Open House Weekend
For Mental Health Professionals
September 26–28 | Cambridge, MA
Open the Door to New Experiences
So often, we encourage our clients and loved ones to engage in practices outside the therapy room that might support their growth. Equally often, the fear of the unknown prevents our clients from trying things outside of their comfort zone.
It's your turn.
Open the door to new experiences. Open the door to new ways of healing.
Join the team at Orange Door Collaborative for a nourishing weekend designed for mental health professionals.
Our inviting space will be home to workshops, movement, song, and meaningful ways to connect with other mental health professionals.
Why Try Something New?
This weekend is your chance to step into practices that may feel new, unfamiliar, or even outside your comfort zone.
Take singing, for example. Song circles have been used for centuries to bring people together, regulate the nervous system, and create strength in community. Just as breathwork connects mind and body, the resonance of sound can bring balance and grounding.
You can’t know what will truly support your clients—or yourself—until you’ve experienced it firsthand. This weekend is your chance to explore different modalities and discover practices you may one day bring into your own therapeutic process.
What You Will Experience
Explore holistic practices designed to support your well-being
Learn new tools to strengthen your professional practice
Connect with a community of local therapists and healers
You’ll leave feeling restored and resourced—ready to bring even more to your clients.
Join us for this special weekend and experience the collective energy of a community dedicated to healing. You just may surprise yourself.
Weekend Schedule
Schedule Highlights
Meditation · Breathwork · Using Playfulness in EMDR · Sound Bath · Soul Dance · Energy Work · Yoga · Somatic Movement · Feldenkrais · Singing Circles · Mindfulness · Embodiment · Effective Storytelling · Moving Through Grief … and many more!
Our full weekend schedule with descriptions and bios are below!
Pricing
Single Session — $25
Three Sessions (Full Day Friday!) — $60
Full Day Pass (Saturday or Sunday) — $90
All-Weekend Exclusive Pass — $200
Optional Add-On: Multiple private bodywork sessions available to book during the weekend (see schedule for more information).
Intentional Lunch Hours and Saturday’s 4–5:30PM Social Hour are FREE!
(Registration required to attend)
Register for your workshops now (free) and pay later by cash, credit, check, or Venmo.
Discounts
Early Bird Special: 25% off your total if you register by September 12th
Bring a Friend: 25% off your total for both you and your friend when they register through you!
Who Is This Weekend For?
This weekend is for all mental health professionals.
It’s an opportunity to step away from your role as the helper and spend time caring for yourself, while also exploring practices that can enrich your professional work.
You’ll have the chance to:
Upgrade your professional practice with tools and approaches that support your clients’ therapeutic goals.
Discover new modalities that nourish your own well-being and expand your understanding of healing.
Engage in meaningful conversations on health topics that directly impact you and your work.
Connect deeply with other local therapists, healers, and wellness professionals.
Because therapists need care, too. This weekend is designed to restore, inspire, and remind you of what’s possible when we open the door to new ways of healing.
Friday Sept 26th
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Andrea Insoft, LICSW RYT 200TT and Bridget Glenshaw, LMHC RYT 200TT
Description: This workshop will incorporate yoga, breathwork, journaling, the expressive arts, and symbolism to give a sampling of what a larger workshop or extended series would be in which participants begin the process of exploring grief. Grief is an open ended concept and can incorporate a person, place or life situation that is changing, or has changed and produced a sense of loss. In this workshop, we will dip our toes into this extraordinary opportunity to encounter grief through the integration of the body, breath, and one's own creative spirit. This is the perfect opportunity to honor a loved one, or to prepare for an anticipated loss. We will not be processing verbally in this workshop; however, embedded within an experiential exercise that will be offered, each participant will be offered an opportunity to "name" their grief aloud should they wish.
Facilitator Bio: Bridget Glenshaw and Andrea Insoft are both psychotherapists specializing in grief work and trained yoga teachers. Bridget received her 200 YTT training with Rolf Gates and Andie received her 200 YTT at Balance Studio. Bridget is also an expressive arts therapist and recently trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, while Andie is trained in EMDR and somatic therapies and has spoken nationally and internationally on all aspects of pregnancy loss, grief and healing. They have worked together for many years providing pregnancy loss support groups through Newton Wellesley Hospital’s HEAL Foundation. Both are in private psychotherapy practice specializing in pregnancy loss, as well as all aspects of grief and healing.
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Allison Talis
Description: A guided improvisational movement practice that engages somatic awareness to facilitate personal growth, emotional well-being, and collective healing. Welcoming participants of all experience levels, bodies and identities. We dance to expand and evolve our embodiment. We dance to release stored tension, emotions and patterns. We dance to integrate our experiences and we dance to remember who we really are.
We enter in a cycle of movement that begins slow, builds in intensity, peaks, lightens, and then settles. Through verbal instructions, participants are invited to explore, in their own bodies way – a variety of movement patterns, physical inquiries, and focal points. The journey is curated to an intentional and eclectic world music soundscape.
It is an alive journey where you might sweat (though you are always in control of your rhythm and pace).This class allows you to engage with the wisdom of your own body, to take you on a journey. This is a trauma-informed practice and container. This is a no eye contact practice (unless instructed- and even then, always just an invitation- not required)
There is wild and real wisdom living in our bones- we follow that wisdom.
Soul Dance is a practice, where the more we do it regularly, the more we learn about ourselves, our patterns, our truths and the fluctuations of our minds and emotions. We learn to be with, to surf, to express, to clear the way all while being in Community.
Facilitator Bio: Allison is a somatic therapist and the creator of Soul Dance and Emotion in Motion, out of twenty-five years of study, training, and practice in the performing and healing arts. In her role as the National Healing & Wellness Practitioner for the Joyful Heart Foundation, she developed and led programs, workshops, and therapeutic retreats for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse—as well as for the healers working on the frontlines of trauma. She was the Founder of Creative Seeds, a non-profit organization, which focused on working with communities through creative arts immersion projects and initiatives in both South Africa and the United States.
Allison is also a yoga teacher with specialized training in yoga for trauma. She is a certified Historical Trauma Specialist and Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist. She taught at Sonic Yoga in New York City, Bhakti Yoga Shala in Los Angeles, BODY of Santa Fe, and was the resident yoga teacher for the Santa Fe Opera and Align Brooklyn. Certifications include Kundalini Yoga Therapy, Level 1, Trauma Resiliency Model, Yoga for Trauma, Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist. She holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre with a focus on addressing Historical Trauma and Collective Healing.
Allison was named one of the 2015 United States Presidential Scholars’ most influential teachers by the United States Secretary Department of Education. She served as the Department Head of Movement, Dance, and Devising, where she also taught movement at the Professional Performing Arts School of New York City. She is a Theater Director and has directed at numerous theaters in New York City, regionally, and internationally. She received mentorship as an Assistant Director at the Steppenwolf Theatre. She was an ongoing Resident Director with New York University’s First Look Theatre Company, a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors’ Lab, and a 2004 SSDC Traube Fellowship nominee.
Allison has studied, trained, certified, practiced, and walked many paths and methodologies in the creative arts, mental health, and spiritual realms.
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Sela Aaron
Description: This is a restorative sound scape to regulate the nervous system, deeply relax the muscles, and tap into an inner peace within the community.
Facilitator Bio: Sela has deepened her studies through advanced training in breathwork, ayurvedic medicine and meditation. With her background in working with children, Sela brings warmth and lightheartedness to her teaching.
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One-Hour Sessions — $120
Available Time-Slots: Friday at 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 3:00PM, 4:00PM
Facilitator Bio: Tiffany Sankary is an artist, Feldenkrais® Practitioner/ Assistant Trainer, Jeremy Krauss Approach teacher, Organic Intelligence® Coach and mother of two.
She is the creator of MovementandCreativity.com, an online community and multimedia resource exploring the intersection of movement, creativity, well-being, vitality and learning. Tiffany is the illustrator and editor of Feldenkrais® Illustrated: The Art of Learning, a visual guide to the philosophy and writings of Moshe Feldenkrais.
Tiffany works online and in person (Somerville, MA) with a wide range of amazing humans, including: artists, writers, teachers, therapists, entrepreneurs, caregivers, parents, those with stress/ anxiety/ pain/ chronic illness & people who want to integrate physical, emotional & creative well-being into their lives.
Saturday Sept 27th
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Susane Smiroldo
Description: This workshop invites therapists to experience mindfulness both on and off the mat.
Through a guided mindfulness talk and short meditation practice, participants will explore how presence can deepen awareness in daily life and in clinical practice.
The session will then flow into an accessible yoga practice that integrates mindfulness into movement, breath, and body awareness. Guided by the mantra “the way out is in,” participants will learn simple yet powerful tools to reconnect with themselves and cultivate presence with others. No prior yoga experience is required.
Facilitator Bio: Susane Smiroldo, RYT-200, is a Vinyasa, Prenatal, and mindfulness yoga instructor,as well as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor in training. She is a member of the Mental Health Counselors Association’s DEI Committee and an activist for immigrant rights.
Her greatest offering to students is presence. In her classes, Susane invites participants to connect breath with movement and to focus on the present moment, cultivating peace, awareness, and joy. She looks forward to sharing this practice and creating space for wellness, both on and off the mat.
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Elena Elizabeth & Jordan Mudd
Description: This emergent session will use somatics, gentle movement, and song to open and ease participants into deeper connection with their bodies, others, and the space. Our practice will be invitational, underlining the choice and agency of each person present. All are welcome, no experience is required.
Facilitator Bio: Elena Elizabeth is a transformational facilitator of collective learning, healing, and ritual experiences. As a facilitator she integrates the belief that we are all teachers and all students, all connected on the journey to liberation. As a practitioner of somatics, biodanza, dialogue and creative arts education, she co-creates space with participants embodying a practice of presence and deep listening.
Jordan Mudd is a musical facilitator, ritualist, grief tender, and prayerful activist. As a co-founder of Boston-Area Singing Circles, he leads community singing gatherings and songful rituals around Boston designed to connect people with their bodies, each other, and the Earth.
Together, they bring a unique blend of style and energy, a trust in each other and in the collective, and their shared commitment to listening for what the moment is asking for.
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Kristen Melanson Gimenez
Description: In this workshop, we will explore the practice of shifting frequency. Through breath, sound, visualization, and mantra, we’ll intentionally create space to welcome in new, healthy, and healing vibrations. This process supports the gentle release and dissolution of emotional wounds and stored trauma, bringing balance and restoration to both body and mind.
Facilitator Bio: Kristen Melanson Gimenez is an Intuitive energetic therapist, Reiki Master Teacher, Interfaith Minister, and mother of four children.
For the last twenty six years, she has been practicing and teaching all levels of reiki, while incorporating many other forms of energetic therapy, such as, sound and vibration, therapy with tuning forks, aromatherapy, crystal healing, plant and flower medicine and life and nutritional coaching teaching. Kristen believes that there is nothing more sacred or important than creating and holding a safe space for another. This is the basis of all her work.
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Nancy Turnquist C-IAYT, RCST, PPNE
Description: This 90‑minute experiential workshop invites therapists and practitioners into a direct exploration of biodynamic somatic practices informed by yoga therapeutics and embodiment. Through guided exercises, collaborative exploration, and reflective discussion, participants will gain an authentic felt sense of how these practices can support regulation, presence, and integration — both for themselves and their clients.
The session is designed to be accessible for beginners while also offering depth for those already incorporating somatic approaches. By engaging body‑based awareness, resonance, and restorative rest, participants will experience how trauma‑informed somatic practices can complement therapeutic work and open pathways for deeper listening, connection, and healing.
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Description: Have somatic approaches played a role in your own healing journey—whether from chronic health conditions or challenging life events?
Join us for an intentional social hour designed for therapists and healing practitioners. This is a space to slow down, connect, and engage in real conversations about the power of body-based practices in navigating trauma and fostering resilience.
We all have personal stories about the integration of mental and physical health. We’ll have Nancy Turnquist and Jennifer Santos start the conversation by speaking on their own personal experience. We invite participants to add their stories in the spirit of learning from one another and deepening connection. We’re skipping the small talk and leaning into authenticity, curiosity, and vulnerability. Whether you’re here to share or simply to listen, your presence matters.
If you’re passionate about supporting your clients, exploring trauma-informed work, or simply seeking deeper connection with others who “get it,” this gathering is for you.
Come as you are. Connect with your community. Leave feeling nourished and inspired.
Light refreshments will be provided.
We’d love to have you—bring your curiosity and an open heart.
Facilitator Bio: Naomi is a trauma therapist certified in EMDR and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
With a rich background, including a postdoctoral fellowship at the esteemed Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, Naomi has dedicated her career to understanding and healing the deep psychological impacts of trauma.
She values an open and collaborative approach to the profound work of healing the effects of traumatic stress, building resilience in the face of adversity, and helping people find a sense of calm and strength in their own skins.
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Valentina Gambino
Description: A slow, intentional vinyasa class designed to nourish both body and mind. Move through a mindful flow that cultivates breath awareness and subtle strength, all set to soft music and the calming glow of candlelight.
Finish it off with 2–3 deeply restorative poses, held for the 5–7 minutes they’re intended to be held for to allow your body to fully release and your nervous system to settle. You'll then be guided through a Yoga Nidra meditation—a restful practice of conscious relaxation that invites deep healing and inner stillness.
Facilitator Bio: With a Bachelor's degree from Johnson & Wales University and a few transformative experiences teaching yoga across Europe, Valentina is deeply connected to the art of mindfulness and movement. Practicing and teaching yoga has moved me into a state of constant inspiration and motivation. I firmly believe in its power to heal and transform oneself to being of overall wellness. My goal is to guide others to find their own light and experience power of breath and physical movement.
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Sunday Sept 28th
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Description: Orange Door Collaborative is proud to partner with Massachusetts General Hospital on a current, ongoing research study exploring the impact of Hatha26 yoga on depression.
As part of this study, yoga classes are held four times a week right here at Orange Door—bringing clinical research and holistic healing together under one roof.
This collaboration is a powerful example of how Orange Door bridges traditional therapy with innovative, body-based practices. It's not only meaningful work, but also a unique opportunity for your clients to get involved, as the study offers rolling admission and welcomes ongoing participation.
We’re excited to be part of this important research—and even more excited to share it with our community. Come join class and see what the study is all about!
More about the class: HATHA26 is a style of yoga that features a fixed sequence of 26 postures and two breathing exercises. Traditionally practiced in a heated room, it can also be practiced in a regular, climate-controlled environment. When done without heat, the focus remains on the sequence’s physical and mental benefits, without the intense sweating associated with the heated practice.
Benefits of HATHA26 practiced without heat:
Enhances flexibility and muscle strength through deep stretching
Improves circulation and promotes cardiovascular health
Increases mental focus and calmness
Supports weight management and overall fitness
Promotes better posture and spinal alignment
Builds endurance and mental resilience
Practicing in a non-heated environment may make the postures more accessible and comfortable while still providing many of the physical and mental wellness benefits.
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Dr. Naomi Azar
Description: Are you interested in EMDR and don't understand what it is and how it works?
Are you an EMDR practitioner but find yourself veering off course?
Are you someone who wants to bring more creativity and play into your EMDR practice?
Join me for a workshop that will provide an overview of EMDR and its method of action while also re-inspiring established EMDR practitioners to dive in with clarity and courage into the work of trauma processing.
Facilitator Bio: Naomi is a trauma therapist certified in EMDR and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
With a rich background, including a postdoctoral fellowship at the esteemed Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute, Naomi has dedicated her career to understanding and healing the deep psychological impacts of trauma.
She values an open and collaborative approach to the profound work of healing the effects of traumatic stress, building resilience in the face of adversity, and helping people find a sense of calm and strength in their own skins.
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Jody Boatwright
Description: Trauma-informed vinyasa flow that uses alignment to bring the mind into the body and meditation to attune mind, body and sense of self.
Facilitator Bio: Jody teaches yoga that is grounded in mindfulness and guided by an experiential cuing style. You can expect a mix of meditation, vinyasa flow, long hold asanas and subtle energetic attunement.
Yoga has been an inspiration for Jody’s personal growth for over 20 years. As practice evolves and changes he has experienced the joy of rediscovering the depth of embodiment and awareness of Self over again and again. That continuous rediscovery inspires him to seek out new knowledge and to share the journey with others.
Studying with Lauren Farenga-Kosmidis at Lotus Yoga Studio, he received his 200RYT credentials. Studying with Chitra Sukha at Yogi Hari’s Ashram, he received his Yoga Nidra Teacher Training. Jody is currently working towards his 500RYT certification at Down Under Yoga.
You’ll find him practicing in nature and studios around Boston.
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Alison Rhodes, PhD, LICSW, and Maggie Jarmolowski, LICSW
Description: Join us for an informal lunch conversation about Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Bring your own lunch or pop into one of the cafes located right below Orange Door Collaborative! Over lunch, we’ll explore together:
What KAP is and how it can support healing and growth in the outpatient clinical setting.
The opportunities, benefits, and challenges of this work.
Different structures of KAP (individual, group, retreat) and what they offer.
Considerations around client fit—who KAP may be most supportive for, and who it may not be appropriate for.
This is a space for open, collegial dialogue. Whether you’re curious, already familiar, or considering how KAP might fit into your practice or client referrals, we welcome your questions and perspectives.
Facilitator Bio: Alison Rhodes, PhD, LICSW, and Maggie Jarmolowski, LICSW, are both experienced KAP practitioners who offer individual sessions, as well as small group and retreat-based KAP.
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Ravensong Retreats (Inbal Dagan & Desiree Dennis)
Description: Inbal Dagan & Desiree Dennis will be facilitating a nurturing singing circle with a focus on self-care & community connection. In a singing circle, songs are shared that are simple, easy to learn, and then sung all together... sometimes with layering harmonies and different parts. Songs will be repeated for several minutes in a mantra-like style (similar to artists like Beautiful Chorus or MaMuse) to allow everyone to get in the flow together. Improvisation is welcome throughout! Inbal & Desiree look forward to sharing this experience with the Orange Door community!
Facilitator Bio: Inbal Dagan & Desiree Dennis, co-founders of Ravensong Retreats, are thrilled to be facilitating nurturing community singing circles at Orange Door Collaborative. In a singing circle, songs are shared that are simple, easy to learn, and then sung all together, sometimes with layering harmonies and different parts. Songs will be repeated for several minutes in a mantra-like style (similar to artists like Beautiful Chorus or MaMuse) to allow everyone to get in the flow together. Improvisation is welcome throughout!
In their joint work at Ravensong Retreats, Inbal & Desiree are currently offering monthly self-love retreats and singing circles in the Boston area to empower each of the 7 chakras. They are passionate about supporting others in their journey of self-love, healing, creative expression, & embodiment.
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David Arfa
Description: Stories shape all aspects of our lives including our experiences of grief. They are shaped and formed by our unique relationship with the one who has died. They go hand in hand. And, because we are mind/bodies, our grief stories can also be found in our bodies. Using story prompts, we'll discover our own responses to grief and how it wants to be expressed in our mind/bodies. We'll share with each other and we'll deepen our capacity to listen without reacting, analyzing and fixing. Part storytelling workshop, part grief support group, this training will demonstrate grief-informed care, a new humanizing paradigm in grief support as well as provide a handful of activities to use with clients. All participants are asked to reflect on the death of one significant person as they explore their grief journey.
Facilitator Bio: David is a grief counselor and director of bereavement services for Baystate Hospice. He retrained as a spiritual counselor 10 years ago and has served in community hospitals, behavioral health hospitals and elder care facilities as a hospital chaplain supporting people of all backgrounds. It was here he developed specialties in grief support, trauma informed care, addiction and spirituality, moral injury/ resilience and exploring personal theology through narrative.
David is also a storyteller and educator who is rooted in Judaism’s storytelling heritage and ancient environmental wisdom. David has produced two award winning CD’s and has a full-length storytelling performance, "The Jar of Tears: A Memorial for the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto", which won the Charles Hildebrandt Holocaust Studies Award for its “artistic excellence, depth of vision and technical mastery”. Rabbi Shapiro wrote and buried sermons from within the Ghetto. He did not survive the war, and yet his writings, described by scholars as a theology of weeping, were found by construction workers after the war. This performance reimagines his sermons as letters written in his diary. To find out more about his storytelling performances and educational programs please visit, www.maggiddavid.net
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Sela Aaron
Description: This is a restorative sound scape to regulate the nervous system, deeply relax the muscles, and tap into an inner peace within the community.
Facilitator Bio: Sela has deepened her studies through advanced training in breathwork, ayurvedic medicine and meditation. With her background in working with children, Sela brings warmth and lightheartedness to her teaching.
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Upcoming Therapist Membership
We are launching a brand-new membership designed specifically for health care professionals—especially therapists—who could benefit from holistic wellness themselves. Our vision is to create a supportive community that promotes healing for those who dedicate their lives to helping others.
This membership will include:
Access to a community of like-minded professionals
Exclusive wellness classes tailored for health care professionals (yoga, sound baths, reiki, massage, etc.)
Monthly workshops and potential accredited CEUs
A discount code therapists can share with their clients to introduce them to the benefits of holistic health
This Open House is the perfect weekend to attend if you are interested in being a part of this membership model. For more questions, please to email studio@orangedoorcollaborative.com