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What is Adventure Therapy?
Adventure Therapy seamlessly blends the excitement of outdoor recreational activities with evidence-based therapeutic practices to support personal growth and healing.
At Adventure Therapy Associates, we believe that nature and adventure have a profound ability to foster emotional resilience, enhance self-awareness, and promote overall well-being.
Through immersive experiences in the great outdoors, individuals can break free from everyday stressors, build confidence, and connect with their inner selves on a deeper level.
Whether it's hiking through serene landscapes, engaging in team-building challenges, or exploring new environments, our approach empowers individuals to embrace change, overcome obstacles, and cultivate lasting emotional and spiritual growth.
Immersive Healing: Adventure, Connection & Personal Growth
Group Recreational Experiences
Group recreational experiences involve engaging in fun, meaningful, and often adventure-based activities within a supportive group setting. These experiences are designed to promote teamwork, communication, and personal growth while fostering a sense of community and connection. Participating in group recreation can help individuals develop social skills, build trust, and enhance their overall well-being in a relaxed and enjoyable environment.
Group Intensive Experiences
Group intensive experiences are structured, immersive programs designed to facilitate deep personal growth, healing, and transformation within a supportive group environment. These experiences go beyond traditional group activities by incorporating focused therapeutic and developmental work, helping participants explore their emotions, overcome challenges, and build resilience in a concentrated timeframe.
By combining experiential learning, therapeutic practices, and peer support, group intensives create a powerful setting for self-discovery, emotional healing, and connection. They are particularly effective for individuals seeking deeper insights, breakthrough moments, and sustained personal growth.
Individual Intensive Experiences
Individual intensive experiences are personalized, focused programs designed to facilitate deep self-exploration, emotional healing, and personal growth in a one-on-one setting. These experiences provide an immersive opportunity to work closely with a therapist or coach, allowing for a tailored approach that addresses specific challenges, goals, and aspirations. Unlike traditional therapy sessions, individual intensives offer extended time and dedicated attention, creating space for profound breakthroughs and lasting transformation.
Through personalized strategies and hands-on experiences, participants can gain deeper self-awareness, build emotional resilience, and create meaningful change in their lives.
Empowering You to Achieve Happiness
Surf Activities
Experience the therapeutic power of the ocean with our surf activities. Designed to build confidence, resilience, and mindfulness, surfing encourages participants to connect with nature, embrace challenges, and find peace in the rhythm of the waves. Whether you're a beginner or experienced, these sessions are perfect for personal growth and emotional healing.
Hiking Adventures
Reconnect with nature and yourself on our therapeutic hiking experiences. Hiking fosters mindfulness, builds resilience, and provides a sense of accomplishment as you navigate scenic trails. Each step is an opportunity to ground yourself, release stress, and find clarity in the beauty of the outdoors. Perfect for personal growth and inner peace.
Wilderness Training
Gain confidence and self-reliance with our therapeutic wilderness training. Learn essential outdoor skills like navigation, survival techniques, and team collaboration while connecting deeply with nature. This immersive experience fosters resilience, problem-solving, and personal empowerment, offering growth and healing in the heart of the wild.
Beachcombing Experiences
Our child and adolescent counseling services are designed to help young people overcome a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, and more. Our therapists use evidence-based techniques to help children and teens develop coping skills, improve self-esteem, and achieve greater success in school and other areas of life.
Photography Adventures
Skate and Scooter Adventures
Capture the beauty of nature and your journey with our therapeutic photography sessions. Through the lens, explore self-expression, mindfulness, and creativity. This activity encourages presence, emotional healing, and connection with your surroundings, allowing you to see the world in a new light while fostering personal growth.
Skate and Scooter Adventures
Skate and Scooter Adventures
Embrace the thrill of skateboarding as a tool for self-expression and personal growth. Whether you're learning new skills or challenging yourself, skateboarding builds confidence, resilience, and focus. This high-energy activity encourages mindfulness, overcoming fears, and finding balance—both on and off the board.
Adventure Therapy Associates: Guiding You to Mental Wellness
Vision
To foster the healing of the social engagement system by creating corrective emotional experiences through the therapy we deliver, the workplace we build, and the community interactions we inspire.
- Our therapeutic model addresses the deep injuries to the social engagement system caused by COVID and other collective traumas.
- We integrate eco-therapy interventions to amplify the potency of positive sensorial inputs, enhancing emotional regulation and fostering a profound sense of connection to the natural world.
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- We provide post-activity processing sessions with therapist trainees, reinforcing healing of the social engagement systems on a deep level.
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- We extend this healing journey through supplemental life coaching, empowering clients to build essential life skills and navigate their paths with confidence and clarity.
- Our robust educational and teambuilding programs further enrich the process, equipping clients with tools to better understand themselves and others, and to engage in healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
- Our practice honors the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit.
This vision represents our commitment to addressing the wounds of disconnection and creating a world where healing, growth, and reconnection are not only possible but inevitable.
Behind The Vision: Our Founding Leadership
About Us
Christin earned her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate
Institute. Her diverse background spans education, sales, the
Marine Corps, and business development, enriched by personal
experiences of marriage, divorce, widowhood, co-parenting,
and step-parenting.
This depth informs her clinical work, where
she specializes in clarifying complex challenges and guiding
clients toward peace.
Christin collaborates with clients to
identify barriers to well-being, heal past traumas, and address
maladaptive behaviors. Her goal is to help clients embrace the
present fully, free from the constraints of the past.
Ami grew up on the East Coast, finding solace in nature
through forest adventures and tree climbing. After moving to
California’s Central Coast, she worked as a psychiatric social
worker, witnessing the impact of disconnecting individuals
from natural environments.
A transformative Ecotherapy workshop at Pacifica Graduate
Institute inspired her to combine psychotherapy with her love
for nature.
Following years of study, workshops, and earning an
Ecotherapy certification, she founded Nature Therapy SLO.
With over 20 years of counseling experience, Ami helps
others heal through the restorative power of nature, fostering
well-being for both individuals and the planet.
Our Adventure Program Partners
Program Partner Overview
Collaborating and partnering with existing adventure programs such as surf schools, skateboarding/scooter workshops, nature photography and other eco/agro adventure programs. ATA seamlessly add a powerful insurance paid Recreational and Intensive Therapy wellness component benefiting the kids and young adults in each program, while simultaneously creating additional revenue benefiting the Program Partner.
"Personal Growth for Professionals: Why ATA Staff Embody the Change We Foster"
- Talk about the importance of self-work and personal growth among ATA staff.
- A year-round employment opportunity for subject matter experts by their respective program partners.
- All staff and program partner affiliates completes the mandatory training on the model including required reading
- All staff actively pursues personal growth to soften our broken parts and model emotionally corrective experiences.
- We provide a steady flow of referrals to our partners through our community outreach efforts (physicians, child psychologists, school counselors, Family Care Network, Seneca, County mental health).
- We provide low to no-cost therapy staff to our program partners to increase the number of participants per group they can hold, and to add a revenue stream by being able to bill insurance companies for services,
- To amplify the activity from a recreational activity to a therapeutic activity.
- Each SME expert will be trained in the ATA healing model and can serve as support staff throughout the network of program partners activities.
Benefits to our Program Partners
- We provide a steady flow of referrals to our partners through our community outreach efforts (physicians, child psychologists, school counselors, Family Care Network, Seneca, County mental health).
- We provide low to no-cost therapy staff to our program partners to increase the number of participants per group they can hold
- We deliver our program partners a new and ongoing ATA program revenue stream, paid by ATA for per person adventure services.