Mental Health

Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals (ACA Conference, March 2010). Mental health is the foundation for the well-being and effective functioning of individuals. More than the absence of a mental disorder, mental health is the ability to think, learn, and understand ... Read More

Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals (ACA Conference, March 2010).

Mental health is the foundation for the well-being and effective functioning of individuals. More than the absence of a mental disorder, mental health is the ability to think, learn, and understand one's emotions and the reactions of others. It is a state of balance, both within and with the environment. Physical, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual and other interrelated factors participate in producing this balance (https://www.who.int/westernpacific/health-topics/mental-health).

We believe you deserve healing, you deserve connection, and you deserve to thrive. We endeavor to meet health and wellness needs through a coalescing ecological bio psychosocial model of practice to create a world in which all can thrive in collective harmony.

We promote safe and brave healing spaces; all are welcome here. We are courageous and creative healers who use sound therapeutic practices to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals, families, communities, and the world at large.

We bring years of experience and specialty care in trauma, perinatal support, as well as anxiety, depression, and many other issues. We use restorative and healing centered approaches that enable the potential of individual health and wellness while expanding to the transformative and collective healing of the world we all live.

We work in collaboration and reciprocity with those we serve, coalescing modern science and research with ancient healing wisdom from around the world.

We believe when we choose to invest in our own healing, we heal ourselves and the world with us. As professionals, we are dedicated to helping you heal, and we believe it is an honor to journey with you on a healing path.

You deserve healing, and the time for healing is now.

“Exploring the Unknown”

Five Strengths: Learner, Relator, Restorative, Input, and Strategic

Ellen earned her Masters in Counseling in Family and Marriage Therapy from California State University, Fullerton. Her background is in working with teens and families in crisis using a systems approach to problem solve and create positive change.

Her passion for mental health stems from her belief in the healing power of nature and community. Through much time spent outdoors, she recognized her passion and desire to help people embrace and alchemize life’s challenges into strengthening and growing experiences from which to move forward through this wild journey of being human. Together, we can find ways to create a more satisfying life and move through the world with a little bit more joy each day.

“Exploring the Unknown” Five Strengths: Learner, Relator, Restorative, Input, and Strategic Ell... Read More

“We are never there, only here.”

Five Strengths: Problem Solver, Thinker, Philomath, Coach, Empathizer

Sarah Rasmussen recently earned their Master of Social Work from Flordia State University and is working toward their licensure. Sarah has a background working with underserved youth populations and victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Sarah’s therapeutic approaches are grounded in trauma-informed, didactic, non-discriminatory, person-centered, strength- and community-based therapies.

Sarah moved to Salida in 2020 and has been running and biking the trails with their dog, Fly, ever since.

“We are never there, only here.” Five Strengths: Problem Solver, Thinker, Philomath, Coach, Empa... Read More

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