Manda Institute for Counseling Services

10/11/2024

World Mental Health Day:
The Manda Institute supports equitable access to mental health services for all who need them.

07/04/2024

Psychotherapy: Expert mental health counseling and treatment services delivered by qualified professionals, dedicated to fostering personal growth, resilience, and overall well-being.

05/13/2024

At the Manda Institute, we want to wish all Mothers a Happy and Blessed Mothers Day. May God bless you and keep you. May God cause His Face to shine upon you and give you peace.

11/24/2022

As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to be a part of your mental health journey or work. We are dedicated to helping you pursue your mental health care goals.

11/14/2022

About Fairfield County’s Community Foundation
Fairfield County’s Community Foundation promotes philanthropy as a means to create change in Fairfield County, focusing on innovative and collaborative solutions to critical issues impacting the community. Individuals, families, corporations and organizations can establish charitable funds or contribute to existing funds. The Community Foundation is in compliance with the Council on Foundations’ national standards and has awarded over $230 million in grants to nonprofits in Fairfield County and beyond. As a trusted nonprofit partner and thought
leader, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation brings together community organizers, business experts, and philanthropists to solve our region’s challenges.
"Our goal is to create a vital and inclusive community, where every individual has the opportunity to thrive.
For more info visit their website: www.fccfoundation.org"

Good news is good news when it is delivered in time. At the Manda Institute, we are grateful to God and the Fairfield County Community Foundation's Women and Girls Program for the generous grant we received in November 2021. The grant helps us to promote the mental health care services for women and girls of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT. We were able to visit homes and have debriefing sessions with women and girls.

10/30/2022

I am wondering😎 With all that is going on in the world, how are you taking care of yourself? Remember "self-care" has "self" in it. Please share with us🤔

10/27/2022

10 Fundamental Components of Mental Health Recovery
By Charles Manda, Ph.D.

October is mental health month, and it is our tradition to share something with our viewers. This year I share with you the 10 fundamental components of recovery and development of resiliency from mental health challenges and substance abuse. The Kentucky Medicaid Provider Manual defines recovery- as the ability to live a fulfilling and productive life despite the continued presence of a disability. While resiliency is the learned ability to cope and adapt positively to the challenges and change brought on by distress, disability, or adverse circumstances.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) lists 10 fundamental components of recovery:
•Self-direction: You self-direct your recovery process by defining your own life goals and designing a unique path towards those goals.
•Individualized and person-centered: There is no one-size-fits-all approach to recovery. Though clinicians may use similar approaches, your recovery process differs from another's.
•Empowerment: as a client, you participate in the therapy process and decisions that have to be taken about your life. South Africans say, “Nothing for us without us.”
•Holistic: recovery encompasses your whole life: mind, body, spirit, and community.
•Nonlinear: Recovery is not a step-by-step process but one based on continual growth, occasional setbacks, and learning from experience.
•Strengths-based: recovery must value and build on your multiple capacities, resiliencies, talents, coping abilities, and inherent worth.
•Peer or Mutual support: recovery must provide a sense of belonging, supportive relationships, valued roles, and community. Isolation can kill.
•Respect: a clinician has to respect your decisions and participation in therapy.
•Responsibility: you promote your own wellness, self-care, and journeys of recovery.
•Hope: Recovery provides the essential and motivating message of a better future.

Experiencing a mental health challenge(s), difficulty coping, or sleeping? Book a session with us at: www.minstitute.us

Charles Manda, Pastoral Counselor, Louisville, KY, 40205, (502) 215-3847, Hi, I am a Licensed Pastoral Counselor in the State of Kentucky. As a mental health professional, I work with a wide range of clients and provide therapy that gives special attention to the role that spirituality plays in a pe...

12/19/2021

Good news is good news when it is delivered in time. At the Manda Institute, we are grateful to God and the Fairfield County Community Foundation's Women and Girls Program for the generous grant we received in November 2021. The grant helps us to promote the mental health care services for women and girls of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT. We were able to visit homes and have debriefing sessions with women and girls.

09/15/2021

HAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND, JUNE 16, 2021

We want to share with our partners our joy and gratitude to God and to Haymarket People's Fund for the Emergency Response Grant that we received on June 16, 2021. We were able to intervene on behalf of our clients' emergency needs that were triggered by the Coronavirus Pandemic. That reduced toxic stress, anxiety, and ultimately improved the mental health and wellbeing of the beneficiaries.

09/15/2021

Expanding mental health work, Nashville, TN, Aug 9, 2020

The Manda Institute's CEO joins CEOs of Kapingos Fashion House; Kapinga Foundation; Kadiwaku Family Foundation; Groupe Triumvirat; and East Eagle Foundation, USA. The purpose of the meeting was to cross-pollinate wisdom, skills, and resources to promote mental health and economic growth between the two states of Connecticut and Tennessee.
Some joint projects were agreed upon to optimize our output.