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- Meet Dr. Patterson
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- Locations
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- 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.
The Culinary Therapy NP Academy
Here is a sneak peak into our courses. Using short but information packed videos, you are taught how to take charge and optimize your mental health. Module 2 can be purchased here.
Remotely serving the USVI, Maryland, DC and Nevada.
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