Healing the Helpers
Trauma-Informed Healing Retreats
Welcome!
We are medical professionals and holistic practitioners with a combined 80 years of experience, here to help you heal old trauma and learn new tools.
You spend your days holding space for others' pain, trauma, and healing. But who holds space for you?
Healing the Helpers is built on one belief: you cannot pour from an empty cup. Whether you come alone, with a partner, or alongside fellow helpers in retreat, our work begins in the same place. With you, your nervous system, and what you have been carrying for far too long.
Our retreats integrate evidence-based healing modalities, including ketamine, a legal medication increasingly used in trauma-informed care. Ketamine-assisted healing is powerful but not for everyone. We provide thorough medical screening and offer trauma-informed retreats and trauma work with and without medicine. Every path to healing is valid.
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Meet the Team
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Trauma Healing Specialist, Birth Processing Coach
I have sat with countless individuals, holding space as they faced and healed their traumas. My training is as a Certified Nurse Midwife, sitting with people as they went through the arduous journey of labor, and supporting them in grief related to fertility and pregnancy loss. Several years ago, I expanded my practice to begin supporting new parents to process traumatic births. Through that work, I developed a method based on Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, Grof Breathwork and other trauma healing modalities that helps support people through healing all kinds of traumatic wounds. I know that it is possible to heal trauma, be it from difficult births, sexual abuse, fertility grief, pregnancy loss, and more.
In just a few sessions together, you can begin to come through the trauma and re-enter your life feeling whole and confident again.
You may meet Bekah if you join a group session.
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Hi. I am Mara.
I have over two decades of experience working as a Physician Assistant at a busy family practice clinic. When working with clients I integrate my medical expertise with my work as a Relationship Coach and Psychedelic Practitioner. As a graduate of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), I combine the knowledge I received in the thorough program with the profound insights that I gained from my own sacred medicine traditions, to help you heal. I am honored to guide you on your personal journey toward healing and transformation.
As a Western medical provider and former first responder, I am particularly passionate about helping my colleagues process the heavy toll of the profession.
My practice also focuses on:
Relationship & Connection: Supporting couples in their relationship issues and guiding individuals towards healthier future partnerships.
The Mind-Body Connection: Drawing from my own journey with menopause, anxiety, autoimmunity, and subsequent medical trauma. I will help clients address how trauma manifests in the physical body.
My personal encounters with grief, loss and illnesses of loved ones informs my work professionally to help others process their own existential trauma and grief in a safe and structured way."
Schedule a discovery call here.
Our Offerings
Whether you are ready to heal in community, deepen your relationship, or do private one-on-one work, we have a path for you.
Healing Retreats in Sonoma County
We believe healing happens best in community, among people who know exactly what it's like to carry what you carry. Our immersive day retreats bring together an intimate group of 4 to 10 helping professionals for a full day of deep, holistic care in Sonoma County.
Through ketamine-assisted healing and clinically supported modalities including yoga, art, meditation, and sound therapy, you will finally have space to tend to your own healing.
Each retreat includes a pre-retreat preparation session, a group preparation gathering, a full day of care from 10 AM to 6 PM with medical supervision throughout, a ketamine medicine session with integration support, and a post-retreat group integration session.
Couples Healing Sessions
Healing together can be one of the most profound things two people do. Our couples sessions create a guided, supported space to deepen connection and work through what has quietly accumulated between you. Ketamine-assisted and non-medicine approaches are both available, woven together with other therapeutic and complementary modalities tailored to you and your partner. Couples sessions are available in person and remotely.
Individual Sessions
For those ready to do deep private work, individual sessions are available with Mara directly, both in person and remotely. Individual work includes a one-hour preparation session, a 2.5-hour medicine session, and a one-hour integration session within 48 to 72 hours to support and anchor what emerged. Most people benefit from three to six sessions.
Medicine-Free Healing Paths
Non-medicine individual sessions are also available with all the members of our healing team. Reach out directly to learn about practitioner availability.
Not sure which path is right for you? Schedule a discovery call.
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Retreat
Our day retreats are designed for deep healing in an intimate group of 4-10 fellow helpers. People who know exactly what it's like to carry what you carry.
Healing the Helpers
One-Day Ketamine-Assisted Healing Retreat
A day of healing designed specifically for those who spend their lives caring for others.
Morning of Your Retreat
6:00 AM - Light Breakfast
Have a light, nourishing breakfast. This will be your last meal before the retreat.
Before You Arrive
Spend time in nature, journal your intentions, take a gentle walk. Arrive grounded and ready to receive.
Retreat Schedule
10:00 AM
Check-In
Welcome to your healing day. Settle in, meet your facilitators and fellow participants.
10:30 AM
Welcome & Overview
Learn what to expect, set the container for our sacred time together, and hear about the transformative power of this work.
11:00 AM
Altar Building & Intentions
Create a communal altar with meaningful items. Share what brought you to this retreat and set your intentions for healing.
11:30 AM
Restorative and Mindful Movement Practice
Get into your body with gentle movement. No yoga experience needed. This is an invitation to reconnect with yourself.
12:00 PM
Sound Offerings & Settling
Bio break, then settle onto your mat with eye shades and blankets. Let the meditation and healing sound carry you deeper into readiness.
12:30 PM
Medicine Journey
A 2.5-hour supported ketamine experience with curated music and full medical supervision. This is your time to heal.
3:00 PM
Integration & Nourishment
Gentle emergence with warm, nourishing soup. Time to ground, rest, and begin processing your experience.
4:00 PM
Sharing Circle
An invitation to share your insights and experiences with the group. This is where individual healing becomes collective wisdom.
5:00 PM
Closing Ceremony
Candle lighting, blessings, and final reminders that your only job moving forward is to care for yourself.
6:00 PM
Close
Departure with your candle, gift, and heart full of healing.
What to Bring
Participants are asked to bring a matt, blanket, pillow, water bottle, eye shades, an item of special meaning to add to the altar and something to hold during medicine session if desired.
After Your Retreat
Plan for a gentle weekend in nature with minimal obligations. We recommend taking the following Monday off work if possible.
Join us for a group integration Zoom session Monday evening at 6:00 PM to process your experience and support one another.
We ask that you also consider engaging in therapy as this has been shown to accelerate change.
We are excited to help you on your trail to wellness.
Traditional Individual Ketamine Session
$1100
Includes:
$300 Medical intake
$200 preparation session
$400 Ketamine-assisted healing session
$200 Integration session
No holistic modalities included
Full-Day Healing Retreat
$1500
Includes:
Rigorous medical intake
1 hour remote group preparation
1/2 hour private remote preparation session
Full-day healing retreat including ketamine-assisted healing session, holistic modalities, nourishing food, and sacred ceremony
1 hour remote group integration
*Ketamine-assisted healing is powerful but not for everyone. We provide thorough screening and offer trauma-informed retreats without medicine. Both paths are valid healing journeys.
Unfortunately we are not taking Insurances at this time.
If you are interested in our services or wish to join our referral network, please reach out. We invite you to forward this to all those in your community who could benefit from this deep, restorative work.
We are also available for professional peer to peer consultations and speaking engagements.
Contact us about group sessions
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LEGAL DISCLAIMER:
We are licensed healthcare professionals that offer retreats supported by legal psychedelic medication and in conjunction with other healing modalities. We comply with all local, state and federal laws and regulations. Nothing on this website should be used as medical advice.