Art Therapy

Art Therapy is a mental health modality that improves the wellness of individuals through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within a psychotherapeutic relationship.

Art therapy, facilitated by a professional art therapist, effectively supports personal and relational treatment goals. Art therapy is used to improve cognitive and sensorimotor functions, foster self-esteem and self-awareness, cultivated emotional resilience, promote insight, enhance social skills, and reduce and resolve conflicts and distress.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals with a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional. Music therapy interventions can address a variety of healthcare educational goals.

-          Promote Wellness

-          Manage Stress

-          Alleviate Pain

-          Express Feelings

-          Enhance Memory

-          Improve Communication

-          Promote Physical Rehabilitation.

Movement Therapy

Movement therapy refers to a broad range of mindful movement-based practices used to treat the mind, body, and spirit concurrently. Movement-based therapies innately promote health and wellness by encouraging proactive participation in one’s own health, creating community support and accountability, and building a foundation for successful, permanent, positive change. They deliver patient-centered, integrative care that accounts for the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness.

Sahara Wellness Center offers Yoga and Tai Chi which have diverse, evidence-based benefits, including reduction in pain, stress, and debility, and improvements in range of motion, strength, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, physical fitness, mood, and cognition.

Guided Meditation

Meditation therapy is a method of relaxation and consciousness expansion by focusing on a mantra, keyword, or sound while eliminating outside stimuli from one’s awareness. The purpose of drawing attention away from the outside world and abandoning habitual patterns of perceiving and thinking is to facilitate personal change. The focused attention, self-forgetfulness, and heightened awareness of body states open the mind to decreased preoccupation with one's own suffering, a move toward self-understanding, and resulting in changes in attitudes and behavior.