The Lupine Wellness Center at A-State

12/05/2025

Come see us tomorrow at the Arkansas State University Museum for Community Mental Health Day!

And for what we realllly think is our last parter…

Community Mental Health Day Community Partner Spotlight: The Lupine Wellness Center at A-State 🐺

We are so grateful to welcome the Lupine Wellness Center to this year’s Community Mental Health Day!

The Lupine Wellness Center is an integrated service, training, and research center committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based, and accessible mental health counseling for the NEA community and A-State community. Their team offers confidential, comprehensive outpatient services- including individual counseling, couples and family therapy, play therapy, and group counseling as well as academic interventions, behavioral parent training, psychoeducation, workshops, and consultation.
They help people of all ages navigating emotional struggles, mental health struggles, trauma, relationship concerns, academic stress, identity exploration, overall personal growth, and more.

Aligned with the mission of A-State’s Department of Psychology and Counseling, Lupine serves as a training home for graduate students preparing to become skilled, compassionate professional mental health counselors and school psychologists. Their clinicians work under close supervision from faculty, blending strong clinical training with a deep commitment to service, community, and holistic wellness across the lifespan.

Come see them Saturday, December 6th at the Arkansas State University Museum!

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12/05/2025

Check out our latest newsletter!

Learn about what's going on at The RESTORE Hub, A-State HOWL Transition Program, A-State ATLAS Transition Program, and The Lupine Wellness Center at A-State in this months newsletter @ https://t.e2ma.net/webview/m5hzdx/93663eb064c477824aeb71f3ce1734c7

12/02/2025

This help us empower young graduate-level clinicians, A-State and the greater community of Northeast Arkansas!!

Your generous donations help provide essential services, educational opportunities, job training, and community integration for individuals who might not be able to seek out mental health services elsewhere due to affordability.

To make monetary donations to the Lupine Wellness Center, please visit: https://www.astate.edu/give/give-now.html and choose the A-State fund from the drop-down menu.

Please MAKE SURE that in the comments section directly below the drop-down menu you specify which program you want the funds to be donated to for example: "I would like to give to Lupine Wellness Center."

Donations made in this manner will be tax deductible.

12/02/2025

Henry Nguyen is a clinical mental health counseling intern and has worked at the Lupine Wellness Center since Fall of 2025. He works with children, college students and adults.

"My clinical approaches are person-centered, play therapy, Jungian, and multicultural counseling," said Nguyen.

11/29/2025

LaShundra Merriweather is a third-year clinical mental health counseling student, counselor in training, and a clinical mental health counseling and play therapy intern. She works with children, adolescents, college students, and adults. She began providing services at Lupine in the spring semester of 2025.

Her clinical interest is play therapy with adults who have a history of trauma in childhood. "My theoretical orientation is Adlerian through and through! I explore the holistic lifespan and style to better understand underlying meanings and beliefs that may be influencing present behaviors or impacting current issues of concern," noted LaShundra. "I pull from many theories to increase opportunities for insightfulness that may lead to changes in thoughts, perspectives, and/or behaviors. This theoretical perspective also drives the power of the play agent that is used in play therapy sessions with children, adolescents, college students, and adults as well."

11/27/2025

Neely Boyd is a clinical mental health counseling intern at the Lupine Wellness Center. She works with individuals of all ages—from children and adolescents to college students, adults, and families.

"I am passionate about creating a safe, collaborative environment where clients can address challenges and work toward their goals. My clinical experience has a special focus on helping children and adolescent survivors of abuse heal and thrive," said Boyd. "My practice incorporates a trauma-informed lens and draws from therapeutic approaches such as Play Therapy, Relational-Cultural Therapy, Creative Counseling, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I am trained in Play Therapy, Level 1 Animal Assisted Play Therapy (AAPT), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)." Boyd has been an intern at the Lupine Wellness Center since Summer of 2025.

11/25/2025

Frank Shaw Jr. is a third-year clinical mental health counseling intern. He works with children, college students, and individual adults. Shaw recently became an intern during summer 2025 when he became interested in the play therapy certificate program.

"My clinical interests are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy," said Shaw.

11/23/2025

Kayla Morris is a third-year intern in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. She serves a wide range of clients, including children, pre-teens, college students, and the geriatric population, with a concentration on play therapy.

"I view counseling as a collaborative process in which I work closely with each client to build rapport, identify and address core issues, set meaningful goals, and take steps to achieve positive change," said Morris. "While my main approach is person-centered and child centered, I also integrate techniques from other therapeutic models, including cognitive behavioral therapy, to suit each client’s unique needs. In addition to my clinical work, I am an active member of the Chi Sigma Iota Beta Rho Chapter and serve on the awards Committee."

11/20/2025

Lupine Clinician Highlight! A-State students, faulty, staff and faculty and staffs immediate family receive free services at Lupine., and the Northeast Arkansas Community can see a therapist on a sliding scale based on income and most importantly - no insurance is required!

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11/13/2025

It's World Kindness Day!💜

World Kindness Day is an annual global celebration on November 13 that promotes kindness, empathy, and goodwill.

It serves as a reminder of the power of kindness to create positive change by encouraging individuals to perform acts of kindness for others and themselves. The day was established in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement.

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11/12/2025

There will be a commodity distribution for Crittenden County residents in West Memphis today, starting at 9:00 a.m. and ending at 11:00 a.m. at the VFW Post 5225, located at 406 South Avalon St.