Lamya K Broussard Psychotherapy Practice

05/22/2026

Mental Health Awareness plays an important role in violence prevention, early intervention and in reducing stigma. When we show up for our people in unconventional ways, we are being culturally responsive. When we provide strength and empathy - community members feel understood, supported and accepted.

At Broad and Olney, we educate and engage with compassionate care. We create pathways and access to resources. We operate through a trauma-informed lens and lead with love, because we are handling God's personal property (lives and souls).

Our people are often faced with incomprehensive and unimaginable obstacles, systemic oppression, neglect, disappointment, and historic unaddressed pain and suffering; so we handle their lives with care, especially those that cross our paths. We are always retooling for greater effectiveness and impact by honoring mental health and wellbeing.

We are also honoring our veterans as they serve with us on this Memorial Day weekend. Together, we are setting the stage for a summer of Philadelphia 250th anniversary celebrations by first looking introspectively.

Lamya K Broussard Psychotherapy Practice

05/06/2026

In March, I facilitated a Courageous Healing Circle on "Wellness Warriors & Compassion Carriers" with our diverse and beloved neighborHOOD. As we know healing and wellness is needed for all of humanity as suffering is universal.

Using a culturally responsive approach, we focused on how our attachment styles and experiences with disrupted relationships can impact our ability to connect and essentially our window of tolerance for coping.

The lower our tolerance level, the more at risk we are to experiencing high levels of compassion and emotion fatigue. Our limbic, also known as our emotional brain, begins to associate and store these relationship experiences that can then show up through our mind-body connection. Subsequently, we may find ourselves easily activated by unhealthy relationship patterns and/or mispercieving healthy relationships.

Therefore, learning to build our emotional capacity, emotional intelligence and emotional self regulation is essential to helping us become Wellness Warriors and Compassion Carriers.

It's always such a blessing to be apart of my commnity's wellness journey. Also, I appreciated having a volunteer assist me with this workshop and translation support for some of our non English speaking community members.

03/24/2026

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Certified Trauma Informed Senior Grief Clinician who support students grieving, this is one of the best grief informed approaches to processing grief and loss that I've seen.

It highlights anticipatory grief with a family member suffering from a terminal illness. Also, it debunks and destigmatizes talking about death in our society and especially with our young children.

These kind of beautifully complex conversations, especially intergenerationally, models healing and the importance and power of normalizing grief. It helps set a child on a healthy life trajectory as it relates to coping with grief throughout their life.

It makes me a very proud and hopeful Social Worker to see this kind of trauma and grief informed work continue🩵

02/08/2026

Remembering & honoring Martin Luther King Jr. last month with our beloved Broad & Olney Family.

As service to my community, I continue to provide a holistic care approach every Saturday, that includes mental health and wellness support.

This day, I provided therapeutic sensory play for adults that explored our attachment styles and procesed our interpersonal conflict patterns & disruptive relationships.

When we're able to seek healing at an individual level we can then build healthy and healing in our communities.

02/08/2026

Martin Luther King Jr. community service programs last month.
As Resident Psychotherapist at Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, we joined the city of Philadelphia MLK Day of service with Global Citizens 365.
We provided love letter writing for our refugees, immigrants and asylee seekers and made care packages them.
Additionally I facilitated Courageous Healing Circles for the community members either coping with anticipatory grief and immigrant loss, members supporting those at risk of deportation or individuals coping with personal losses seeking emotional support.
As some released tensions and fears through tears, all were courageous in showing up for themselves and greatly appreciated the safe healing space to be seen, heard and supported. Also, they looked forward to receiving the mental health wellness take away messages to reflect on as needed.

01/18/2026

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy, I look forward to providing my clinical services in a Courageous Healing Circle for the community.

In partnership and as Resident Psychotherapist with Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, we'll continue to be culturally responsive in standing and supporting the wellness of our immigrants, refugees and asylees. We're also inviting their neighbors, friends, family and other concerned individuals & citizens impacted, to join the circle to take a pause, recharge, retool and engage in therapeutic self-care.

01/18/2026

It's always such a joy for me to provide my services to my communities most in need and impacted.
In my practice, providing culturally responsive and practical coping skill building is key during our time of great political instability, as our nervous system is keeping score...
This past Friday in collaboration with Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, I held a Courageous Healing Circle. Participants learned and experienced how to reset and regulate our vagus nerve fight, fright and freeze reactions to our stress.
This was practiced through somatic based coping skills to help move our pain, stress, grief and trauma trapped in our bodies. Such skills included body orienting, scannning, grounding breathwork and bilateral stiumulating lotion techiniques they can use anywhere and time.
I'm also so appreciative for our haitian creole and spanish speaking translators who ensured healing was accessible to all. Regardless of our native tongue, pain is universal and yearns for the same language of healing and wellness.

01/09/2026

12/26/2025

Engaging my Broad & Olney community members during our Holiday Connections Cafe' last Saturday.

We remembered our loved one's we've lost and other non death losses many of us are individually and collectively grieving & coping with during the holidays.

Sacred healing space space was created to allow people to express their special remarks through "a call" to their loss loved one, while engaging their five senses for grounding.

Memorial take aways was also provided to remind us we're connected to our loved one and one another as a community ❤️ 💚🤍

12/15/2025

During this holiday season, remember that grieving makes us human as it is a normal response to loss. We often cope with its multi layered impacts the best we can and with the coping tools we have available to us.

Our Holiday Connections Cafe is a healing space where we'll utilize the 3R's of grief as a tool to help us process our grief from our significant losses.

Therapeutic space to remember and memorialize our loved one's and coping tips & take aways will also be available. This is support for us as we adjust to our new normal without our loved ones, within our disconnected relationships and while holding our anticipatory grief of the unknown many are experiencing in our city & nation.