Wellness Corner
Wellness Corner – October 15, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, Fall is here! The landscape around us is beginning to take on a palette of colors: gold, orange, rust, red and brown. We are in a time of transition with days getting shorter, wetter and cooler. The change outside can bring about changes...
Wellness Corner – September 10, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, In this month’s wellness corner, we’re exploring tools to access mental health support beyond the wellness service. Finding the care that fits your needs can be tough and worth it. Need help now? Check out one of these 24/7 resources: UW...
Wellness Corner – July 23, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, A warm welcome to all new residents, fellows, partners, and families to UW Medicine and to a beautiful Seattle summer! Congratulations on reaching a significant milestone! As you settle into a rhythm and many things new, take a moment to...
Wellness Corner – May 14, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, When we experience our lives as one moment unfolding into the next, we can lose sight of where we began and what’s shifted along the way. A session with the GME Wellness Service can be an opportunity to slow down and connect those moments...
Wellness Corner – April 9, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, As spring begins to blossom around us the gentle warmth of the sun begins to melt away the last traces of winter. We begin to see a verdant landscape bursting forth with the variant hues of spring. We now find ourselves standing at the...
Wellness Corner – March 12, 2024
Dear Wellness Community, The month of March marks the end of the shorter, darker and colder days of winter and brings with it a sense of renewal and new beginnings. It is a time of transition: a goodbye as well as a Hello. A time to plant seeds, tend to them and...
Dipti Chrastka, LMFT
Director, GME Wellness Service
Email: diptic@uw.edu
Howard Schafer, LMFT
Mental Health Counselor
Email: hischa5@uw.edu
Amy Wheat, LMHC
Mental Health Counselor
Email: amywheat@uw.edu