Open Arms Health Wellness and Healing

About Open Arms Health, Wellness, and Healing

Our Mission

Our Approach

Our mission is to walk alongside mothers and create safe, nurturing spaces where they are emotionally, mentally, and spiritually supported. Guided by compassion, faith, and community-based principles, we provide non-clinical, peer-led support that honors each mother’s lived experience, including life transitions, grief, and trauma when p

We believe motherhood was never meant to be carried alone.

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Our Approach

Our approach is gentle and intentional, guided by compassion and faith. We offer non-clinical, peer-led support through therapeutic journaling, group sessions, and holistic wellness practices. We walk alongside mothers through pregnancy, postpartum, grief, identity shifts, and the sacred work of healing, offering connection and encourage

Whether you are expecting, newly postpartum, or still finding your footing years later, you are welcome here.

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Our Services

Peer Support

Peer support services are led by trained community members and guided by CHW-informed principles under the Founder’s leadership. Our non-clinical, peer-led approach centers on connection, encouragement, and shared experience, supporting mothers through pregnancy, postpartum, and life transitions.

Group Sessions

Our group sessions offer non-clinical, facilitated spaces for mothers to connect, reflect, and support one another. Grounded in CHW-informed practices, these sessions center on community, encouragement, and shared experience.

Grief and Loss Support

We offer gentle, compassionate support for mothers experiencing pregnancy loss, postpartum loss, or unspoken grief. Our trauma-aware, non-clinical approach honors every mother’s story and creates space for healing through presence and connection. .

Journaling & Journal Workshops

Our guided journaling experiences offer mothers a gentle way to reflect, release, and reconnect. Informed by trauma-aware, community-based practices, journaling serves as a supportive, non-clinical tool for self-expression, grounding, and insight.

Journaling workshops offer structure, thoughtful prompts, and practical tools mothers can return to at their own pace, creating space for reflection and clarity without pressure, diagnosis, or treatment.

Therapeutic Activities

Therapeutic activities provide gentle, creative, and grounding experiences that support emotional well-being and stress relief in a non-clinical setting.

Maternal Wellness Workshops

Maternal wellness workshops offer practical, non-clinical support focused on self-care, boundaries, emotional resilience, and holistic well-being for mothers in every season.

*Open Arms Health, Wellness, and Healing provides non-clinical, peer-based support and is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.*

Meet The Founder

Yvrande Harris, Founder & Director

The Founder and Executive Director is currently enrolled in the Community Health Worker (CHW) Collette Lamothe-Galette (CHW-CLG) Institute, a nationally recognized program that prepares community leaders to deliver high-quality, culturally responsive, peer-led support services. This training strengthens Open Arms' capacity to implement evidence-informed, community-based maternal support models aligned with state and federal public health priorities.