The Sea Glass Model
A whole-person approach to treatment and healing, rooted in Jewish wisdom and informed by best practices, science and contemplative practice. The Sea Glass Model offers a way through rupture, uncertainty and change—not to return to who we were, but to learn how to live fully with what we carry.
We care for the person, not just the part that hurts.
Sea Glass is an intentional wellness collective built around the whole person. We need different things at different times—clinical support, rest, movement, connection, culture, community, meaning and joy. Our model is rooted in a Jewish understanding of moving through difficulty: something breaks, we stay with what is difficult, we learn to carry what has changed, and we find our way back into life. These are not fixed stages or a promise of how healing should unfold. They are a way of understanding the movement through change. This philosophy shapes the whole Sea Glass project—bringing skilled people, different forms of care, community and supportive environments together with intention.
Dr. Alia Offman
Dr. Alia Offman is a registered psychologist, educator, and co-founder of Sea Glass Collective. With more than 20 years of experience in trauma-focused psychological care, her work brings together evidence-based clinical practice, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation, and emerging therapeutic psychedelic approaches. A central focus of her current work is Jewish culturally competent care, exploring how Jewish identity, history, community, tradition, and lived experience shape psychological safety, healing, and belonging. At Sea Glass, Alia brings these threads together with a commitment to care that is clinically rigorous, culturally responsive, and deeply human.
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Moe Berghaus
Morris “Moe” Berghaus is an entrepreneur, operational leader, and co-founder of Sea Glass Collective. With more than 25 years of experience in financial markets, business operations, and the regulated cannabis industry, Moe brings the practical expertise needed to turn a collective vision into something sustainable and real. His work at Sea Glass focuses on operations, partnerships, community building, and the thoughtful integration of restorative wellness with regulated care. Moe brings to the collective a belief that good systems are built through strong relationships, shared purpose, and creating the conditions for people and ideas to thrive together.
Our Story
Sea Glass comes from our own experience of how hard it can be to find care that sees the whole person.
For Alia, her own periods of mental and emotional growth made it clear that healing needed to involve far more than the therapy room. She needed care for her body as well as her mind—rest, movement, nature, restorative practices, meaningful connection and community. She needed these parts of her life to work together, rather than having to find and assemble them herself. She also experienced how much can be missed when culture is left outside of care. Being Jewish—family history, intergenerational trauma, communal grief, identity and belonging—was part of what she brought into therapy, but was rarely part of how her experience was understood.
Moe’s experience with Crohn’s has brought the same problem into focus from the medical side. He has received care from skilled professionals, but often through the separate priorities of each specialty rather than a team collectively considering the whole person. We found ourselves trying to connect the recommendations, understand how one decision affected another and determine what the larger plan actually was. At the same time, being in a Jewish hospital brought a certain feeling of safety: we did not feel that we needed to hide or explain our Jewishness while navigating an already difficult situation.
These experiences ground the Sea Glass model: whole-person care that brings regulated mental health care, physical and restorative wellness, culturally competent care and community together—with specialists working collectively and a care concierge helping connect the pieces.
We are building the kind of care we have both wished was there when we needed it.
Our Mission
To provide integrated, ethical and evidence-based whole-person care that brings clinical care, restorative wellness, culture and community together—grounded in Jewish culturally competent care.
Why Integration?
People are often left to piece together their own care—finding the right professionals, services and supports, and figuring out how they fit together. Sea Glass is building a different approach. Our intentional wellness collective brings independent professionals, clinical care, restorative wellness and community into one connected system. At the centre of that vision is a care concierge team: one place to begin, with people who can help you navigate what Sea Glass offers and connect you with the right care and support as your needs change. You shouldn’t have to build your own system of care while you’re trying to heal.