Mental, Emotional & Psychological Wellness Interventions
Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based trauma healing modality that gently restores regulation to the nervous system by releasing survival energy stored in the body. By reconnecting with the body’s innate capacity to heal and respond to stress, participants learn to move trauma out of the body, interrupt chronic stress patterns, and become active stewards of their own resilience, especially in a world where environmental toxicity further disrupts internal balance.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work
IFS is a therapeutic approach that honors the multiplicity of the self, guiding individuals to compassionately engage with wounded or protective parts of their inner world. As individuals reclaim agency over their internal system, they learn to metabolize emotional trauma and reduce the internalized effects of environmental and systemic stressors, ultimately reawakening their capacity to care for their bodies and lives with intentionality.
Inner Child Healing
Inner Child Healing invites individuals to repair developmental and relational wounds by nurturing the parts of themselves that were unseen, neglected, or harmed. This gentle reparenting work enables the release of childhood trauma that often manifests physically, allowing for deep healing of mind-body connections shaped by environmental adversity, and opens the door to health sovereignty and self-directed care.
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Couples and Relationship Therapy fosters healing in the spaces where love, trust, and connection have been fractured, often by trauma, stress, and intergenerational patterns. As partners learn to listen, co-regulate, and respond with compassion, they not only heal emotional estrangement but also reclaim the shared power to steward their bodies, homes, and communities in a way that honors the sacred connection between relational and ecological wellbeing.
Breathwork & Nervous System Reset
Breathwork is a somatic practice that uses conscious, intentional breathing patterns to calm the nervous system, release stored trauma, and oxygenate the body at a cellular level. This healing tool helps discharge chronic stress responses often exacerbated by environmental toxins and systemic pressures, allowing individuals to reconnect with their bodies, restore internal balance, and reclaim agency as stewards of their own wellbeing.
Journaling and Narrative Healing
Journaling and narrative healing provide space for individuals to process trauma by reclaiming and reshaping their personal stories. Through expressive writing and reflective practices, participants move emotional pain out of the body and onto the page, transforming stress into clarity. This practice builds inner resilience against external environmental disruptions, empowering individuals to understand, affirm, and author their own healing journey.
Mindfulness & Stress Reduction Practices
Mindfulness helps anchor individuals in the present moment, reducing the grip of anxiety, trauma, and environmental overstimulation on the body and mind. Through guided meditation, grounding techniques, and sensory awareness, participants reduce chronic and oxidative stress, strengthen emotional regulation, and develop the inner clarity needed to respond, rather than react, to the challenges of living in a toxic, extractive world. These tools equip individuals to be active participants in their healing, restoring rhythm, breath, and balance to everyday life.
Spiritual Care & Guidance
Spiritual care offers individuals the space to reconnect with purpose, meaning, and inner truth during times of pain, transition, or recovery. Through practices like prayer, sacred ritual, and spiritual direction, trauma is gently released from the body and spirit, making space for clarity and peace. At Restore Forward, we understand that healing requires tending not only to the body and mind, but also to the soul, especially when environmental and systemic harms have disrupted a sense of safety, belonging, and sacred connection. This work empowers people to reclaim their spiritual agency and live into their wholeness.
Energy Healing and Chakra Balancing
Energy healing, including chakra balancing, supports the movement and clearing of stagnant energy that often accumulates from trauma, illness, and environmental stress. By working with the body’s energetic field, practitioners help restore alignment, reduce chronic and oxidative stress, and rebalance the nervous system. At Restore Forward, this practice invites deep somatic release, offering participants a renewed sense of vitality and inner harmony while reinforcing their capacity to steward their own energetic and emotional well-being.
Ancestral Lineage Healing
Ancestral healing addresses inherited trauma, patterns, and wounds that live in the body and spirit across generations. Through ritual, guided memory work, and cultural reclamation, participants begin to repair the ruptures in their lineage caused by systemic violence, displacement, and environmental destruction. At Restore Forward, ancestral healing is a powerful act of recovery and restoration, affirming that wholeness is not only individual but collective, and that by tending to our roots, we reclaim our future. This healing reconnects us to our inherited resilience and affirms our sacred role as caretakers of the Earth, our bodies, and our lineages.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Trauma-informed yoga is a gentle, adaptable practice that prioritizes safety, choice, and self-awareness, offering participants tools to reconnect with their bodies after experiences of disempowerment or violation. Through mindful breath, movement, and grounding techniques, this practice releases stored trauma, calms the nervous system, and restores a sense of control. At Restore Forward, trauma-informed yoga helps participants heal from both personal and environmental harm, promoting agency and embodied self-stewardship in the face of chronic stress and toxic systems.
Tai Chi & Qi Gong
Tai Chi and Qi Gong are ancient movement-based practices rooted in Chinese medicine that focus on cultivating internal energy (Qi), promoting balance, and enhancing vitality. These slow, intentional movements and breath patterns help discharge trauma from the body, regulate the nervous system, and reduce the oxidative stress caused by environmental exposures. At Restore Forward, these practices support deep somatic integration, fostering emotional calm, physical resilience, and a reconnection with the rhythms of nature and one’s own inner healing capacity.
African Dance Therapy & Drumming
African dance therapy and drumming reawaken ancestral memory, invite embodied joy, and offer powerful tools for emotional release and communal healing. Movement and rhythm help shift stored trauma, awaken the life force, and reconnect participants with cultural identity and collective resilience. At Restore Forward, these practices are part of a decolonized wellness approach, helping individuals metabolize stress, move grief, and reconnect to the Earth and each other while reclaiming their right to thrive.
Restorative Movement for Post-Surgical & Post-Cancer Healing
This therapeutic movement approach is designed specifically for those recovering from surgeries, cancer treatments, and other physically and emotionally taxing medical interventions. It helps restore mobility, relieve pain, and rebuild trust in the body, while gently moving trauma and fear that may have accumulated during medical procedures. At Restore Forward, we address recovery holistically, acknowledging how systemic injustice and environmental toxicity affect healing, and we offer participants the tools and community needed to steward their own health with grace, strength, and compassion.
Support Circles (Grief, Chronic Illness, Caregiver, Survivors)
Support circles provide safe, peer-held spaces for individuals navigating grief, chronic illness, caregiving burdens, or the long journey of surviving trauma. These circles reduce isolation, validate lived experience, and allow emotions and stories to move through the body and be witnessed in community. At Restore Forward, these circles recognize the environmental and systemic stressors impacting health and healing, while equipping individuals with tools to care for themselves and one another with compassion and resilience.
Healing Dialogues & Conflict Transformation Circles
Healing dialogues and conflict transformation circles offer structured, facilitated spaces for truth-telling, emotional repair, and restoring trust across personal and communal relationships. These processes allow trauma to surface, be expressed, and metabolized in ways that center dignity and mutual accountability. At Restore Forward, we hold these circles as a response to the emotional and systemic ruptures communities face, from interpersonal harm to racial and historical violence, allowing for regeneration, clarity, and re-alignment toward justice and healing.
Family and Couples Crisis Recovery & Reunification / Reconciliation Sessions
These sessions provide therapeutic and guided pathways for families and couples to process crises, navigate conflict, and move toward emotional reunification. Whether addressing estrangement, trauma after birth, medical crises, or intergenerational hurt, these sessions help people reconnect, rebuild trust, and recover a sense of shared purpose. At Restore Forward, we acknowledge how external stressors like poverty, illness, and environmental burdens impact relational health, and we support families in healing as whole systems, not just as individuals.
Relationship & Interpersonal Reconciliation Circles
Relationship reconciliation circles are designed to address breakdowns in trust, emotional distance, and unresolved pain between individuals, including partners, siblings, friends, or colleagues. Facilitated with care and cultural humility, these circles help participants move trauma out of the relational space and co-create new patterns rooted in listening, accountability, and mutual care. At Restore Forward, we view these processes as vital to holistic health and liberation, restoring bonds eroded by systemic pressures and helping participants reclaim agency in how they love and connect.
Organizational Reset
Organizational reset is a process that supports leadership teams, staff, and collectives in realigning their purpose, resolving internal tensions, and rebuilding sustainable, trauma-informed work cultures. It often includes conflict transformation, wellness assessments, group healing sessions, and strategy development. At Restore Forward, we support organizations in understanding how burnout, systemic oppression, and emotional trauma shape collective behavior, and we help teams co-create new ways of working that prioritize care, accountability, and sustainability.
