Modalities

Below are brief descriptions of the collection of modalities available to you at Hearth Place. All of these modalities are offered to all ages. We will engage in an ongoing informed consent process and collaboratively choose and weave in modalities based on your interests and present moment needs. More information about any of these modalities is available upon request.

Clay

Allow your Hands to Repair Developmental Wounds
Clay Field Therapy facilitates a healing feedback loop with our kinaesthetic sensorimotor non-verbal awareness through the interaction of our hands with a box filled with clay, water and sponge.

Clay Field Therapy provides the “…setting for discovering safe relationships, loving attachment and the fulfilment of vital needs. … Built on five decades of clinical evidence, this work fosters the development of new neurological pathways that can bypass traumatic memories to restore wholeness and wellbeing.” ~ Cornelia Elbrecht

Dreams

Awaken your sense of Wonder and Awe
Embodied Experiential Dream Exploration allows us to engage deeply with ourselves and explore our inner landscape in an imaginal, resource-full collaboration of discovery and healing.

“Dreams have exceptional healing and diagnostic potential. They point to what matters most … and when we attend to them in sessions, it deepens and accelerates the process of psychotherapy.” ~ Dr. Leslie Ellis

Focusing

Reconnect with your Self
Focusing Oriented Therapy, a gentle method of embodied inquiry, enables the deep and safe exploration of our somatic states and parts, and aids in repairing ruptures in relationships with self and others.

“Focusing teaches us to sense inside and be open and curious about whatever we find there. It is a way of being present with ourselves in a non-judgmental manner that allows the body to speak, and thus to metabolize all that we take in that needs to keep moving through us. It prompts us to turn toward our own embodied selves and in doing so, to find the right next step forward.” ~ Dr Leslie Ellis

Nature

Experience Belonging through Connection
Nature Guided Eco-Therapy, including Equine Assisted Therapy, reminds us how to be at home within our own bodies, by seeing and connecting with whomever and however we are in each moment, and showing us how we deeply belong in the world.

“The land knows you, even when you are lost.” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer ~ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge

Sand

Discover Healing through Play and Imagery
Sandplay Therapy brings the depth and breadth of our inner landscape into the tangible realm through the interaction of our hands with sand, water and miniatures.

“Sandplay might be best understood as deep play. … the process of healing starts when we can surrender to play. … play makes it possible to create a bridge between consciousness and the unconscious by loosening up the conscious position and its control. What appears firmly settled and burdensome in the outer life can start moving in play so that new horizons and hopes can emerge.” ~ Martin Kalff