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?

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.

Where do substance use and mental illness meet? What looks like mental illness but gets more complicated on closer inspection? Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, go back inside the mind to talk about how addiction can get wrapped up in a tangle of neurons. Because for as complicated as recovery is, it might’ve met its match next to the brain!

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.

In the first episode of Of Substance’s three-part series, Elliott Driscoll, LCSW-C, and Katie McCabe, LCPC, go inside the mind to talk about how it works, what substance use does to it, and what recovery looks like with a mental addiction.

Trisha Chason, LGPC (she/her) is a Yoga Instructor, Health and Wellness Coach, and Psychotherapist at the Resource Group. In this live chat, Trisha answers your questions and shares self care strategies like mindfulness, sleep hygiene, and somatic practices.