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Healing in Motion: Mental Health Awareness
This Mental Health Awareness Month, Relevé Counseling partnered with Evolve Dance Company to explore a simple but meaningful idea: healing can be expressed in more than one way. Sometimes healing happens through words. Sometimes it happens in quiet moments of reflection. Sometimes it happens in a therapy office, through honest conversation and the courage to be vulnerable. And sometimes, it can be felt through movement. Throughout this series, dancers from Evolve Dance Compan

Alex de Leon
May 283 min read


Switching Careers: From Culinary Chef to Therapist
Alex originally wanted to be a chef and enrolled in culinary school. But, when he realized it wasn’t for him, he knew therapy was the...

Alex de Leon
Aug 1, 20221 min read


Making An Impact: Alex Helps a High School Student Following the 2008 NIU Shooting
One of Alex’s most crucial moments of his career as a therapist came while he was studying at Northern Illinois University. One of his...

Alex de Leon
Jul 28, 20221 min read


Mental Health Therapy is a Judgment Free Zone
Being judged is one of the biggest reasons people choose not to get mental health therapy. “One of the most important things for me in a...

Alex de Leon
Jul 26, 20221 min read


One Simple Way To Improve Your Mental Health
It's the little things that can go a long way. One significant gesture will not be the difference for most things in life. Solutions to...

Alex de Leon
Jul 20, 20221 min read


In The News: Relevé Counseling Spoke With Eyewitness News On National Mental Health Crisis Hotline
A potentially life-saving change is here. Similar to 911, someone who is in desperate need of help now just has to call 988. Everyone...

Alex de Leon
Jul 19, 20221 min read
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