After the many recent high-profile deaths among student athletes, Katie McCabe, LCPC, and Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, are sitting down to talk about the pressure to perform. Touching on their own athletic experiences, they look at the college experience, substance use and trauma, and accessing mental healthcare before you’re being carried off the field.

In this episode of Of Substance, Katie and Elliott discuss all of that and more! Join them for a talk on how drugs are changing, what risk factors you can look out for, and why helping an addict can sometimes feel so hard.

Boundaries are like opinions — we all have them. What is and isn’t okay? Who do they extend to? Clinical Director Maria Karolenko walks us through how to set them, when to set them, and how to communicate them to the people around us.

Shane Kelsey, LCPC, sits down to talk about what we can do as adults for our anxious kids. What does anxiety look like for them? How does our anxiety rub off on them? What does the best lifestyle look like for an anxious kid?

For some people, this time of year is one trigger after another to really test a their sobriety. Join Resource Connect Clinical Director Marie Collins, LCPC, for a discussion on how to develop a relapse prevention plan, what warning signs to watch out for, and how to cope through the holiday season.

Raise your hand if you’ve spent hours studying for a test, only to sit down and feel your mind go blank. Resource Connect Addictions Counselor AJ Johnson, ADT, sits down to walk us through tips and tricks to help us finally test out of test anxiety!