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Galia Collaborative provides depth-oriented, interdisciplinary mental healthcare for women navigating complex inner lives and demanding modern realities.

We help you move beyond survival patterns and into a fuller, more connected life.

10/29/2026

We've been dreaming this up for a while. A day where you can step away from the usual demands on your time and attention and follow your own lead.

We've put together a day full of opportunities for rest, reflection, creativity, and connection with yourself. Throughout the day, you'll have access to:

✨ Guided meditation and mindfulness practices

✨ SoulCollage® for creative reflection and self-discovery

✨ Reflective journaling and thoughtfully guided writing prompts

✨ Gentle energy work

✨ Cozy, quiet spaces for reading, resting, or simply being

✨ An interactive self-care bar with small practices and sensory experiences to explore

We've been intentional about creating a day that offers plenty to experience without becoming another thing you have to do well. You can move between activities, try something new, spend time in quiet, and decide what feels right for you along the way.

Our Quiet Retreat Day is coming up soon, and we have just a couple of spots left!

10/22/2026

We are adding to our team. 💫

One of the things we value most at Galia is the opportunity to do meaningful work alongside people who inspire one another.

At Galia, clinicians have the freedom to shape their own clinical work while enjoying the support, benefits, and connection of a collaborative professional community.

If you're looking for a professional home where you can continue to grow and do work you love, we'd love to hear from you.

And if you know a wonderful clinician who might be a good fit, please send this their way!

10/22/2026

Most of spend so much time thinking, analyzing, problem-solving and feel lost when it comes to actually noticing what it's like to be in our bodies.

We recently kicked off the Embodiment Sessions at Galia's Odessa Healing Center. Through gentle movement, breathwork, and mindful attention, Lauren Albarella is helping us explore ways to connect with our bodies with more curiosity, ease, and awareness.

These small-group yoga therapy sessions aren't about getting poses right or having any particular yoga experience. They're about learning to listen to what our bodies have to tell us.

We have two sessions remaining: October 24 and November 7. You're welcome to join us for one or both.

Details below 🤎

10/21/2026

"Each of us holds things in life that we simply cannot imagine losing. A marriage. Our professional identity. A physical or mental ability. Our reputation. A sense of a specific future as we imagine it.

These are often aspects of our experience that are so closely tied to us, we don’t think of them as attachments. We think of them as reality – as who we are.

Which means that to imagine them being threatened or lost brings on an almost certain and overwhelming sense that we wouldn’t survive it.

It’s no secret, though, that humans face these losses all of the time. We witness people we care about facing devastating losses of relationships, people, careers, health, and we say things like, “I just couldn’t imagine…” We say it until we can indeed imagine it, until we’re on our own knees.

I’m talking about those experiences where the ground falls out from under us. The ones where it feels like the universe has come in and shaken our life like a snowglobe. The ones that feel, in our imaginations and in their unfoldings, insurmountable. Ram Dass, the late psychologist-turned-spiritual teacher, had a term for experiences like these. He called it fierce grace.

Now, we usually think of grace as something sweet and comforting – an offering of compassionate understanding or gentle reassurance. But there is another kind of grace, the fierce kind, and it arrives not as gentleness, but as disruption."

Read the full essay at the link in comments.

10/15/2026

Boredom and disappointment both show us something about our capacity to tolerate the gap between what we want from reality and what reality is giving us.

Consider the last time you felt deeply disappointed. Or when you felt hopelessly bored. What you did with that experience may be a small window into a pattern that's worth examining.

Did you reach for resolution? What did your emotions feels like? Did you turn on yourself? Did you seek or push away others?

What was it like to encounter the limits of what you wanted?

I'm not suggesting that these experiences should be easy, or that "health" is not struggling with them. The opposite, perhaps.

I'm suggesting that we start to move through the world quite differently when we have tools to reorient ourselves when reality is especially frustrating.

10/14/2026

Want to help kids stay connected to what they love?

In our latest blog post, Galia therapist Michelle Piven reflects on her own childhood experience to explore what can happen when kids feel defined by how they perform.

She shares how shifting our attention from outcomes to process can help kids build resilience, motivation, and genuine enjoyment, and she offers some specific and simple ways parents can put this into practice.

A thoughtful read for anyone raising, coaching, or cheering on kids.

10/13/2026

Our new Embodiment Sessions at Galia's Odessa Healing Center offer a different way to reconnect. This three-part, trauma-informed yoga therapy series uses gentle practices to help us feel more grounded, present, and at home in our bodies.

This isn't your typical yoga class, and no experience is needed!

🌿 October 17, October 24, & November 7

Join us for one session or all three. Space is limited to keep the experience small and supportive.

10/11/2026

The New York cover story hit on something we hear about all the time: youth sports are taking up an enormous amount of family life, and a lot of parents aren’t sure how well the current set-up is working.

We don’t have a simple answer. But we think it’s worth getting in a room together and talking about it.

Join Galia Collaborative and Basset Psychological Services on November 4th for For the Love of the Game, a community event.

We'll be having an honest discussion on the current culture, how to respond to setbacks and playing time, when to advocate, how to prevent burnout, and how to balance the demands of sports with the rest of family life

The conversation includes David de SIlva, Mental Performance Coach for FC Cincinnati; Emily Sweeney, former Division I athlete, longtime high school educator and coach; Dr. Andy Sweeney, child and adolescent psychologist with a growing specialization in sports and performance psychology: and Dr. Amber Stevens, clinical psychologist whose work includes parenting, relationships, and family life. Between them, they also bring the perspective of parents raising kids in the world of youth sports.

We hope that you'll come be part of the conversation!

10/09/2026

“It used to surprise me. I’d be sitting in the therapy room with a VP at a multinational company and she would describe the exact same phenomenon that I’d heard the hour before from the 17-year-old senior who’d just gotten accepted to her top choice college. Despite literal loads of accolades, they each admitted that they felt like a total fraud in their success. They knew they’d worked hard – really fu***ng hard – but it still didn’t feel like they were meant to be in the spaces they occupied. At some moment, probably soon, they’d be discovered as fakes.”

10/08/2026

“Performance is information, not a verdict on who they are.”

How do we help kids develop a genuine love for the things they do?

In her latest piece, Galia therapist Michelle Piven reflects on her own childhood experiences, the science of intrinsic motivation, and the how our well-intentioned encouragement sometimes gets in the way of kids discovering what they enjoy.

It's a thoughtful reminder for parents, coaches, and anyone supporting young people. Read Michelle's full piece: https://galiacollaborative.com/intrinsic-motivation/

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2245 Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati, OH
45206

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+15132160068

Website

http://www.galiacollaborative.com/

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