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Art for Mental Health Therapy | Alaska Insight

Season 2022 Episode 25 | 26m 30s

Understanding and discussing the complexities of mental health and wellbeing isn’t easy. Finding ways to open up about who we are and what we struggle with is critical to getting help. Lori Townsend discusses mental wellness with Miss Alaska’s Outstanding Teen Sycely Wheeles and Parinita Shetty, a school based mental health clinician for VOA Alaska.

Aired: 04/28/22
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