Holistic Treatment

Art Therapy provides our clients with a chance to creatively express their emotions when pain, traumas and mental health struggles can be difficult to put into words. Art therapy engages a client through the use of collage, painting, drawing, writing and sculpture as well as other creative media to offer a pathway of accessing core feelings of self and as an outlet for creative self-expression and nervous system regulation.

One way to ease into the treatment environment is with massage. Massage is also a gentle way to experience body awareness. Massage has many benefits of healing and relaxation. It helps release toxins stored up in the muscle and fat tissue and helps reduce anxiety and cravings. Massage can also help ease the body through post-acute withdrawal symptoms through detoxification especially beneficial for those in recovery from substance use. Our licensed massage therapists have years of experience working with individuals who have trauma, pain and touch sensitivities.

This group led by Courtney Parkyn assists clients in achieving more focus, relaxation, peace of mind and overall well-being. Her weekly groups focus on creating a deeper connection with one’s true self. During this group, client’s learn about the practice of mindfulness and mindful awareness. Offering various meditation techniques, clients learn to identify their thoughts, emotions and body sensations with the goal of learning to manage these sensations that arise in the body and how to self-regulate them. These meditations may also help increase energy, compassion, and patience. This group provides a non-judgemental space of identifying and accepting all that arises in the body and mind. 

Music Therapy group is a clinically driven intervention of using musical tools to increase introspection and interpersonal skills of understanding one’s thoughts, emotions and sensations in the body and mind. Different forms of music instruments and music making techniques are used to gain a better understanding of a client’s representation of self. Clients also learn how music can be a tool for emotional regulation and relaxation. 

Led by our Registered Dietician Nutritionist, this group offers clients a set of learning experiences around understanding and hopefully adopting a nutritional way of eating, supplementing and incorporating other-nutrition-related behaviors into their daily routines.  Nutrition is an integral part of mental health and substance abuse recovery and to living a healthy and balanced life. This is a voluntary group with researched based education as well as opportunities for open discussion and questions regarding nutrition, diet and trend topics.