Whether you're looking to integrate wellness practices into your counseling process or enhance your self-care routine, our offerings are designed to strengthen the mind-body connection, cultivate safety in the body, reduce stress, and promote overall well-being. By embracing simple yet powerful wellness practices, you can cultivate healing, balance, and internal peace.

Wellness

Healing doesn’t live in the mind alone. While talk therapy, learning skills, emotional processing, and valuable insights are all powerful— without inviting the body, our healing work is incomplete. At Kindred Counseling and Wellness, we believe healing is multifaceted and involves integrating both the mind and the body for deeper long lasting change. Our approach to wellness is rooted in the understanding that the body holds wisdom, emotion, information, and memory.

Whether through breathwork, restorative or yin yoga, meditation, mindfulness, sound healing, or nervous system awareness, these body-centered practices are designed to help you reconnect with your whole self, improve distress tolerance, regulate emotions healthily and effectively, and establish safety in the body.

This can look like noticing your clenched jaw indicating you aren’t ready to talk to your partner about an upsetting topic, catching the pit in your belly before a spiral of self-doubt, or sensing your body shutting down after a boundary violation.

Our wellness practices can be woven into your therapy experience or explored separately through our community offerings.

Tend to all layers of you

  • “When we reconnect with our bodies, we access profound sources of resilience and transformation.”

    Dr. Arielle Schwartz (Founder of Resilience Informed Therapy)

  • "Trauma is stored in the body, not just in the mind."

    Bessel van der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score)

  • "To be fully embodied is a journey each human can make."

    Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT ( author of Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox)

  • “The body is an archive of your lived experiences. Healing happens when you listen to its wisdom.”

    Dr. Arielle Schwartz (Founder of Resilience Informed Therapy)

  • “Healing trauma requires reclaiming the body that was lost in the experience.”

    Peter Levine (developer of Somatic Experiencing)

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    Yoga

    Restorative yoga is a gentle yet powerful somatic practice that allows the body to release stress and tension as well as promote deep rest and relaxation through slow-pace movement and passive stretching.

    Yin yoga, on the other hand, targets deeper connective tissue and fascia through long-held postures. This allows the body to release trapped energy and emotion.

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    Meditation

    While meditation is often referred to as silencing the mind, at KCW, we believe meditation is the practice of cultivating a kinder relationship with the mind.

    By practicing non-judgmental awareness to our thoughts, we learn to make peace with the mind, notice it’s patterns, and respond with deeper awareness and compassion.

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    Sound Healing

    Release stagnant energy, activate the vagus nerve to enter a state of ‘rest and digest’, and clear emotional blocks with the calming vibrations of sound healing.

    This immersive practice uses instruments like singing bowls, chimes, and tuning forks to gently guide the nervous system into balance, supporting emotional release, deep relaxation, and inner clarity.

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    Mindfulness

    Mindfulness is the practice of gently and fully being in the present with non-judgmental awareness.

    Through this practice, we are invited to slow down and tune into our internal and external world. This allows us to interrupt cycles of negative thought and emotional reactivity, reduce stress, experience gratitude, and notice our needs so we may respond with loving urgency.