Founder’s story

I first imagined Soulvida when I was in college, living inside my first true village of women.

We moved through heartache, stress, grief, and uncertainty together. We dreamed together, cooked, traveled, cried, and created side by side. What sustained us was not that life was easy, but that none of us carried our pain alone. That experience shaped me. It showed me what becomes possible when care is shared and healing happens in relationship.

After college, that village dissolved. My sisters scattered across the country, and I entered adulthood and motherhood without the communal fabric that had once held me. I tried to recreate connection in the ways our culture offers it. Mommy-and-me classes. Therapy appointments. Carefully managed routines. I cared for my family. I cared for my clients. And quietly, I struggled to care for myself.

Over time, I began to understand that this was not a personal failure. It was structural. I was living inside a system that often fragments women’s lives and asks healing to occur in isolation. A system that separates mind from body, care from community, and treatment from the rhythms of daily life.

I know this system from the inside out. I have lived recovery as a client and a patient, and I have practiced within it as a clinician and administrator. I have sat in the circle and facilitated it. I have run those groups. Through this work, I came to understand that while clinical care is essential, it is not sufficient on its own.

True and sustained healing requires a strong clinical foundation woven together with whole-person care. It requires environments that support the nervous system, honor the body, and allow meaning, creativity, and connection to emerge. We heal when we feel alive. We feel alive in nature, in community, in ritual and storytelling, in shared meals and shared work. Healing was never meant to be siloed.

During the pandemic, this knowing became personal. Alone at home with young children, cut off from community, I unraveled quietly. Anxiety turned into paralysis. When I finally asked for help, I entered a recovery process that honored both evidence-based treatment and holistic care. That experience confirmed what I had long known in my body: healing is most powerful when science and soul are held together.

When I returned to New England, I realized that nothing like this existed here. Not close to home. Not integrated into daily life. And yet, this land carries its own medicine. The meeting of farms and sea. The turning of the seasons. The long stillness of winter and the renewal of spring. Recovery, like nature, moves in cycles.

Soulvida was born from that recognition. A place designed to integrate clinical excellence with holistic, land-based healing. A sanctuary where women can receive rigorous, compassionate treatment while being supported as whole people.

What began as my own journey back to wholeness has become my life’s work. Soulvida is both a program and a practice. Proof that women’s healing can be clinically sound, deeply human, and rooted in relationship with the living world.

It is a home for healing that feels both sacred and real. A place where recovery does not feel like treatment, but like coming home.

clinical & professional background

Samantha Reppucci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, integrative healing practitioner, and founder of Soulvida, with more than 15 years of experience in addiction recovery, trauma healing, and women’s mental and emotional wellbeing. Her work sits at the intersection of clinical depth, somatic intelligence, and mind-body traditions, offering women a grounded path back to wholeness, self-worth, and inner freedom.

Samantha’s clinical specialties include addiction and recovery, trauma resolution, and women’s identity and life-phase transitions. Her therapeutic approach centers on helping women reclaim a grounded, loving, and authentic sense of self, rooted in worthiness, boundaries, personal agency, and liberation from patterns of codependency that often accompany caregiving roles.

Before becoming a clinician, Samantha spent over a decade teaching yoga and integrative mind-body practices in studio, private, and retreat settings. She holds more than 2,000 hours of training (RYT-500) and has managed a yoga studio, taught privately, and worked within immersive wellness and educational environments.

In 2009, Samantha was selected as part of the pilot cohort of the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy (UZIT) program in New York City. This pioneering training focused on integrating Eastern healing modalities into Western medical care, primarily within hospital settings. Through this work, she supported both patients and healthcare providers alongside multidisciplinary medical teams, using breathwork, restorative yoga, mindfulness, and evidence-informed, body-based approaches. This experience deeply shaped her understanding of how holistic practices can be ethically and effectively woven into clinical systems, and it continues to inform her emphasis on nervous system regulation, embodiment, and whole-person care within a strong clinical framework.

Samantha later pursued her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at Lesley University and has since held leadership roles in Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) administration, including trauma-responsive curriculum development and clinical operations management. She has worked in community-based outpatient settings treating complex trauma, substance use, and co-occurring mental health conditions. For the past five years, she has maintained a private practice in Hamilton, Massachusetts, serving women exclusively through an integrative, relational, and somatic lens.

Her work is also informed by seasonal ecology, land-based healing, and a lifelong connection to nature, shaped by her upbringing and expanded through two decades of life in New England. Through expressive arts, somatic work, meditation, and creative therapeutic processes, Samantha supports women in reconnecting with meaning, intuition, identity, and their inner voice.

Samantha’s lived experience of recovery informs the integrity and authenticity of her work. She brings a deeply personal understanding of what it means to lose oneself, to rebuild from the inside out, and to step into a life of clarity, purpose, and alignment. This perspective reinforces her belief that women deserve healing environments that are clinically sound, deeply human, and rooted in relationship, beauty, and care.

As a mother, clinician, and woman in long-term recovery, Samantha brings a rare synthesis of clinical expertise, embodied wisdom, lived experience, and visionary leadership. Soulvida is the culmination of her life’s work: a multidimensional healing village for women at all stages of life, offering refuge from overwhelm, restoration of inner identity, and pathways toward grounded, empowered living.