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- Meet Dr. Patterson
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- RELEAF BOUTIQUE
- ABOUT
- Meet Dr. Patterson
- FAQ
- Locations
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- RELEAF BOUTIQUE
- ABOUT
- Meet Dr. Patterson
- FAQ
- Locations
Our Services
Herbal Medicine. Integrated Medication Management.
Nutritional Psychiatry. Culinary Art Therapy.
Four Pathways - One Provider - Your Complete Mental Health Home.The Kitchen as a Healing Space
Culinary Art Therapy
What It Is
Culinary art therapy is a therapeutic modality that combines the sensory, creative, and communal experience of cooking with the emotional depth of expressive arts therapy. It's not a cooking class, it's a journey.In our signature 12-week "Nourish" Group Program, women come together in a beautiful therapeutic kitchen to cook, create, share stories, process emotions, and build a community of healing, one recipe at a time.
What Makes This Different from a Cooking Class
- Every session is designed with a specific therapeutic intention grounding, grief processing, anger expression, joy reclamation, self-nourishment, cultural identity exploration, and more
- Activities are facilitated by a psychiatric clinician who understands trauma, mood disorders, and the therapeutic process
- The focus is on process, not product - how it feels to knead the dough matters more than how the bread looks
- Emotional processing and group discussion are woven into every session
- You don't need to know how to cook. You just need to show up
The "Nourish" 12-Week Program
- Format: Closed group (same women for all 12 weeks)
- Size: 6–8 women
- Schedule: Weekly, Day/Time (TBA)
- Duration: 2 hours per session
- Themes include: Grounding, holding complexity, patience and transformation, anger and power, fermentation and discomfort, ancestral food traditions, self-nourishment, joy and pleasure, becoming your own herbalist, gratitude and community, and integration
Who This Is For
- Women currently in individual treatment (with us or another provider) who want a deeper, community-based healing experience
- Women recovering from trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, or burnout
- Women who have a complicated relationship with food, the kitchen, or their bodies and want to reclaim those spaces
- Women who are craving connection with other women in a meaningful, non-superficial way
Investment
12-Week "Nourish" Program: $75/session
Individual Culinary Art Therapy Session (60 min): $125Nourish Notification
By sending me your name and email address, you'll be the first to know when the next Nourish Cohort starts.
Remotely serving the USVI, Florida, Maryland, Georgia, DC and Nevada.
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