Anchored Wellness is opening a second location on the Downtown Georgetown Square!
“We can support so many more people in our community if we had more space and I never want to turn anyone away who needs support or help, and in order to be able to continue to not turn people away, I need more room,” Emily Kipp-Wright, MA, LPC and Founder of Anchored Wellness, told Hello Georgetown. “We [will] have a large thousand square foot space where we can hold groups, trainings, and we’re developing a crisis team for the community,”
The new location will be in one of the Square’s historic buildings, located above Gumbo’s at 701 S Main St, in Georgetown, TX and is expanding the services currently provided by Anchored Wellness’s main location at 402 W University Ave.
Currently, Anchored Wellness is home to several team members who specialize in a variety of wellness and wholeness specialties including therapy, nutrition and genetic testing, meditation, massage therapy, medication management, aestheticians, and several graduate level interns who are preparing to enter the workforce as licensed professional counselors themselves. But, Emily Kipp-Wright, MA, LPC, and founder of Anchored told Hello Georgetown the organization is quickly needing to expand to serve more clients in the community and also train the next generation of counselors who are preparing to enter the workforce.
“With the expansion, I feel that I’ll be able to support more young [counselors in training] to use their talents and their gifts to support the community,” Kipp-Wright said. “They will co-facilitate groups, they will be a part of the crisis team, they will work with [the nonprofit] We Are Not Broken and learn about nonprofits, and it gives them a more well rounded experience aside from just going in and working in a counseling office.”
Additionally, Anchored Wellness will be able to launch their upcoming crisis team called W.E.S.T. which stands for Weathering Every Storm Together. The team is comprised of volunteers who are trained and ready to respond when tragedy strikes communities.
“The types of crisis that we’re looking to support would be within schools or local businesses, community, neighborhoods,” Kipp-Wright said. “I’ve been on two crisis teams in the past in Austin, and one was with Catholic Charities and one was with the Grief and Loss Center, and this was before I was even licensed as a therapist, I volunteered and that’s what’s great about a crisis team is not everyone is or needs to be [a licensed therapist]. It can anybody who has time to listen and just be there for someone.”
In addition the crisis team, Anchored Wellness will be able to provide their professional counseling services to those who are working with or being served by the nonprofit also located in the same building We Are Not Broken, which helps people document and share stories behind their scars and how they’ve turned trauma into triumph.
“We will provide therapy for her clients that come and get photographed, and share their scar stories, and they were going come [to our main office] or we were gonna go there, but now they can just walk down the hall and we’ll be able to provide therapy for We Are Not Broken. So, the space is perfect for that collaboration as well.”
To celebrate the expansion, Anchored Wellness will be hosting an open house and art show on Saturday, September 10th from 9 AM to 4 PM. The public is invited to come visit the space, enjoy and purchase art from local artists, and learn more about the services Anchored Wellness provides.
Learn more about Anchored Wellness on their website, Facebook page or Instagram profile.
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