We are in network with Cigna, Aetna, Optum, United Healthcare
and accept most PPO insurance policies.
For clients who can commit to 9 hours a week—typically spread over three days—and are looking for a more structured program, we accept insurance for our IOP Program. Our IOP Program provides compassionate, client‑centered care for people whose symptoms interfere with daily life. The program blends individualized therapy, skills‑building groups, and gentle wellness supports—breath work, restorative sound and relaxation practices, movement, life‑skills coaching, and nervous‑system restoration—in a flexible, respectful environment. Sessions combine therapeutic talk work, experiential groups, practical skill‑building, and restorative modalities to calm the nervous system, rebuild daily functioning, and restore purpose and resilience. To learn more or check insurance eligibility, our intake team can walk you through coverage and scheduling options.
The Missing Peace is Accredited by The Joint Commission. This accreditation means that our facilities meet the same quality control and inspection standards as a hospital. The accreditation signifies many things, but most importantly it lets our patients and community know that we have placed an emphasis on quality of care.
Why we can help
While the therapeutic relationship and talk therapy are vital, lasting recovery often requires treating the whole person—brain, body, and spirit. We pair evidence‑based psychotherapy with targeted healing practices that align physical and emotional regulation so you gain both insight and embodied change. Our approach is gentle, realistic, and focused on measurable improvements in daily life.
What are anxiety and depression?
Anxiety is the brain’s built‑in threat detector — a fast, automatic survival system centered in the amygdala that mobilizes fight/flight responses when it perceives danger. That alarm is essential, not pathological; the problem arises when modern life repeatedly activates that system (chronic stress, unpredictability, sleep disruption, health issues, or unresolved past experiences), so the amygdala becomes sensitized and begins to overreact to cues that aren’t truly life‑threatening. Over time this hypervigilance spreads through the nervous system: sympathetic arousal raises heart rate and stress hormones, sleep and digestion suffer, concentration and memory decline, and regulation of mood and impulse becomes more difficult — producing the cognitive, physical, and social symptoms people recognize as anxiety.
Depression and trauma overlap with and amplify these processes. Depression often reflects a down‑regulation of energy and motivation linked to altered reward and stress‑response circuits (reduced positive affect, slowed thinking, withdrawal from activities). Trauma can lock the nervous system into repeated defensive patterns (freeze, dissociation, or intense reactivity) and create strong, implicit neural associations so that reminders of past threat trigger disproportionate fear or avoidance. Together, these conditions shrink behavioral range: the world feels smaller, risk tolerance drops, and previously ordinary tasks become sources of distress.
Because these difficulties are embodied — distributed across brain networks, autonomic states, hormonal systems, and learned bodily responses — effective care is multi‑modal and paced. Gradual, scaffolded exposure and skill‑building allow the nervous system to learn safety without being re‑traumatized; somatic and neuro‑regulation techniques (breathwork, paced movement, neurofeedback, vagal‑tone practices) down‑regulate physiological arousal so cognitive therapy can be more effective; lifestyle and sleep, nutritional and naturopathic interventions restore baseline resilience; and supportive relational work (therapeutic alliance, group practice) provides corrective social experience. In short, lasting change requires interventions that target insight, behavior, physiology, and meaning together, delivered in a steady, tolerable progression so your system can relearn safety, broaden capacity, and reclaim daily functioning.
Why spirituality matters
Hope and connection to something larger than ourselves are powerful catalysts for healing. Psychologically, hope shifts attention from threat to possibility, reduces helplessness, and strengthens motivation to engage in recovery work. Spiritually, connecting with meaning or a sense of purpose expands perspective beyond immediate pain, reduces isolation, and creates an inner resource you can draw on during hard moments. Biologically, practices that cultivate awe, gratitude, or calm (even briefly) lower stress hormones, reduce sympathetic arousal, and support vagal tone—helping the nervous system move from survival into repair and integration.
We integrate this dimension into our care that honors each person’s beliefs and preferences. Gentle practices we use to nurture hope and spiritual well‑being include guided reflection and values‑based intention setting, breath‑guided mindfulness, restorative sound and contemplative listening, imagery and visualization to access inner strength, rituals that mark transition and growth, and practices that foster gratitude and compassionate self‑connection. These are offered alongside psychotherapy and nervous‑system work so the insights you gain in talk sessions are reinforced by embodied experiences that feel real in the body.
The result is greater resilience: clients report clearer priorities, more flexible responses to stress, an increased sense of belonging and meaning, and practical improvements in daily functioning. In short, tending the spiritual or meaning‑making dimension gives you another pathway out of constriction—supporting sustained recovery and a fuller, more purposeful life.
Taking this time for yourself is an important act of self‑care—rebuilding calm and stability helps you show up more fully for work, family, and the life you want to lead. To learn more or check insurance eligibility, our intake team can walk you through coverage and scheduling options.