Our Approach
The PATH to Care Center believes in all kinds of healing and recognizes that healing can take a variety of forms for every individual. We believe in the value of restorative practices that release trauma and we support folks re-connecting to community, cultural, and intergenerational practices of healing. Restorative practices offer an opportunity to reconnect to the self and explore what self-care and healing mean to each survivor.
Our Services
Whole-Person Healing with Freedom Community Clinic
UC Berkeley’s PATH to Care Center partners with Freedom Community Clinic (FCC) to bring FCC’s “Whole-person healing approach to survivors and allies through no-cost restorative practices that aim to support the mind, body, and spirit. Offerings include massage, acupuncture and acupressure, herbal bar consultations, and gentle movement. Practitioners are trained in trauma-informed approach, healing-centered practices, and consent-based engagement.
Spring 2025 Offering (in-person)
- Registration has now closed due to reaching capacity.
Sound Healing
Sound healing is an opportunity to engage in deep rest supported by the calming sounds of crystal singing bowls. Joy Evans, MSW, combines trauma healing practices with sound healing to lead people out of the perpetual stress response to reconnect with the details of the senses and return to clarity, centered self, and vibrancy.
Spring 2025 Offering: Personalized 1:1 Sound Healing with Joy (remote)
- Who: UC Berkeley students, staff, faculty, affiliates, and community members of all genders and identities who have:
- Experienced interpersonal violence [including but not limited to: sexual violence, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence (dating and domestic violence), stalking, or sexual exploitation]
- Been indirectly impacted by these forms of harm (such as by supporting a survivor)
- When: Fridays 10am-4pm on February 7, February 21, March 14, and April 4
- For more details and registration: Spring 2025 Sound Healing Registration Form
Support Groups
Support groups provide a space for survivors to practice, build, and share healing strategies & modalities with the support of and in community with others.
Spring 2025 Offering: Healing in Community, graduate support group (remote)
- Who: UC Berkeley and UCSF graduate and professional students of all genders and identities who identify as survivors of and/or have experienced interpersonal violence. This is including but not limited to: sexual harassment, dating and intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sexual exploitation.
- When: Thursdays from 5:30-7pm, February 13th – March 20th, 2025
- For more details and registration: Spring 2025 Graduate Support Group Registration Form
PATH to Care Center’s undergraduate support group is on hiatus for AY 2024-2025. University Health Services at UC Berkeley offers a Spring 2025 support group beginning February 26. Please refer to their webpage for more details.
On Hiatus for AY 2024-2025
Yoga as Healing
This program offers participants a space to decolonize and reclaim healing practices in community, as well as reconnect to the self through mind, body, and spirit. Yoga can provide survivors of sexual violence a means of becoming reacquainted with their bodies, help them become grounded in the present moment, and allow them to explore the benefits of mindfulness as they flow breath to movement in guided practice and meditation.
Art Modality Healing
There are many ways to cope and move in the direction of healing post a traumatic experience. Sometimes there are things we can put on paper with our hands that we can not speak yet. Art modality healing is a creative and alternative way to process and cope with traumatic experiences. It is a tool you can incorporate in your own healing journey.
Healing Space
The PATH To Care Center has open office hours available for clients to use the community room/library, private quiet spaces, and self-care supplies/tools.
Healing Garden
The PATH To Care Center is home to a beautiful healing garden filled with plants and herbs. This garden is only accessible to clients and those utilizing the services of the PATH to Care Center.
Consultation
If your academic department, unit, or student organization has been impacted by SVSH, you can consult with us about a healing plan for your group.
Workshops by Request
- Healing Circles facilitated for intact communities that have been impacted by SVSH.
- Vicarious Trauma Release workshops focus on how to take care of yourself and interrupt the impacts of working directly and daily with trauma in your work or student organization.