🌿 Insights

Let's Talk About It...

Mental health education doesn't have to be complicated.

Welcome to Insights, a place where I answer common questions, explore misunderstood topics, and help make mental health conversations a little easier to understand.

Whether you're here to better understand yourself, support someone you love, or simply learn something new, I hope these conversations leave you feeling a little more informed and a little less alone.

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💜 Reflective Thursday One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned, both personally and professionally, is that life rarely fits into the neat categories our minds prefer. We want certainty. We want clear answers. We want things to be either go
💜 Let’s Talk About It… The Stories Our Minds Tell Us Part 1: Black-and-White Thinking Have you ever caught yourself thinking… “This always happens to me.” “I can never do anything right.” “Nobody
💜 Reflective Thursday Our minds are powerful storytellers. Sometimes a thought feels true simply because it’s loud. Or familiar. Or because we’ve heard it so many times that we’ve stopped questioning it. That doesn’t neces
💜 Let’s Talk About It… Trauma: Myths vs. Facts Trauma is one of the most misunderstood topics in mental health. Many people grow up hearing messages like: “Just move on.” “Other people have it worse.” “If
🌿 Reflective Thursday Sometimes we believe our only choices are the ones we’ve always known. To fight. To shut down. To walk away. But growth begins the moment we become willing to ask: “What if there is another way?” Just b
💜 Let’s Talk About It… What does being strong really mean? For many of us, strength was never modeled as asking for help. It looked like pushing through. Holding everything together. Taking care of everyone else. Pretending we were o
🌿 Reflective Thursday You don’t have to have it all together. Sometimes healing doesn’t look the way people expect. Sometimes it looks like setting a boundary. Sometimes it looks like asking for help. Sometimes it looks like choosin
💜 Let’s Talk About It… Trauma is one of the most misunderstood topics in mental health, and PTSD is often surrounded by misconceptions. Many people picture PTSD as flashbacks after a single traumatic event. While that can certainly be
💜 Let’s Talk About It… This marks the beginning of a new series exploring some of the most common questions, misconceptions, and conversations surrounding mental health. Because the truth is, many of these topics affect us personally
As Pride Month comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️‍🌈💜 Whether you’re proudly living as your authentic self, still discovering who you are, or simply looking for a space where y
Welcome to Shani Ben-Dov Therapy. 🌿 I'm Shani, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing virtual psychotherapy services to adolescents and adults throughout Connecticut. I work with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transi