Counseling work is metabolically expensive — even when you are not moving. This Grand Rounds at The Family Institute at Northwestern University translates current evidence on prolonged occupational sitting, cognitive nutrition, and practitioner wellness into strategies counselors can apply between sessions and across the clinical week. Grounded in sport psychology, exercise science, and counselor ethics, the session reframes self-care as a professional competence requirement — and provides a practical framework for meeting it.

Awareness has a short shelf life when it isn't paired with action. As Mental Health Awareness Month draws to a close, this post recaps a five-week series on stigma, the continuum model, relational wellbeing, and organizational mental health — and makes the case for treating mental health not as a problem to solve, but as a practice to return to.

Awareness has a short shelf life when it isn't paired with action. As Counseling Awareness Month draws to a close, this post goes deeper than the campaign — recapping a five-week social media series and making the case that mental health support is not a last resort, but a proactive investment in how you function, perform, and sustain yourself over time.

The psychological skills that have transformed athletic performance — goal setting, self-talk, visualization, routine, and arousal regulation — are not sport-specific. They are human performance tools. And patients managing chronic illness are among the most demanding in high-performance contexts. This post expands on a workshop presented at The Family Institute at Northwestern University's Day of Learning.

At The Family Institute at Northwestern University's second annual Gratitude Gala, Daniel Wilsea moderated a fireside chat with 2016 World Series MVP Ben Zobrist on performance, identity, relationships, and mental health — and why honest public conversations about mental health matter most in the spaces where it has been least visible.

The one-hour virtual event for The Family Institute at Northwestern University featured a discussion on how parents can support their children's mental health needs.