Beyond Talk Therapy…
Integrative Workshops and Individual Sessions
Non-clinical, non-diagnostic practices that support healing, exploration,growth, wayfinding, clarity and meaning-making
Featured Experiences
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Creating Rituals for Healing + Balance Workshop
Rituals hold the potential to intensify healing, clarity, creativity, and motivation. In this workshop, you'll explore the timeless practice of ritual and discover the essential elements that give it meaning and power for you. You’ll learn to design and use rituals that support your intentions and facilitate movement towards greater levels of healing and fulfillment.
Where – Swan River Yoga (Midcity)
When – Saturday May 2nd, 2-3:30pm
Teachers – Carol Benoit, PhD
Cost to Attend – $45Watch this video to learn more!
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Sacred Geometry + Sound Bath Workshop
Geometry is the universal language that integrates logic, aesthetics, spirituality, and sensory experience. In this class, we will use all of our senses to discover new ways of experiencing the world. Expect slow and gentle movement, meditative sound bath, exploring sacred geometry in art, architecture, and natural objects.
Where – Swan River Yoga (Midcity)
When– Friday May 29th, 5:30-7:00pm
Teachers – Carol Benoit, PhD and Stephanie Stelly
Cost to Attend – $45 -
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Therapeutic Yoga
Trauma-informed, individualized yoga instruction and guidance.
Teacher – Charles Bourg, LPC
Cost – $130/ Session -
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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage is more than travel—it is a journey with intention, a movement through the outer world that invites change in the inner one. Whether rooted in spiritual tradition, personal transition, grief, healing, or creative renewal, pilgrimage creates space to step away from the familiar and listen deeply.
Drawing on my own years of pilgrimage experience as well as research on the transformative impact of pilgrimage, I offer grounded, compassionate guidance to assist in shaping your journey. My role is to to support and guide you before, during, and after your journey so that your pilgrimage becomes not just a meaningful experience but a lasting source of clarity, insight, resiliency, integration, and transformation.
Teachers – Carol Benoit, PhD
Cost – $125 / session, $300 / 3 sessions -
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Walk and Talk Therapy
Take your therapy outside and integrate your process into real life. Experience the powerful benefits of walk and talk therapy, the new research-based take on traditional therapy.
Clinician – Charles Bourg, LPC
Cost – $130/ Session -
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Meditation + Mindfulness
Meditation is not one-size-fits all. In these personalized sessions, I assist you in discovering the style of meditation that best fits your temperament, intentions for practicing, and life circumstances—whether you’re seeking relaxation, emotional balance, spiritual growth, or support with challenges like stress or anxiety. Together we’ll build a realistic, meaningful practice, and I’ll offer guidance along the way to help you understand your experiences and integrate meditation into your everyday life.
Teachers – Carol Benoit, PhD
and Charles Bourg, LPC
Cost – $120 / Session
Sacred Geometry + Sound Bath Workshop
Circles, Spirals, and Mandalas: Shaping Your Life with Sacred Geometry and Sound Bath
Architecture, art, spirituality and science converge in the ancient yet timeless realm of Sacred Geometry. Geometry and music both extend from the universal language of numbers. Through sacred geometry, the vibration of sound is transformed into harmonized, balanced visual form and geometric shapes are transformed into music. Sacred geometry encodes endless wisdom and beauty offering nourishment that is available to us in every moment.
This experiential workshop will open your eyes, ears, and and tactile senses to the meaning and beauty that is all around us, hidden within form and space. Encoded within natural and inspired shapes of geometry there is endless wisdom and beauty, nourishment available to us in every moment. Learn to access the power inherent in shapes and sound that reflect the relationships between vibration, form and space.
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Experiential learning
Slow, gentle movement
Appreciating and savoring sacred art from around the world
Deepening awareness of shape characteristics
Beneficial use of sacred geometry in everyday life
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When – Friday May 29th, 5:30-7pm
Where – Swan River Yoga (Midcity)
Cost of Attendance – $45
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Creating Rituals for Healing + Balance Workshop
Initiate a new pattern in your life with the power of ritual.
Rituals hold the potential to intensify healing, clarity, creativity, and. motivation. Sacred, patterned, and embodied, rituals mark endings and beginnings, assisting us in navigating transitions in life. Whether a cycle is winding down or newly beginning, ritual can assist. For endings, ritual brings closure and integration of wisdom. For beginnings, ritual will set the wheels in motion.
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Learn to design and use rituals that support your intentions
Discover the essential elements that give rituals meaning and power
Move towards greater levels of healing and fulfillment
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When – Saturday May 2nd, 1-2:30pm
Where – Swan River Yoga (Midcity)
Cost of Attendance – $45
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Therapeutic Yoga
Trauma-informed, individualized yoga instruction and guidance.
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Cost – / Session
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Pilgrimage
A guided journey of meaning, intention, and integration.
Pilgrimage is more than travel—it is a journey with intention, a movement through the outer world that invites change in the inner one. Whether rooted in spiritual tradition, personal transition, grief, healing, or creative renewal, pilgrimage creates space to step away from the familiar and listen deeply.
Drawing on my own years of pilgrimage experience as well as research on the transformative impact of pilgrimage, I offer grounded, compassionate guidance to assist in shaping your journey. My role is to to support and guide you before, during, and after your journey so that your pilgrimage becomes not just a meaningful experience but a lasting source of clarity, insight, resiliency, integration, and transformation.
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Pilgrimage can take many forms. It may involve walking an ancient path, traveling to a place that holds symbolic meaning, or creating a journey around a life transition or question. Pilgrimage can be a group, couple, or solo experience. What makes it a pilgrimage is intention—the choice to step out of routine and enter a journey designed to open reflection, healing, and growth.
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Pilgrimage may be called for at times of transition, grief, or when seeking clarity or direction. It can mark a threshold or new chapter, renew vitality, fill a longing for meaning, or establish a felt connection to the self, humanity, and the universe.
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If you feel called toward a journey, I would be honored to help you shape a pilgrimage that reflects your path and supports the transformation you’re ready to step into.
Before the journey…
Clarification of your intention or life question
Identification of meaningful locations or routes
Emotional, psychological preparation
Creating simple personal rituals for the journey
During the journey…
Practices for reflection and presence while traveling
Ways to work with challenges, uncertainty, or strong emotions
Methods for deepening awareness of symbols, encounters, and inner shifts
After the journey…
Making meaning from your experience
Translating insights into everyday life
Navigating next steps
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$125 / session
$300 / 3 sessions
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Walk + Talk Therapy
Take your therapy outside and integrate your process into real life. Experience the powerful benefits of walk and talk therapy, the new research-based take on traditional therapy.
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Cost – / Session
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Meditation + Mindfulness
Meditation is not one-size-fits all. In these personalized sessions, I assist you in discovering the style of meditation that best fits your temperament, intentions for practicing, and life circumstances—whether you’re seeking relaxation, emotional balance, spiritual growth, or support with challenges like stress or anxiety. Together we’ll build a realistic, meaningful practice, and I’ll offer guidance along the way to help you understand your experiences and integrate meditation into your everyday life.
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$120 / Session
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Our Evidence-Based Care Philosophy
We specialize in approaches that have proven results:
Collaborative Approach – Every client is an active partner; together, we identify personal and individualized goals, practices, and tools, strategies.
Culturally Sensitive and Inclusive – We honor and respect the identities, backgrounds, traditions and values of all.
Strengths-Focused – We help you recognize and build on your own inner and outer resources accessing resilience, social support, and passions.
Goal-Oriented – Sessions are structured to empower you with new skills, strategies and insights. Progress is tracked collaboratively.
Carol Benoit, LPCS, PhD
Carol has spent more than three decades working in the healing arts as an occupational therapist, counselor, and lifelong student of contemplative practice. Her approach is deeply integrative, informed by training and experience in meditation, mindfulness, yoga, and other traditional healing systems that emphasize the unity of mind and body. Her quest for learning has taken her to many parts of the world to research and experience the healing arts of many cultures. She has also completed extensive training in the Hakomi Method, a somatic psychotherapy that uses mindful awareness and loving-kindness presence. Throughout her career, she has been drawn to approaches that support not just symptom relief, but meaningful, embodied change. Her work reflects a respect for both clinical knowledge and the wisdom found in reflective, experiential practices that support meaningful embodied change. She explores the ways these perspectives can come together in service of whole-person well-being.
Charles Bourg, LPC
With a background as a licensed professional counselor and certified yoga teacher, he brings a deeply embodied and trauma-informed approach to supporting others. His work is guided not only by clinical knowledge, but by a strong intuitive attunement and a respect for each person’s unique pace and story. A lifelong mover and dancer, he values the wisdom of the body as an essential part of healing and self-understanding. His spiritual life has been shaped by pilgrimage in India and an ongoing study of the world’s religious and contemplative traditions, which inform his inclusive and meaning-centered perspective. He is especially passionate about serving marginalized communities, including individuals experiencing homelessness. Across all settings, he is committed to offering a grounded, compassionate presence that honors the whole person.