An alternative to residential treatment, Windhorse uses mindfulness-informed clinical teams and therapeutic households to support our clients' recovery journey. Through this strong web of support, clients experience the same level of dignity and respect as their peers whose lives have not been disrupted by mental health challenges-they are actively engaged in their community, creating a life of meaning and independence.
Extreme, life-disrupting mind states are often paired with isolation, but recovery is best discovered in relationship. By cultivating genuine and compassionate connection, we invite our clients to relax into who they are authentically - beneath turmoil and distress - reconnecting at their own pace with others and the world around them.
Extreme, life-disrupting mind states are often paired with isolation, but recovery is best discovered in relationship. By cultivating genuine and compassionate connection, we invite our clients to relax into who they are authentically - beneath turmoil and distress - reconnecting at their own pace with others and the world around them.
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Windhorse Integrative Mental Health is a nonprofit organization committed to providing mindfulness-informed, compassionate, team-based care to individuals experiencing life-disrupting psychiatric distress. Our program is based on the Windhorse approach, which was first developed in 1981 by Dr. Edward M. Podvoll, M.D., the founding director of Naropa University's Contemplative Psychotherapy program.
Dimitri has been a part of the Windhorse treatment community for nearly a decade, starting as a Clinical Team Leader before transitioning into a leadership role. Dimitri brings a rooted psychological practice and background as well as a contemplative and mindfulness-based practice and way of living.
Lisa has been on the forefront of mental health advocacy for much of her adult life. For instance, she helped galvanize support of the Oregon Mental Health Parity legislation that passed in 2006. Her passion for this work comes directly from her lived experience as a mother. Lisa researched dozens of community-based mental health options before embracing Windhorse as an optimal approach for healing and recovery for her son.
Windhorse believes that in order to be most effective in our work and to promote high interpersonal standards for our community, we need diversity and inclusion to be felt, practiced and fostered by all our members and by our administrative systems. We believe that there is a confluence between uniqueness of an individual's state of mind, including extreme mind states and the forms of oppression in larger society.
Windhorse is always seeking compassionate individuals to become part of our team. We seek individuals who have a strong sense of their own basic sanity, and confidence in the basic sanity and health of others. We encourage our staff to have a mindfulness or contemplative practice to help cultivate the capacity for being present, available, and attuned to those we support.
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