Care-O-Van, PLLC

04/06/2025

🌟Rest is Resistance🌟

03/07/2025

Funny faces & Pepito practicing selfie smiles - Pepito had a lot to say to the camera today😂🤣😂 Happy sun everyone☀️🥰☀️

03/07/2025

02/28/2025

🔔🚨⏰TODAY IS THE FINAL DAY TO RESERVE YOUR LEARNING & EXPRESSIVE ARTS POST-FILM WORKSHOP TICKETS⏰🚨🔔

For🪄…

The COLLECTIVE SELF CINEMA Community Support Event - HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX 🐦‍🔥

EVENT DETAILS
Event Date this Saturday: 3/1/2025!
Film Screening: 12-2:30p
Post-Screening Workshops: 2:30-3:30p
Cost: Free // Pay What You Can

*PLEASE NOTE*
*Ticket Sales for the Post-Screening Workshops END TODAY, Friday 2/28 at 9PM!!! If you want to participate in post-screening workshops, reserve your spot(s) BEFORE 9PM TODAY!

*Movie Tickets are available for anyone who walks up Saturday 3/1 & wants to see the FILM ONLY*

Amidst the season of daylight expanding from darkness, and the current, overwhelming state of the world, we have lots in store for the ‘Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix’ film screening on March 1st !

With & , we will explore the powerful themes Harry Potter shares about friends, family, power, identity, and how love is the most powerful source within that can overcome the strongest of evil.

AND has some magical expressive arts up their sleeves to explore, create, and conjure! Such as, choose from the following selections of TearwaterT’s magic duringg the expressive arts workshop:

- Self-Portraits: watercolor / mixed-media
- Mandala Weavings - Focused on the mandala symbolizing one’s core/center of self
- Potion Jars & Magic Wands - Focused on creating the intention/energy desired to bring towards self/others/the world

*Age Advisory: This film event is recommended on Common Sense Media for audiences 10 to 12 years of age and older, as this riveting 5th film within the Harry Potter series presents elevated levels of violence and scary imagery for those younger than 10-12 years of age.

Reserve your spot by selecting tickets through the Humanitix link in bio, or refer to the link below today for more info and tickets:

https://events.humanitix.com/collective-self-cinema

💗WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE TO LEARN-CREATE-CONNECT TOGETHER

02/28/2025

COLLECTIVE SELF CINEMA presents HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

EVENT DETAILS
Event Date this Saturday: 3/1/2025!
Film Screening: 12-2:30p
Post-Screening Workshops: 2:30-3:30p
Cost: Free // Pay What You Can

*PLEASE NOTE*
*Ticket Sales for the Post-Screening Workshops END Tomorrow, Friday 2/28 at 9PM!!! If you want to participate in post-screening workshops, reserve your spot(s) BEFORE 9PM TOMORROW!

*Movie Tickets are available for anyone who walks up Saturday 3/1 & wants to see the FILM ONLY*

Amidst the season of daylight expanding from darkness, and the current, overwhelming state of the world, we have lots in store for the ‘Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix’ film screening on March 1st !

One of Harry Potter’s focal themes our learning and expressive art workshops will be highlighting is:

Leading With Love

With & , we will explore the powerful themes Harry Potter shares about friends, family, power, identity, and how love is the most powerful source within that can overcome the strongest of evil.

AND has some magical expressive arts up their sleeves to explore, create, and conjure ! Such as, choose from the following selections of TearwaterT’s magic during the expressive arts workshop:

- Self-Portraits: watercolor / mixed-media
- Mandala Weavings - Focused on the mandala symbolizing one’s core/center of self
- Potion Jars & Magic Wands - Focused on creating the intention/energy desired to bring towards self/others/the world

*Age Advisory: This film event is recommended on Common Sense Media for audiences 10 to 12 years of age and older, as this riveting 5th film within the Harry Potter series presents elevated levels of violence and scary imagery for those younger than 10-12 years of age.

Reserve your spot by selecting tickets through the Humanitix link in bio, or refer to the link below today for more info and tickets:

https://events.humanitix.com/collective-self-cinema

💗WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE TO LEARN-CREATE-CONNECT TOGETHER💗

02/23/2025

We all need spaces and relationships in which the messiness we feel on the inside can be witnessed, honored, and/or delighted in on the outside.

02/23/2025

To Learn & Heal Is To Be With.

At Care-O-Van, all parts of you are welcome and you are embraced for all that you are, as you are.

You already have the capacity within yourself to persevere, grow, learn, heal, and flourish.

I am here to help hold what may feel stuck, overwhelming, numb, conflicted, lost, alone or like too much, to bear witness to and help make sense of what you have experienced and are going through. I am here to support, guide, and strengthen your access to your own inner-knowing, interoception, connectedness, and full Self.

I am here to show up for and be with you, all of you.

That means all of your raw, extraordinary, strange, rough, spicy, destructive, bright, ashamed, intelligent, primal, punished, driven, forbidden, soft, rejected, addicted, divergent, shy, corporeal, hurt, scary, invisible, celebrated, mad, unwanted, concealed, wondrous, and real parts of you, are not just welcomed, they are invited and accepted here.

What I know is that our behaviors, thoughts, feelings, sensations ultimately serve with the intention to protect us. Most likely at one point they were purposefully effective, and since may have grown to become unhelpful, hurtful, limiting, dysfunctional, or even illegal. I am here to help listen, reflect and partner with you, in the seeking out of the, ‘for why;’ the purpose behind these parts and behaviors. Not only do all parts of you make perfect sense once we can deeply listen to them, we can make meaning of them together to release burdened beliefs, learn how to show up in your life for your Self and others differently, and access the freedom, rest, joy, and peace, you, yes, every last one of you deserve.

It is my honor to provide relationally safe regulatory partnership, in order to support such individual growth towards self-actualization, and integration as a whole, accepted, and sacred self.

We only learn and heal when in relationship with our Selves & others.

02/15/2025

Care-O-Van is an inclusive, place-based mental health service that provides integrative and adaptive therapeutic support to children, adolescents, adults, and care-givers.

Located on the grounds of the secluded and family owned, 4 acre AVEC Farm, Care-O-Van specializes in offering purposeful interactions with animals, plants and landscapes with the integration of nature, expressive arts, play, culinary, and movement based therapies.

Housed within a renovated school bus, Care-O-Van is an innovative therapeutic space; a school bus turned into a play, art and experiential therapy office! Step on in, and children and adults alike experience a therapeutic setting informed to cultivate wonder, curiosity, creativity, warmth, and relational safety.

Care-O-Van’s services are purposefully facilitated, paced, and individualized in a therapeutic environment unlike any other. Shaped to each individual’s earnestness for exploration, Care-O-Van’s services are uniquely adapted to offer individually preferred modes of engagement, expression and methods of processing, and designed to create an embodied experience of both interpersonal and intrapersonal safety and connectivity.

Originally created as a mobile mental health service platform, to partner with schools, farms, parks, and local service organizations to enhance accessibility to services, Care-O-Van currently remains stationary and parked to provide services and meet the needs of our community on the grounds and in partnership with the animals of the AVEC Farm.

02/14/2025

A little bit about me to share with you🥰

Meg Mertaugh-Graber, LMSW - Clinical, MSW, M.Ed

Meg is a trauma sensitive, developmentally informed, neuro-affirming and Internal Family Systems trained clinical mental health therapist. Specialized in facilitating nature-based, expressive arts, experiential and animal-assisted therapeutic services for over a decade, Meg founded Care-O-Van, a private practice through which she works with children, adolescents, adults, families, educators, and care-givers. Meg’s areas of interest and experience include: complex, chronic and intergenerational trauma, postpartum and parenting, caregiver/child relationships, youth development, attachment, issues related to sexual trauma, neglect, abuse and in**st, autism+ neurodivergence, gender and sexual identity and expression, LGBTQIA+, grief and loss, self worth, body worth, and embodied resilience. A mama of elementary age twins, bonus mama of a daughter now grown adult, partner, caregiver of many fur-wool-feather beings large and small, and land steward, Meg honors her greatest teachers as her children, animals, and her own reflective therapeutic work.

02/11/2025

COLLECTIVE SELF CINEMA presents HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX🎞🌟💥

Event Date Rescheduled for: 3/1/2025!🌟
Film Screening: 12-2:30p🌟
Post-Screening Workshops: 2:30-3:30p🌟

With the new year of 2025 upon us, and moving through the season of reflecting upon past events, experiences, choices and actions, of sourcing intentions and resolutions, and now adjusting to how one hopes to not only lead but sustain one’s Self through this year and years to come; amidst all the current events, we have lots in store for the ‘Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix’ film screening on March 1st !

One of Harry Potter’s focal themes our learning and expressive art workshops will be highlighting is:

💗Leading With Love💗

With & , we will explore the powerful themes Harry Potter shares about friends, family, power, identity, and how love is the most powerful source within that can overcome the strongest of evil🎨❤️🌟

*Age Advisory: This film event is recommended on Common Sense Media for audiences 10 to 12 years of age and older, as this riveting 5th film within the Harry Potter series presents elevated levels of violence and scary imagery for those younger than 10-12 years of age.

Tickets for the workshops after the film include the movie tickets, and are pay what you can to ensure everyone can come, watch, learn, explore, create and play!

Reserve your spot by selecting tickets through the Humanitix link in bio, or refer to the link below today for more info and tickets:

https://events.humanitix.com/collective-self-cinema

💗WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE TO LEARN-CREATE-CONNECT TOGETHER💗