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The Mind and Body Clinic

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🌱Holistic Mental Health
ASD & ADHD 🧠
👀EMDR & TF-CBT
Perinatal Care🤰 The practice is owned by Brooke Martin, LCSW.

The Mind and Body Clinic is a small group practice, focused on providing holistic mental health care to the individuals in our community. Provider Specialities Include: Assisting neurodivergent adults/teens, children's therapy, family therapy, substance use, perinatal support, managing symptoms of trauma with EMDR, TF-CBT, and other best practice models. Additionally, our practice tends to be uniq

ue in that we work with other providers in your area to take a holistic approach to your health! For some nutritional support, hormonal support, or gut health may be reasons we work alongside a P*P!

05/15/2026

So important! These are things that we end up, revisiting the people all of the time as adults.

My (Brooke) daughter burns through carbohydrates quickly and crashes and was noticing that this made her feel bad so we talked about if specific foods are kind or not to her in specific moments.

A cute way that we talked to my kids about macros was to burn a paper towel in reference to carbs and see that it’s quick energy when needed, but that it can be gone quickly. We took another paper towel and soaked it in oil and showed them this burned for probably 20-30 minutes vs seconds.

They both after they realize that they may need healthy oils for school days.

05/15/2026

For those who have lived across cultures, communities, or environments — often referred to as Third Culture Kids (TCKs) — identity can be shaped by many different experiences at once. You may carry pieces of different places, relationships, and ways of life with you.

That can bring depth, perspective, and a unique way of moving through the world. It can also take time to make sense of how all of those pieces fit together.

We work with individuals who hold these layered experiences and create space to explore them in a way that feels grounding, meaningful, and fully their own.

You don’t have to narrow your story down to one version of “home.” 🤍

05/14/2026

At The Mind & Body Clinic, we often say that healing happens in relationships — and Christa is one of the first people who helps our clients feel that from the moment they reach out. 🤍

Today for Receptionist Day, we want to celebrate the person behind so much of what keeps our office running smoothly.

The scheduling.
The reminders.
The behind-the-scenes problem solving.
The calm in the chaos.
The warm welcome when someone is nervous walking through our doors for the first time.

The way she somehow keeps all of our brains organized while also caring deeply for every person she interacts with.

She remembers the little things.
She the one who reaches out to clients individually to wish them a happy birthday.
She notices when someone may need extra support, reassurance, or kindness.
Clients often experience her care long before they ever sit in a therapy room.

For many of us, Christa functions as the executive functioning support we didn’t know we needed. She helps hold together the moving pieces so our clinicians can focus fully on caring for clients.

And somehow she also keeps us all fed with really good cake. 🍰

But more than that, she brings warmth, patience, steadiness, and genuine care into this space every single day. A healthy practice is never built by clinicians alone, and we are endlessly grateful for the heart she pours into this clinic and community.

Happy Receptionist Day, Christa.

We appreciate you more than words can say. 🤍

Please help us celebrate Christa!!!

05/13/2026

Permission to Melt Down 🤍

Do you want to avoid meltdowns?
Most people do.

But what if the goal isn’t to avoid them…
What if it’s to understand them?

Meltdowns get a bad wrap.
But at MBC, we believe it’s not the meltdown that’s the problem—
it’s what we do with it.

Taking it out on others? Not okay.
But needing a release? That’s human.

And for some—especially those who are neurodivergent—
this isn’t just emotional… it’s physiological.
No amount of therapy can override a nervous system that needs a release.

When your body goes into fight, flight, or freeze,
cortisol floods your system—and it can take up to 30 minutes to settle.

But your body isn’t working against you.
It was designed with a backup plan:

Movement.
Pressure.
Repetitive input.

These help your body release what it’s holding—
and bring your system back to safety.

If you notice patterns like head hitting, biting, or punching—
your body may be asking for pressure and regulation, not punishment.
We can work with that need, not against it.

✨ So instead of suppressing the meltdown…
what if we gave ourselves permission to release it safely?

Healthy ways to “meltdown” without harming yourself or others:

🎶 Turn up your music and scream-sing/dance it out
Get in your car (windows up) and let your steering wheel hear everything you need to say
(“Dashboard Confessional” knew what they were doing)

🏃‍♀️ Move your body
Run, jump, punch a pillow, shake your arms out, use a punching bag

🤍 Add safe pressure
Firm leg squeezes
Temple tapping
Press your thumbnail into your finger
Chewing gum or using oral input

You’re not “too much.”
Your nervous system just needs a safe way to process what it’s holding.

And that’s something we can learn—together.

— The Mind & Body Clinic

05/13/2026

At The Mind & Body Clinic, we often say that healing happens in relationships — and Christa is one of the first people who helps our clients feel that from the moment they reach out. 🤍
Today for Receptionist Day, we want to celebrate the person behind so much of what keeps our office running smoothly.

The scheduling.
The reminders.
The behind-the-scenes problem solving.
The calm in the chaos.
The warm welcome when someone is nervous walking through our doors for the first time.
The way she somehow keeps all of our brains organized while also caring deeply for every person she interacts with.

She remembers the little things. She reaches out to clients individually to wish them a happy birthday. She notices when someone may need extra support, reassurance, or kindness. Clients often experience her care long before they ever sit in a therapy room.

For many of us, Christa functions as the executive functioning support we didn’t know we needed. She helps hold together the moving pieces so our clinicians can focus fully on caring for clients.

And somehow she also keeps us all fed with really good cake. 🍰

But more than that, she brings warmth, patience, steadiness, and genuine care into this space every single day. A healthy practice is never built by clinicians alone, and we are endlessly grateful for the heart she pours into this clinic and community.

Happy Receptionist Day, Christa. We appreciate you more than words can say. 🤍

05/12/2026

It’s still mental health awareness month and running off the vibes from Mother’s Day, we put together a little post about how a diagnosis can change the trajectory of your motherhood experience! 👩‍🍼 Don’t believe us? Read the post for yourself! And if you have an experience about how a diagnosis has helped you, share it in the comments! Sharing creates awareness and reduces stigmas and helps us mommas to not feel so alone!

05/10/2026

To the moms carrying so much every single day — we see you. 🤍

Motherhood is beautiful and fun and full of moments you never want to forget… but it can also be incredibly hard, stretching, overwhelming, and lonely sometimes too. So much of what moms do goes unseen. The mental load, the sacrifices, the constant giving of yourself, the worrying, the healing, the showing up even when you’re exhausted.

Today, we just want to say thank you.

To the moms doing the hard work to heal and better themselves for their children…
To the single moms carrying the weight of so much on their own…
To the women breaking generational cycles without ever having had a healthy example themselves…
To the moms who feel unseen or unnoticed…
To the women longing for a baby and holding grief and hope at the same time…
And to the women on both sides of adoption, making deeply loving and sacrificial choices for a child’s future…

We see you. And what you’re doing matters more than you know.

Motherhood isn’t about perfection. It’s in the bedtime snuggles, the advocating, the tears, the laughter, the retries, the apologizing, the learning, and the continuing to love through it all.

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at MBC. 🌿
You are deeply appreciated, deeply needed, and deeply loved.

05/08/2026

Not all regulation looks the same.

In our work, we often support individuals whose bodies and minds are taking in a lot at once. Having options for movement, texture, and sensory input can make it easier to stay present, process, and feel more at ease.

Fidgets aren’t distractions— they’re tools.

We’re intentional to create a space where different needs are not only supported, but expected. You’re welcome to use what works for you here! 💚

05/07/2026

Help us in congratulating Kala on officially graduating with her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Evangel University!

Kala was a huge asset to our team here at the Mind and Body Clinic. Since she has completed her degree and practicum she is now going to purse her dream of starting a clinic in her hometown.

Kala will be missed, but we are so excited to see how God uses Kala in and through Purposely Restored Counseling! Go support her by liking and following her business page.

05/05/2026

Healing can feel overwhelming.

Especially when you’re trying to piece together your mental health, physical symptoms, nervous system, hormones, trauma history, nutrition, sleep, and daily functioning through fragmented or partialized care.

During Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to acknowledge something we see every day at The Mind and Body Clinic:

People are exhausted from trying to connect the dots alone.

When care is overly separated into pieces, many individuals are left feeling unheard, misunderstood, or like they have to become their own case manager just to make sense of what’s happening in their body and mind. Mental health impacts physical health. Physical health impacts mental health. Trauma impacts the nervous system. Sleep impacts emotional regulation. Everything is connected.

That’s why we believe healing should not happen in isolation.

We know root-cause healing can feel overwhelming, so our goal is to walk alongside people by helping break things down into manageable, realistic steps instead of expecting them to tackle everything at once. Sometimes healing starts with nervous system regulation. Sometimes it starts with sleep, safety, nutrition, trauma work, understanding neurodiversity, or finally feeling heard by a provider who sees the whole picture.

You deserve care that looks beyond symptoms.
You deserve collaboration instead of fragmentation.
And you deserve support from people willing to walk with you through the process. 🤍

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4121 S Fremont Avenue Suite 152
Springfield, MO
65804

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+14178126850

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http://417mindandbody.com/, https://maps.apple.com/?address=3804+S+Cox+Rd%2C+Springfield%2C+MO++65807%2C+United+States&a

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