Team of women on frontlines treating mental health issues refused to shutdown early on in pandemic – WLWT Cincinnati

Positive messages of hope and healing line the walls at the Lindner Center for Hope, but it's this team of women with the center's Mindful Transitions Adult Partial Hospitalization Program who are helping people struggling with their mental health to see that light at the end of the tunnel. "People's routines are disrupted. People are lonely, and not having the kind of contact that they typically have," said medical director Dr. Lorie Walter.Walter's team treats patients for 10 to 15 days, six hours per day teaching essential skills to cope with mental illness. This time last year, in the midst of the unknown, she was determined to keep the doors open."Initially it was very scary because we didn't know how we were going to continue to operate when the shutdown first happened," Walter said.Her team was on board to continue serving hundreds of patients, face-to-face.The ladies not only wear their girl power on their sleeves, but they remind each other of it through positive emails each day."Negativity can be really infectious, but positivity and gratitude can be really infectious as well," Walter said.

Positive messages of hope and healing line the walls at the Lindner Center for Hope, but it's this team of women with the center's Mindful Transitions Adult Partial Hospitalization Program who are helping people struggling with their mental health to see that light at the end of the tunnel.

"People's routines are disrupted. People are lonely, and not having the kind of contact that they typically have," said medical director Dr. Lorie Walter.

Walter's team treats patients for 10 to 15 days, six hours per day teaching essential skills to cope with mental illness.

This time last year, in the midst of the unknown, she was determined to keep the doors open.

"Initially it was very scary because we didn't know how we were going to continue to operate when the shutdown first happened," Walter said.

Her team was on board to continue serving hundreds of patients, face-to-face.

The ladies not only wear their girl power on their sleeves, but they remind each other of it through positive emails each day.

"Negativity can be really infectious, but positivity and gratitude can be really infectious as well," Walter said.

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