What to expect in a session:

Integrated Art Psychotherapy offers a close, supportive, one-to-one relationship to build a deeper safe space for our clients to express and explore their healing journey. Our method helps people resolve conflicts, improve interpersonal skills, manage problematic behaviors, reduce stress, & achieve personal insight. Integrated Art Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for those experiencing developmental, medical, educational, social and psychological impairment. Individuals who would benefit: trauma survivors, persons with adverse physical health conditions such as cancer, traumatic brain injury, and other health disability; and persons with autism, dementia, depression, and other disorders.

FOR CHILDREN: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT): A conjoint child/parent psychotherapy approach for those experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties related to traumatic life events. It is a components-based treatment model that incorporates trauma-sensitive interventions with cognitive behavioral, family, and humanistic principles and techniques. TF-CBT helps to learn new skills, process thoughts and feelings related to traumatic life events; manage and resolve distressing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related traumatic life events; and enhance safety, growth, parenting skills, family communication, address post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, externalizing behaviors, sexualized behaviors, feelings of shame, and mistrust.

Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a body-oriented therapeutic model applied in multiple professions and professional settings—psychotherapy, medicine, coaching, teaching, and physical therapy—for healing trauma and other stress disorders. It is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics and has been clinically applied for more than four decades. It is the life’s work of Dr. Peter A. Levine.

The SE approach releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma. It offers a framework to assess where a person is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states. SE provides effective skills appropriate to a variety of healing professions including mental health, medicine, physical and occupational therapies, bodywork, addiction treatment, first response, education, and others.

Trauma may begin as acute stress from a perceived life-threat or as the end product of cumulative stress. Both types of stress can seriously impair a person’s ability to function with resilience and ease. Trauma may result from a wide variety of stressors such as accidents, invasive medical procedures, sexual or physical assault, emotional abuse, neglect, war, natural disasters, loss, birth trauma, or the corrosive stressors of ongoing fear and conflict.

The Somatic Experiencing approach facilitates the completion of self-protective motor responses and the release of thwarted survival energy bound in the body, thus addressing the root cause of trauma symptoms. This is approached by gently guiding clients to develop increasing tolerance for difficult bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.

Dr. Levine was inspired to study stress on the animal nervous system when he realized that animals are constantly under threat of death, yet show no symptoms of trauma. What he discovered was that trauma has to do with the third survival response to perceived life threat, which is freeze. When fight and flight are not options, we freeze and immobilize, like “playing dead.” This makes us less of a target. However, this reaction is time-sensitive, in other words, it needs to run its course, and the massive energy that was prepared for fight or flight gets discharged, through shakes and trembling. If the immobility phase doesn’t complete, then that charge stays trapped, and, from the body’s perspective, it is still under threat. The Somatic Experiencing method works to release this stored energy and turn off this threat alarm that causes severe dysregulation and dissociation. SE helps people understand this body response to trauma and work through a “body first” approach to healing.

Individuals who would benefit: trauma survivors, persons with adverse physical health conditions such as cancer, traumatic brain injury, and other health disability; and persons with anxiety, depression, and other disorders.

Ecotherapy, also known as nature therapy or green therapy, is the applied practice of the emergent field of ecopsychology, which was developed by Theodore Roszak. Ecotherapy, in many cases, stems from the belief that people are part of the web of life and that our psyches are not isolated or separate from our environment. Ecopsychology is informed by systems theory and provides individuals with an opportunity to explore their relationship with nature—an area that may be overlooked in many other types of psychotherapy. While some professionals teach and practice ecopsychology exclusively, other mental health practitioners incorporate aspects of ecotherapy into their existing practices.

Connection with the earth and its systems are at the core of ecotherapy. Many clinicians who practice ecotherapy believe that the earth has a self-righting capacity which operates through complex systems of integrated balance, and that if people can harmonize with these systems, they may experience improved mental health. Personal well-being and planetary well-being, as proposed in many tenets of ecotherapy, are not separate from each other. People’s lives are therefore seen as part of a greater system of interaction.

Ecotherapy is based on the idea that people are connected to and impacted by the natural environment.

Individuals who would benefit: Individuals who would benefit from Ecotherapy are those who may be looking to reconnect with their history of nature or looking to increase a connection in nature. Ecotherapy can assist with an overall feeling of well-being but, more specifically, can assist with feeling more grounded, reducing stress, creating a sense of balance, increasing confidence and feelings of contentment or increasing one’s focus.

The Corporate & Team Building Retreats are designed to promote self care, enhance creative awareness, build better communication, maintain mind-body-soul wellness for team/employees and help relieve post-pandemic stress. Led by two licensed mental health professionals, these retreats guide you through a day of bonding, building and expressing while diving deeper into each individual's mental wellness so that as a unit your company can grow and expand in a healthy and conscious way.

The Retreat is a 1 full day offering hosted from 10:00am-3:00pm Monday-Friday. During your day with us we will guide you through several educational activations to make space for inner diving and team building.

Why Book A Corporate & Team Building Retreat: Reduce the need for unscheduled leave and presenteeism, improves health and wellbeing for team, employees & working environment. Reduces risks for developing illnesses, burnout, depression & anxiety. Improves employee engagement, self-esteem, recruitment, retention & culture

What Is Included: All activities & materials, fully catered lunch & a folder of resources & take home materials

Revitalizing Minds Project presents the Ecotherapy Retreat designed to promote self care, connect with nature, balance and harmonize the nervous system and release old thought patterns. Led by two licensed mental health professionals, our Eco retreats guide you through a day to tap into your mind-body-soul network through therapeutic wellness modalities so that you can expand in a healthy and conscious way.

The Retreat is a 1 full day offering hosted from 10:00am-3:00pm Monday-Friday. During your day with us we will guide you through several transformational activations to make space for inner diving. Including but not limited to, Grounding Meditation, Multi-Sensory Nature Walk, Embodiment Yoga & Gentle Movement, Nervous System Sound Bath, Creative Station - tapping into your creative expression through the healing arts.

What Is Included: All activities & materials, fully catered lunch & a folder of resources & take home materials

Connect with your mind, body and soul while disconnecting from the stressors of daily life as you are guided through creative expression. Join us from Revitalizing Minds Project at Malibu Wines and Beer Garden in West Hills for an afternoon with friends, laughter, and a tasting flight of wines or a glass of beer while you create a custom craft.

This offering is a 2 hour experience hosted from 6:00pm-8:00pm the third Friday of every month at Malibu Wines and Beer Garden in West Hills. During your experience you will be guided through creative expression to create your very own custom craft. Each project changes quarterly with occasional seasonal holiday projects included.

What Is Included: All supplies & materials necessary to create your craft, a flight of wines or a glass of beer, and a creative guide to help you with your project.