“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.”
Mandala House
Anti-Racism Statement
To Our Community:
As mental health care professionals, we believe it is our responsibility to practice ethical, justice-driven values through our clinical work in the pursuit of health equity for our patients and our community. We believe in the power of collaboration to provide more empathic responses to cultural traumas. We affirm the fundamental value of humanness, and believe in the right to self-determination, wellness, and wholeness across all dimensions of difference.
At Mandala House, we pledge to embody an Anti-Racist stance, pursue Anti-Racist practice policies, and commit to Anti-Racism learning and development for our clinicians and employees. We stand in solidarity with Anti-Racist community efforts against injustice and systemic hate in all its insidious forms, understanding that institutional and systemic oppression have been woven deeply and painfully through the fabric of our society. We offer our offices as safe spaces for Black, Indigenous, Latine, and all Racialized individuals to pursue greater health and emotional wellness.
Our Philosophy
We see therapy as an engaged process between two or more persons with the goal of reducing psychological suffering and increasing inner and interpersonal states of peace. We believe a relationship between patient and clinician founded on trust, acceptance, and compassion is a requisite for attaining this goal. Additionally, we view this relationship as collaborative, wherein a patient and clinician will explore, question, challenge, and discover. We believe that the path to peace is through process and know from experience that this path requires hard work.
Our Services
Mandala House offers access to informed, affirming, and culturally-responsive psychotherapy. Our multidisciplinary center allows for efficient service delivery as well as intentional collaboration among providers. This continuity of relationship has been noted to be the single most important factor in maintaining stability for patients within the least-restrictive level of mental health care.
Psychotherapy
We offer therapy in multiple modalities tailored to best address presenting problems and meet identified therapeutic goals.
Individual Therapy
Couple Therapy
Family Therapy
Group Therapy
TRAINING
We value ongoing learning and development for our clinicians at all levels and dedicate time each week for this process. In addition, we partner with local universities to provide supervision, training, and clinical experience to graduate students in the field. We also offer continuing education programming for professionals in the community to gain additional knowledge and skills on topics of interest.
Our Team
We have a growing multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and trained office staff. Our psychotherapists are from the fields of psychology, social work, marriage & family therapy, and counseling.
“What’s not to like about this?
Being heard.
Being seen.
Knowing we belong.
Knowing we matter to someone else.
Making meaning together...”
— Tina Furness-Ullrich on the culture of Mandala House
The Story Behind Mandala House
The original concept for Mandala House started with Dr. Jacks Gilles, who envisioned a place where clinicians could come together to work, learn, and challenge one another in a collaborative way. The usage of “Mandala,” literally meaning circle in Sanskrit, symbolizes unique parts joining to make an organized and balanced whole. Mandalas are ancient and are produced and used throughout the world to represent a cultural concept or identity as well as being a meditative practice in itself. The field of psychology was introduced to the process of mandala-making as a tool for exploring the self by Psychologist Carl Jung. As a design or functional element, mandalas can be found in art, architecture, engineering, and the natural environment.
Using the word House in our name reflects our emphasis on the space in which we work. We hold great reverence for the process of psychotherapy which is why we sought a building with warmth and texture as our physical backdrop. We were intentional in selecting our new location, formerly occupied by the Gilda’s Club of Kentuckiana, which holds a history of healing through creativity and collaboration.
In September of 2016 the idea of Mandala House found a home and became a reality. Located on East Broadway in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Jacks Gilles, Barbara Beauchamp, and Colgan Tyler opened Mandala House as an outpatient mental health center with the mission of providing community-minded, accessible, and informed clinical services, training, and research. Now, after three years of growth, Mandala House has relocated to a nearby home at 633 Baxter Avenue. In this expanded space, we will better be able to meet our mission of offering the most access to a diverse range of compassionate and professional services to our community.
It is a fundamental value of Mandala House, and research supports, that treatment is best for patients who have a relationship with an informed and fully present therapist, who is experienced in the challenging and vulnerable process that is psychotherapy. Our collaborative environment, with weekly treatment teams, training and consultation, provides for optimal support and knowledge for our clinicians to enter into this process with their patients.
Our hope is that patients will come to value themselves and their journey as much as we value our sharing of time and space with all who enter Mandala House.