Offerings & Events
Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.
In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit
We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.
Supervision Circle with Andrew Fontana
IN PERSON | FOR MEMBERS
Supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, it’s a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. This circle, supervised by Andrew Fontana, is designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, and professional identity formation through collaborative, intergenerational mentorship.
Skillshare: Exploring Child-Centered Play Therapy
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This brief introduction to Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) explores play as the language of healing to support co-regulation and resilience through a relationship-based approach.
Supervision Circle: Solomon Chan
HYBRID | FOR MEMBERS
Supervision is not only a requirement for licensure, it’s a vital relational practice — one that shapes how clinicians learn to think, feel, and work in the presence of others. Our Supervision Circles are intentional, intimate, and accessible spaces for associate-level therapists seeking high-quality supervision within a communal learning environment. This circle, supervised by Solomon Chan, is designed to support clinical development, ethical discernment, professional identity formation, and address balance/integration of life as therapists who are on and off the clock through collaborative, cross cultural, and intergenerational mentorship.
Resource Share: Soul Work Meets Scale
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
A practical, heart-centered workshop for therapists and healers who want to deepen their intuitive abilities while building sustainable, ethical practices. Learn how to align spiritual gifts with clear offerings, consistent outreach, and financially healthy structures, without sacrificing integrity or care.
Skillshare: Shame as Attachment Figure
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
How might we understand and work with shame in a more explicit and life-giving way by viewing chronic shame as a primary attachment figure. This month’s lunch-and-learn workshop, facilitated by Andrew Fontana, will look at shame through the lens of Attachment theory.
The Clinic: Offering Experiments in Expressive Arts in Therapy
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Explore ways to integrate Expressive arts therapy into your practice with Pamela Krueger. You will have the opportunity to experience several creative process examples, along with the related clinical foundations and principles to support them, to gain initial competence in thinking about this therapeutic approach.
Leaving home to come home: Immigration and Mental Health
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join Gitika "Dr G" Talwar PhD in an online course on immigration and mental health, providing insight and tools for cultural awareness.
Resource Share: Netweaving & Caseloads
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
Netweaving & Caseloads offers a relational, embodied approach to building your practice. Together we’ll reframe networking as netweaving — cultivating referral relationships rooted in reciprocity, trust, and sustainability. This Resource Share Workshop is especially supportive for practitioners in a season of beginning, transition, or re-orienting.
Collective Wisdom | Working with Immigrants: Community Care & Safety Planning
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This workshop is designed to support clinicians and helping professionals in building practical, grounded capacity to support immigrant clients during an increasingly volatile political moment. Facilitated by Smruti Desai and Natasha Moonka, participants will gain concrete tools for safety planning, harm reduction, and building community care, with an emphasis on staying regulated, informed, and relational in the face of heightened risk to immigrant communities.
Consult Circle with Shelley Green
VIRTUAL | FOR MEMBERS
This bi-weekly virtual consult group offers a consistent, relational space for psychotherapists and mental health counselors to reflect on clinical work, integrate perspective, and reduce professional isolation. Facilitated by Shelley Green, this group emphasizes ethical practice, thoughtful case consultation, and collaborative learning within a supportive, non-evaluative container. Members are welcome to attend regularly or drop in as needed, creating an accessible commons for ongoing clinical support.
Peer Play Therapy Consult Group with Chessie Snider
VIRTUAL | FOR PRACTITIONERS
This monthly Washington State Play Therapy Peer Consult Group is facilitated by Chessie Snider. If you're a Child-Centered Play Therapist, Synergetic Play Therapist, TF-CBT Therapist, EMDR therapist, or Child-Parent Relationship Therapist or other modality, this is for you.
The Clinic: Limbic Resonance with Abby Wong-Heffter, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With Abby Wong-Heffter we will explore how first relationships inform how we move through the world. Learn how we can support and shift these early imprints in the therapeutic dynamic. This clinic will focus on the nuances of emotional attunement, attachment, and trauma. We will also explore how learning narrative and relational patterns can aid in movement and transformation.
Greenhouse: Working on Your Practice
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Greenhouse is a business development offering for healing practitioners designed to foster connection, collaboration, and skill-building. These experiential workshops offer an opportunity to locate your entrepreneurial identity, development business acumen, and actualize an aligned and thriving practice.
Thresholds: Become an Approved Supervisor Training
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
Join seasoned clinicians, supervisors, and educators Abby Wong-Heffter and Nicole Greenwald for a two-day, immersive experience that centers an embodied, communal approach to becoming a Washington approved supervisor. Our 15 credit hour training goes beyond the legal and practical components to provide a development framework and embodied practice of supervision, consultation, and mentorship.
Skillshare- Witnessing: Attuning to BIPOC Nervous Systems
FOR MEMBERS | VIRTUAL
Join Tolu and Gitika for this month’s lunch-and-learn style workshop focused on centering and attuning to the BIPOC experience in our current moment. Tolu and Gitika will share from their lived experiences and labor as mental health professionals; and offer a nervous-system aware practice that supports true healing and liberation in solidarity with BIPOC peoples.
The Clinic: Psychoanalytic Passions with D. Michael Louderback, LMHC
HYBRID | FOR PRACTITIONERS
With D. Michael Louderback we will delve into a psychoanalytic way of working with the complexity of the human experience. This clinic will guide you through the psychoanalytic process, from understanding unconscious patterns to facilitating deeper insights and curiosity in your clients and yourself in the process.
Autumn Re-wilding Retreat
Embark on a journey back to your primal self amidst the untouched beauty of nature. This retreat comes after the Fall Equinox and the cyclical change in season is an invitation to let go of what is no longer serving us. We will look toward the natural world to reconnect with our own spirits through sound baths, forest meditations, cacao ceremonies, holistic healing through saunas, breath work, yoga, and more.
Skillshare: Confidentiality & Documentation: Centering Trust & Protection
Join us for this month’s Skillshare, Confidentiality & Documentation: Centering Trust & Protection—a lunch-and-learn conversation on recent changes in healthcare law and what they mean for our work as healers. We'll explore evolving confidentiality guidelines, potential risks in clinical practices, and how to navigate these shifts with discernment, care, and a commitment to equity. Come ready to learn, reflect, and share strategies for protecting both our clients and ourselves.
Cultural Awareness | Practicing therapy with Cultural Humility
Join us for an enriching and thought-provoking session on Practicing Therapy with Cultural Humility, led by Gitika Talwar, PhD—a Licensed Clinical-Community Psychologist in Washington State. With deep personal and professional experience working with international students, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented individuals, Dr. Talwar brings both compassion and expertise to this timely conversation.