STEPS TOWARD HEALING: Learn more about deep relaxation and healing through psychotherapy and flotation in this year’s annual Health and Wellness issue. Credit: AI-generated image from Adobe Stock / Graphic by Taylor Saugstad

For this year’s issue of Health and Wellness, our writers delve into a deep state of relaxation, which can help set the stage for healing from trauma, anxiety, and more. That relaxation, called the theta state, can be achieved in a psychotherapist’s office or in a specialized pool of water and Epsom salt. Staff Writer Emma Montalbano talks with the Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center, where eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can be combined with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy to help clients pursue deep healing [6], and Libbey Hanson, staff writer for our sister paper, New Times, immerses herself in flotation therapy at Central Coast Floats [8].

—Camillia Lanham


Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center combines ketamine-assisted psychotherapy with EMDR to speed up recovery


Central Coast Floats in SLO offers flotation therapy to naturally alleviate anxiety, depression, and chronic pain

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