We believe that people have a right to feel safe, accepted, and understood. Our identities are valid, and we validate the identities of others. We are always striving to grow and learn more about the different ways that others identify. In this space, we de-center whiteness and work every day to decolonize our practice and disrupt white supremacy, capitalism, and the patriarchy.

We are life-long learners who believe that the learning process never stops. We value sharing knowledge within the practice and community. Our practice offers consultation and supervision groups, a white accountability group, paid self-care time to POC, and the chance for all of us to learn and grow through our mistakes.

We are a relational practice with a focus on the connections we have with ourselves and others. We believe that most problems have systemic influences. Individuals don’t live alone on an island, so we need to understand the various systems of which we are all a part. We focus on cultivating relationships, with the belief that we can work anything out if we are both invested.

We believe in taking a non-pathologizing approach to overall mental and physical health. We believe that mental and physical health are inexorably linked and must be integrated in treatment. Health is feeling good in our bodies and minds, not just an absence of negative symptoms.

We encourage our clients to follow their truth, while also recognizing how their truth impacts others within relationships. Contextual autonomy is the freedom to do and feel how you want to, with awareness and accountability for how your actions affect others.

We believe in seeing the best in others, and seeing who a person has the potential to be. When you have unconditional positive regard for someone, nothing they can do could give you a reason to stop seeing them as inherently human and lovable. It does not mean that you accept each and every action taken by the person, but that you accept who they are at a level much deeper than surface behavior.