Developed by Dr. Cynthia Hollingsworth, LCSW-QS, MBA, Dr.H.Sc, 

You answered the call to serve and you served with honor, dedication, and sacrifice.
Now, you deserve a place to reclaim your peace, identity, and sense of self.

Coming home from service can bring challenges that few truly understand:

• Feeling disconnected from others
• Difficulty relaxing or “turning it off”
• Loss of purpose or direction
• Trouble showing emotions or feeling numb
• Over-alert, irritable, or easily triggered 
• Feeling misunderstood — even at home
• A sense of isolation, shame, or “I don’t fit anywhere anymore”
   

These responses do not make you weak.
They speak to your strength, loyalty, and survival intelligence.

Your training helped you stay alive.
Now it’s time to help yourself live.

To support veterans in the mission to come home to themselves — 

emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and relationally.

The battle is over.
The mission within begins.
 

MISSION: WITHIN™ reframes veteran recovery as a sacred inner mission—a journey to rescue the self, the inner child, and the emotions left behind in service. Grounded in the Amplified Wound Theory™, the model asserts that military culture rarely creates trauma in isolation; instead, it amplifies pre-existing attachment wounds by rewarding emotional suppression, hyper-control, and self-sacrifice. When service ends, these magnified wounds re-emerge as depression, anxiety, moral injury, and identity collapse. Integrating attachment theory, schema therapy, and somatic psychology, MISSION: WITHIN™ guides veterans through four healing phases - Reclaim, Integrate, Strengthen, Evolve; transforming survival into purpose and discipline into compassion.

   Phase Focus    

 Reclaim Understand emotional patterns shaped by early life and amplified by service   

Integrate Process trauma stored in the body & nervous system  

 Strengthen Build emotional discipline, confidence & relationships   

Evolve Rediscover purpose, identity & peace beyond the uniform   

Who This Program Supports

• Veterans
• Active-duty service members
• Reservists & National Guard
• First responders
• Military spouses & families
   

• PTSD & complex trauma (C-PTSD)
• Anxiety & depression
• Hypervigilance & emotional shutdown
• Moral injury & survivor guilt
• Identity loss after service
• Relationship & family struggles
• Anger, isolation, & withdrawal
• Somatic stress and nervous system dysregulation
   

We offer:

• Individual therapy (in-person & virtual)
• Trauma-informed emotional & somatic work
• Reintegration & identity coaching
• Relationship & family support
• Upcoming veterans group (waitlist open)
• Workshops & retreats (coming soon)
   

Our approach combines:

• Attachment & inner-child work (when appropriate)
• Somatic & nervous-system regulation
• Trauma and moral injury processing 
• Meaning-making & legacy work
• Communication & relationship skills
• Leadership psychology for personal growth
   

• VA Community Care accepted
• Network with major insurers
• Private pay options available
• No waitlist for eligible veterans
• Confidential and culturally respectful care
   

📝 Pursuing disability benefits?
We understand. We support you. Your healing and your benefits are not in conflict.

We validate your experiences and walk beside you through recovery, not instead of it.

• We honor your service and your humanity.
• We do not pathologize your strength.
• We do not push you to “just move on.”
• We understand both trauma and identity.
• We see beyond the uniform without ever diminishing it.
   

Strength is not the absence of pain —
It’s the courage to face yourself with dignity.
 

You don’t have to carry this alone.

Call: 561-660-8750
Email: support@calmamhc.com
Location: West Palm Beach & Telehealth Across Florida

You protected others.
Now it’s time to protect your peace.
 

The mission doesn’t end when deployment does.
The most courageous mission is learning to come home to yourself.