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Wellness for the Culture, LLC

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Wellness for the Culture, LLC

Individual and and Group counseling including play therapy, expressive and creative arts, SFBT, CBT

08/06/2025

🚨 We’re Expanding! 🚨
Calling all graduate students, recent grads, & licensed clinicians who want to do good work, especially in communities that have been historically underserved or misunderstood. 💛

📚 Internship Opportunities (Fall 2025 & beyond)
Our interns get:
✨ Weekly supervision by licensed professionals
✨ Observation & client support experience
✨ Private practice operations training
✨ Book/testing stipends & study groups
✨ Community organizing & outreach experience
✨ Trauma-informed, culturally humble care training
✨ Space to implement YOUR ideas in real time

🎯 Trainings We Offer:
• Culturally Humble Care
• Self Care via Self Compassion
• Breaking Cycles in Marginalized Communities
• Preparing for Life as a Therapist After Graduation

🤝 Let’s Connect!
We’d love to:
• Set up internship placement meetings
• Share job openings with your students/alumni
• Collaborate on workshops & trainings

📞 Call/Text: (413) 351-5919
🌐 Learn more: wellnessfortheculture.com

07/31/2025

We don’t do cookie-cutter therapy. We curate individualize care.

Most practices:
– Generic services
– High caseloads, low support
– “Colorblind” or performative cultural competency

WFTC:
– Culturally-informed & community-rooted
– Training ground for new therapists to unlearn harm
– Supervision that doesn’t silence your voice
– Space to be fully human, as a client or clinician!

We’re not here to replicate systems. We’re here to repair what they broke.

🖤 Sound like your people? Come heal with us—or grow with us.

07/30/2025

Our internship program is open for Fall!

Wellness for the Culture is a teaching practice that invests in YOU.

We’re seeking emerging clinicians who:

Want strong supervision & trauma-informed training

Value culturally grounded mental health work
🙌🏽 Believe therapy should be sacred, not sterile

At WFTC, you’ll learn how to lead and organize community wellness!

Apply today to start your journey with us.

07/29/2025

Been in therapy for months or even years but still feel stuck?

You’re not alone, many clients reach a point where they start asking:

– Why am I still holding back?
– Why does this feel like a separate life I live for one hour a week?
– Why am I scrambling for something to talk about every session?

If that sounds familiar, it might be time to ask:

Is this the right therapist for me?
Is this the right time slot for my life and brain?

At Wellness for the Culture, we offer a personalized approach.

We are here to translate your lived experience into growth.

We help you make therapy work outside the room, not just in it.

If you’re ready for therapy that actually meets you where you are, we’re here.

Head to Wellnessfortheculture.com to book a free consultation today.

07/28/2025

📍Now Hiring in Worcester, MA – Join WFTC as a Therapist Who Heals Differently.

Wellness for the Culture isn’t your typical private practice. We don’t just bill hours, we build community.

We’re looking for:
✅Unlicensed & Licensed clinicians
✅ Graduate interns eager to be mentored
✅ People who are passionate about culture, identity, and community healing

Why WFTC?
– Curated caseloads aligned with your passion
– Culturally competent supervision and mentorship
– A teaching practice committed to helping you grow, not just grind
– Trauma-informed, equity-driven, and fully human

🖤 We help helpers heal. We see what you carry. And we create space for you, too.

📩 Email us at hello@wellnessfortheculture.com to learn more.

07/15/2025

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07/11/2025

So here’s the update:

I had planned to charge for the coffee shop event.
Not to get rich, simply just to cover the cost.

But then God did what He always does.

A table (literally)was reserved for 14. At no cost!

At Bean Counter Café on Grove Street in Worcester.
Just for us and just for this.

I’m not charging.
The first 13 women to register are invited to come for free.
Because sometimes God reminds you:

“I didn’t ask you to make it make sense.
I asked you to make room. And now I’ve prepared the table.”

This is for the woman carrying a testimony.
One that’s been buried under life, survival, or silence.

🖤 Reserve your seat. Link in bio.

07/07/2025

Five Years Ago, I Turned On My Camera…

I had no idea that a simple conversation I recorded five years ago would become my most requested keynote, workshop, and client session, year after year. I just knew something was happening. Something needed to be said.

So I sat down, gathered my thoughts and research, and made myself record for an hour each night over four nights. I talked about self-care, the buzzword of 2020, and how the internet made it trendy. But many of us still couldn’t follow through. Not because we didn’t care, but because deep down, we didn’t think we were worth caring for.

My clients were making beautiful self-care plans and then abandoning them. Not out of laziness, but out of shame, guilt, and internalized beliefs that told them they weren’t deserving. So we went deeper. We talked about self-compassion.

Since then, that conversation has grown. It has evolved into something sacred. We now talk about boundaries, advocacy, and priorities, not just as buzzwords but as essential tools for healing. I’ve expanded the framework, deepened the research, and created spaces for people to process and reclaim their worth.

Now, I’m honoring this five-year journey with a special anniversary virtual workshop and book relaunch. Stay tuned for details!

07/03/2025

Hey!! I’m hosting a special event on Thursday, July 24th at Life Garden Café in Worcester called GLEAN. Glean is a guided, faith-rooted mental health workshop centered on storytelling, reflection, and post-trauma restoration.

The framework is built around narrative reframing and resilience after loss—using the story of Ruth as a foundation. It’s designed for folks who are navigating grief, transition, or emotional overwhelm and need a safe space to process.

✨ If you work with faith-based clients who could benefit from a healing-centered gathering that blends spiritual insight with mental wellness, feel free to share!

It’s also a great space for clinicians who want to witness how faith and psychology can work together in community-based healing.

🗓 Thursday, July 24 | 6 PM (Doors at 5:30)
📍 Life Garden Café – 1048 Main St, Worcester, MA
🎟 $30 | Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1448095355189?aff=oddtdtcreator

Let me know if you have any questions or want to collaborate. I’d love to stay connected with others integrating faith + mental health. 🧠💛🙏🏾

06/24/2025

Head over to wellnessfortheculture.com to schedule a consultation!

06/19/2025

Today is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

For over 400 years, Black communities have carried the weight of systemic oppression, physically, emotionally, and generationally. And yet, they continue to rise. To resist. To heal. Juneteenth is not only a historical marker of freedom; it is a reflection of the ongoing journey toward psychological liberation and collective wellness.

This is more than a celebration.
It is a moment to remember how trauma can be delayed, silenced, and inherited and how healing must be intentional and communal.

Let this day be a reminder:
🖤 Black history is American history
🖤 Mental health is justice work
🖤 Freedom must include emotional and spiritual liberation

Juneteenth calls us not just to commemorate but to continue the work of healing, equity, and restoration. Don’t let anyone diminish its meaning. Our joy, rest, and resistance are revolutionary.

06/15/2025

To the many pictures we see of our fathers… today we honor every version. Every frame. Every memory. Happy Father’s Day from Wellness for the Culture.

To the strong, silent types. The ones who lead by example, who show up even when they don’t have the words. We see your presence. We honor your power.

To the healing fathers. The ones breaking cycles and doing the inner work so their children never have to carry what they did. Your courage changes everything.

To the teaching fathers. Whether you’re showing them how to ride a bike or how to stand tall in this world, you are raising legacy, not just children.

To the soft, nurturing fathers. The ones changing diapers, braiding hair, and whispering prayers over sleeping babies. Your care is strength.

To the fathers in therapy. The ones rewriting the story in real time. You are proof that vulnerability is leadership.

To the fathers we miss. The ones whose love still lingers in our lives, in our laughter, in our lessons. Today, we honor your memory.

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1365 Main Street
Springfield, MA
01103

Opening Hours

Monday	12pm - 7pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm

Telephone

+14133515919

Website

http://Wellnessfortheculture.com/

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Whitney Dodds is the founder of Wellness for the Culture, a mental health practice in Springfield, Ma. Whitney is passionate about the well-being of people; While completing the licensing process, she is currently reaching people through the book club, writing, and speaking. Her desire to begin building her practice is derived from witnessing the cultural needs of her community. Whitney's mission is to motivate, uplift, and educate people through mental health services and education. Her approach is tailor made to encourage engagement, within her community, all the while dismantling the cultural stigma that hinders black and brown people from receiving treatment.