Mission Connection Washington

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that causes hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

This mental health condition is characterized by extreme mood swings between depression, mania, and remission.

A person with multiple mental health diagnoses, such as addiction and depression, has co-occurring disorders also called dual diagnosis.

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Some primary care providers offer mental health diagnosis and treatment. This can prevent patients from developing more serious conditions.

With suicidality, a person fantasizes about suicide, or makes a plan to carry it out. This is a serious mental health symptom.

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.

Two or more people meet with a therapist together. Patients get valuable peer support, strengthen interpersonal skills, and improve self-awareness.

A non-medicinal, wellness-focused approach that aims to align the mind, body, and spirit for deep and lasting healing.

Patient and therapist meet 1-on-1 to work through difficult emotions and behavioral challenges in a personal, private setting.

A practiced state of mind that brings patients to the present. It allows them to become fully aware of themselves, their feelings, and the present moment.

This form of talk therapy addresses any childhood trauma at the root of a patient's current diagnosis.

Patients can connect with a therapist via videochat, messaging, email, or phone. Remote therapy makes treatment more accessible.

This ancient practice can be mental, emotional, and even spiritual. In meditation, you focus your attention on the present moment without judgement.

Visual art invites patients to examine the emotions within their work, focusing on the process of creativity and its gentle therapeutic power.

With this approach, patients heal by doing. Therapists help patients process difficult emotions to speak, using guided activities like art or dance.

Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.

Lateral, guided eye movements help reduce the emotional reactions of retelling and reprocessing trauma, allowing intense feelings to dissipate.