At Villa Kali Ma, we are known best for our integrative approach to women’s mental health and recovery. We offer the most effective, cutting-edge clinical modalities, hand in hand with an abundant array of complementary holistic therapies.
Our core clinical program incorporates all-star treatments like Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, family therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy, and Nature Therapy. Our state-of-the-art trauma program for women centers on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, (EMDR), Brainspotting, Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, neurofeedback, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), and Somatic Experiencing. Our holistic offerings encompass yoga, nutrition, massage, acupuncture, reiki, sound healing, shamanic journeying, mindfulness, energy work, spirituality, and more.
Across our three facilities in northern San Diego County, we cover a full spectrum of addiction recovery services, beginning with medically-supervised detoxification for those who are initiating the journey of sobriety from drugs and alcohol.
You may be wondering how an integrative facility like Villa Kali Ma would approach medical detoxification. What does a holistic approach to detox look like? To answer that question, read on!
Healing the Whole Self: The Holistic Approach to Detox for Women
True to our promise to meet each woman in mind, body, and spirit, Villa Kali Ma’s holistic detox for women heals more than the body alone. Our gentle and effective program is more rightly understood as a mind-body detox, even a spiritual healing detox.
When a woman enters our detox program, the body is certainly where we begin – women’s bodies have many needs during withdrawal. Physical symptoms and potentially life-threatening adverse reactions are front and center during the initial days of stabilization. To make sure our client is safe and secure during the acute withdrawal stage, our medical supervision team observes closely, ready to step in to administer emergency medical interventions and protocols when necessary. Our goal during this time is to help each woman safely rid the body of all harmful toxins, to stabilize her condition, and to begin restoring needed levels of minerals and hydration.
During this time, we meet each woman’s bodily needs for comfort, calm, and safety as best we can in the given circumstances, so that she can have the least painful, least distressing experience of the bodily stabilization process.
While the body has needs for comfort, safety, and protection from stressors to be able to heal, the mind, emotions and spirit have needs during detox too. Withdrawals notoriously impact thoughts, feelings, and even spiritual perception. Because of the beautifully intricate way that mind, body, emotions, and spirit interlace, each dimension of a woman’s being has its own experience of detox. Fortunately, there are many ultra-gentle, non-invasive holistic interventions, ranging from Reiki with essential oils, to sound healing, to acupuncture, to massage, which can help make the withdrawal experience less frightening and difficult.
Supporting the Body’s Natural Healing Process
At Villa Kali Ma, we acknowledge that it is the body itself who creates health, rather than doctors, medicine, or practitioners. Therapeutic interventions, including pharmaceutical ones, are wonderful aids in some instances, but only as ways to support the body’s innate, self-healing mechanisms. All healers work as assistants to the vital life force inside each woman’s body, rather than experts in charge of the body.
In keeping with that recognition, our holistic detox for women is geared towards supporting natural healing processes to flourish in the body. This means removing toxic chemicals and substances, so that the body can self-repair. Drugs and alcohol disrupt and interfere with the body’s natural systems, with wide-ranging effects on immunity, nervous system regulation, cognition, stress, pain modulation, and more.
Once drugs, alcohol, and other commonplace toxins are purged from the body, all of the body’s natural systems of health can be supported to come back online, through the reintroduction of nutrients, minerals, vitamins, and other beneficial, nourishing natural supports for bodily functioning. Nutritional counseling, acupuncture, and massage can be exceedingly helpful for helping body systems to return to natural vibrance.
Integrating Emotional and Spiritual Recovery During Detox
Restoration of the body’s natural life force, and reactivation of self-healing mechanisms, support holistic emotional and spiritual healing. The life force that heals the body is the same life force that heals matters of the heart, clarifies mental perception, and opens spiritual access to states of peace and unification with the divine.
Because of the ways that body and emotion intertwine, an unwell body goes together with emotional challenges, and vice versa. It is not a coincidence that while addiction ravages the body, it simultaneously fills the mind with extreme negative thoughts, fills hearts with emotions of deep suffering, and blocks spiritual resources from being felt as real, loving, and present.
During Villa Kali Ma’s detoxification program, we encourage the self-healing vital life force to return not only to the body, but also to the connected realms of emotion, cognition and spirit. We do this through gentle contact, guidance, and support, meeting each woman in her heart, as well as her thoughts. Each aspect of the detoxification experience is sacred, relational, and in need of supremely gentle attention.
Discover a Holistic Path to Renewal at Villa Kali Ma
At Villa Kali Ma, we engage women attending our programs as the irreplaceable, beloved, remarkable souls that we recognize them to be. Our multidisciplinary team of holistic and clinical professionals provides services with an attitude of kindness, regard, and curiosity towards each woman’s unique essence.
In our private, safe, women-only milieus, we welcome women from all walks of life to discover a holistic path to renewal.
If you’re looking to start a healing journey that will clear the many pains and burdens of addiction, mental illness, and trauma from all pockets of your being, you may want to consider joining our community of recovering women.
Villa Kali Ma is a nourishing, positive place to find support among other women who have experienced life in ways that you will recognize and resonate with from your own story. Our treatment milieus are characterized by small group size, a high ratio of staff to clients, and peaceful settings. Our unique, integrative program was created specifically for women like you.
