How to (and How Not to) Talk about Mental Health
As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, we would like to offer some guidelines for engaging the topic of mental health in your home, community, and the Catholic Church. The [...]
Transformation Tuesday 5/24/22
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month so we’d like to share some statistics to normalize mental health struggles and promote the importance (and acceptance) of seeking help. 1 in 5 (21%, [...]
Transformation Tuesday 5/17/22 – Understanding Shame
Shame often comes alive as an unconscious response to fear (especially a fear of not being good enough). You can see shame as the shadow to fear. It causes humans [...]
A Catholic Therapist’s Perspective on Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, and The Christian Virtue of Humility
At first glance, it may seem as though humility, self-esteem, and self-worth are not compatible with one another. It’s possible that this is because thinking highly of oneself is often [...]
What Does It Mean to Be a Catholic Psychotherapist?
Alpha Omega Clinic is a mental health clinic that specializes in offering services that are fully integrated with the Catholic faith. As such, we believe it is important to explore [...]
Clinician Spotlight – Dr. Paul Schratz, PhD
This month for our Clinician Spotlight, we spoke with Dr. Paul Schratz, PhD. Dr. Schratz joined our team in 2021 after a long and successful career with the Navy and [...]
Celebrating Our 20th Anniversary
This year we are celebrating our 20th year as a Clinic. We have grown from a small handful of clinicians with a bold vision to a fully functioning mental health [...]
Tips for Adjusting to the Start of the School Year
It’s hard to imagine that a year later we would find ourselves going into another school year with the pandemic looming in the background. As our nation continues to struggle [...]
Clinician Spotlight – Michael Hayes, LCSW-C
This month for our Clinician Spotlight, we spoke with Michael Hayes, LCSW-C. Michael is a veteran in the mental health field and one of the longest-standing clinicians at Alpha Omega. [...]
5 Tips for Adjusting to the Summer Schedule
Transitions are often hard for families because just when we think we’ve figured out a system that works, the schedule changes and we must start over! Then there's the fact [...]