Pamela Wheaton Shorr

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but if you think you know what therapy looks like today, you might be in for a surprise. Forget Sigmund Freud, a box of tissues and a couch. Mental health care has gotten a refresh. Mental Health ‘2.0’ Until the 1960s, most therapists were men, but in the 1980s, according to the American Psychological Association, women outnumbered men earning PhDs in psychology. Today, about eight out of 10therapists and mental health counselors in the U.S. are female.  The couch…

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week — a nation-wide campaign to raise awareness, provide hope and support to those who struggle with eating disorders and to challenge the stigma that often goes with them — runs this year from Feb. 23-March 1. The 2026 theme is Every BODY Belongs.  Eating disorders are serious mental health disorders marked by severe disturbances in one’s eating behaviors, and affect 30 million Americans. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, too often, people with these disorders go unseen or unsupported…