Dhyana Kearly

Guidance, compassion and understanding.

Guidance, compassion and understanding.

New Patient Comment – 7/22

Thank you for your guidance, compassion and understanding. Your encouragement is leading to my growth and understanding about human behavior. These giant steps of experiencing and continuing to work on accepting life and its challenges have me appreciating communication and accepting others in a caring and compassionate way. I don’t always have the words to express my feelings and I’m very grateful that you are her for me. There is much love, compassion and caring in our work together.

New study looks at the impact stress can have on aging and disease

New study looks at the impact stress can have on aging and disease

Stress — in the form of traumatic events, job strain, everyday stressors and discrimination — accelerates aging of the immune system, potentially increasing a person’s risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and illness from infections such as COVID-19, according to a new USC study.

Research looks at the toll PTSD has on relationships

Research looks at the toll PTSD has on relationships

Study highlight the importance of understanding associations between PTSD and interpersonal functioning among firefighters. PTSD can affect people who personally experience the traumatic event, those who witness the event, or those who pick up the pieces afterwards, such as emergency workers and law enforcement officers.

Speaker Aims to Improve Mental Health Access for Older Adults

Speaker Aims to Improve Mental Health Access for Older Adults

An estimated one in four older adults experiences a mental health condition, including depression, anxiety and substance use disorder, and individuals age 85 or older had the highest suicide rate in 2020, according to the committee. The opioid epidemic has also severely burdened older Americans. Almost 80,000 older adults died from an opioid overdose between 1999 and 2019.

Stress as a risk factor in older adults can be mitigated with intervention

Stress as a risk factor in older adults can be mitigated with intervention

Researchers found, on average, participants who reported more stress in their lives experienced a steeper decline in functional health over three years, and that link between stress and functional health decline was stronger for chronologically older participants.

However, subjective age seemed to provide a protective buffer. Among people who felt younger than their chronological age, the link between stress and declines in functional health was weaker. That protective effect was strongest among the oldest participants.