trauma-informed mental health and wellness
Wellness Services
Individual Yoga
Yoga encourages movement while facilitating grounding, teaching breath work, and supporting agency. Considered a complementary practice to therapy, studies show yoga strengthens the mind-body connection, reduces the sympathetic nervous system response to trauma, and increases resilience. Our yoga instructors take into consideration your emotional and physical needs while guiding you through individual and small group classes geared at safely helping you connect to your body, release stored emotions, and engage in mindfulness for grounding.
Massage
Massage therapy is an aspect of wellness, not simply a luxury. Memory of trauma, painful, difficult experiences, and suppressed emotions become “stuck energy” inside the body. When that occurs our body becomes a storehouse for emotions and we experience pain, discomfort, fatigue, anxiety, stress and stagnation. Massage harnesses the power of healing touch, increasing positive benefits to the mind, body, and spirit. It honors the whole person, balancing our body’s structures, aiding in the reduction of soft tissue pain, and encouraging emotional release as the body dislodges and releases physical tension. At CWG we believe Massage Therapy is a complement to psychotherapy and a vital component of the healing journey.
Safe and Sound Protocol
Dr. Stephen Porges, the founder of Polyvagal theory, developed the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) after 40 years of research on the relationship between the autonomic nervous system, auditory sensitivities and social emotional processes. SSP utilizes a music-based intervention to address dysregulation caused by Sensory Processing Disorders, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, sleep disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, misophonia, and other issues due to an overactive or underactive emotional state. The sound based intervention has been found to calm physiological and emotional states by reducing stress, and is accomplished using music of that has been filtered through a patented, evidence-based algorithm that highlights specific sound frequencies to help regulate the autonomic nervous system and stimulate the vagus nerve. Safe and Sound Protocol is not counseling/behavioral health and not a substitute for therapeutic treatment. SSP is meant to complement the work an individual is already doing (or will be doing) in therapy.
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