{"id":10143,"date":"2025-11-12T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/?p=10143"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:04:23","slug":"for-all-seasons-brings-awareness-to-mental-health-challenges-of-family-members-and-caregivers-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/for-all-seasons-brings-awareness-to-mental-health-challenges-of-family-members-and-caregivers-of-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"For All Seasons Brings Awareness to Mental Health Challenges of Family Members and Caregivers of Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Veterans\u2019 Day this month, For All Seasons is bringing the focus to the mental health of families and caregivers of veterans, active service, and reserve members who can experience a unique set of challenges, stressors, and traumas, from deployment and combat to reintegrating into civilian life after leaving the military.<\/p>\n<p>According to Timothy Nowicki, a licensed clinician at For All Seasons, family members of veterans and service members have varying experiences and perspectives on how the military experience affects them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeterans often have intense jobs and need to learn more about the mind-body connection, particularly as it relates to trauma, when reintegrating into civilian life and their homelives,\u201d Nowicki shares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who have served have followed a military chain of command, and learning to manage the fluidity of familial relationships can be challenging,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p>Other family stressors for active service members\u2019 and veterans\u2019 families include extended and repeated deployments, financial and housing instability, and food shortages \u2013 all risk factors for poor mental health. Caregivers of veterans also have an increased risk of developing depression and anxiety themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health tools that can help families and veterans cope include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>psychoeducation \u2013 giving people the knowledge, language, and tools to help them manage their mental health. This can include connecting bodily reactions to emotional awareness.<\/li>\n<li>developing open and ongoing communication \u2013 listening without judgment helps veterans and family members feel understood and supported<\/li>\n<li>helping veterans feel a part of the community<\/li>\n<li>engaging in individual and group therapy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to Beth Anne Dorman, president and CEO of For All Seasons, 100% of the For All Seasons team is trained in cultural competency around service members, veterans, and their families. \u201cWe strive to meet veterans where they are and provide a safe space for them to sit,\u201d Dorman shares.<\/p>\n<p>For All Seasons offers therapy, psychiatry, victim and crisis support, and education to the community \u2013 including veterans and their families. This includes Open Access, which is the agency\u2019s walk-in and telehealth service that allows individuals and families to begin therapy with no appointment needed and no waitlist.<\/p>\n<p><em>For All Seasons Behavioral Health &amp; Rape Crisis Center offers mental health services, victim and crisis support, and education &amp; outreach on Maryland\u2019s Mid-Shore and throughout the state. The agency\u2019s unique model of care ensures anyone can receive the highest-quality, trauma-certified mental health care when they need it, regardless of language or ability to pay. For information about For All Seasons walk-in hours, contact 410-822-1018 or visit ForAllSeasonsInc.org.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Veterans\u2019 Day this month, For All Seasons is bringing the focus to the mental health of families and caregivers of veterans, active service, and reserve members who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":10144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10145,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10143\/revisions\/10145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10143"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forallseasonsinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=10143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}