If you've not heard of Wholesome Healing, you're missing out of a gem of a business in Severna Park! If you have children who could use the support of a mental health therapist, look no further than Wholesome Healing.
The therapists’ warmth, play-based approach, and cozy, home-like environment make Wholesome Healing a welcoming and encouraging place for children who need extra emotional support.
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Recently, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to get to know Vanessa Kellner, therapist and owner, as well as office manager Christiana Cortina. Getting to know the heart behind Wholesome Healing has been a privilege, and it is an honor to recommend this most warm and caring practice to local families.
Why I Love Wholesome Healing
- Details Matter: they think of everything to make kids comfortable in their space.
- Sensory Wall: they have a beautiful, bright wall full of different textures and colors.
- Worrry Monster: kids are welcome to write down their worries on a small piece of paper, and the monster "eats" them up.
- Max the support dog: Max's second home is at Wholesome Healing. He is truly the sweetest people-pleasing dog that kids love to love.
- The staff: staff truly love kids and are fully trained in play-therapy.
- Parents involvement: parents are partners with therapists in their kids' treatments.
Wholesome Healing's 10th Birthday Celebration
Wholesome Healing has been serving kids in our community for a decade now, and they are going strong as ever. And they know how to put on a party too!
On September 13, they invited the community to celebrate their first decade with them. Just their practice, attention to detail was at the heart of making the party truly family-focused! It was fun seeing all the smiles they put on everyone's faces, especially the kids.
The party included fun music, food, games, painting, coloring, blocks, bubbles -- everything kids would plan for their own party!
The celebration was an extension of what they do on a day basis: putting kids first.
Wholesome Healing's Services
- Child and Adolescent Counseling
- Play Therapy
- Social Skills Groups
- Parenting Programs (Circle of Security, Parenting Intense Kids, Child-Parent Relationship Therapy)
- Family Therapy (Filial Family Therapy, Theraplay)
- Professional Training for other pediatric mental health clinicians
Why Choose Wholesome Healing
- Specialized in children and families with a primary focus on Child-Centered Play Therapy, parent support, and family-centered care.
- A relationship-based approach that helps children and families feel connected, understood, and supported.
- Experts in Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), an evidence-based approach designed to help children express themselves, build confidence, and develop healthy coping skills.
- Parent collaboration is at the heart of treatment, recognizing that parents are the experts on their children and essential partners in the healing process.
- Whole-child, holistic care that considers emotional, behavioral, developmental, physical, environmental, and family factors that influence a child's wellbeing.
- Highly trained clinicians who specialize in play therapy - unique in that every clinician on staff has at least one, most multiple, specialized play therapy credentials. One of the only practices, if not the only practice, in the state that can say this.
- Individualized support for every child, with treatment tailored to each child's unique needs, strengths, and experiences.
- Collaborative care model, including consultation with schools, physicians, and other providers when appropriate to ensure comprehensive support.
- A safe, accepting environment where children can freely express thoughts, feelings, and experiences while feeling seen, heard, and valued.
- Committed to helping children thrive, not just reducing symptoms, by building resilience, confidence, emotional awareness, and healthy relationships.
- Serving the community since 2016, with a mission of providing compassionate, developmentally appropriate mental health services for children and families.
In Her Own Words: How Wholesome Healing Began
By Vanessa Kellner, Owner and Therapist
Long before Wholesome Healing was a physical practice it was a vision. I came up with the name Wholesome Healing in 2012 and started the LLC then. At that time it was my dream to create a physical space where people could come and feel cared for. I wanted this space to be beautiful and healing... to offer services that didn't just touch the surface of problems, but truly transformed those who came. A place that offered people a way to find themselves and live fulfilling and rewarding lives.
Fun fact, I did not want to work with children at that time! It wasn't until 2015 that I learned about Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) and adjusted my vision, making it my mission to learn as much about CCPT as I could and to bring this powerful therapeutic modality to children and families in our area.
The universe must have been waiting for me to get that memo because one year after I switched my specialty and decided to become a play therapist, I opened the doors of the first Wholesome Healing location (we have had 3!). Since then I've devoted my professional life to the learning and practice of CCPT and in recent years, to teaching others how to work with children from this approach.
Over 10 years later, I'm still in awe of the power of Child-Centered Play Therapy. And now, I'm also in awe of the team of providers who make up Wholesome Healing - clinicians who are all highly skilled and qualified, passionate in their constant striving for excellence, and equally dedicated to practicing CCPT with integrity. I assure you, you will not find more highly trained pediatric mental health therapists anywhere else. And we all continue to learn and grow through training, supervision, and ongoing research - all the time!
This practice and my work with children is something I am so proud of - and something I will never stop striving for excellence in. We never settle for good enough at Wholesome Healing.
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Vanessa and the Wholesome Healing staff
Contact Wholesome Healing
770 Ritchie Hwy Suite W-16, Severna Park, MD 21146
https://www.wholesomehealingforall.com
wholesomehealingforall@gmail.com
410-541-6132
