About
Neighborhood Youth and Family Counseling has been serving the Richardson community for decades. In fact, 2009 marks our 30th year of service. We started out as an agency addressing the needs of the community’s youth population, providing a Juvenile First Offender’s Program, Community Service Program, and groups for kids struggling with eating disorders and other issues. Through the years, the agency implemented its Victims’ Assistance Program to provide in-depth advocacy and professional counseling to victims of violent crime and other traumatic events. NYFC continues serving these groups along with individual and family counseling for the community in general.
We established our blog in order to strengthen our connection to the community we serve and share the spirit of the agency with the public. With our blogs we hope to provide the public with some useful information along with inspiring at least one chuckle from our readers.
Many of our blogs fall under that category “Dames of the Roundtable Discussions” and offer a down-to-earth (or downright surprising) banter of sorts between NYFC staff members — usually had during lunch. With these blogs, we hope to achive the goals mentioned above while shaking off the stigma attached to mental health providers. We’re all just people struggling to keep our sanity during the every day chaos presented to us. But when it comes to stress, grief, and emotional and relationship malfunctions, professional counselors simply have more tools in their toolbox than the rest of us (or they can show us how to use more effectively the ones we already have).