Mission and Philosophy
Our Mission
Our straight-forward mission is to facilitate the healing our clients deserve, with the greatest comfort and respect, from the most experienced and supportive team of treatment experts.
Our Program Philosophy
We believe that everyone should be the very best version of her or himself. And we believe that those who suffer from mental illness can become their best selves through expert treatment from passionate, caring professionals in a highly comfortable healing environment.
Our Philosophy on Psychiatric Medications
While there is considerable controversy surrounding psychiatric medications, our experience and outcomes indicate that medication can be a vital component of successful treatment for mental illness. That stated, so many clients arrive at our program with multiple, compounding, and even contra-indicated prescribed medications that actually create more problems than they relieve. Therefore, it is imperative that we evaluate and manage every client’s prescriptions. This often involves removing medications that are excessive, inappropriate, or ineffective. After we obtain a clear understanding of the client’s needs, we may prescribe superior medications in the proper dosages. Once medication management is successfully accomplished, the client invariably functions at a considerably higher level, which enables her or him to then focus on other effective treatment options like psycho-therapy, education, and lifestyle modifications, which can be equally as effective as medication, and which can often remove the continuing need for prescriptions.
Our Philosophy on Treatment Modalities
Solara Mental Health, we provide a broad spectrum of therapeutic treatment modalities including traditional, and second and third wave cognitive behavioral therapy, such as dialectical behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and mindfulness based stress reduction, as well as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), among others.
We complement these first line evidence based treatments with psychodynamic therapy, educational therapy, somatic experiencing, and sensory motor therapy.
We also utilize creative therapies, like drumming, music, drawing, painting, knitting, and others. Physical and body therapies include yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, combined with exercise and nutrition. We believe that providing clients a breadth of therapeutic options and activities allows them to respond and progress with the therapies that ‘speak’ to them and promote maximum healing and wellness, which they can continue to develop over time.
