CHICAGO, April 4, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Clarity Clinic is proud to announce the launch of its new group therapy program, Healthy Connections.
This group is designed for adults who are seeking support for various mental health concerns. Clarity Clinic understands that relationships can be overwhelming, which is why the Healthy Connections Group aims to create a safe, comforting space for individuals to be able to truly connect with others and gain valuable skills for improving their overall mental well-being. People of all types of backgrounds will be able to share their stories and may be able to identify with what others are going through as well. Healthy Connections also offers multiple benefits, including reduced feelings of loneliness, increased self-esteem, improved communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to identify healthy versus unhealthy behaviors in relationships, and learning how to set and enforce boundaries.
The group will be facilitated by an experienced Clarity Clinic professional, Carol Briggs, LPC, NCC. Carol states, "My hope is that this group will provide a safe and supportive space for members to feel heard and validated in their relationship concerns while also learning skills to increase self-worth, communicate needs effectively, and gain awareness of the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences that influence unhealthy patterns or disconnection in relationships." The therapy approaches that will be used within this group include person-centered, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Clarity Clinic offers leading psychiatry and therapy services with locations throughout Chicagoland, Illinois, and Northwest Indiana. Clarity Clinic is redefining mental health care through a leading network of mental health providers, who thoughtfully guide the whole person on their journey to find clarity and mental wellness by providing exceptional psychiatric and therapeutic care. In-person and online psychiatry and therapy appointments can be scheduled online.
Gb Sciences is focusing considerable resources on bringing its lead Parkinson's disease formulations to the clinic with promising results; plus, new data validating the efficacy of their novel anxiety formulations and demonstrating the improved stability of their oral nanoparticle-encapsulated chronic pain formulations add value to their drug development pipeline.
"Gb Sciences is focusing considerable resources on bringing our lead Parkinson's disease formulations to the clinic with promising results already obtained during the formulation of Oral Dissolving Tablets containing our active ingredients for use in human clinical trials," said Dr. Andrea Small-Howard, President, Chief Science Officer, and Director of Gb Sciences. "We have new data validating the efficacy of our novel anxiety formulations in an animal model, as well as new data demonstrating the improved stability of our oral nanoparticle-encapsulated chronic pain formulations based on newly-adopted manufacturing control processes."
The full article entitled "Unlocking the Therapeutic Potential of Plant-Inspired Minimum Essential Mixtures" also provides some context for their recent drug development successes by discussing Gb Sciences' evolution from a cannabis company to a plant-inspired biopharmaceutical company and what makes their drug development approach truly unique. With conventional drug discovery efforts failing to deliver on some critical medical needs, such as non-opioid treatments for chronic pain, there may be value in exploring plants associated with traditional medicines to discover new drug molecules and simplified mixtures. Gb Sciences is connecting plant-based medicine with modern in silico drug discovery tools, leveraging a unique AI-enabled platform to mine plant species and compounds to uncover minimum essential mixtures of molecules with therapeutic benefits and reduced side effect profiles.
Gb Sciences, Inc. is a plant-inspired, biopharmaceutical research and development company creating patented, disease-targeted formulations of cannabis- and other plant-inspired therapeutic mixtures for the prescription drug market through its Canadian subsidiary, GbS Global Biopharma, Inc. The 'plant-inspired' active ingredients in its therapeutic mixtures are synthetic homologues identical to the original plant compounds but produced under current Good Manufacturing Practices. Gb Sciences' intellectual property portfolio contains six issued U.S. and three issued foreign patents, as well as 17 U.S. and 51 foreign patent-pending applications. In its drug development pipeline, Gb Sciences has five preclinical phase product development programs. Gb Sciences' lead program for Parkinson's disease is being prepared for a first-in-human clinical trial. Gb Sciences' formulations for chronic pain, anxiety, and depression are currently in preclinical animal studies with researchers at the National Research Council Canada. The company also received positive preclinical proof-of-concept data supporting its complex mixtures for the treatment of Cytokine Release Syndrome related to COVID-19, and its lead candidates will be optimized based on late-stage preclinical studies at Michigan State University. Gb Sciences' productive research and development network includes distinguished universities, hospitals, and Contract Research Organizations. To learn more, visit www.gbsciences.com.
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