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Our MISSION

Project Healing Hive is a grassroots organization founded in 2019. Our mission is to improve mental health care by advancing an agenda for evidence-based uses of CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) through research, education, direct service, and training to our communities in the Southeastern Pennsylvania area and virtually worldwide.

 

Our goal is to create systemic change in how we treat mental, physical, and spiritual health by creating sustainable trauma informed systems that provide access to community-based mental health resources that include holistic and complementary therapies. Integrative holistic health and wellness is based on the philosophy of working with the whole person and recognizing the contextual factors that influence health and wellness. Holistic and complementary therapies continue to evolve and are supported by contemporary health sciences and their efficacy is supported by an increasing body of research evidence, which contributes to the growing understanding and acceptance of their value as therapeutic benefits.

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Our Story... 

“We must first create systems that address and change the accessibility to mental health and holistic wellness options”.

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Shortly after losing her daughter’s father to suicide, PHH founder Kristen Morris-Yehiel and her daughter Eliana were both prescribed psychiatric medication to help cope with the symptoms of their traumatic loss and grief. This is a far too common occurrence in the standard model of mental healthcare. But Kristen felt there had to be a better way to cope with this trauma then to medicate both herself and her daughter. After spending time at a friend's apiary learning about honeybees Kristen had a profound somatic experience that allowed her to reconnect her body and mind with a sense of calm and control. Kristen wanted to explore how spending time with honeybees could be so calming and life changing. She felt the need for better options accessing trauma therapy and community-based mental health services for individuals and families. Project Healing Hive was born.

Mental health remains one of the most vexing problems in the US largely due to the stigma around mental illness and income barriers for quality care. Kristen and her daughter suffered these experiences after their traumatic loss trying to access services through the standard mental health model offered today. PHH is a community-based organization that provides trauma-informed therapy and integrative holistic therapies that are evidence-based and accessible to all. Quality mental health and wellness options should not be a privilege rather the standard.

Listen to PHH founder Kristen's interview on Let's Talk About It Radio. 

Lets Talk About It RadioInterview with Kristen Morris-Yehiel
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core values

Support
Trust
Love
Advocacy
Community

Accessibility
Teamwork
Science

Integrity
Education
Compassion
Communication

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