Meet Our Sponsors for Summer Camp 2026
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Meet the organizations behind this year’s workshops, activities, and experiences.
🔥🏕️🪵 Campfire Conversations:
Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable
Workshop Description
Sex and sexuality are an integral part of the human experience, yet many therapists receive limited training on how to discuss these topics with confidence. Personal values, cultural messages, clinical experience, and implicit biases can all influence our comfort level, often leading to missed opportunities for deeper assessment, stronger therapeutic relationships, and more affirming care.
This experiential workshop invites participants to explore their own relationship with discomfort while developing greater confidence in discussing sexuality in clinical practice. Rather than focusing solely on theory or diagnosis, participants will engage in interactive activities, reflection, small-group discussion, and experiential exercises designed to increase self-awareness and reduce shame around conversations about sex.
Together, we will examine how our beliefs, assumptions, and biases can influence clinical decision-making and client interactions. Topics may include sexual values, kink and BDSM, consensual non-monogamy, LGBTQ+ identities, sexual functioning, pleasure, and the language we use when discussing intimacy with clients. The emphasis is not on becoming an expert in every aspect of sexuality, but on developing the curiosity, humility, and clinical presence needed to have authentic conversations without avoidance or judgment.
Set around the relaxed atmosphere of a campfire, this workshop is designed to foster connection, curiosity, and a willingness to lean into discomfort. Come prepared to laugh, reflect, challenge yourself, and leave with practical tools for navigating one of the most important, and often least talked about, aspects of the human experience.
Workshop Leader
Beck Gee
Beck Gee, MA, AMFT, is the Chief Executive Officer of Breathe Life Healing Centers, an LGBTQ+ affirming behavioral health organization specializing in substance use disorders, mental health, and trauma-informed care. He holds master’s degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy and Addiction Studies and has nearly two decades of experience in behavioral healthcare, leadership, program development, and clinical training. Beck is particularly passionate about working with LGBTQ+ communities, sexual health, chemsex recovery, and creating spaces where clinicians can have honest, affirming conversations about topics that are often avoided. As a visible transgender leader and educator, he brings authenticity, humor, and curiosity to his presentations, encouraging participants to examine their own biases while building practical clinical skills. His workshops are highly interactive and experiential, blending evidence-based practice with reflection, discussion, and a healthy dose of laughter to create engaging learning experiences that challenge, inspire, and empower clinicians.
About the Organization
Breathe Life Healing Centers is an LGBTQ+ affirming treatment center dedicated to providing compassionate, inclusive, and evidence-based care. Breathe specializes in treating substance use disorders, mental health conditions, chemsex, and trauma through a holistic, client-centered approach. Breathe emphasizes creating safe, supportive environments where individuals can explore healing without judgment. Services are tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse communities, particularly LGBTQ+ individuals. Through innovative programming, skilled clinicians, and a commitment to authenticity and connection, Breathe fosters recovery, resilience, and personal growth while empowering clients to build meaningful, healthy lives.
Sero Mental Health is a national network of specialized residential treatment programs serving adolescents and adults with complex behavioral health needs.
Our programs provide evidence-based, individualized care for a wide range of client profiles including Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, Process Addictions, Eating Disorders, Complex Trauma, Personality Disorders, andThought Disorders. With residential programs in Tennessee, Illinois, California, and Washington, we thoughtfully match clients to the program best suited to their clinical presentation. We value collaboration with referring therapists, emphasizing clear communication, continuity of care, and individualized treatment planning. Guided by our Scientific Advisory Board, our programs integrate evidence-based practices while supporting each client's family system. Most major insurance plans are accepted.
🥑🧠💗 Responding to the Four Hungers:
Integrating Mind–Body Skills for Eating Disorder and Disordered Eating Treatment
Workshop Description
This presentation explores the four types of hunger: physical, emotional, behavioral, and hedonic, as introduced in Laura Cipullo's The Women's Health Body Clock and applies this framework to the assessment and treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating. Drawing on principles from Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Polyvagal-informed practices, and mindfulness, this session provides practical, neurobiologically informed strategies for addressing the complex drivers of eating behavior. Attendees will learn how to match specific mind-body skills to each hunger type to strengthen interoceptive awareness, support emotion regulation, and increase behavioral flexibility. Special consideration will be given to adapting these interventions across stages of eating disorder recovery, when hunger and fullness cues are often unreliable, feared, or misinterpreted.
Participants will also be introduced to a structured, CBT-informed food and skills log that integrates the four hunger types with targeted therapeutic interventions to support collaborative treatment planning. Through clinical examples and brief experiential exercises, attendees will develop practical tools to differentiate hunger states, reduce shame surrounding eating behaviors, and promote values-based, recovery-oriented decision-making. This integrative framework supports trauma-informed, ethical, and inclusive care across diverse eating disorder presentations.
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Workshop Leaders
Laura Cipullo
Laura Cipullo, RD, CDCES, CEDS-S, RYT is a four time author with over 25 years of experience as a registered dietitian specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and endocrine disorders. Laura has been using her expertise as a 500 Hour Registered Yoga Instructor and her training in Mindful Awareness Body Technique, DBT, RO-DBT and Polyvagal Vagal Theory to teach all individuals why they eat, how to eat and how to respond rather than react with food. Laura believes in both a bottom up, and top down approach to integrate mind and body solutions for every individual’s health. She is the founder of Laura Cipullo Whole Nutrition + Yoga, with offices in NYC and New Jersey, where she and her team teach clients how to Eat Kale and Cupcakes™! and how to live mindfully. Laura is a frequent contributor, providing nutrition expertise, to the Associated Press, Marie Claire, Yahoo!, Women’s Health, Prevention, Insider, Fitness, VICE, Travel + Leisure, Real Simple Magazine, OK! Magazine, HuffP, Today’s Dietitian, Diabetes Forecast, and Everyday Health. Laura regularly presents on topics including eating disorders, PCOS, mind-body nutrition, and the intersection of nutrition and mental health.
Shannon Herbert
Dr. Shannon Herbert, PhD, RD, CDN, RYT is a registered dietitian and yoga instructor, specializing in eating disorders and endocrine health. With a unique approach that blends her nutrition and yoga expertise with specialized training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) and Polyvagal Theory, Shannon empowers clients to reclaim their relationships with food and their bodies. Shannon brings a compassionate, evidence-based approach to eating and feeding disorders across the spectrum. Shannon has experience supporting clients through recovery at all stages, from early intervention to long-term healing. She also has extensive experience treating clients with polyendocrine metabolic ovary syndrome (PMOS), endometriosis, and Hashimoto’s/hypothyroidism, as well as helping clients along their fertility, pre/post-natal, perimenopause, and menopause nutrition journeys. As a thought leader in the field, Shannon’s doctoral research focused on lifestyle approaches for the management of PMOS. Shannon remains actively involved in research, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and presenting at national conferences on PMOS, eating disorders, and nutrition. In addition to working with clients at Laura Cipullo Whole Nutrition Services + Yoga, Shannon is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
About the Organization
Laura Cipullo Whole Nutrition Services and Yoga is a concierge level nutrition practice specializing in feeding and eating disorders as well as medical nutrition therapy. Our specialties include hormonal and metabolic health, GLP-1, and gastrointestinal conditions. We are renowned for evaluating and treating the whole person rather than using a one size fits all approach. We take pride in using a patient/client centered approach also known as the empowerment approach. Our registered dietitians are astute in creating an individualized family-based treatment plan as well as incorporating nutrition education with cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy and or radically open dialectical behavior therapy.
🧘♀️🌿✨ Sensing In: Movement to Meditation
Workshop Description
The session begins with a brief movement-based mindfulness activity. Participants pair up and walk a short distance either barefoot or with their eyes closed, guided by their partner. This tactile experience is designed to draw their attention to sensory input that they might not typically notice in everyday life. The activity then transitions into a seated, guided meditation accompanied by music, allowing participants to deepen their awareness and carry the heightened sense of presence into a more reflective practice.
Workshop Leader
Andrew Tepper
Andrew Tepper, a licensed psychotherapist (LCSW), is the founder of BODA Therapy and brings 20+ years of experience in individual and group psychotherapy in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. His therapeutic approach is integrative and holistic, engaging the imagination and calling upon a lifelong interest in music, the creative arts, and the outdoors.
About the Organization
Sabino Recovery is a premier residential treatment center on 140 serene desert acres, offering individualized, integrative care that addresses the root causes of mental health and addiction, focusing on trauma first.
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🎤🤪✨ TalentLESS Show
Workshop Description
Got a party trick? A weird skill nobody asked for? Or something you are famously, spectacularly bad at? We want to see it!
This isn't a talent show. It's a talentLESS show. Juggle three things badly. Sing off-key on purpose. Show us the interpretive dance you do when no one's watching. Attempt a cartwheel you have no business attempting. If you've got an actual talent, bring it but half the fun here is watching your fellow clinicians be gloriously, unashamedly bad at something in front of a campfire full of people who will love them for it anyway.
No auditions. No judges. No pressure. Just sign up, show up, and let us cheer you on either way.
Because vulnerability isn't just something we talk about in session.
Cirque Lodge is a private residential treatment center in the Utah mountains for substance use and co-occurring mental health needs. The brand combines clinical care, trauma-informed recovery, experiential therapy, family involvement, 12-step work, and a restorative mountain environment.
About the Organization
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💪🏃♀️☀️ Workout Class
Workshop Description
Join Alyssa for a group workout, using primarily bodyweight movements. If you can pick up your groceries, lift a bag of dog food, or carry a squirming toddler, you're already an athlete. Our class flow includes introductions, a workout overview, warmup, movement review/coaching, our workout, and a cool-down session. The goal here is twofold: to remember that we can do hard things, and to be reminded that we never have to do hard things alone.
On the fence about jumping into this class? Come find Alyssa and chat one-on-one! You'll discover that it's really, really bad for business to hurt or humiliate you. This is all about moving our bodies in a way that is empowering and fun.
Workshop Leader
Alyssa
Alyssa Fountain is a Partner and Chief Marketing Officer at Surfside Recovery Services on the coast of Southern New Jersey. She is proud to work alongside her husband, the Founder & CEO, as they operate a nationally recognized long-term, adventure-based program for men. The Surfside approach is rooted in the understanding that physical movement can rewire the brain, boost self-esteem, and create an identity beyond "alcoholic" or "drug addict."
Alyssa oversees all aspects of marketing/social media, spearheads Surfside's special projects, and works collaboratively with our admissions, operations, and direct care teams. In her 20s, she began experimenting with different forms of movement and discovered that a kind, compassionate coach can change a person's entire experience with fitness. In July of 2020, Alyssa and Ian opened "Saltwater Athletics," a CrossFit, strength and conditioning gym that's laser-focused on building self-esteem and community. Alyssa holds a CrossFit Level 2 Certification and a CrossFit Kids cert. Her goal is for everyone who trains with her to leave feeling empowered by how strong and capable they truly are!
About the Organization
Surfside is a long term, adventure-based dual diagnosis experience for men and families who need something different. Located on the coast of NJ, we emphasize creating a life that is deeply rewarding. We use daily physical movement to retrain the brain, foster community, develop self-efficacy, and rediscover life’s joys.
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🏓🏆😄 Pickleball Tournament
Workshop Description
Pickleball is where this whole thing started...clinicians showing up as humans first. This September at camp, we're bringing it full circle with a Therapy Tribe Pickleball Tournament!
Join the bracket for bragging rights and all. We'll start with a lesson for those who haven't played. Just bring your competitive spirit and your willingness to be bad at something in front of your peers. Grab a partner and a paddle, and come remember why we started this in the first place!
About the Organization
The Guest House provides premier treatment for adults whose mental and physical health is suffering due to traumatic events and their deep-seated effects on the brain and body. Our secluded estate is located in Silver Springs, Florida, just outside the peaceful city of Ocala. Our programs are open to all adults over the age of 18, though we cater in particular to clients who have high-stress or high-visibility lifestyles such as business executives, politicians and entertainment professionals, as well as all those whose lives have lacked guidance or support. We are dedicated to maintaining our clients' privacy and confidentiality, providing cutting-edge treatments and therapies alongside top-tier amenities and services.
