body Clinic Private Practice Specialties

🌱Holistic Mental Health
ASD & ADHD 🧠
EMDR & Neurofeedback The practice is owned by Brooke Martin, LCSW.

The Mind and Body Clinic is a small group practice, focused on providing holistic mental health care to the individuals in our community. Provider Specialities Include: Assisting neurodivergent adults/teens, children's therapy, family therapy, substance use, perinatal support, managing symptoms of trauma with EMDR, TF-CBT, and other best practice models. Additionally, our practice tends to be unique in that we work with other providers in your area to take a holistic approach to your health! For some nutritional support, hormonal support, or gut health may be reasons we work alongside a P*P!

10/24/2026

When your therapist has ADHD too… 😂

Same therapist. Same session. Several different sitting positions.

One of the benefits of having a neurodivergent therapist? You may feel a little less pressure to hide the things you’ve spent your life being told to stop doing.

You can move around, sit on the floor, look away while you talk, use a fidget, eat a snack, or take a minute to find your words. You don’t have to perform “paying attention” a certain way for your experience to matter.

There can also be something meaningful about shared experiences. Sometimes a brief, relevant story from my own life helps a client put words to something they’ve struggled to explain—or realize, “Wait, someone else does that too?” When I share, it’s to support their understanding of themselves and keep the focus on their needs.

Being neurodivergent doesn’t mean I experience everything the way my clients do. It does mean I know something about how exhausting it can be to constantly monitor yourself, interpret expectations, and try to appear comfortable when you aren’t.

Unmasking takes safety and time. You get to decide what that looks like for you.

At MBC, we want therapy to be a place where you can spend less energy trying to look like you’re doing it “right” and more energy being yourself. 💚

Mama, your mental health deserves nutritional support, too. 💛Pregnancy, childbirth, recovery, and breastfeeding can plac...
10/21/2026

Mama, your mental health deserves nutritional support, too. 💛

Pregnancy, childbirth, recovery, and breastfeeding can place significant demands on your body. Low iron, B12, vitamin D, and other nutritional concerns may contribute to fatigue, brain fog, and mood changes.

But you don't have to guess what's going on or try every supplement you see online.

✨ Listen to your body.
✨ Ask your provider about appropriate lab work.
✨ Remember that postpartum anxiety and depression deserve support, regardless of whether a deficiency is present.

You deserve care that considers the whole picture: mind, body, and spirit.

Save this post for your next appointment, and share it with a mama who might need this reminder.

417 Mind and Body Clinic | Educational content, not a substitute for individualized medical care.

From the moment someone hears the words breast cancer, the decisions begin. And almost none of them are easy.Traditional...
10/20/2026

From the moment someone hears the words breast cancer, the decisions begin. And almost none of them are easy.

Traditional treatment? Integrative care? A combination? A less conventional path?

Surgery or no surgery.

Which provider.

Another opinion.

Another test.

What treatment feels right…and how many protocols does it include.

What risks you're willing to take.

What you're not.

And then there are the decisions people don't always talk about.

How much can we afford?

What will insurance cover?

Can I keep working?

Who takes care of the kids when I have another appointment?

How far are we willing to travel for care?

How much time, money, and energy can we realistically give to this?

In many ways, cancer asks you to choose your hard.

Because there isn't an easy path. There are simply different paths, each with their own risks, sacrifices, uncertainty, financial costs, physical demands, and emotional weight.

This is personal for MBC, too. Our owner and clinical director, Brooke, has had to navigate many of these decisions through her own breast cancer journey.

And one thing that experience has reinforced is something we talk about all the time at MBC:

The brain doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Cancer doesn’t only happen to a breast, an organ, or a collection of cells. It happens to a whole person.

The fear and decision fatigue affect the nervous system.

The physical illness affects mental health.

Financial stress affects the body.

Treatments can bring their own physical and emotional load.

Sleep can change.

Relationships can change.

Faith can be challenged or strengthened.

…And the fatigue can be profound—the kind that isn't always fixed by simply getting more sleep.

Mind and body are constantly communicating.

So during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we want to make room for more than pink ribbons.

For the person newly diagnosed and overwhelmed by decisions.

For the person exhausted by treatment.

For the person who chose a different path than the people around them expected.

For the person wondering how they're going to pay for all of it.

For the person waiting for the next scan.

And for the person who is years into this and still doesn't quite feel like it's "over."

Whatever path someone takes, we hope there is room for informed decisions, good medical support, compassion, and care for the whole person walking through it.

Because no path through cancer is easy. 🤍

10/16/2026

Play therapy may not always look like work… but it absolutely is! 🧸💛
Behind the play are meaningful questions, thoughtful observations, and powerful moments of processing. Through play, children communicate what they may not yet have the words to express. Every interaction, observation, and moment of connection can offer valuable insight into their inner world.
Play is a child’s language, and play therapy is so much more than just playing! ✨

Have you ever been told to “calm down”? How did that work for you? 🙃Usually, we need a little more support than that.Anx...
10/15/2026

Have you ever been told to “calm down”? How did that work for you? 🙃

Usually, we need a little more support than that.

Anxiety and rumination can look similar and happen together, but understanding what’s underneath can help us find support that fits.

When your body is on high alert, reducing overwhelming input and helping it settle may help. However, when you’re understimulated and stuck in a thought loop, movement, a fulfilling activity, or something to do with your hands may help you shift.

Sometimes we need both, but regulation doesn’t always mean stillness.

And that mind that keeps coming back to something? With support, we can practice turning repetitive thinking into purposeful reflection and directing sustained interest toward a meaningful goal.

Give yourself grace along the way. Often, underneath anxious or repetitive thoughts is deep care and a desire to protect yourself or someone you love.

You can appreciate what your brain is trying to do while helping it learn a less exhausting way. Even a protective strategy can need a software update. 💚

Swipe through to explore anxiety, rumination, hyperfixation, and what may help.

💚Therapy isn’t about fixing what was never broken. It’s about understanding yourself.For too long, therapy has been surr...
10/12/2026

💚Therapy isn’t about fixing what was never broken. It’s about understanding yourself.

For too long, therapy has been surrounded by stigma. People are told they should be able to handle things on their own, that asking for help is a sign of weakness, or that needing support means something is wrong with them.

But what if we changed the narrative?
At The Mind and Body Clinic, we believe in prioritizing neurodiversity-affirming care that recognizes and celebrates the different ways our brains work. 🧠✨

💚 ADHD doesn’t mean you’re lazy.

💚 Autism doesn’t mean you lack empathy.

💚 Struggling with emotional regulation doesn’t mean you’re broken.

💚 Needing accommodations doesn’t mean you’re less capable.

💚 Seeking therapy doesn’t mean you’re weak.

Sometimes, what the world labels as a problem is actually a difference that needs understanding, support, and the right environment to thrive.

Therapy can be a space where you stop trying to fit into a mold that was never designed for you. A space where you can explore your strengths, understand your needs, process your experiences, and develop tools that work with your brain instead of against it.

We don't believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to mental health. We believe in meeting people where they are, honoring their individual experiences, and recognizing that healing looks different for everyone.

Breaking the stigma of therapy starts when we stop asking, “What’s wrong with you?” and start asking, “What happened to you, what do you need, and how can we support you?”

You don't have to reach a breaking point to deserve support. You don't have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. And you certainly don't have to change who you are to be worthy of care.

At The Mind and Body Clinic, we believe that mental health care should honor the whole person—mind, body, and spirit. 💚

✨ Different brains. Different experiences. Equally deserving of compassionate care.

World Mental Health Day 🌿Mental health care should be as individual as the people receiving it.For some, that means work...
10/10/2026

World Mental Health Day 🌿

Mental health care should be as individual as the people receiving it.

For some, that means working through years of trauma. For others, it’s finally understanding their neurodivergence, learning to recognize their body’s signals, or finding ways to feel more regulated in everyday life.

Sometimes progress looks like fewer panic attacks or better sleep. Sometimes it’s setting a boundary, recognizing sensory overload before reaching a breaking point, or simply having enough energy left at the end of the day to enjoy your family.

And sometimes, progress begins when someone finally listens and takes the time to understand the bigger picture.

At The Mind and Body Clinic, we believe good mental health care requires curiosity, compassion, collaboration, and a willingness to recognize that what works for one person may not work for another.

We also recognize that mental health is influenced by physical health, relationships, environment, and lived experiences. Those connections deserve attention, too.

This World Mental Health Day, our hope is that more people experience care that helps them feel understood, supported, and empowered—not just treated.

Because mental health care should never be about making everyone fit the same mold. 💚

🌿 POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION DOESN’T ALWAYS LOOK LIKE DEPRESSION. See the graphic below 👇🏻to see other ways that postpartum s...
10/07/2026

🌿 POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION DOESN’T ALWAYS LOOK LIKE DEPRESSION.

See the graphic below 👇🏻to see other ways that postpartum shows up.

We talk a lot about the fact that the brain doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and this is one of the reasons why.There are so m...
10/05/2026

We talk a lot about the fact that the brain doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and this is one of the reasons why.

There are so many things we see show up alongside autism and ADHD:

• POTS and other forms of dysautonomia
• EDS/hypermobility
• MCAS
• Gut issues
• Migraines
• Sleep problems
• PANS/PANDAS
• Chronic pain and fatigue

Sometimes what looks like increased anxiety, irritability, sleep difficulties, sensory overwhelm, trouble focusing, or just being really dysregulated may have more going on underneath it.

This doesn’t mean every neurodivergent person has one of these conditions, and it certainly doesn’t mean we’re looking for something to “fix” about autism or ADHD.

It just means we don’t want to write everything off as just part of being neurodivergent when there may be something else making their brain and nervous system work that much harder.

These aren’t things we diagnose or medically treat at MBC, but they are things we pay attention to and may encourage someone to bring up with their medical provider.

The brain is part of the body, and sometimes we need to look at the whole picture. 🌿

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Springfield, MO
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