An Existential Field Office
Clinical Counseling • Clinical Education • Grant Development • Program Evaluation
Nurtured Mind is a clinical counseling and consultation firm working at the intersection of people, culture, practice, and systems.
As An Existential Field Office, we help people and organizations make meaning, navigate complexity, and turn values into action.
Our work is culturally sustaining, trauma-responsive, neuroaffirming, and relational. We recognize that identity, culture, community, and systems shape how people experience themselves, relationships, and wellbeing.
What We Do
Clinical Counseling
Individual, group, and relationship counseling grounded in meaning, identity, culture, relationships, and the realities of being human.
Clinical Education
Training and consultation that strengthen clinical competency and translate theory into practice.
Program Evaluation
Research-informed evaluation to identify what works, where gaps exist, and how programs can better serve their communities.
Grant Writing & Program Development
Grants, programs, and outcome frameworks that connect community needs and organizational values with evidence and sustainable action.
Why “An Existential Field Office”?
A field office is where ideas meet real life.
We work in that space, where people and organizations make meaning, navigate challenges, and decide what comes next.
Where meaning, culture, and values become practice.
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Complex Grief & Trauma Therapy
Therapy for adults and relationships, shaped around your needs and paced with care. Our clinical work focuses on three areas:
- Systemic coercive dynamics and cult recovery: Rebuilding trust in yourself, your choices, and your relationships.
- Neuro-somatic health and chronic symptoms: Exploring the connections among stress, the nervous system, pain, sleep, and daily life.
- Existential, spiritual, and mindfulness concerns: Making space for questions of meaning, belief, identity, and experiences with contemplative practices.
Individual sessions offer focused culturally sustaining support. Group therapy creates space to learn and connect with others. Relationship sessions help partners strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and deepen connection.
1-hr · In-person & Virtual
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Therapy for QT/BIPOC
Navigating majority norms, cultural expectations, and pressure to explain or conceal parts of yourself can affect your relationships and sense of safety. Therapy offers space to address intimate partner aggression and coercive control, make sense of what is happening, and consider your options at your own pace.
Support is also available for trauma, grief, chronic pain and other persistent symptoms, sleep difficulties, and questions about identity, meaning, spirituality, or mindfulness. Depending on your needs, sessions may draw on EMDR, Brainspotting, Deep Brain Reorienting, CBT-I, clinical or medical hypnotherapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, or neuroaffirming ACT.
1-HR· In-person & Virtual
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Clinical Consultation | Individuals & Groups
Grant Writing , Program Evaluation, Case Consultation & Processing Groups for Mental Health Professionals
1-HR· In-person & Virtual
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Somatics, Yoga, & Wellness Coaching
Trauma Responsive Somatics, Yoga, Strength & Conditioning.
Trauma Responsive Yoga Teacher Training & Continued Education.
1-Hr· In-person & Virtual
In Community: Culturally Sustaining Therapy
Mateo Arias | PhD (c)., LPCC, NCC, BCS
Complex Grief & Trauma Specialist | Applied Social Scientist
About Me
I’m an Afro-Indigenous Latine therapist and PhD candidate in Counselor Education and Supervision. I bring 29 years of experience in behavioral and public health, including 18 years in physical medicine as a sports specialist.
My practice centers QT/BIPOC and other minoritized communities while welcoming people across identities. I offer individual and relationship therapy grounded in culturally sustaining, neuroaffirming, and trauma-responsive care.
Three Areas of Focus
Coercive dynamics and recovery
Support for intimate partner aggression, coercive control, high-control groups, spiritual abuse, family trauma and self-identified cult survivors.
Neuro-somatic health and chronic symptoms
Care for chronic pain, functional symptoms, Fibromyalgia, Functional Neurological Disorder, IBS, Traumatic Brain Injury, Phantom Limb Pain, injury and recovery, and Insomnia.
Existential, spiritual, and mindfulness concerns
Space to explore grief, identity, meaning, changes in belief, and distressing experiences with meditation or mindfulness.
How I Work
I tailor therapy to your goals, culture, nervous system, and lived experience. My approaches may include EMDR, Flash Technique, Gottman Method, Brainspotting, Deep Brain Reorienting, CBT-I, Clinical & Medical Hypnotherapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, ACT, RO-DBT, Existential-Humanistic, Relational-Cultural, and Solution-Oriented therapy.
Therapy should fit you, not the other way around.
Sessions & Fees
All appointments are 1 Clinical hr.
Private Pay
Individual Therapy — $150
Relationship Therapy — $185
Insurance
Select insurance plans accepted.
Benefits and out-of-pocket costs vary by plan.
Accessibility
Accessibility Rate — $125
Open Path Collective — $70
For eligible Open Path clients
Reduced-fee spaces are subject to availability.
Supervised by Robert Keyes, LPC #0017489.
About Me
I know that Healing happens in relationship—with yourself, your body, your history, & your community. I offer a collaborative, culturally responsive approach supporting the mental health, trauma recovery, & personal growth of women & femmes.
How I work: I integrate CBT, DBT, and somatic approaches, balancing practical skills & insight with attention to emotions, embodied experiences, & the ways trauma can shape everyday life.
Why it matters: Therapy should make room for the full complexity of who you are. Together, we can build greater emotional well-being, strengthen your sense of agency, & support meaningful change while honoring your identities, relationships, culture, and lived experience.
Areas of Focus
Trauma & Emotional Health: Anxiety, depression, eating disorders, sexual trauma, & trauma-related concerns.
Intimate Partner Violence: Healing from domestic violence, coercive relationships, & financial abuse while rebuilding safety, autonomy, & self-trust.
Identity & Family: Navigating family conflict, identity concerns, relational patterns, & challenges associated with personality disorders.
Traditional Afro-Caribbean Spirituality Integration: Culturally informed exploration & education related to traditional medicines, Afro-Caribbean spiritual traditions, & African spiritual healing practices.
Ways to work together: Individual Therapy
The Bottom Line
Therapy can be a space to understand what you've experienced, reconnect with yourself, develop practical tools, & create change that reflects who you are & how you want to live.
Sessions & Fees
All appointments are 1 Clinical hr.
Private Pay
Individual Therapy — $150