OUR LISTENING CABANA
Facilitated by Headspace Counseling & Recovery · Baton Rouge
What would you set down if you had somewhere to put it?
Six women. One facilitator. Thirty minutes to say the thing out loud and walk back out lighter than you came in.
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF• Who do you call when the thing you are carrying is too heavy to say out loud at work?
• When was the last time you said something true and nobody rushed to solve it?
• How many conversations do you walk out of still holding the thing you walked in with?
• If nothing changes, and you keep carrying it alone, how does that sit with you a year from now?
How much lighter would you leave if you finally said it?
The Listening Cabana Experience
Some things only get lighter when you say them out loud.
Here is what actually happens in there. A small circle. Soft seating. A licensed counselor from Headspace Counseling & Recovery holding the space so it stays warm, safe, and unhurried. You can speak, or you can sit there and let someone else go first. Both count.
Small.
Six women, never more. Small enough that you are not performing, and small enough that you cannot disappear.
Held.
A trained facilitator guides the conversation. Nobody gets talked over. Nobody gets fixed. Nobody gets advice she did not ask for.
Private.
What is said in the cabana stays in the cabana. Every woman agrees to that out loud before the circle opens.
Yours.
Thirty minutes with no agenda except the one in the room. Come with something specific. Come with nothing at all. Both are the right way to use it.
Four steps, and none of them are hard.
Reserve your seat. Choose your session time when you book your event ticket. Six seats per session, and they go.
Arrive five minutes early. Your facilitator meets you at the cabana entrance so you are never walking into a circle already in progress.
Settle in. The circle opens with one question and a shared agreement about privacy. Then it is yours.
Walk back out to the music thirty minutes later. Most women say they feel lighter than they did going in.
Meet your facilitators.
The Listening Cabana is facilitated by the Baton Rouge team at Headspace Counseling & Recovery, a licensed counseling practice serving South Louisiana. Facilitators rotate by session. Here is who you might sit with.
Lindsey Carlton
Founder of Headspace Counseling & Recovery, with more than 17 years of work alongside women moving through addiction, trauma, and the seasons that rearrange a life. Her whole approach rests on one idea: nothing that happened to you gets to decide who you are now. In her words, nothing is more powerful than the choices you make today.
Founder, LPC, LAC
Samantha Babin
Relationships are her life's work. Her practice is built around what happens to women who stop saying what they need. She is trained in EMDR and Emotion-Focused Therapy, and she is very, very good at noticing the thing you almost said.
LPC
Most people call her Jess. She believes you are the expert on your own life, and that her job is helping you find words for what you are carrying. Her work centers families, LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC clients, and anyone in the middle of what she calls a beautiful, complicated mess.
PLPCJessica Colbenson
Saadi Francis
A master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Nicholls State, and a practice built on trust, respect, and empathy. She creates rooms where women feel safe enough to be honest about who they are and what they feel, which is rarer and harder than it sounds.
LPC, NCC
Dr. Stephanie Eberts
Twenty-five years in the counseling profession across private practice, academia, and clinical leadership, with a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision. She works with women through anxiety, grief, career questions, and the particular weight of the middle years. She has run small groups for most of her career, which is exactly what the cabana is.
Ph.D., LPC
Facilitated by Headspace Counseling & Recovery
Headspace Counseling & Recovery is a licensed mental health and recovery practice with offices in Baton Rouge and Lafayette. They treat clients like family, and that is the whole reason we asked them to hold this room. The women who walk into the cabana deserve someone trained sitting across from them, not just someone willing.
One thing we want to be clear about.
The Listening Cabana is a facilitated conversation. It is not therapy, and it does not create a counseling relationship with the facilitator or with Headspace Counseling & Recovery. It is not a substitute for care with your own provider.
If the cabana leaves you wanting more of that, take it as a good sign. Headspace sees clients in Baton Rouge, and you can reach them at 337-573-5884.
If you are in crisis, please call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It is available any time, day or night.
Everything you might be wondering… answered.
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No. Plenty of women come and listen the whole time. Speaking is an option, not the price of the seat.
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No. It is a facilitated conversation with a licensed counselor holding the space. It is not clinical care and it does not replace working with your own provider.
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Whatever is in the room. Work, motherhood, grief, starting over, being tired, being lonely inside a full life. The facilitator opens with one question, and the circle takes it from there.
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Every woman in the circle agrees before it opens that what is said in the cabana stays in the cabana. We take that seriously, and so does everyone who sits down.
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Four sessions per event. If we have a long waitlist, we will open up a second cabana.
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No, it is included with your event ticket.
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Yes, if seats allow. Some women prefer to come alone and say something they have never said in front of anyone who knows them. Both happen, and both are normal here.
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Headspace Counseling & Recovery sees clients in Baton Rouge. They can get your info and get you setup with an appointment.
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Let us know at the door and we will give your seat to a woman on the waitlist.
You do not have to carry that out of this room.
Six seats. Thirty minutes. Women who already understand, because each of them walked in carrying something, too. Come set it down.
