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How to Get Better Sleep: A Free Wellness Class

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Because of the many challenges people are facing during this unusual time, a good night’s sleep has been hard to get. Poor sleep can affect mood, anxiety, health, and even your immune system. In this class, you will learn 10 tips to get better sleep, as well as several practices that you can do at night when you’re having trouble sleeping. Ahh, zzzzz’s.

Dr. Sarah Whitman is a member of Chestnut Hill Quaker Meeting and a psychiatrist who works with both patients with chronic physical pain and college students. She is offering this class with the Friends Counseling Service at this time to contribute to better health for our community.

How to Get Better Sleep Class Registration

Interview with Janaki Spickard Keeler, FCS Coordinator

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PYM’s Friends Counseling Service (FCS) brings forward a spiritually sensitive, clinical expertise to care for the mental health and wellness of individuals in the wider Quaker community.

Janaki Spickard Keeler was recently appointed as the FCS Coordinator.  As part of her daily job, she interacts with local Quaker communities, supports present counselors, recruits new counselors, helps promote the service, and attends events throughout the yearly meeting to speak on matters related to mental health and wellness.

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Winden Rowe, LPC Joins Friends Counseling Service

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Winden Rowe, MS, NCC, LPC maintains a private practice in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania where she works with individuals, couples, families, and organizations. Her education, clinical experience, and passionate interest center around the study of and work in the field of stress and trauma. Ms Rowe’s approach to securing sustained improvement and recovery for clients dealing with the effects of stress and trauma, centers around linking the biological, psychological, and social implications of traumatic stress and the identified challenge. In addition to counseling, Winden lectures, teaches, and consults in the field. Ms. Rowe has been a guest on a variety of media broadcasts including National Public Radio ‘Morning Edition’, ‘Radio Times’ and lectures at Jefferson University in the Community and Trauma Counseling Graduate Program. She works with children, teens, and adults. And loves her work.

Anyone in need of information about the Friends Counseling Service or in need of a referral please call
Ken Brick, LCSW, Program Coordinator in his Wilmington DE Office 302-655-8101

Friends Counseling Service Welcomes It’s Second New Therapist this Spring!

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Friends Counseling Service is happy to announce that Danielle Havelin, LCSW has joined it’s group. Danielle maintains a psychotherapy practice in the Havertown area and her biography is posted below.

Danielle is a seasoned clinician and administrator with over 17 years experience in the field working with diverse populations in a variety of community mental health and school-based settings. She enjoys collaborating with people throughout the life span and believes all people walk in the door with the inner wisdom and strengths to overcome their life challenges. Danielle incorporates mindfulness strategies along with other therapeutic modalities to help clients manage a variety of emotions, strengthen their relationships with others and bring balance and peace to every day life.

PYM members, attenders or affiliates with questions about the Friends Counseling Service and what it offers may contact Ken Brick, LCSW, the Program Coordinator at 302-655-8101.