Our Sanctuary

By combining innovative mental health practices with the creative, trauma-informed, and nature-based frameworks of our partner organizations, Ascending Minds builds a pathway to mental wellness, self-discovery, and joy.

Our Comprehensive Mental Health Sanctuary offers a wide range of therapeutic services, designed to address the complex needs of our clients while promoting healing, connection, and personal growth. Our programs include:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Guiding individuals to embrace their thoughts and feelings, align actions with personal values, and build resilience through mindfulness-based strategies.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Providing structured, evidence-based therapy to help clients identify and reframe negative thought patterns, fostering healthier behaviors and emotional regulation.
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Offering skills-based therapy to enhance emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, particularly for those managing intense emotions or trauma.
• Family, Marriage, & Group Therapy: Creating safe spaces for families, couples, and groups to strengthen relationships, improve communication, and heal collectively, with tailored support for Veterans and their loved ones.
• Integrative & Holistic Therapy: Blending traditional and alternative therapies, including culturally-based options, to address mind, body, and spirit, ensuring personalized care that respects diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and identities.
• Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT): Exploring unconscious patterns and past experiences to uncover root causes of emotional challenges, fostering deep self-awareness and lasting change.
• Military Sexual Trauma (MST) Therapy: Providing specialized, trauma-informed care for Veterans, particularly female Veterans, who have experienced MST, offering a safe, empathetic environment to process trauma and rebuild strength.
• Art Therapy: Drawing from Ascension Arts’ creative framework, we use painting, pottery, photography, and other mediums to facilitate emotional expression, healing, and self-discovery.
• Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT): Partnering with Ascended Terra’s animal-assisted programs, we incorporate therapy animals to reduce stress, build trust, and promote emotional connection for individuals with limb loss and trauma.
• Religiosity and Spirituality Centered Therapy: Offering faith-based and spiritual counseling that respects individual beliefs, integrating religiosity and spirituality as a source of strength and meaning in the healing process.
• Additional Modalities: Providing a range of complementary therapies, such as mindfulness, meditation, and trauma-focused yoga, to support holistic mental wellness.

Ascending Minds seamlessly integrates with the missions of Ascension Arts (prosthetic care and creative arts), Abishai Arms (firearms therapy and resilience training for Veterans), and Ascended Terra (nature-based and animal-assisted therapies). We emphasize culturally sensitive, trauma-informed care, sustainability, and joy, creating a nurturing environment where individuals can heal and thrive. Our focus on female Veterans and those with limb loss ensures tailored support for underserved communities, while our multicultural approach honors diversity in all its forms. We are deeply grateful for the support of our donors and partners, who enable us to provide these life-changing services. Join Ascending Minds in empowering individuals to rise above challenges, embrace their strengths, and build a brighter, more connected future through mental health and holistic healing.