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An animal hospital is to give free yearly check-ups to therapy animals at a centre for the disabled. WindReach came to the agreement with CedarTree Vets after Lucy Richardson, the head veterinarian, gave the charity’s equine herd their annual vaccina...

A “therapy in a box” service created to teach people how to take charge of their mental health is to be launched next month. Adriene Berkeley, a psychologist and neuroscientist, said she had seen a lot of people who were able to conceal their problem...

Bermuda has its first counselling service for males. Fitzgerald Williams, Tyrone McHardy and Ernest Peets Jr opened Masc in February. Having worked as probation officers, the trio understood the issues men faced and were certain many wanted to talk b...

Bermuda has been asked to join an international virtual conference to mark the one year anniversary of the murder of a Black man by a policeman in the US state of Minnesota. Racial Reflections, Remembrances and Reckoning will feature a panel of e...

A charity for people with disabilities has shifted its education and therapy programmes in line with the Government stay-at-home order. WindReach Bermuda sent remote learning packages to people enrolled in its life skills, therapeutic riding and adul...

The leader of a charity for struggling families yesterday stressed the need to have reliable mental health resources as the island entered a full year handling the coronavirus pandemic. Sandy De Silva, the executive director of The Family Centre, sai...

Jeneba O’Connor has diverse passions, teaching, yoga and counselling. Exactly a year ago she brought her passions together into Metanoia Counseling and Yoga Services. She offers traditional talk and behavioural therapy, but also helps her clients wi...

A virtual therapy programme for young people set up in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis could become a permanent fixture, its creators have said. Solstice, a psychological and psychiatric treatment centre, developed the Zoom-based Connect Virtual prog...

Salintae Tuzo-Smith’s counselling business Metanoia Power came out of a very bad time in her life. Back in 2016, she was contemplating whether to commit suicide or continue to live. “I had a lot of health problems,” the 32-year old said. Doctors d...

Have you ever experienced love at first sight where suddenly, like a thunderbolt, it strikes you? The whole world disappears for a moment. Your heart freezes and then begins to knock fast and loud. Your inner voice tells you “this is yours” and you n...

After years of therapy, it took three words to give Rolisa Camille the power she needed: I am enough. She taped the sentence to her mirror three years ago, determined it would make a difference; she’s now offering the “life-changing” therapy to the i...

As a child, Andie Holman loved sports but when puberty hit, all the fun went away. Her “enormous boobs” were the problem. By the time she was 13, she was wearing “granny bras”, huge contraptions that did not give her the support she needed. She end...