Tiffany Griffiths, Psy.D. & Associates, Inc.

05/05/2026

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It symbolizes Mexican resilience, unity, and patriotism against foreign intervention. While often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16), it is largely celebrated in the U.S. as a festival of Mexican-American culture and heritage.

05/04/2026

05/04/2026

✨Meet Katie DeStefano, LCSW✨

"I have been a part of the practice for seven years, during which I’ve had the opportunity to grow alongside the team and contribute to both client care and the development of our services. As a clinical manager, I wear a few different hats. I support our clinicians, help oversee day-to-day operations, make sure we’re providing quality care, and help with anything that keeps the practice running smoothly. I also stay involved in client care and team development!"

05/01/2026

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05/01/2026

May is primarily recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. It is a widely observed, month-long campaign to raise awareness about mental wellness, reduce stigma, and provide support to those with mental health conditions.

Mental health awareness involves understanding, recognizing, and openly discussing mental health to reduce stigma, encourage early intervention, and support well-being. It emphasizes that mental health is as vital as physical health, aiming to create supportive environments where people can seek help without shame. Key efforts focus on education, empathy, and promoting resources

- If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.
- To learn how to get support for mental health, drug, and alcohol issues, visit FindSupport.gov.
- To locate treatment facilities or providers, visit FindTreatment.gov or call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 800-662-HELP (4357).

https://www.nami.org/stay-connected/events/awareness-events/mental-health-awareness-month/

04/18/2026

As a licensed natural medicine clinician, I see President Trump’s executive order on psychedelic treatments as a meaningful step in the right direction. It aims to speed federal review of certain psychedelic therapies for serious mental illness, including ibogaine.

For far too long, promising natural and integrative therapies have been dismissed, delayed, or pushed to the margins. Thoughtful, evidence-based access to psychedelic medicine has the potential to change lives, especially for people struggling with PTSD, depression, addiction, and other conditions where conventional options have fallen short.

This is the kind of progress many of us in natural medicine have been working toward: more research, more responsible access, and more openness to treatments that can support deep healing. I’m hopeful this helps move the conversation forward in a serious, compassionate, and clinically responsible way.

Billionaire Peter Thiel also stands to benefit from the executive order signed on Saturday.

04/12/2026

Last night, I had the pleasure to hear Gabor Maté speak. His writings and teachings on addiction and trauma have fundamentally changed how we understand human suffering, not as pathology to be judged, but as adaptation to be understood. He spoke at length about freedom last night and this stirred something important in me that I have been contemplating this morning.

He spoke about how little of our behavior is truly “free” in the way we imagine. So much of what we call choice is shaped by conditioning: family imprinting, trauma, nervous system adaptations, cultural programming. If trauma has wired the brain for survival, then our reactions are often not conscious decisions at all, but automatic responses arising from old wounds. In that sense, what feels like free will may often be our past living through us.

I understand his point, and I deeply appreciate the compassion in it. It removes shame from human behavior and helps us see that many of our struggles…addiction, reactivity, self-sabotage, are not moral failings but patterned adaptations.

And yet, this is where I part ways with him.

Because while our conditioning may shape our first impulse, I still believe there is a sacred space in us that can intervene.

Viktor Frankl wrote that between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space lies our power to choose. I believe that space can be buried, narrowed, and obscured by trauma, but not erased. The work of healing is expanding that space.

This is where mindfulness becomes revolutionary. Practices like meditation, breathwork, contemplative pause, and disciplined self-observation strengthen our capacity to witness the pain body without becoming it. As Eckhart Tolle teaches, when unconscious emotional pain is triggered, it seeks to take us over, but awareness interrupts identification. Awareness creates choice.

Trauma and conditioning may condition the nervous system, but consciousness can recondition it.

Mindfulness is how we reclaim authorship over our lives, not by denying our imprinting, but by becoming aware enough to stop being ruled by it.

That, to me, is true liberation: not freedom from having been shaped, but freedom to stop being unconsciously driven by what shaped us 🙏.