357 S. Lulu Avenue Wichita, Kansas 67211

What We Do

Our Mission

Our collective mission is to provide experiential mind, body, and energy practices that will increase wellbeing to move oneself from operating in survival and protection towards growth and thrive.

Forage for your wellbeing is a cocoon collective of practitioners that believe wellness and inner healing comes from a whole-body approach that includes wrapping oneself in mindful and self-compassionate care. Services are offered for individuals, couples, families and groups encouraging a larger supportive community connection.

Forage is located in Wichita Kansas where multi-disciplinary independent practitioners share space to provide holistic, trauma-informed care according to their professional training and clinical experience. Practitioners are independent providers who share common professional values for wellness and have their own policies and procedures. Forage practitioners are not employees or agents of Forage, LLC.

Core Beliefs

Presence

We have created a space where you can receive our mindful attention towards your specific needs so you can practice feeling safe operating in the present moment.

Compassion

We hope to respond to your experience and needs with loving kindness and acceptance so that you can begin to offer compassion to  Self and for others.

Justice

We believe that all of us are worthy of kindness, dignity and belonging. We believe no one is free until we are all free.

Experience

We have foraged for you a space and practices that can facilitate encounters that will transform how you experience Self and relationships with others. We believe the most efficient way towards growth and change is through the combination of education, processing and experiential practices.

Community

We believe that individual experience can expand to collective connection and healing through group practices and events offered.

Wisdom

We honor the wisdom in the felt sense and knowing in our body. We believe that our body was created with a natural capacity for healing and returning to center and for growth towards aliveness.

What We Offer

Therapy Services

We have created a cocoon space to hold your stories and to discern in partnership with our clients to observe needs and to develop plans and practices to help you resolve past experiences, to learn about yourself and to grow towards aliveness. Learn more about our practitioners and connect to them here.

Yoga & Mindful Movement

In partnership with Forage, Chesed Yoga Studio seeks to create a local Wichita community where everyone is invited to practice extending chesed (loving-kindness) towards themselves and others.

Myofascial Release

Myofascial release therapy is a type of gentle, constant massage that releases tightness and pain throughout your myofascial tissues.

Massage Therapy

Seeking qualified practitioners. If interested please contact

teresa@forageforyourwellbeing.com

Seeking holistic practitioners in the following areas - Nutritionist, Aesthetician, Physical Therapy, Craniosacral Therapy, Acupuncturist, APRN/PA Functional Health Practitioner. If interested please contact teresa@forageforyourwellbeing.com

Models Utilized

Mindfulness and Self Compassion

Mindfulness practices are utilized to guide clients to turn toward and acknowledge our inner thoughts and feelings that include negative core beliefs (such as feelings of failure, discouragement, anger, and specific fears) with a spirit of openness and curiosity. Clients are encouraged to practice self-compassion through observation without judgment and to begin to respond to needs with sympathy, loving kindness and understanding.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Practitioners utilize this structured approach to facilitate clients in focusing briefly on difficult experiences that are causing distress in daily life. During these structured sessions clients are simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (e.g. eye movements, handheld buzzers) which exercises communication in the brain that reduces negative felt sensation and emotional distress from the difficult experience. EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms. Ongoing research supports positive clinical outcomes showing EMDR therapy as a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences (Maxfield, 2019).

Internal Family Systems

Practitioners observe each client as having a variety of ways they can think and feel about any given situation. Practitioners collaborate with clients to identify their multi perspectives by careful and compassionate internal observation. Clients are encouraged to connect with their healthy Leader Self and to take time to listen and learn from their manager, protective, and wounded inner perspectives so they can show appreciation and develop practices to meet needs, heal and to grow. Clients are taught ways they can participate in daily life by practicing the 8 C’s - Curiosity, Compassion, Clarity, Connectedness, Creativity, Courage, Confidence, and Calm.

Somatic Experience Approach

The goal of experiential therapy practices

Forage practitioners believe in a body first approach to healing that includes assessing with the client how their body may be stuck in a pattern of fight, flight, freeze, flag or fawn. The goal of experiential therapy practices is to increase the client’s tolerance for difficult sensations and to gather practices to help release and reset emotions.

Contact

Your Wellbeing Starts Here

Contact Info

Email
info@forageforyourwellbeing.com

Address

357 S. Lulu Avenue, Wichita, KS 67211

Fax

316.816.1892