A sanctuary of care — for every soul
Serenity is not
a luxury.
It is your right.
Our Mission
Creating a safe space in every opportunity — for the whole human being.
At Elements of Serenity, we believe that safety is the foundation of all healing. Our mission is to cultivate and protect safe, affirming, and inclusive spaces — in every session, every program, every conversation — where the full dimensions of human well-being are honored. We are committed to nurturing the mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and intellectual health of each person we serve, meeting them exactly where they are with compassion, cultural humility, and clinical excellence.
Our Vision
A world where no one is left behind on the journey to wholeness.
Elements of Serenity envisions a future in which every area of our work actively dismantles the barriers that prevent marginalized and socioeconomically disadvantaged humans — of all ages, races, genders, and ethnicities — from accessing comprehensive care. We see each of our four pillars — clinical mental health, climate awareness, play therapy, psychoeducation, and holistic wellness — as instruments of equity, ensuring that mental, emotional, financial, spiritual, and intellectual well-being are within reach for all.
"Each pillar of Elements of Serenity LLC exists to address unmet concerns in marginalized and socioeconomically disadvantaged communities — ensuring that humans of all ages, races, genders, and ethnicities receive the mental, emotional, financial, spiritual, and intellectual well-being they deserve."
Anchor Pillar
Centering Elements
Anchor Pillar
Centering Elements
Our clinical mental health practice is the heartbeat of Elements of Serenity LLC. Operating under an educational model, we provide individual, couples, family, and group therapy delivered by a diverse team of clinicians trained across multiple theoretical orientations. From grief and trauma to relationship challenges and life transitions, our therapists meet each client with both clinical rigor and genuine human care.
Our practice welcomes ages 4-94, including military service members, veterans, and their families. We take most insurances and have a sliding fee scale. We also operate a state-compliant VASAP/ASAP psychoeducational program for individuals navigating substance use and DUI court requirements — extending compassionate, ethical care to those often overlooked by the mainstream mental health system.
Vision Connection
The practice directly addresses the mental and emotional well-being element of our vision by providing accessible, culturally responsive clinical care to individuals across socioeconomic and demographic backgrounds. — including those with court-mandated needs, trauma, grief, and complex life challenges.
Specialized Framework
Play therapy is not merely play — it is the language through which children process experience, express emotion, and begin to heal.
CAPTF — Climate Awareness Play Therapy Framework
Designed and in trademark process by Marquita Garrett, PhD, RPT-S
This element provides specialized therapeutic training for services to children, adolescents, and families. Her CAPT model specifically integrates the rise of eco-anxiety/eco-grief in children and adolescents, recognition of environmental injustice, ACES Climate Change & Environmental Justice Competencies (2025), Disability-affirming and access-centered frameworks into a unique therapeutic engagement. There is a clinical shift of Play therapy which responds to: Chronic ecological stress, Climate-related trauma, Environmental displacement, and Youth advocacy and voice.
Vision Connection
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Public Education
Dr. Marquita Garrett, PhD — Voice of Psychoeducation
Dr. Marquita Garrett, PhD, LPC, serves as the face and voice of Elements of Serenity’s commitment to public mental health education. Through her podcast, speaking engagements, university instruction, published works, workshops, and community programming, Dr. Garrett translates complex clinical knowledge into accessible, actionable wisdom for everyday people.
She reaches audiences that traditional therapy never touches — including those who face financial, geographic, or cultural barriers to formal care. Her work on women’s empowerment, resilience, grief, military families, and counselor development positions Elements of Serenity as a trusted educational authority in the mental/emotional realm.
CAPT vision connection by training future therapists in the climate awareness framework, this element multiplies the vision’s reach exponentially.
Vision Connection (Dr, Garrett)
This sector advances the intellectual and financial well-being dimensions of the vision — equipping people with knowledge and tools that reduce dependence on crisis-only care. Psychoeducation is prevention, and prevention is equity.
Serenity Experience
Mind & Body Integration
Holistic Well-Being
Our holistic wellness sector brings the body into the healing conversation. Recognizing that mental health and physical well-being are inseparable, Elements of Serenity LLC offers mind-body programming through certified group leaders in Tai Chi, Yoga, Belly Dance, Breathwork, and Autogenic Training — each designed to restore regulation, cultivate presence, and honor the body as a vehicle of healing. This creates a continuum of care that serves clients beyond the therapy room.
Vision Connection
Holistic wellness is the bridge between clinical care and physical being. By addressing the physical, spiritual, and community dimensions of well-being, this element ensures the vision reaches those for whom traditional therapy alone is incomplete — including faith communities, grieving families, those with chronic ailments, and those seeking body-centered healing.
Safety is not a policy at Elements of Serenity. It is the air we breathe. We create affirming, non-judgmental, and culturally humble spaces in every interaction — because healing cannot begin where people do not feel seen, protected, and worthy.
Your serenity
starts here.
Whether you are seeking therapy, exploring a program, inviting Dr. Garrett to speak, or simply looking for a place that will truly welcome you — reach out.