About Us
Welcome to EPIC Adventures
EPIC Adventures is a team of trained, experienced adventure therapy facilitators and trainers specializing in adventure therapy groups, corporate leadership training/team building and adventure therapy training and consultation.
EPIC Adventures is the premier adventure therapy provider in the South Florida and Treasure Coast area!
Adventure therapy is an emerging, cutting-edge treatment model in the psychotherapy field, which focuses on physically active and experiential approaches that engage, challenge and educate. These activities are designed to embody lessons and skills that teach individuals how to overcome life’s difficult situations and gain valuable personal insights. We utilize physical activity, the natural environment and specially designed experiential activities that elicit powerful emotions and allow you the opportunity to practice coping mechanisms in a real-world environment followed by in depth processing, gentle yet powerful challenges, and environmental inspiration. We believe that learning and change is an ACTIVE process and therapy needs to take us out of our comfort zones and into new, exciting adventures.
Founded in January 2016, EPIC Adventures is the culmination of a dream. Founders Mike Phillips and Ricky Santiago met while working together at an adventure-based substance abuse treatment center and found they shared the same passion for adventure-based treatment and a desire to bring these powerful interventions to everyone both in corporate and therapeutic settings – this is the heart of and mission of EPIC Adventures!!
Whether you are young or old, an athlete or a couch potato, a social butterfly or an introvert, EPIC Adventures can help you and/or your team launch your great journey of transformation!!
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Listen to Ricky Santiago’s interview on “The Addicted Mind” podcast sharing his passion for adventure therapy
Our Adventure Blog
STOKED: The Therapeutic Benefits of Surf Therapy
If you find the ocean as peaceful as you do exciting, it may not surprise you much to learn that ocean-based activities, like surfing, have long been described as therapeutic. Only in recent years have experts (read “The Blue Mind) started to explore the mental health...
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Adventure Therapy in Substance Abuse Treatment
What is Adventure Therapy? Adventure therapy is a popular type of experiential therapy which typically takes place outdoors. From its conception in the early 1900s when psychiatric hospitals allowed residents to stay in tents on the campus lawn, adventure therapy has...
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12 Benefits of Team Building Events
Creates space for networking & socializing Socializing and making friends in the workplace is one of the best ways to increase productivity in the virtual, hybrid, or in-person workplace. Holding a team building activity can be short and sweet, or it can be a more...
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Training, Consulting & Supervision
Includes program consulting & clinician training
Adventure Therapy Groups
Super-charge your clinical programming with highly impactful adventure therapy groups by experienced facilitators!
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(305) 999-5783
Our Team
Ricardo A Santiago MS, MBA, LMHC, CCAT
Owner / Adventure Facilitator / Trainer
Michael Phillips, MS, EMDR, CF-L1
Adventure Facilitator/Trainer/Consultant
Mike originally from New Jersey moved to sunny south Florida in 2004 to attend Lynn University. Mike currently holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and a Master of Science Degree in Counseling. Mike began his professional career as stock trader and later entered the counseling field to pursue his true passion for people and helping them achieve their true potential. He is also a noted entrepreneur, owning and operating several businesses including CrossFit First Step, M&J Equity Group and The Crossfit Squad in addition to EPIC Adventures.
Mike’s journey began in 2012 to become an influential counselor while working in a substance abuse treatment center in Hobe Sound Fl. Mike’s time here was influential to his development. Mike specializes in using an eclectic spectrum of clinical modalities to enable clients to foster long term recovery. Some of Mike’s specialties include Adventure Based Therapy, Recreational Therapy, EMDR therapy, CrossFit infused therapy, Nutrition, Psychodrama, and Motivational Interviewing. Mike is a proud member of the AEE and is looking forward to contributing to the continued growth of Adventure/Experiential therapy.
Outside of the office Mike enjoys coaching CrossFit as well as participating/competing in CrossFit competitions. He also spends his time playing lacrosse for the Palm Beach men’s team and coaching high school Lacrosse players to help develop their skills on and off the field. If you can’t find Mike on the field or in the gym scan the coast line and most likely you’ll find him free diving/snorkeling. Mike has a true passion for the outdoors and people. He comes alive when given the opportunity to connect his two passions.
Epic Adventures Therapy LLC
Serving the Treasure Coast & Palm Beach areas
Email:
epicadventurestherapy@gmail.com
Phone:
(305) 999-5783
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