Trauma Focused Therapy

Reducing negative responses is necessary to correct flawed  beliefs related to racialized trauma experiences. Trauma therapy provides skills to help individuals cope with their own emotional distress and respond to others who have been traumatized.


Art Therapy

Uses media, the creative process, and the resulting artwork as a therapeutic and healing process. Art therapy is an effective treatment for anyone experiencing developmental, medical, educational, social, or psychological difficulties. A key goal in art therapy is to improve or restore functioning and a sense of well-being.

Community Health Work/Targeted Case Management

Reversing the impact of poverty and systemic, racialized trauma involves identifying needs, and then developing a plan to support goals identified in partnership with the individual or family.

It also means facilitating contact with other providers; advocating for access to services, and empowering individuals to advocate for themselves.

Bibliotherapy

Focuses on using the power of stories to heal. Safety and connection create space for processing thoughts, feelings, and observations. The written word validates and gives voice to experiences previously silenced to create understanding.

Body-Based Therapy

The balance between the psychological (mental and emotional), physical, and cognitive (knowledge and understanding) functioning of the body creates holistic (whole body) wellness. This balance can become disrupted in response to micro thoughts or experiencing trauma (triggers).

Research shows symptoms of anxiety and depression lessen with therapy that includes the safety and stability found in physical movement.

Community Impact

In 2022, Lighthouse Therapeutic Community Outreach provided therapy to 14 families and 15 individuals in the Topeka community.

 

Over 1800 children and approximately 140 families were touched by the outreach events sponsored by Lighthouse TCO in the Topeka community in 2022.

 

In 2023, Lighthouse Therapeutic Community Outreach provided the Art of Yoga therapy groups to over 150 youth in the Topeka Community at Deer Creek, Boys & Girls Club, and YWCA Kids Quest summer camps. A random selection of youth were asked to provide feedback.

In 2024, Lighthouse Therapeutic Community Outreach shifted to more education, policy, and programming focus to better serve the community. The year began with a grant from the Stormont Vail Foundation to continue providing social-emotional groups to high school students, invitations to discuss issues facing families in the community (homelessness and maternal mental health and morbidity), and training to improve parent/child relationships. 

 

We will continue pursuing opportunities to provide community education focused on intimate relationship abuse, ACEs, trauma-responsiveness, and the importance of (W)Holistic wellness in the community.