Holistic Therapy
Holistic Therapy Los Angeles
Holistic Therapy: Supporting Mental Health Through Mind and Body
Evidence-based therapeutic practices combined with holistic practices to ensure a whole person healing experience – mind, body, and spirit.
- Breathwork, meditation, and mindfulness to reduce stress and build emotional resilience
- Nutrition and exercise to strengthen physical well-being
- Integrated alongside CBT, DBT, and other traditional therapies
What Is Holistic Therapy?
Holistic therapy is a type of therapeutic modality used to treat substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. It involves using approaches that are outside of what is considered conventional treatment. Holistic therapy takes a whole person approach to treatment – meaning, it emphasizes not just looking at the mental aspects of a certain condition, but also your physical and spiritual well-being.
For behavioral health concerns, licensed and experienced mental health practitioners often use an integrated approach where traditional therapies are combined with holistic therapies, such as breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, yoga, and more.
Why Mental Health Does Not Just Stay in Your Mind?
For a long time, we have been conditioned to think of mental health as something that only happens in the mind. If you feel anxious or depressed, it is easy to assume it is just “in your head.” But reality is not as simple.
Mental health is closely connected to how your body feels and responds.
One helpful way to understand this is through the concept of a “window of tolerance,” where you feel balanced and able to handle things. When you are within this window, you can think clearly, manage emotions, and get through your day without feeling overwhelmed.
But when you move outside of that window, things can start to feel off, and you can experience:
- Restlessness
- Tension
- Fatigue
- Sleep disruption
This is why holistic mental health treatment focuses on more than just your thinking patterns. It acknowledges that your body is part of the experience and is also a part of your healing.
How the Nervous System Affects How You Feel?
Your nervous system plays a central role in how you experience life and its challenges.
When you are under stress, your body can shift into a fight-or-flight state. This is useful in handling immediate stress, but when it becomes prolonged, you can also experience:
- Feeling of “being on edge” all the time
- Irritability
- Anger
- Anxious
- Burnout
- Fatigue
- Hypertension
- Weakened immune system
- Cardiovascular disease
Under the fight-or-flight response, it becomes difficult to relax even when nothing is wrong.
This is where mind-body therapy becomes important. It helps regulate the nervous system so that your mind can return to a more relaxed state, and as an outcome, your body feels relaxed, too.