Spiritual First Aid

Somatic Experiencing

Body-focused approach that helps you notice physical sensations connected to stress or trauma.

Trauma Release Exercises (TRE)

A movement-based practice designed to create controlled muscle shaking that discharges tension.

Trauma-Informed Yoga

A slower yoga that centers choice, safety, body awareness, and personal boundaries.

Restorative Yoga

A gentle practice that uses props to support the body in restful positions.

Breathwork

Guided intentional breathing that can regulate the nervous system or open deep release.

Float Therapy

A sensory-reduction experience in warm salt water, deep quiet for an overloaded system.

Massage Therapy

Hands-on bodywork for relaxation, tension, and physical recovery, verify state licensing.

Craniosacral Therapy

A gentle hands-on practice using light touch, often deeply calming for the nervous system.

Acupuncture

A regulated East Asian medicine practice using fine needles at specific points on the body.

Cold Therapy

Deliberate exposure to cold, plunges, showers, or open water, for alertness and resilience.

Feldenkrais Method

Small, slow movements that reorganize the nervous system and free stuck patterns of tension.

Alexander Technique

Learning to release habitual tension in how you sit, stand, breathe, and move through daily life.

Qigong

Slow, flowing Chinese movement practice that regulates breath, energy, and attention.

Yin Yoga

Long-held floor poses that work into connective tissue and quiet the nervous system.

Neurofeedback

Brain-training sessions that use real-time EEG to teach the nervous system to self-regulate.

EMDR Therapy

A structured, evidence-based trauma therapy using bilateral stimulation to reprocess memory.

Psychodrama

A therapy method that uses role-play and guided action to explore experience.

Grief Therapy

One-to-one clinical support for loss, complicated grief, and bereavement.

Grief Circle

A facilitated group for people processing loss, witnessed, never rushed.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A structured, evidence-based talk therapy that examines how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

A mindfulness-based therapy that helps you accept what's outside your control and commit to what matters.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Structured skills training for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

A therapy that treats the mind as a system of 'parts', each protective, each welcome.

Narrative Therapy

Therapy that separates you from the problem by re-authoring the stories you live inside.

Life Coaching

Goal-focused conversations for direction, habits, and choices, not a substitute for therapy.

Mindfulness Practice

A learnable attention practice, noticing what is here, without needing to change it.

Journaling

A free, private practice, words on paper as a way to hear yourself think.

Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC)

A structured program that combines mindfulness with practices for treating yourself with kindness during difficulty.

Hakomi Method

Mindfulness-centered somatic psychotherapy that studies present experience with gentleness.

Spiritual Direction

One-to-one companionship for the interior life, offered by trained guides.

Interfaith Chaplain

Spiritual and emotional support for people of any faith or none.

Silent Retreat

Extended silence in community, a container for deep listening.

Sound Bath

Vibrational session with bowls, gongs, or voice, quiets the mind and opens rest.

Ancestral Healing Circle

Culturally grounded space for honoring lineage, grief, and inherited patterns.

Labyrinth Walking

A walking meditation on a public or church-hosted labyrinth path, one way in, one way out.

Interfaith Community

Gatherings that welcome people from many traditions, or none, into shared practice.

Values Clarification Workshop

A structured exercise for naming what matters most, especially during transition.

Curanderismo

A Mexican and Latin American folk healing tradition combining herbs, prayer, and ritual cleansings (limpias).

Ho'oponopono

A Native Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness, 'to make right' with self, others, and ancestors.

Ancestral Veneration

Building an ongoing relationship with ancestors through altars, offerings, and remembrance across many traditions.

Dadirri (Deep Listening)

An Aboriginal Australian practice of deep inner listening and quiet awareness, taught by Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr.

Christian Contemplative Prayer

Silent, wordless prayer traditions like Centering Prayer and lectio divina, resting in God's presence.

Ignatian Examen

A 500-year-old Jesuit practice of daily reflection, noticing where you felt alive and where you felt drained.

Sufi Zikr (Dhikr)

Rhythmic remembrance of the Divine, silent, chanted, or moved, at the heart of Sufi practice.

Metta (Loving-Kindness) Meditation

A Buddhist practice of extending goodwill, to yourself, loved ones, difficult people, and all beings.

Jewish Mussar

A centuries-old Jewish practice of character refinement, working one soul-trait (middah) at a time.

Past-Life Regression Meditation

A guided hypnotic meditation that explores imagery believed by some traditions to be past-life memory.

Vipassana Meditation

An ancient insight meditation practice that builds present-moment awareness through close observation of breath, body, and mind.

Western Astrology

A symbolic map of your birth moment used to explore personality, patterns, timing, and relationships.

Vedic Astrology (Jyotish)

An ancient Indian system that reads your birth chart to reveal karmic patterns, timing, and remedial guidance.

Human Design Reading

A system that maps your energetic blueprint based on birth data, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and the chakra system.

Gene Keys Reading

A contemplative system based on your Human Design profile that explores 64 archetypes for personal growth.

Expressive Writing

Facilitated writing workshops for grief, processing, and finding language.

Drum Circle

Rhythmic community gathering, embodied release without needing words.

Clay & Pottery Workshop

Sensory, grounding work with clay, for people who need to feel their hands in something real.

Poetry Group

A regular gathering to read, write, and discuss poems in community.

Community Choir

Sing regularly with a welcoming group, no auditions, sometimes bereavement-focused.

Contemplative Photography Walk

Slow, attention-based photography, using a camera to see rather than to capture.

Art Therapy

Working with a licensed therapist through drawing, painting, and collage, no art skill required.

Music Therapy

Board-certified therapist uses listening, singing, or playing instruments toward therapeutic goals.

Dance/Movement Therapy

Movement as a therapeutic language, guided by a credentialed therapist, no dance training required.

Drama Therapy

Story, role, and enactment used therapeutically, safe distance from what's hard to face directly.

Poetry & Bibliotherapy

Reading and writing poems under skilled guidance as a way into feelings that resist ordinary speech.

Codependency Support Group

Peer-led recovery from over-functioning, people-pleasing, and relational patterns.

Divorce Support Group

Group for people navigating separation, divorce, and family reorganization.

Restorative Justice Circle

Structured space for repair between people or communities after harm.

Women's Circle

Facilitated women-only gathering, witnessing, ritual, or personal work.

Men's Circle

Facilitated men-only gathering, honest conversation, accountability, brotherhood.

Caregiver Support Group

A group for people caring for aging parents, children, or partners, respite through witnessing.

Volunteering with Purpose

Structured service, especially meaningful after loss, retirement, or a life transition.

Book Club

A monthly conversation grounded in a shared book, a low-stakes doorway into community.

Community Garden

Shared soil, shared work, a slow way into place, neighbors, and rhythm.

Ecstatic Dance

A substance-free, no-talking dance space where the body moves however it needs to move.

Twelve-Step Fellowship

Free peer meetings (AA, NA, Al-Anon, ACA, and more) that meet you where you are, anonymously.

Forest Bathing

Guided, slow sensory immersion in a wooded environment, Shinrin-yoku.

Equine-Assisted Therapy

Structured work alongside horses, grounding, mirroring, and emotional insight.

Walking Group

A regular scheduled walk with neighbors, the simplest doorway into moving and belonging.

Conservation Volunteering

Trail work, restoration, or citizen science, grounded purpose in the outdoors.

Ecotherapy

Therapy sessions held in nature, using the more-than-human world as co-therapist.

Wilderness Therapy

Multi-day therapeutic experiences in the backcountry, evidence is mixed and ethics matter deeply.

Horticultural Therapy

Working with plants under a registered therapist's guidance, grounding, tactile, patient work.

Animal-Assisted Therapy

A licensed therapist works with a trained therapy animal as part of session, dogs, cats, rabbits, sometimes more.

Equine-Facilitated Therapy

Ground-based work with horses guided by a mental health clinician, no riding required.