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What Is Pharmacogenomic Testing?
Pharmacogenomic testing is a simple, one-time cheek swab that looks at your genes to help your provider understand how your body processes medications. This information can help guide decisions about which medications may work best for you and which ones may cause unwanted side effects.
How Does It Work?
Your genes play a role in how quickly or slowly your body breaks down certain medications. Based on your results, you may be identified as a:
- Normal metabolizer: Medications work as expected at standard doses.
- Poor metabolizer: Medications may build up in your system, increasing the risk of side effects.
- Rapid metabolizer: Medications may be cleared too quickly, reducing their effectiveness.
Who Should Consider This Test?
Pharmacogenomic testing may be a good option if you have:
- Tried multiple medications without adequate improvement.
- Experienced significant or unusual side effects from medications.
- Questions about why certain medications are not working as expected.
WHAT IS HEALING THROUGH POETRY GROUP?
This poetry group experience uses the written and spoken word — reading, writing, and sharing poetry — to help individuals process emotions, build self-awareness, and work toward measurable therapeutic goals.
In this group, poetry becomes the bridge between what you feel and what you can finally say out loud.
Each session is grounded in Mazza's tripartite model — a framework with over 40 years of clinical evidence — combining:
- Receptive/Prescriptive: Reading and responding to curated poems and literature
- Expressive/Creative: Writing original pieces using guided clinical prompts
- Symbolic/Ceremonial: Sharing your work and receiving affirmation within a safe therapeutic container
The result is a group experience unlike anything else in the DMV area.
What is this Group For?
This group is designed for adults who:
- Are experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, or trauma and want a creative path through it
- Have tried traditional talk therapy and are looking for something that goes deeper
- Love writing, journaling, or poetry and want to use it therapeutically
- Are navigating a major life transition and need a structured, supported space to process it
- Feel more comfortable expressing themselves through writing than through verbal conversation
- Want the benefits of group therapy with a uniquely creative, culturally responsive approach
This group is especially welcoming of Black women, women of color, and individuals in healing professions seeking a space of their own.
About Your Facilitator
Stephanie Anyaoha brings a rare combination of clinical expertise, lived experience, and artistic mastery to this work. Her path to becoming a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP-BC) is built on 15 years of dedication to healthcare and 3 years of focused psychiatric practice, serving adults across Maryland. As a published author of Reflections of a Hopeful Romantic and Reflections of a Woman of Faith and a spoken word artist with over 20 years of experience, she understands what it means to heal through language, not just talk about it.
In this group, you will not just have a clinician. You will have someone who has sat where you are sitting — pen in hand, searching for the right words and found her way through.
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