As much a mindset as a form of therapy, trauma-informed care fosters safety, trust, transparency, collaboration, and empowerment. This approach respects your autonomy and agency, recognizes your resilience, and responds to your unique cultural needs. All of this is possible only when we work to move past stereotypes and biases to create a corrective and inclusive environment.

A more structured approach to processing trauma. CPT is a cognitive-behavioral therapy that helps you explore beliefs about yourself, others, and the world. These core beliefs often shift dramatically after experiencing trauma. How do those beliefs serve you well, and how do they hold you back? CPT is a well researched treatment that can help reduce trauma symptoms.

Therapy that treats you and your loved ones as a unit. When something affects one person, it impacts the family system. This can hold true whether you consider yourselves individualist or collectivist. Family systems therapy considers the cultural, generational, and social factors that impact your unit. It can help you learn very tactical ways to communicate effectively, develop shared understanding, and solve important problems together. Effective family therapy involves hard work on everyone's part but can strengthen your family in many ways.

All too often, treatments are based on "what's wrong with you." We start with the goodness, the resilience, the wisdom, and the knowledge that you hold in spite of great challenges. Strength and empowerment-based approaches empower you by building upon your resilience, self-esteem, and cultural identity.

Developed in service of sexual and gender-diverse folx to recognize and reduce the impact of marginalization on health and well-being. Therapy based on minority stress theory aims to build resilience and promote positive mental health outcomes. This approach validates your experiences and fosters coping strategies to support a healthier, more fulfilling life.

The whole point of affirming diversity is respecting the countless ways each of us is unique. More likely than not, your needs do not fit neatly into the approaches described above. Don't hesitate to reach out with questions or schedule an initial chat.