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AAPI Mental Health video series
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What is Therapy and How to Find A Mental Health Provider
In this insightful session, our Founder and Clinical Director Sweta Neygandhi, LCSW breaks down what therapy is and offer practical tips on how to find the right mental health provider for you. We also share practical tips specific to the AAPI community to help you feel empowered and informed in your mental health journey.
The Power of Pause: Breaking Free from Anxiety & Fatigue
We hustle, we grind, we worry, we give—but at what cost? During this Mental Health Monday for the AAPI community, Sweta Neygandhi, LCSW led us in learning to pause, breathe, and take back control. Let’s explore how cultural narratives shape our stress, and more important, how we can rewrite them. Expect deep conversations, game-changing strategies, and a space to just be.
The Sandwich Generation Squeeze: Balancing Family without Burning Out
Feeling stretched between caring for your kids and supporting aging parents? You’re not alone. Many in the AAPI community face the unique challenge of juggling both roles, often with deep cultural expectations around family duty. In this Lunch & Learn with Sweta Neygandhi, LCSW, we’ll talk about the emotional toll of being an AAPI in the sandwich generation, the stress of constant caregiving, and practical ways to set boundaries without guilt. Let’s explore how to take care of ourselves while still showing up for the people we love.
Good Asian, Bad Asian: Breaking the Mold, Owning Our Story
Ever feel like you have to be “successful” all the time or that struggling isn’t an option? The model minority myth creates unrealistic expectations that can lead to stress, burnout, and silence around mental health for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In this Mental Health Monday with Sweta Neygandhi, LCSW, we’ll have an open conversation about where these pressures come from, how they impact our well-being, and ways to redefine success on our own terms. Let’s break free from the myth and embrace who we truly are.
Substack: It's not about the dishes
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Does couples therapy mean the end of a marriage?
Think couples therapy only means a relationship is doomed? Think again. In this insightful piece, therapist and clinical director Sweta Neygandhi explores why seeking help isn’t a last‑ditch effort, it’s often one of the most courageous and committed steps partners can take together. Rather than signaling the end, therapy can strengthen connection, deepen understanding, and even be the start of a “Marriage 2.0.” At its worst, it guides couples through intentional endings with care; at its best, it helps them grow closer. Read more to rethink what couples therapy really means.
Honey, I’m hooooome!
What happens when roles shift and one partner becomes the primary breadwinner? In this honest and nuanced piece, therapist Sweta Neygandhi explores how money, identity, and power quietly shape modern relationships. From unspoken expectations to resentment, guilt, or imbalance, this article unpacks the emotional weight behind “who provides” and how couples can navigate it with more clarity, respect, and intention. A must-read for partners trying to stay connected while redefining roles.
Who Cooks? Who Cleans?
Ever feel like household chores and mental labor are silently shaping your relationship? In this thoughtful piece, therapist and clinical director Sweta Neygandhi, LCSW, explores how everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, childcare, and “who notices what first” can become battlegrounds or bridges in a partnership. This article reframes the debate from who does more to how do we negotiate fair contributions, emphasizing equity, communication, and appreciation over resentment. A must‑read for couples wanting to strengthen teamwork at home.
Therapy Story Brochure and Flyers
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Therapy Story Brochure
Download our brochure to learn more about our services, workshops, and approach to mental health care.
Therapy Story Service and Rate Flyer
Curious about working with us? Our Services & Rates flyer breaks down how Therapy Story supports individuals, couples, and organizations through therapy and workshops, along with transparent starting rates to help you plan your next step.
Premarital Counseling Flyer
Download our Premarital Counseling flyer to learn how Therapy Story helps couples build a strong foundation before marriage. Explore topics like communication, conflict resolution, intimacy, and shared values as you prepare for this next chapter together.
Closer Together Flyer
Download our Closer Together Couples Workshop flyer to learn how Therapy Story helps couples reconnect, strengthen communication, and deepen emotional and physical intimacy in a supportive, guided space.
Bringing Baby Home Flyer
Download our Bringing Baby Home flyer to learn how Therapy Story supports couples as they transition into parenthood. This workshop helps strengthen communication, manage stress, and deepen connection during one of life’s biggest changes.
Bagels and Balance Flyer
Download our Bagels and Balance Speaker Seried flyer to share with busy parents looking to connect with others and walk away with tangible tools from our social worker and educator Courtney Laurore, MSW.
Postpartum/Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
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Postpartum Stress Center
Are you worried about the way you are feeling?
Depression and anxiety during pregnancy and postpartum are very treatable.
The Postpartum Stress Center was established to provide a better understanding and comprehensive clinical intervention for any woman who suffers from the range of prenatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.
The Motherhood Center
Having a baby can be wonderful but it can also feel very overwhelming and hard.
At The Motherhood Center, we are here to help every step of the way.
We provide supportive services for new and expecting moms, including a range of treatment options for women suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs.)
Postpartum Support International
Did you know? 1 in 7 Moms and 1 in 10 Dads suffer from postpartum depression.
At Postpartum Support International we provide direct peer support to families, train professionals, and provide a bridge to connect them.
We also provide essential info about perinatal mood & anxiety disorders, including risk factors, symptoms & treatments.
Milkwell Lactation & Feeding Solutions
My care goes beyond feeding your baby. I want you to be well.
We help create a solid plan for feeding your baby. Using clinical experience & expertise, we work with you AND your doctors if necessary to make plans that meet everyone’s needs.
For almost 20 years Milkwell Lactation & Feeding Solutions have been providing restorative, gentle, compassionate and practical support for families throughout the childbearing year. I had a therapeutic massage practice for many years and I continue to tap into that experience as I support and guide pregnant and new moms into physical and emotional balance. I am a certified Birth & Postpartum Doula as well as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and New Parent Educator.
After Pregnancy Loss or Infant Loss
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Pockets of Light
We are here for you.
Pockets of Light provides Support, Compassion and Hope for women and men who have experienced the loss of a pregnancy or infant.
We are an organization based in Montclair, New Jersey, offering support and community to grieving parents and a safe environment in which we can share our stories and begin the healing process.
The Hudson Shea Foundation
Hope after loss.
The Hudson Shea Foundation is a charitable organization committed to providing couples with hope after the loss of an infant to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
HSF partners with hospitals and research institutions to fund medical research and bereavement support groups. This site encourages others to blog in a safe forum and fosters discussions on healing after loss.
Pregnancy Loss Support Program
Pregnancy Loss Support Program (PLSP) for Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Newborn Death.
For more than three decades, the Pregnancy Loss Support Program has offered free counseling and support for parents who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, newborn death or termination for fetal anomalies, as well as to women who are pregnant following a loss.
Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
A home for all who hold space for the sacred thresholds of Birth, Breath, and Death.
The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death is an inspiring and nurturing professional organization dedicated to furthering the development and professional skill set of those called to hold space for mindful birthing, living, and dying.
The Institute is a pioneering force offering monthly webinars on themes relating to compassionately holding space for birth, breath, and death as well as providing quality in-person and online trainings/workshops for the heartfelt engagement with these topics.
Shoshana Center
Shoshana Center welcomes you with compassion, kindness and the expertise of 30+ years.
I was already a psychologist when my first baby, Shoshana, was stillborn full-term in 1985. Since that time, I have been devoted to supporting families on the journey to parenthood, especially when there is tragedy or challenge along the way.
I provide psychotherapy, professional training and program consultation locally, nationally and internationally. And I look forward to meeting you.
Held Massage Therapy
Those who are going through the pain of grief, loss, trauma or burnout can find soulful healing here.
Nurturing massage experiences relieve pain, tension and other physical symptoms common in grief and major life transitions. Companionship and sacred space hold you lovingly and help you navigate the path forward, even through heartbreak and hell.
Held offers unique and powerful private healing sessions, a 3-month intensive restoration experience, Sacred Rage Circles(c), inspired workshops and monthly sacred sister circles.
Couples Therapy
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Read: What is EFT?
The ICEEFT was founded in 1998 by Dr. Sue Johnson and her colleagues in Ottawa, Canada. The Centre offers educational courses and training to mental health professionals.
EFT is a well-known humanistic approach to psychotherapy formulated in the 1980’s and developed in tandem with the science of adult attachment, a profound developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships
Book: "Hold Me Tight"
Hope after loss.
The Hudson Shea Foundation is a charitable organization committed to providing couples with hope after the loss of an infant to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death.
HSF partners with hospitals and research institutions to fund medical research and bereavement support groups. This site encourages others to blog in a safe forum and fosters discussions on healing after loss.
Book: "Love Sense"
The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research.
Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. Love Sense presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love is an attachment bond, just like that between mother and child, and shows us how to develop our ‘love sense’ — our ability to develop long-lasting relationships.
Book: "Attachment Theory in Practice"
Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families.
Drawing on cutting-edge research on adult attachment–and providing an innovative roadmap for clinical practice–Susan M. Johnson argues that psychotherapy is most effective when it focuses on the healing power of emotional connection.
The primary developer of emotionally focused therapy (EFT) for couples, Johnson now extends her attachment-based approach to individuals and families. The volume shows how EFT aligns perfectly with attachment theory as it provides proven techniques for treating anxiety, depression, and relationship problems.