The Guest House offers diverse therapy options to meet the unique needs of every one of our guests. Our treatments are designed to be customized and combined to create recovery plans that work on a highly individualized basis. We also want our guests to take full advantage of the amenities at our estate in Silver Springs, Florida, and we find that giving guests the freedom to try new therapies often leads to powerful breakthroughs. Our beautiful 52-acre grounds provide plenty of room for creativity, and we encourage the utilization of our resources in ways that are not formally offered. Our highly experienced therapists are here to guide you on your journey back to health and can help you formulate treatment methods that are specific to your needs.
Therapeutic Modalities
Individual Therapy
As simple as it seems, traditional individual talk therapy remains one of the most effective therapeutic modalities for psychological concerns of any kind — addiction, trauma, mental health and more. Individual therapy offers clients a safe space to express themselves, talk about their experiences and learn to think critically about their behaviors. Our guests are paired with Certified Trauma Therapists who are particularly suited to a client’s situation. Participants will address essential insight into their personal journey and have the opportunity to explore issues and life-changing events. The goal of individual therapy is to help our guests gain awareness and clarity and to delineate strategies for moving forward.
Group Therapy
Group therapy is a deeply transformational process that harnesses the power of support systems and community to encourage self-reflection and self-expression. Your therapist-guided sessions are designed to help you learn to open up to others, share your story without fear or shame and lean on others for support and help. The exercises in group therapy use objective, outside perspectives to help shed light on how your past influences your behaviors, which is a vital realization before you can begin the process of healing.
Meditation/Yoga
The ancient arts of meditation and yoga encourage mindfulness and spiritual renewal. These therapeutic practices remind us to simplify our lives and to release pent-up emotionally charged energy. By focusing on the breath and clearing the mind, meditation allows you to create a mental sanctuary that you can access whenever and wherever you need it. Yoga improves physical strength and confidence, giving you enhanced control over your mind and body through meditative breathing and rhythmically flowing poses. As therapeutic modalities, they are a cornerstone of our core principle of holistic healing, simultaneously improving mental, physical and spiritual strength.
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Conscious connected breathwork is a safe and powerful technique that facilitates the release of old thought patterns and as a result creates a shift in consciousness. This shift in consciousness is a natural process of cleansing and relaxation. It can dissolve physical, emotional and mental blocks or tensions, and thus improve emotional balance and awareness. In your sessions with your trained therapist, you will set an intention and use a circular and conscious connected breathing technique while lying flat on a yoga mat or sleeping bag with music, creating an integrative experience for the body, mind and spirit.
Psychodrama
Psychodrama is a creative therapy technique based on role play and dramatic interpretation. When you reenact life-changing events under the guidance of a psychodrama therapist, you access emotionally challenging patterns and events in a safe and healing manner. You can realize past events and actions from different perspectives, face any fears or negative emotions and express your experience in a way that provides objective insight. Psychodrama allows the participant to find healing in the examination of the role, character and behavior of others as well as in an illuminating look into their own psyche.
Art in Healing
Art in healing, often called art therapy, provides a sensory exploration of the subconscious through color, texture, movement and light. Our therapists combine diverse media including paint, clay, paper, cardboard and tissue paper to inspire personal reflection and encourage cathartic release through creative play. The purpose of art in healing is to create a therapy environment without limitations so you can express yourself in new, unbounded ways.
Cinema Therapy
Cinema therapy gives guests the opportunity to gain new, profound perspectives on their lives and personal choices by observing behaviors, actions and emotions as they play out on screen. Our experienced therapists use principles of cinema literacy such as music, color, pacing, camera angles and imagery to encourage clients to be an active audience, allowing our guests to access and process deeply-held emotions in a safe, supportive therapeutic environment.
Equine Therapy
Equine therapy embraces the innate bond between people and animals to provide a deeply positive and loving exploration of the nature of relationships in a safe and naturally beautiful setting. With the expert guidance of our equine therapy specialists, the kind temperament, gentle affection and sheer size of the beautiful horses who live alongside our guests at our estate encourage an exploration of bonding, love, kindness, reliance and support.
Adventure Therapy
Adventure-based therapy creates dynamic trust-building initiatives and opportunities for extensive personal growth on the enchanting, state-of-the-art grounds of our facility. Our experienced instructors safely challenge and support our clients to redefine and reimagine their identity and experience through a combination of physical activity, teamwork and communication. In addition, the outdoor setting of these therapies allows our guests to experience the awe-inspiring yet calming beauty of nature.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is an advanced meditative psychotherapy technique that seeks to recognize and release the residual tension, or somatic energy, that the body generates during significant episodes of physical and/or emotional distress. Our experienced somatic therapists facilitate profound emotional recovery that has proven to dramatically assist in the healing process even on a biological cellular level.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is one of the most well-researched clinically-based psychotherapies available. It has been helping therapy patients with traumatic pasts since the 1980s, and has time and again proven itself as an effective choice. It harnesses the principle that certain eye movements and positions are associated with particular feelings, memories or attitudes. By directing your eye movements and using other stimuli, your therapist helps you access and process your traumatic memories.