Welcome to Holistic Mental Health

Get Well Soon

If you are tired of quick assessments and even quicker diagnoses and would like to feel fully heard and validated before being categorized, we may be a good fit. My ideal client is ready to try a more nontraditional mental health approach that starts with understanding the connection between mental, physical, and spiritual health. We will work together to uncover root causes, from childhood trauma to the grief of loss that invariably accompanies age. Instead of simply numbing the pain, we will do real work to understand, confront, and bring justice to old wounds and new conflicts, moving toward a deeper and more lasting wellness.

About Us

Donna Trimm is a Columbia University-trained Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has over a decade of clinical experience helping people navigate terminal illness, death, and grief through individual and group therapy. As a member of the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, she utilizes writing therapy and other expressive arts therapies to help clients identify root causes of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues. She applies a holistic, strengths-based, psychoeducational approach to help equip clients with the latest evidence-supported therapies, resulting in a deeper grasp of their own resilience and capacity. She focuses on holistic healing through integrative, whole body health care, which includes nutrition, exercise, supplements, and Mindfulness Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Donna also facilitates training workshops for allied professionals hoping to move away from traditional, Western approaches to mental health care which focus heavily on psychotropic pharmaceuticals.

Grief

Set stages aside and come to understand that it’s okay not to be okay with loss. As a former Hospice Bereavement Coordinator with additional training from David Kessler (grief.com), I’ll work on helping your brain organize and give voice to the pain and chaos using psychoeducation and expressive arts therapy. My clients consistently marvel at how much lighter the weight is after getting help.

Depression and Anxiety

It’s important to distinguish between situational depression, which is a common and normal reaction to stressful situations or losses, and clinical depression, which is an internal reality not related to external situations. It is best to work through situational depression with help from talk therapy. Research shows that remedies such as talk therapy, exercise, meditation, and supplements have proven just as effective without the often life-altering side effects of medication.*

Relationships

Learning how to navigate the often-difficult web of multiple conflicts and personalities can be like finding your way through a maze. Therapy can help you find a clear path out by learning what’s normal and what’s not and providing coping tools and communication skills to manage it all.

*mindfulness-based cognitive therapy appears as effective as other treatments (like medication) in preventing relapse for individuals with recurrent depression, according to a 2016 analysis in JAMA Psychiatry^[4]. Meanwhile, CBT is more effective and can have longer-lasting effects than medication after treatment stops for those living with social anxiety, according to a 2014 study in Lancet Psychiatry^[5].

Physical activity is 1.5 times more effective at reducing mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, psychological stress, and anxiety than medication or cognitive behavior therapy: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/11/bjsports-2022-106195

Nutrition as Metabolic Treatment for Anxiety - PMC (nih.gov)

Natural Antidepressants for Depression (verywellmind.com)

Insurance Accepted

Accepting through Headway platform: Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Aetna Oxford United Healthcare Cigna Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Please visit Check My Insurance Benefits | Headway Accepting through Alma platform: Optum, including: UnitedHealthcare UnitedHealthcare Shared Services (UHSS) GEHA - UnitedHealthcare Shared Services (UHSS) UnitedHealthcare Global UnitedHealthCare Exchange Plans (ONEX) Oscar Harvard Pilgrim Oxford UHC Student Resources UMR All Savers (UHC) Health Plans Inc Surest (Formerly Bind)* Aetna, including: Meritain Nippon Allied Benefit Systems GEHA - United Healthcare Shared Services (UHSS) Trustmark Trustmark Small Business Benefits Health Scope Christian Brothers Services Please visit Client Resources – Alma (helloalma.com) for more information.

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Ready to get in touch with us? Holistic Mental Health is here to listen, support, and guide you on your mental health journey.

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(315) 614-2616

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