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.

Mark Whitaker, LCPC, covers how drinking has changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, how to start a conversation about it, and what warning signs to be on the lookout for now that normal rules are out the window.

Racial trauma comes from places as big as government offices and as small as everyday interactions, and presents in many different ways. Dr. Whitney Hobson, PSYD, walks us through some of the ways we may be experiencing or contributing to it and the paths forward we can take.

November is Transgender Awareness Month, and our therapists Denise Hansen, LCSW-C, and Marci Saltzman, LCSW-C, are here to help you navigate talking about pronouns, establishing boundaries, finding the right therapist, accessing healthcare resources, AND MORE!

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.

Sit down for a conversation between Jesire Bennett and Katie McCabe, LCPC, for the VERY FIRST EPISODE of No Stupid Questions. Jesire asks how people can get started on the path toward sobriety, the role relationships play in their journey . . . and even a few questions from the audience!