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The Traditional Healing Clinic offers traditional Alaska Native approaches to health in an outpatient setting, in conjunction with other services at Southcentral Foundation.

Tribal doctors assist customer-owners of all ages using practices such as traditional physical, traditional counseling, and talking circles.

In addition, there is an Alaska Native traditional healing garden. The majority of these plants are native to Alaska. For thousands of years, these plants have nourished and healed our people. We believe that everything was put on this earth for a purpose.

For a referral to the Traditional Healing Clinic, please contact your primary care provider.

Traditional Healing Services Offered

Traditional Counseling

Traditional counseling meets customer-owners where they are in their wellness journey and provides a safe space to explore behavior change. During a traditional counseling session, both reflective listening and dialog are used. Traditional counseling encourages personal growth through self-discovery and self-acceptance. Counseling can be done in combination with healing touch.

Traditional Physical

Healing Hands

Healing hands is a physical modality in which practitioners perform body work using varied hands-on pressure. This practice is used to relieve pain in the physical body, increase mobility, and address imbalances. Healing hands seeks to identify and treat the root cause of a problem while simultaneously addressing the symptoms.

Healing Touch

Healing touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. This approach is a biofield (magnetic field around the body) therapy. Healing touch influences the human energy system that surrounds the body, and the centers that control the flow from the energy field to the physical body.

These non-invasive techniques employ the hands to clear and balance the human energy fields, thus affecting health. The goal of healing touch is to restore balance and harmonies in the energy system, placing the client in a position to selfheal.

Talking Circle

A talking circle is an ancient cultural ceremony of sharing and responding to story and is confidential and without judgement. Participating in a talking circle encourages customer-owners to speak their truth, step into their gifts, and embrace areas of growth and acceptance of oneself and others. A talking circle is rooted in authenticity and love.

Healing Garden

SCF’s healing garden includes edible and medicinal flora used for generations and combines traditional Alaska Native healing techniques with modern medicine.  Alaska Native values, beliefs, and practices are incorporated for the ultimate benefit of customer-owners. You may view the healing garden from the Anchorage Native Primary Care Center lobby.

Traditional Healing Cultural Classes

Cultural classes are conducted in person. They are taught by Traditional Healing Clinic employees who share knowledge passed down from Alaska Native Elders.

Cultural classes are opportunities for customer-owners and employees to connect with their Indigenous ways of living through practicing traditional skills.

Contact Us

Traditional Healing Clinic
4320 Diplomacy Drive, Suite 1010
Anchorage, AK 99508

Phone
907-729-4958

Toll Free
800-478-3343

Fax
907-729-5238

Hours
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday-Friday

Upcoming Cultural Classes and Events

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Northwest Coastline Formline Lab

Northwest Coastline Formline Lab
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In this class taught by tribal doctor Ruby Soboleff, you will learn the basics of crest design by painting basic shapes on leather. Registration is required. Register for Traditional Healing Clinic Cultural Classes here. , ...
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Mindful Mondays

Mindful Mondays
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Wind down after the workday with Natalee. This class introduces mindfulness practices that promote calm and clarity. Participants will gather to connect with others and close the day with intention.   , ...
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Quiet Time

Quiet Time
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
A beginner-friendly class that offers a variety of meditation practices. A renowned Native Elder described meditation as “a time to gain greater understanding from within and stop the chatter inside.” Practices may include Breathing in Energy Centers, as well as Gratitude meditation, the practice of Not-knowing, and gu , ...
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Beading: Building Bricks

Beading: Building Bricks
9:00 am - 11:00 am
This intermediate-level class is designed for participants with a basic understanding of bead, needle, and thread types and sizes. Participants will explore the brick stitch technique, including how to build wider rows from a smaller base and how to read beading patterns. Registration is required. Register for Traditio , ...
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Salves

Salves
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Learn a basic salve recipe and prepare a small sample using traditional Southcentral Alaska plants. Registration is required. Register for Traditional Healing Clinic Cultural Classes here. , ...

Salves – What Now?

Salves – What Now?
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Those who have attended the salve-making class can build on what they learned with a short question-and-answer session focused on using healing salves at home and taking their salve-making practice to the next level. Registration is required. Register for Traditional Healing Clinic Cultural Classes here. , ...
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Mindful Mondays

Mindful Mondays
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Wind down after the workday with Natalee. This class introduces mindfulness practices that promote calm and clarity. Participants will gather to connect with others and close the day with intention.   , ...
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Beading: Building Bricks

Beading: Building Bricks
9:00 am - 11:00 am
This intermediate-level class is designed for participants with a basic understanding of bead, needle, and thread types and sizes. Participants will explore the brick stitch technique, including how to build wider rows from a smaller base and how to read beading patterns. Registration is required. Register for Traditio , ...
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