
Mindfulness, Meditation, Mind/Body Wellness
Mental health services for self-awareness and personal growth
Offering support through community education, groups, and events.
Independent practitioners at The Village Wellness Center promote well-being by providing services and resources in mental health and wellness.
A mindfulness-based philosophy is used to emphasize present-moment awareness as a pathway to recognizing and dismantling counterproductive habits in thoughts, emotional reactivity cycles, and lifestyle patterns. Through cultivating mindful awareness, we can unlock new approaches to life; reduce stress, interact with greater empathy and compassion, focus and solve problems more effectively, and experience life more fully with those we love.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Founder, The Village Wellness Center
Dr. Achilles works with adults, teens and children. She has worked in academic, non-profit and private practice settings with specialization in CBT and mindfulness. Mindfulness utilizes present-moment awareness to better understand and address self-defeating patterns, i
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Founder, The Village Wellness Center
Dr. Achilles works with adults, teens and children. She has worked in academic, non-profit and private practice settings with specialization in CBT and mindfulness. Mindfulness utilizes present-moment awareness to better understand and address self-defeating patterns, improve mental focus and imbue daily life with acceptance and compassion. A strengths-based journey paves the way towards gathering insight, inviting healing, and overcoming areas of persistent difficulty. In network insurance plans: Anthem/BCBS; Cigna
Areas of clinical focus: depression, anxiety, trauma, stress management, relationships, parenting

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Independent Practitioner
Alison (she/her) has been licensed as a clinical social worker since 2000. She sees clients from age 16 through the adult lifespan and has worked in non-profit, academic and private settings. She seeks to support clients to move forward from places of stuckness to wholeness by provi
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Independent Practitioner
Alison (she/her) has been licensed as a clinical social worker since 2000. She sees clients from age 16 through the adult lifespan and has worked in non-profit, academic and private settings. She seeks to support clients to move forward from places of stuckness to wholeness by providing a safe, nurturing space that allows for trust with sensitivity to socio-cultural-political differences. Her goal is to provide you with tools and practices for mindfulness and self compassion that will help you to be both more present in your life and approach yourself with greater kindness, more hope and less adversity. Please see her website for more detailed information: https://abtherapywithcompassion.com/Therapy for individuals, families and walking therapy on trails behind the office.
Areas of clinical focus: depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship changes, life transitions, women/gender/LGBTQ+ issues.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Independent Practitioner
Kathy Hart works primarily with school age children, adolescents and young adults experiencing a wide range of issues. Her twenty years of experience have ranged from addressing the mental health needs of youth in therapeutic foster care to outpatient clinics and private practice sett
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Independent Practitioner
Kathy Hart works primarily with school age children, adolescents and young adults experiencing a wide range of issues. Her twenty years of experience have ranged from addressing the mental health needs of youth in therapeutic foster care to outpatient clinics and private practice settings. Kathy’s flexible, empathetic and goal-oriented approach applies treatment modalities appropriate to the client’s developmental and clinical needs, including cognitive-behavioral, mindfulness, play and family systems techniques. She values collaboration with the child’s family and support system, which facilitates progress at home and in the community and promotes lasting benefits.
Areas of clinical focus: Anxiety and phobias, OCD, emotional dysregulation, ADHD and executive function skills, self-esteem and adjustment issues.

Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Indepent Practitioner
Michelle Reyes offers a specialized practice helping women navigate infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy loss and perinatal stress. Through both personal and professional experience I have gained expertise in treating women during their reproductive process. I pull techniques from multipl
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Indepent Practitioner
Michelle Reyes offers a specialized practice helping women navigate infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy loss and perinatal stress. Through both personal and professional experience I have gained expertise in treating women during their reproductive process. I pull techniques from multiple modalities and feel that treatment should be tailored to each individual client.
If you have recently experienced an infertility diagnosis, failed IUI/IVF cycle, miscarriage or loss, or if you are experiencing stress during or after pregnancy please reach out. No women should have to feel alone during these experiences. Through treatment we can help you feel like yourself again.
Looking for stress reduction tips?
Explore mindfulness fundamentals through resources such as Mindful.org or Jon Kabat-Zinn's book Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Meditation, a focused practice of mindfulness, can be a helpful tool for stress reduction, managing difficult emotions, and coping with chronic mental health or medical issues. Introductory guided meditations are offered freely through the UCLA Mindful Health website and app.
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