Topsail Island Yoga & Counseling, PLLC

09/12/2025

✨Attention fellow Women in Wellness: we hope you’ll join us for our Autumn Equinox Retreat October 11, 10am - 4pm!

🍁Expect Ayurvedic fall wisdom to integrate into your self care practices + lifestyle, gentle yoga + somatic embodiment practices, healthy lunch featuring seasonal vegetables! Related intention setting in preparation for season of stillness + rest of Winter.❄️

🌙Early bird special of $175 ends 9/15/25, after that $225🌙

💸 To save your spot: (7 spots remaining!)
https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3702833979328392935&created=1757697613.281968&printed=1

🙏🏼Please DM with questions about signing up! We hope you’ll join us for a day just for you, just being yourself + we do the rest!

09/12/2025

✨Buzzing in gratitude for the opportunity to offer our first clinical case consultation group, followed by grounding vagus nerve massage + restorative yoga ✨

✨Bittersweet knowing that this is our final offering in this space, yet surrendering to the faith in what the future has in store ✨

✨We will continue to offer clinical case consultation group in my new office space + provide adapted, accessible chair yoga for yourself + your clients ✨

🤍Thank you for being my soul sister + inspiration to grow + collaborate!

🙏🏼SO excited for our Autumn Equinox Retreat for Women in Wellness on Saturday, October 11, 10 am - 4pm at their Hampstead location.

🍁Expect an opportunity to connect with other women in wellness professions + learn about Ayurvedic wisdom for the Fall season, combined with gentle yoga + somatic practices, + healthy lunch featuring seasonal foods (hello, butternut squash soup!)💛

🫶🏼Please DM with questions about our retreat offering! Early bird special ends 9/15!

07/20/2025

and I are excited to announce the return of "Self Care for the Feelers & Healers" ~ unique yoga offering for licensed mental health clinicians/therapists. This fall, we're expanding our offering to include a clinical case consultation for first hour, followed by grounding with gentle yoga, breathwork, & nervous system tools to not just use for yourself, but your clients in your practice.

Friday, September 12 @ 9-11am, $30 pre-registration required with Venmo :
https://www.venmo.com/u/topsailislandyogaandcounseling

~Autumn Equinox Retreat for all Women in Wellness professions! Therapists, yoga teachers, school teachers, wellness body workers (massage therapist, Reiki masters), doctors, nurses, first responders...this is designed to recharge those who serve the health & wellness of our community! Time to pour into your own cup!

When: Saturday, October 11, 10am ~ 4pm

Where: Reclaim Counseling & Wellness ~ 144 Merchants Circle, Suite 101, Hampstead, NC

What to expect:
~Gentle Yoga in alignment with fall season
~Fall Ayurvedic Wisdom
~Nourishing lunch offering seasonal fruits, vegetables & grains
~Intention setting for Autumn Equinox & related embodiment practices
~Community with women in the health & wellness industry

DM with questions & comment below if you're interested in joining us!

From our hearts to yours,
Carolena & Jess

❤️

07/10/2025

〰️The shadows of the human experience can often feel heavy, dark, and uncertain.

🏠Honoring these challenging aspects is possible when we’re reminded that we are our own sanctuary.

🧐We’re invited to witness the emotional pain, rather than cling to it.
Hold it gently.
Notice what you see, smell, taste, hear, feel, & sense with your intuition.
Allow curiosity to guide where you notice your body in tension. Where in your body are you more open? Invite the inhales to expand the sensation of spaciousness, the exhales release tension.

Today, I invite you to PAUSE.
Postpone
Action
Until
Serenity
Emerges

When in doubt, wait.

And repeat after me:

I am my own safe & sacred space.
I am a witness of my own suffering.
I release the attachment of the identity I required to survive.
I invite curiosity as I continue to heal.✨

May you all realize your highest good, even in the dark.

05/28/2025

Behind every Special Operations mission is a family that quietly serves too.

At The Station Foundation, we walk alongside these families—those who carry the invisible weight of long deployments, endless transitions, and the quiet strength it takes to hold it all together.

Interwoven Camp Lejeune is one way we show up for them. It’s a series of free gatherings for SOF families—spaces to reconnect, to breathe, to laugh again. Spaces to learn about self-care without guilt and to rediscover the strength found in community.

This yoga fundraiser at Topsail Beach is more than just a class. It’s a gesture of gratitude. It’s a chance for all of us to help lift the load.

Come join us. Support healing. Celebrate resilience.

☀️Saturday, June 28 @ 7am

🙏All donations go directly to support SOF families. $5 - $20 per yogi is greatly appreciated 🤍

📍4030 Island Drive in North Topsail Beach

☀️Bring a towel, SPF, water & open heart to connect in community

05/23/2025

☀️Summer siesta is loading….

💛One of the greatest gifts of private practice, is the ability to adapt my schedule to life’s rhythms. Summer is my slow down to a simmer, so I can recharge & spend precious time with family & friends who are my chosen family. As a Pitta 🔥~ this boundary is essential, as I can easily burn through my energy faster with longer daylight hours.

✨I hope you honor your body’s need to adapt with the seasons and nourish yourself this summer with relationships that feel like soul medicine.

⭐️Prospective / interested clients: Mid-August availability ~ please email via my Psychology Today profile to schedule a free phone consultation, which is required for all clients. During our call, I’ll share my background, treatment approach, & your goals for therapy to make sure we’re a good fit to move forward.

☀️See you this summer ~ check out offerings !

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📷 🙏

05/19/2025

🌊Beach house yoga views today!🌊

☀️Honored to guide this group of beautiful vacationing yogis for the last three years!

🧘🏼‍♀️If you’re vacationing to this summer & want a yummy yoga flow with nourishing hands-on assists, I’m your gal! I bring everything to your beach house including mats, cozy props & lavender eye towels 💜

04/25/2025

My sweet Goldens, Athena (right) and her Daddy, Rebel (left)…consistently concerned when I lay down 😂

How are you living your yoga today?
🙃

04/12/2025

🌱Yesterday’s offering of Self Care for the Feelers & Healers. Jess led Spring inspired Yin Yoga & Carolena guided us through a Chakra meditation. We are so honored to have held sacred space for our fellow clinicians over the last 6 months!

🗓️We are excited to announce our offerings will be expanding to 90 minutes beginning in September…to include time for clinical case consultation, community, & collaboration, followed by an accessible & grounding yoga practice.

🍁Stay tuned for details on our Autumn Equinox Retreat!

☀️Join us this summer for a beach yoga sesh with ☀️

04/02/2025

✨If you’re a licensed mental health professional & need some radical, intentional self care ~ this is for you!

🙏🏼Join Carolena & Jess before we take a break for the summer for community & conversation and 30 minutes of gentle yin yoga flow to bloom into alignment with Spring’s uplifting energy. 🌱

🗓️Join us next Friday April 11th 9am-10am, all mats/props provided. Feel free to share with your fellow clinicians!

☑️Pre-registration is required, this is a donations based offering: https://www.venmo.com/u/topsailislandyogaandcounseling

🤍We look forward to guiding you! Stay tuned for details dropping this summer for our Autumn Equinox retreat!🍁

03/25/2025

🙏🏼Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to the Women in Wellness who attended our first Spring Renewal Retreat!🪷

☀️The weather was perfect to practice outside to begin & end our day of exploring ways to integrate Spring’s wisdom of new beginnings.🌱

☯️It’s never too late to learn to hold yourself gently through life’s transitions.

✨Buzzing with gratitude and reverence for the bright lights in our community who have dedicated their dharma to the wellness of others.

🤍We NEED each other. We are better together.🤍

And a big thank you to for offering your beautiful space!

03/15/2025

Thank you Brené Brown for always speaking the truth so beautifully. Power is yours to CLAIM…worth the listen! Comment below with your thoughts ✨

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