Therapists & Mental Health Professionals One-Day Restoration Retreat
A restorative, trauma-informed training designed to support renewal, nervous system regulation,
and sustainable clinical presence.
Private Sanctuary Retreat Experience for Long-lasting Transformation
Casa de Mirabeau, San Diego, California
Limited capacity: 16–20 participants
Healing Gardens
Who Is This Retreat For?
This one-day restoration retreat is designed for licensed therapists (LMFTs, LCSWs, psychologists), counselors, and mental health professionals who hold clients’ traumatic material session after session and experience vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue that accumulates over years of practice.
Research shows that 67% of mental health professionals report high levels of burnout (American Psychological Association), and 21 – 67% experience vicarious traumatization from repeated exposure to clients’ trauma (multiple peer-reviewed studies). Many professionals do not self-report these symptoms due to professional expectations and stigma.
If you find yourself emotionally depleted after difficult sessions, carrying clients’ pain home with you, or wondering how much longer you can sustain this work, this training offers both immediate relief and lasting protection.
The training takes place in an intimate, healing environment and addresses both professional application with clients and your own nervous system protection.
This Retreat Is for You If...
- You find yourself emotionally depleted after difficult sessions
- Carrying clients’ pain home with you
- Wondering how much longer you can sustain this work.
This retreat offers both immediate relief and lasting protection. It takes place in an intimate, healing environment at Casa de Mirabeau and provides you with practical tools for both professional use and personal restoration.
What You’ll Learn and Experience
The Dr. Carolle Method™
1. DCIRT™ – Dr. Carolle’s Instant Reset Technique
A 30-second rapid acupressure intervention you can use when clients are in acute emotional distress during sessions, including:
- Panic attacks
- Dissociation
- Overwhelming emotional flooding
- Trauma triggering
DCIRT provides immediate stabilization, allowing therapeutic work to continue safely.
2. DCIAM – Dr. Carolle’s Instant Anti-Distress Method
A 3-breath parasympathetic activation technique with dual application:
- Before sessions with highly traumatized clients (centering)
- Between difficult sessions (reset)
- At the end of the day (release and decompression)
DCIAM prevents the accumulation of vicarious trauma.
You will learn how to teach clients this method as a self-regulation tool for ongoing emotional management.
3. DCSRT™ – Dr. Carolle’s Self-Reset Technique
DCSRT is used for:
- Administrative overwhelm
- Documentation fatigue
- Insurance frustrations
- Tension headaches and cognitive overload
Note: DCIRT and DCIAM are always used together for emotional trauma situations. DCSRT is used specifically for non-trauma stress and overwhelm.
METRT – Murat Emotional Trauma Release Technique
Optional individual 2–3 minute hands-on trauma release sessions for therapists seeking personal restoration.
METRT is not taught, but will be performed individually by Dr. Carolle on participants who request it during the training. This brief hands-on trauma release session addresses accumulated secondary trauma and compassion fatigue that healthcare workers carry from years of witnessing suffering, allowing them to start fresh.
Note: These techniques are grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) principles and adapted for modern clinical use.
Healing Gardens
Full-Day Retreat Format
Duration: Full day (9:00 AM – 4:30 PM)
Capacity: 16 – 20 therapists (intimate group size for personalized attention)
Setting: A beautiful, peaceful healing sanctuary with gardens designed specifically for restoration
The retreat concludes with a live music session featuring Akisha & The Art Effects, Dr. Carolle’s band. Akisha is Dr. Carolle’s stage name – feel free to join and dance.
What Makes This Retreat Unique?
A Place to Reset
At Dr. Carolle’s private retreat sanctuary,
The Healing Garden at Casa de Mirabeau
A private sanctuary where nature, peace, and healing come together.
This sacred space began during one of the most difficult times in Dr. Carolle’s life. “As I healed, I nurtured the land, and in return, the land helped heal me. Now, it welcomes you.”
Surrounded by Beauty and Stillness
- Flowering roses and seasonal blooms
- Guava, mango, lemon, orange, fig, and sour orange trees
- Succulents, cacti, and vibrant greenery
- Ancient granite boulders formed over 75 million years ago
- Winding stone paths, shaded sitting areas, and a peaceful pond and fountain
Dual Benefit
This retreat offers two essential outcomes:
Enhanced Clinical Effectiveness:
- Immediate, practical interventions for clients in acute distress
- Tools you can use in your very next therapy session
- Confidence in supporting clients through panic, dissociation, and overwhelming emotions
- Ability to teach clients self-regulation tools
Personal Wellbeing Restoration:
- Techniques to prevent the accumulation of vicarious trauma
- Personal experience of nervous system regulation and emotional release
- Support for sustaining empathy without depletion
- Joy, music, and celebration as part of healing
Blooming Flowers
What’s Included:
- Full-day retreat experience with all sessions
- Carolle’s Trauma-Release Training Manual covering DCIRT, DCIAM, and DCSRT with detailed instructions and illustrations
- Healthy catered lunch
- Healing session with live music with Dr. Carolle and her band, Akisha & the Art Effects.
- Access to Casa de Mirabeau’s beautiful healing gardens
75 Million Years old Boulders and Fruit Trees
Pre-Retreat Process
Before the retreat, each participant submits their two most pressing professional or personal issues related to their therapeutic work. Dr. Carolle reviews these confidentially and addresses them during the retreat.
Blooming Flowers and Cacti
Your Sanctuary, Your Way
During the retreat, this garden becomes your own. This space meets you where you are, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Blooming Flowers and Cacti
Experiential Practice, Human Presence & Prevention of Helplessness
This retreat addresses one of the primary drivers of therapist burnout: helplessness in the face of suffering.
When you repeatedly witness clients’ emotional pain without having an effective way to intervene in moments of acute distress, secondary trauma can accumulate, not from caring too much, but from feeling unable to provide immediate support in critical moments.
During the retreat, you receive ample supervised time to practice using these methods with one another in a safe, structured environment.
You’ll learn not only how to apply the techniques, but how to be with another human being in acute emotional distress.
The retreat emphasizes:
Establishing a calm, grounded presence
- Establishing calm, grounded presence
- Making attuned, respectful eye contact
- Using gentle, supportive touch when clinically and professionally appropriate
- Recognizing nervous system cues in real time
- Responding with confidence rather than emotional withdrawal
By the end of the training, participants not only regulate themselves but also feel competent to offer meaningful human support in critical moments without absorbing the emotional burden. This restores agency, preserves empathy, and prevents the progressive emotional numbing often labeled as “compassion fatigue.”
You will leave with techniques you can use in your very next therapy session, no lengthy integration period required.
Why This Works
These techniques have been used in mass trauma events with documented long-term outcomes:
- 2008 Hurricane Katrina: Survivors with documented outcomes 17 years later.
- 2012 San Diego Mesa College: Student suicide witnessed by 20 staff members. Lead therapist (licensed LMFT) Sue Hanes confirmed in 2024 that results were long-lasting, 13 years later.
- 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Hundreds of survivors, first responders, clergy, and healthcare providers under extreme conditions. Outcomes documented 15 years later.
- March 2025–present: AKESNA Sisters religious congregation, Haiti.
- December 2024–present: Multi-city response in Ohio and New York supporting Haitian congregations following political attacks.
- Multiple responses, including shootings, community violence, and critical incidents.
- 25+ years serving as co-administrator of Hôpital St. Joseph in Haiti under extreme crisis conditions.
What Makes This Different
Dr. Carolle Jean-Murat, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified physician and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists with over 40 years of medical experience, who developed these techniques after experiencing severe professional burnout herself.
She serves as co-administrator of a hospital in Haiti, where she has led medical and mental health teams under extreme crisis conditions for over 25 years.
This work is grounded in decades of clinical medicine and surgery, refined through real-world crisis response, and informed by formal leadership training through Landmark Education.
These methods are neurobiologically grounded interventions, not theoretical or generic wellness programming.
Training at Casa de Mirabeau offers both skill acquisition and personal restoration in an intimate healing environment, where you can focus on learning these powerful techniques while receiving a nervous system reset.
She is also the lead singer of Akisha & The Art Effects, integrating music into crisis response and community healing.
Flowers in Bloom
Dual Benefit
This retreat offers two essential outcomes:
Enhanced Clinical Effectiveness:
- Immediate, practical interventions for clients in acute distress
- Tools you can use in your very next therapy session
- Confidence in supporting clients through panic, dissociation, and overwhelming emotions
- Ability to teach clients self-regulation tools they can use independently
- Prevention of vicarious trauma accumulation that leads to burnout and early career exit
- Personal experience of nervous system regulation and emotional release
- Restoration of your capacity to remain present with suffering without absorbing it
- Recovery of the empathy and compassion that brought you to this work. When you leave this training, you will be both personally restored and professionally equipped, able to support others with presence rather than depletion.
Healing Happens Here
This retreat is not for everyone. It is for those ready to step into a true healing space where their body, mind, and spirit are fully supported. It offers a unique opportunity to pause, reset, and reclaim their healing power.
Agenda
Morning Session (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM):
- Understanding vicarious trauma and nervous system dysregulation
- Learn and practice DCIAM, DCIRT, and DCSRT
- Hands-on practice with peers in a safe, supervised setting
- Group experience and integration
- Answers your most personal and professional issues in a confidential manner
- Healthy catered lunch provided
- Rest and refresh in the healing gardens
- Informal connection time with other therapists and Dr. Carolle
- Individual DCIRT and METRT sessions available with Dr. Carolle (rotating schedule)
- Garden meditation and nature walks
- Personal reflection and integration time ∙
- Learn and practice DCIRT and DCSRT
- Individual DCIRT and METRT sessions available with Dr. Carolle (rotating schedule)
- Continue to answer your most personal and professional issues submitted upon registration in a confidential manner
- Q&A
- Closing circle
Closing Celebration (3:00 PM – 4:30 PM):
Music as Healing
The retreat concludes with a live healing session featuring Akisha & The Art Effects, Dr. Carolle’s band. Akisha is Dr. Carolle’s stage name – feel free to join and dance.
Music has been an integral part of Dr. Carolle’s healing work. During crisis interventions, she sings with traumatized communities, creating shared expression and collective healing. The concert brings joy, connection, and celebration to your restoration journey.
A Personal Invitation from Dr. Carolle
Over the years, I have witnessed the incredible healing power within each of us. I have dedicated my life to helping individuals uncover and activate this power, guiding them beyond fear, stress, and uncertainty toward true healing and renewal.
This retreat is the culmination of everything I have learned over decades as a physician, surgeon, energy, spiritual, and intuitive healer, and an expert in emotional trauma release.
I have created a space where those ready to heal can step away from the noise of everyday life and fully immerse themselves in a journey of transformation.
I invite you to join me to experience deep healing, emotional release, and renewed vitality.
Note: Each participant receives Dr. Carolle’s Trauma-Release Training Manual for Therapists and Mental Health Professionals with detailed instructions and illustrations.
