Malibu Retreat

The Retreat Experience

Join us for a transformational 3 day, unplugged retreat.

An intentionally intimate experience designed to support profound healing and lasting personal growth.

Through Holistic Integral Therapy with Dr. Cheri, you'll be guided into greater harmony and wholeness between mind, body, and spirit.

Alongside this work, Ellice will lead you through somatic and ceremonial practices, creating space to soften, reconnect, and explore the more subtle layers of your inner world.

Rooted in decades of experience, Ellice and Dr. Cheri come together in a unique collaboration that blends intuitive, embodied facilitation with clinical therapeutic depth. With years of holding transformative spaces, this work is grounded in presence and a genuine respect for each individual's process.

Carefully curated to allow for true connection, this retreat is not one size fits all. Each experience unfolds in real time, attuned to the rhythm of the group, allowing for a more personal, and supportive journey. Woven throughout are elements of creative expression, embodiment, and connection to nature, inviting not just insight, but lived experience.

Step away from the noise. Immerse yourself in nature.

Nourish your soul through meaningful connection and community.

Be held in a space that invites you to slow down, open, and return to yourself.
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Meet Your Retreat Guides

Cheri McDonald PhD LMFT PTAP

With over 40 years of clinical experience, Dr. Cheri brings a rare depth of insight into the healing process that extends beyond traditional therapy into lived transformation.

As the creator of Holistic Integral Therapy, her work bridges the nervous system, emotional experience, relational patterns, and deeper meaning.

Her approach is not about fixing or forcing change. It is about understanding what is unfolding and learning how to live differently within it.

In retreat spaces, Cheri offers clarity, precision, and a grounded presence that allows deeper patterns to be seen, felt, and integrated in a way that lasts.

She is also a certified end-of-life doula and co-host of the Rooted & Rising podcast, bringing a unique lens on meaning, legacy, and what truly matters.

Ellice Boone, Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach

Ellice has over a decade of experience holding women’s retreats and creating spaces rooted in connection, emotional safety, and authentic expression.

Her work is intuitive and body-centered, deeply rooted in connection to nature, where the environment itself becomes part of the healing process. Through sensory awareness, movement, and time in nature, she creates space for the body to soften, regulate, and reconnect.

She brings an intuitive and expressive approach that creates space for openness, creativity, and truth to emerge naturally.

Through grounded presence and deep attunement, she guides others back into themselves.

She is a certified psychedelic integration coach and co-host of the Rooted & Rising podcast, where she shares insights, meditations, and journaling practices.

The Experience We Create Together

Together, we bring over 50 years of combined experience, blending clinical depth with relational, somatic, and nature-based practices.

What makes this work unique is the way our approaches complement one another. Dr. Cheri brings deep clinical wisdom and a grounded framework for understanding patterns and transformation. Ellice brings an intuitive and experiential approach, creating space for the body and environment to become part of the process. This is a carefully held, responsive space where each experience adapts in real time to the needs of the group and the individual.

Woven throughout is a connection to nature as an active part of the work, supporting nervous system regulation and reflection. Transformation is not rushed. You are met across all layers - emotional, physical, psychological, and intuitive.

Most importantly, the work does not end when the retreat does. You are supported in integrating what shifts here into your daily life, so it becomes part of how you live, not just something you felt in a moment.

Join the Retreat Waitlist

Our retreats are intentionally limited to 4-6 women. Join the waitlist to be among the first to hear about upcoming retreat dates, locations, and registration.