March 29, 2027 to April 4, 2027
Aboard the Explora III
Reclaim your Wellness at Sea
Maybe you’ve been dealing with brain fog, anxiety, or that persistent feeling that you’re running on empty.
You keep pushing through your days, doing what needs to be done, taking care of everyone else, but deep down, you know something isn’t right. Living in a constant state of stress takes a real toll on your body and spirit.
Over time, you feel depleted, disconnected, and start wondering where the vibrant, energized version of you went.
Here’s the beautiful truth…your body hasn’t forgotten how to heal. It just needs the right space, support, and time to reset.
That’s exactly what this retreat is designed to give you.
Join us onboard a luxurious hotel at sea for a deeply restorative experience created for Black mental health professionals who have given so much to others and are finally ready to nurture themselves again.
Through gentle movement, guided meditation, deep rest, nourishing meals, and supportive healing practices, you’ll have the space to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with yourself.
By the time you leave, you won’t just feel rested. You’ll feel lighter, calmer, more like yourself, and connected to a community of professionals thriving and changing lives.
This is your time to pause, reset, and reclaim your wellness at sea…
Are you exhausted, no matter how much you rest?
Who this Retreat is For
·Black psychotherapists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals.
·Leaders who are ready for a nervous-system reset and a deeper relationship with embodied care.
·Professionals who want both restoration and a thoughtful cohort experience.
·Guests who appreciate luxury travel, slower pacing, and room for joy.
Why this Retreat Matters
Black mental health professionals often carry layered stress: the emotional demands of client care, exposure to trauma narratives, racialized workplace stress, and the unseen labor of constantly code-switching, over-functioning, and holding it together.
Many retreats focus on rest alone. Others focus on education alone. This experience does both. It creates space for embodied repair, clinical reflection, and culturally grounded community building in a setting that feels luxurious, protected, and deeply nourishing.
This retreat gives participants a premium travel experience and a clinically meaningful healing container that supports both personal restoration and professional sustainability.
Restore nervous-system balance through somatic, breath, and movement practices.
Interrupt the accumulation of racial stress and burnout through guided reflection and peer witnessing.
Offer joyful connection through intentional play time.
Translate personal healing into practical tools participants can carry back into their clinical work and daily life.
What Participants Will Gain
A felt sense of ease, spaciousness, and emotional reset.
Practical regulation tools for both personal use and clinical application.
A renewed relationship with pleasure, play, and rest as legitimate wellness practices.
A supportive network of Black clinicians and wellness-minded peers.
A curated integration packet with reflection prompts, grounding practices, and take-home rituals.
You've poured out long enough. It's time to be poured into.
Join a curated cohort of Black mental health professionals, healing from racial trauma for an 8-day, 7-night luxury wellness voyage aboard the Explora III, sailing March 29 – April 4, 2027.
This isn't just a vacation; it's an embodied healing experience designed around your restoration: somatic practices, breathwork, movement, joyful community, and the kind of rest your nervous system has been asking for.
Spaces are intentionally limited to protect the intimacy of the experience.
If something in you just exhaled reading this; that's your answer. This retreat blends the signature Ocean Wellness spirit of Explora Journeys with a culturally responsive experience designed to support rest, regulation, reflection, and reconnection for Black clinicians.
Our Team
Both Valerie and Kindall are passionate about mental health and wellness and travel.
Valerie Kuykendall-Rogers
Owner, Ascent Psychotherapy CenterValerie is a licensed professional counselor and travel advisor specializing in luxury wellness experiences for Black mental health professionals. Along with my colleague, she is honored to host the Reclaiming Wellness Voyage aboard Explora Journeys III, a luxury cruise experience created for rest, restoration, and culturally affirming healing. This wellness retreat for Black therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals offers a beautifully curated space to decompress, reconnect, and reclaim balance while sailing in elegance. Through intentional design, meaningful community, and holistic care, we are creating a transformative luxury retreat for Black mental health professionals seeking renewal, reflection, and restoration at sea.
Kindall is a Licensed Professional Counselor and clinical supervisor with more than 16 years of experience guiding clients through life's most pivotal seasons. As the founder of Aspire Counseling & Wellness Center, she is intimately familiar with the weight Black mental health professionals carry and the discipline it takes to keep refilling our own cups. For her, travel has become one of the most restorative practices in that work. Having lived in Beijing for six years, she came to understand firsthand how stepping away from the grind, immersing yourself in another culture, and giving your nervous system room to breathe can shift not only how you rest, but how you return. Travel softened her, sharpened her, and remains one of her most trusted ways of tending to her own mental health. She brings that same spirit to this retreat at sea — the belief that rest, in community with one another, is not an indulgence but a profound act of care for ourselves and the people we serve.
Owner, Aspire Counseling & Wellness Center, PLLCKindall Tyson
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