Clinical & Somatic Therapy Services

Individual Therapy (Weekly/Biweekly)

These sessions offer personalized, trauma-informed care for caregivers experiencing emotional and psychological challenges during pregnancy, postpartum, or early parenting. Therapists incorporate talk therapy with somatic methods such as grounding exercises, guided breathing, and body awareness techniques to process trauma and restore a sense of safety and embodiment.

• Perinatal/Postpartum Trauma: Address birth-related trauma, surgical interventions (e.g., C-sections), NICU stays, and emotional disconnect or regret surrounding the birth experience.

• Parenting Stress & Identity: Explore role changes, emotional overwhelm, identity loss, and the psychological toll of parenting while healing.

• Birth Trauma & Loss: Grief counseling for miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion; support for fertility struggles and assisted reproduction.

• Somatic Processing: Body-based methods such as breathwork, guided imagery, and trauma-informed touch to release stress and support nervous system regulation.
  
  

Somatic Family Therapy (Biweekly)

These sessions include infants and caregivers in a therapeutic space that prioritizes body language, nonverbal cues, co-regulation, and physical presence. The focus is on the healing relationship, often using slow movement, rhythm, and touch to repair disconnection or stress responses.

• Caregiver-Infant Attunement: Activities designed to deepen eye contact, responsive touch, and emotional mirroring for secure attachment.

• Co-Regulation Practices: Teaching caregivers how to use their own regulated nervous system to calm and soothe their child.

• Body-Led Storytelling: Somatic narrative work to help caregivers and children reframe traumatic memories through body awareness and symbolic play.

• Trauma-Informed Infant Massage & Movement: Healing practices that promote emotional bonding, reduce physical stress, and foster trust through safe touch.
  
  

Group Therapy (Weekly)

Weekly group offerings build community, reduce isolation, and normalize shared struggles through culturally relevant, somatically grounded themes. Each group uses movement, mindfulness, discussion, and expressive healing strategies.

• Culturally Specific Parenting Groups: Designed for Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color, integrating ancestral wisdom, oral traditions, and collective healing rituals.

• Fatherhood Healing Groups: Space for men and masculine-identifying caregivers to explore identity, intergenerational patterns, emotional presence, and healing masculinity through movement and story.

• Somatic Parenting Circles: Use of breath, sound, touch, and posture to explore stress regulation, self-compassion, and embodied parenting.
  
  

Play Therapy & Infant Mental Health

Focused on early developmental and relational healing, these therapies engage the preverbal child through sensory play, attachment-focused interactions, and parent-child co-participation.

• Attachment-Based Play Therapy: Uses mirroring, repetition, and rhythm to strengthen secure attachment, especially after trauma or separation.

• Floor Time & Infant-Led Sessions: Following the baby’s cues in a safe space fosters trust, autonomy, and emotional expression.

• Developmental Somatic Guidance: Assists caregivers in understanding the sensory and motor needs of infants, and how to respond through touch, rhythm, and movement.
  
  

Integrative & Holistic Interventions

Somatic Interventions

A core healing strategy, somatic interventions help families move from survival responses (fight/flight/freeze) into regulation and connection.

• Polyvagal-Informed Techniques: Teaching caregivers to notice their nervous system states and practice tools like orienting, vocal toning, and structured breathing to return to safety.

• Movement Therapy: Incorporates parent-child yoga, culturally grounded dance forms (e.g., Afro-Caribbean dance), and rhythmic rocking to support emotional release and bonding.

• Touch-Based Healing: Gentle massage, acupressure, and nurturing touch sequences to soothe trauma stored in the body.
  
  

Energy Medicine (Optional/Consent-Based)

Offered by trained practitioners with cultural and ethical integrity, these non-invasive modalities support energetic balance and emotional clearing.

• Reiki & Chakra Balancing: Gentle hand placements on caregiver or child to reduce anxiety, fatigue, and promote energetic alignment.

• Parent-Child Energy Attunement: Grounding exercises to harmonize the energetic field between caregiver and child, improving relational flow.
  
  

Herbalism & Holistic Health

Grounded in African, Indigenous, and diasporic traditions, these services integrate plant medicine for emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness.

• Safe Perinatal Herbal Education: Workshops on how to safely use herbs during pregnancy and postpartum, including teas, steams, tinctures, and compresses.

• Herbal Care Plans: Personalized support for sleep, lactation, hormonal balance, postpartum pain, anxiety, and emotional resilience.

• Cultural Remedies: Reclaiming ancestral practices using herbs such as mugwort, chamomile, yarrow, calendula, lavender, red raspberry, and motherwort.
  
  

Cultural Therapeutic Interventions

These practices restore cultural continuity, celebrate identity, and support transgenerational healing.

• Storytelling & Ritual Practices: Inviting elders, midwives, or traditional practitioners to lead circle storytelling, spiritual fables, and naming ceremonies.

• Ancestor Honoring: Building altars, sharing family prayers, and learning songs or chants that connect families to their lineage.

• Drumming, Chanting, and Bathing Ceremonies: Healing through vibration and communal purification practices that affirm the sacredness of family.

• Affirmation Work: Cultural pride building through mantras, body-based affirmations, and expressive arts.
  
  

Spiritual Healing (Optional)

Provided by spiritual care staff from relevant traditions with cultural respect and consent.

• Spiritually Guided Counseling: Supporting caregivers exploring their spiritual journey, beliefs about parenting, and sacred responsibility.

• Ceremonial Services: Blessings for births, transitions, and naming; rituals for loss and healing; and seasonal celebrations tied to family milestones.

• Sacred Parenting Education: Exploring what it means to parent in harmony with spirit, nature, and ancestors.
  
  

Case Management & Disparity Navigation

Holistic Case Management

Comprehensive support provided by culturally competent case workers to address social determinants of health and stabilize family environments.

• Resource Navigation: Linkages to housing, food access, early intervention programs, legal aid, childcare, and maternal health care.

• Basic Needs Support: Coordination of essentials like diapers, formula, clothing, strollers, baby furniture, and transportation assistance.

• Benefits Enrollment: Application support for WIC, Medicaid, SNAP, TANF, and local relief programs.
  
  

Financial Wellness & Empowerment

Helping families break cycles of economic stress through education and empowerment.

• Budgeting Workshops: Practical financial literacy classes tailored to new or young parents.

• Career Pathways Support: Guidance for GED completion, vocational programs, online education, or microenterprise building.

• Healing Financial Trauma: Group sessions addressing inherited money shame, scarcity, and survival stress rooted in systemic oppression.
  
  

Equity Advocacy

Direct action to ensure families are treated with respect, fairness, and dignity in all institutions.

• Birth Equity Support: Advocating for trauma-informed care, choice in providers, and respectful hospital experiences.

• Institutional Navigation: Accompaniment for medical visits, school meetings, DCFS or legal encounters.

• Parent Rights Education: Workshops and guides on legal rights, informed consent, and how to advocate for oneself and one's child.