For many, the deepest wounds aren't just from personal events, but from systemic oppression, racial violence, and identity-based marginalization. We understand that in some circumstances the mental health field pathologizes or dismisses these experiences rather than acknowledging them as valid responses to an unjust world.

Our clinical approach is rooted in the understanding that your identity influences both how you experience trauma and how you find the path to healing. We work to focus on:

• Decolonizing Therapy: to move away from "one-size-fits-all" Western models that prioritizes individualism and pathologizes nuerodiversities, trauma responses, and differences in reactions to injustice. Instead, we honor community-based healing, ancestral knowledge, social justice, equity, and the strengths inherent in your heritage and in your uniqueness.

• Intergenerational & Collective Healing: identifying the "unspoken" burdens passed down through generations—from the lasting effects of colonization, diet culture, racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, model minority expectations, religious persecution, religious trauma, immigrant survival, and any other generational burden that we are missing but your nervous system knows.

• Affirming All Identities: specialized care for all individuals who have faced identity-based trauma, ensuring you won’t have explain the basics of your lived reality to your therapist.

• Safety & Power Dynamics: to be mindful of the power imbalances in the therapy room. We strive for Cultural Humility, constantly unlearning our own biases to ensure our practice is a safe, non-retraumatizing space.

• Supporting Health Equity: to be aware of the ways that therapy practices have excluded people based on income which limits access to care. We are committed to the task of utilizing insurance to pay for care instead of expecting clients to take on the burden of self pay which is impossible for most income levels.