Chrysalis Center

07/24/2025

In her ongoing work with women across the lifespan, Dr. Pulliam addresses two recent media items about the status of maternal mental health and the tasks of parenting generally in her recent blog post. hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag

06/13/2025

Grief doesn’t come to destroy us—it comes to walk with us through loss. After back-to-back miscarriages, Gabriela Spicer, MA, LPC, learned that avoiding pain only made it louder. When she finally leaned in, grief became less of a burden and more of a strange, sacred gift. 💔🌊

If you're grieving, you're not alone. Read more on the blog.

Written by Gabriela Spicer, M.A., LPC I experienced a long season of back-to-back losses. It started with two miscarriages six months apart. My husband and I were eager to have more children after our first two. We were hopeful and ready. After I found out...

04/22/2025

Chrysalis is excited to announce a new project that focuses on making an impact in our community. As part of our Chrysalis Community outreach, we have partnered with Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and MOBI to provide an art therapy workshop series to underserved populations. This group intervention is designed to provide members an opportunity to create art and connect their individual stories through shared experiences in a safe supportive space.

04/21/2025

In January Zane Dodd and his colleague, Galit Atlas, published a tribute paper to Lewis Aron, “Lewis Aron’s Last Lectures: Jung and Contemporary Psychoanalysis” in the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Dodd is proud to be able to share the brilliance of Lew from his lectures to a larger audience.

https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2024.2444852

In February Dr. Dodd and colleague, Liz Woodruff, presented at the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals annual conference. Their talk, A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Athletes: Defensive and Facilitative Potentials, explored the complex relationship between trauma, our relationship to food and our bodies, sport, and the role of depth psychology in understanding and treating eating disorders. They hope this work can be used to examine the defensive and facilitative functions of our relationships to food and our bodies.

04/04/2025

We all experience loss as a natural part of life. Chrysalis will be starting a new support group for those journeying through grief and loss.

This 8-week process group will be in person and will take place at the Chrysalis Center from May-July.
Contact us for more information or visit our website at www.thechrysaliscenter.com/groups

03/28/2025

Kristin Fleagle, LPC-Associate and Elevate Performance Psychology practitioner is traveling to Boston, MA to present to the high school and club track and field coaches of New England Next weekend. As a former collegiate track coach and athlete, Kristin has both a passion for the sport as well as a passion for helping coaches be better coaches. Using her latest degree, she works to give coaches skills to manage their own thoughts and feelings as well as techniques to use with their athletes to promote a higher standard of performance. This clinic will conclude the tour of track clinics or conventions Kristin has presented at over the last year.

03/21/2025

This past January, our Elevate team partnered with Sports Academy to help NFL Combine athletes prepare for the NFL Combine through increased self-awareness and preparation for team interviews.

We are excited to watch them grow and thrive and see them achieve their dreams in the NFL Draft next month.

Interested in ways to elevate your performance?
Check out the Elevate website: https://elevatemindset.co

03/07/2025

Community intervention is an important part of our mission, and we will continually use our training in the science and art of human interaction to make our corner of the world a better place.

11/19/2024

11/04/2024

PREVENTION: IS IT A MINDSET OR AN AFTERTHOUGHT? Dr. Karolina Shander recently wrote a blog regarding the absence of "prehab" in our society and how it is missing in multiple psychological spheres. Check it out on our website:
https://lnkd.in/gCCmk8yf

10/18/2024

Allow us to welcome another wonderful trainee to our staff this year! To learn more about Cameren and request an appointment, take a look at our website! https://www.thechrysaliscenter.com/cameren-pryor-ms/ -being

10/15/2024

The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, recently issued a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents. Within the full advisory (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/parents-under-pressure.pdf), Dr. Murthy highlights the many consistent and ongoing challenges of parenthood in modern society, noting cultures of constant comparison, limited social support, mounting financial strain for child care, safety concerns amid growing exposure to mass violence, and an ever-increasing demand to do more, be more present, and help our children become more successful all while feeling more isolated than ever.

The practitioners of The Chrysalis Center recognize these challenges in our community and wish to be part of the solution. Through our shared focus on relationship and attunement, we strive to help parents, children, and communities to address this often shaming and isolating parental climate. In addition to individual and couple therapy, as well as parental consultation, we also offer a Rhythm and Rattles group that focuses on helping new parents attune to their infants and foster connections to other parents. If you or someone you know is struggling with the demands of parenthood, please consider if we may be of service!

https://www.thechrysaliscenter.com/