OUR MISSION
We believe compassion is the path to changing the world. Head & Heart offer services from an integrated perspective; changing the way our culture views and accesses healing. Our mission is to break down the silos of modern medicine and unite science and spirituality. Focused on the realms of biology, psychology, community, and spirit Head & Heart is a space that offers retreats, coaching, therapy, workshops and more.
Head & Heart connects people to evidence based ancient healing.
Mindfulness Library
Unlimited access to guided somatic practices + teachings
FOUNDER
ELLEN SLATER | LICSW, YT-200
I am passionate about deconstructing our current cultural paradigm of stress and over-stimulation. Throughout my career I have trained with renowned researchers and experts in the field, such as Kristin Neff, Tara Brach, Bonnie Badenoch, and Bessel van der Kolk. I have traveled extensively into non-industrialized countries to learn mindfulness teachings from indigenous communities. Through these experiences I have built an evidence-based model called The Compassion Cultivation Cycle™. This model decreases self-criticism and increases self-worth, it dismantles limiting beliefs and builds an internal dialogue and bio-chemistry that promotes growth, values based living, and authentic self-expression. The modalities and teachings I engage are as follows: Mindfulness, Yoga Philosophy, Ecological Healing, Christian Mysticism, Contemporary Psychology, and Neuroscience. Integrating these tools I apply empathy and acceptance to our very human experience.
“Ellen has the ability to blend a variety of historic teachings with a modern point of view. Her lessons have helped me stay present in my life - no matter what is happening around me.”
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Ellen Slater, LICSW is the founder of the Compassion Cultivation Cycle™, a multi-disciplinary model for building sustainable mindfulness and compassion from the inside out. She received her bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Psychological Services from Northwestern University and master’s degree in Social Work from the University Of Chicago. She completed a 200 hour Yoga teacher certification, which she weaves into her work as indicated. Ellen has specialized training in trauma, anxiety, and substance use, including a Fellowship with the Center of Excellence in Substance Abuse Training at the Seattle Veteran Affairs Hospital. She has extensively studied neuroscience and compassion completing a year long immersion program in Interpersonal Neurobiology with international expert Dr. Bonnie Badenoch. Ellen is sensitive to biological, psychological, social, and spiritual elements of wellness. Her approach is collaborative and interactive with the intention to support discovery, and nourishment, of a whole, integrated self.
WORK WITH ELLEN:
Join our online membership, This Mindful Life, for a monthly class and access to a library of evidence based guided meditations.
Ellen hosts live retreats & trainings.
She is available nationally and internationally for therapy, coaching & professional mentorship.
It would be an honor to share practice with you.
The Brick & Mortar
A Space Designed With Head & Heart
Head & Heart was founded in 2019 as a space to spread the teachings of mindfulness and compassion. Through 20 years of studying mental health, 14 years studying yoga, and her own personal journey, Ellen discovered time and again there is a deep underlying insecurity in the human experience. It’s what Ellen calls The Deficit Mindset, a belief we are operating at a deficit, not enough as we are.
Ellen founded Head & Heart for the purpose of offering accessible healing to community and a space for providers to share their unique gifts. We are a cooperative space where health professionals from all disciplines offer classes, workshops, and retreats to support wellness. Our offerings utilize evidence based ancient healing as a means to shift our biochemistry, increasing harmony from the inside out. Our Offerings give you the tools to live a life in line with your values, cultivating compassion and courage in the midst of busy lives.
The Brick and Mortar of Head & Heart is located in a restored building in the beautiful mountain town of Winthrop, WA. Nestled in the treetops on the second floor, surrounded by light, Head & Heart is a space to gather and learn the latest research and the oldest traditions. Learn about upcoming programs here.
Head & Heart Collective
An INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM OF PRACTITIONERS
Jessica Peterson | Integration Life Coach
Integration Coaching explores your future goals to reveal past emotions that are blocking the expression of your full potential. Cognitive neuroscience has discovered we are aware of only 5% of our mental activity, leaving 95% influencing our thoughts and behaviors unconsciously. Integration Coaching illuminates these patterns in a gentle and supportive process, which leads to exposing unconscious beliefs and habits impacting your experiences. This style of coaching is an empowering process that fosters personal awareness and expands your capacity to build your envisioned future with courage, groundedness, clarity, resilience, joy, and creativity.
Jessica is certified through the Wayfinder Life Coach Training Program by Martha Beck. She supports individuals navigating a range of life struggles, ongoing inner work, and overall personal development.
“My love of people and exploring how we live and find meaning guides my life and is at the heart of who I am.”
You can learn more about her and her practice, as well as access her schedule, on her website: www.jessicapetersoncoaching.com.
Tania Gonzalez-Ortega | Reiki & Sound Healer
Tania Gonzalez-Ortega is a teacher, artist, and healer who has 20 years of experience in Reiki, meditation, and quantum healing. She offers a one of a kind monthly Sound Bath at Head & Heart, the 2nd Sunday of every month. Our body is 70% water, and sound travels through water. Increasing research shows sound can change the rhythms of our brain waves, our heartbeat, and our respiration, affecting our overall health physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Tania integrates the sounds of drumming, crystal singing bowls, harmonium and human voice offering an inner journey towards peace and ease. These classes are designed to restore and refuel you for the month ahead.
Learn more about our sound bath here, as well as access Tania’s schedule for private sessions on her website: www.newearthconsciousness.com
Kathleen Manseau, ARNP-C, MN, BSN
Kathleen Manseau is an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner with extensive training and expertise in primary care family medicine, including medical treatment of addiction, in rural areas with few mental health resources. Her ongoing training includes completion of the Professional and the Advanced training courses with the Center for Mind Body Medicine and the Polaris Insight Center ketamine assisted therapy course, and she is a trainee of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute Psychedelic Assisted Therapy certification program.
Kathleen has founded Nurse Log NeuroHealth, a private practice offering integrative, transpersonal, adjunctive treatment of nervous system conditions encountered frequently in primary care. Learn more about her practice here: https://www.nurselog.org/about-me
"For many people, utilizing psychedelic medicine such as ketamine - or other methods of accessing non-ordinary states of consciousness - can be an effective or even essential treatment to include in their healing journey." - Kathleen Manseau
Sharea Larae
Sharea Larae is a 200-hour registered yoga teacher. She also has certifications as a 100-hour Ayurveda yoga therapist and 100-hour Sound Healing and Ceremony Facilitator. In November she will finish her 200-hour Historical Trauma and Somatic Archaeology©️ training. She weaves ceremony and ritual into the spaces she shares. A woman of North American Indigenous and European descent. She walks as a bridge connecting people back to themselves and the earth, through creating healing spaces, and inviting internal exploration and transformation.
At Head & Heart Sharea offers seasonal workshops to support community in walking into each new season with confidence and clarity by leaning into the wisdom of Ayurveda as a guide for transitioning. Sign up here for her upcoming workshops.
If you’d like to learn more about all the gifts Sharea has to offer, you can discover more on her website: Nourish with Sharea