“The holiday season is meant to be filled with joy, connection and celebration of rituals,” Mandy Doria writes. “Many people, however, are starkly reminded of their grief this time of year and of whom—or what—they have lost.”
Mandy Doria
Mandy Doria, MS, LPC, NCC, RYT-200 is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Department of Psychiatry. She is a therapist in the Stress, Trauma, Adversity, Research and Treatment (START) Center with 12 years of experience providing mental health care to children and adults in a variety of community, school, home, and college settings. In addition to CBT, DBT and ACT, Doria incorporates mindfulness and trauma-informed mindful movement and somatic approaches into her therapeutic work and practices from a person-centered, relational and strengths-based framework. She directs the Past the Pandemic program, which has supported the healthcare workforce since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has presented extensively on mental health education, suicide prevention, grief, mindfulness, stress management and burnout.