Healing in the Context of Justice and Liberation
In our work, we are privileged to hold space for the stories, truths, and experiences of our clients. We approach this responsibility with reverence, recognizing that healing happens in relationship, and that every story is shaped by broader historical and cultural forces.
We believe in the importance of decentering whiteness—its narratives, standards, and assumptions—and in elevating the wisdom, voices, and lived realities of people of color. We approach therapy with an understanding that distress does not exist in a vacuum. Instead, it arises in relationship to systems that uphold white supremacy, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and other forms of structural violence.
What may show up in therapy as symptoms—anxiety, depression, low self-esteem—are not individual flaws, but often the nervous system’s wise, adaptive response to chronic exposure to harm, invalidation, and exclusion. These experiences are not just personal—they are social, intergenerational, and political. They are rooted in systems designed to fragment us and in histories that many of us carry in our bodies, families, and communities.
At our practice, we believe that healing happens in spaces where people feel seen, safe, and honored for who they are.
We are deeply committed to providing inclusive, affirming care for all people. We welcome individuals of all racial and cultural backgrounds, with particular care for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). We celebrate and support LGBTQIA+ identities across the spectrum of gender, sexuality, and relationship structure. We are body-affirming, disability-affirming, and committed to practicing cultural humility with clients of all religions, spiritual traditions, and immigration statuses.
We recognize that many people have experienced harm—within society, within systems, and sometimes within therapy itself. We strive to co-create a space of respect, curiosity, and accountability, where your full self is not only welcome, but deeply valued.
You don’t need to leave any part of yourself at the door.
Acknowledgment, Landback, and Collective Healing
As therapists practicing in Echo Park, Los Angeles, we acknowledge that our office stands on the unceded ancestral lands of the Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh peoples. These communities have cared for this land for generations and continue to do so, despite centuries of colonization, displacement, and erasure.
We honor the movements for Landback and Indigenous sovereignty, and we understand that healing from trauma—whether personal, ancestral, or systemic—requires an honest relationship with history and land. EMDR supports deep reprocessing of trauma, and we hold that healing cannot be separated from justice.
Trauma lives in the body, and so does resilience. Just as EMDR helps the nervous system release stuck patterns and reprocess pain, we believe that communities and systems also need space, support, and recognition to repair and transform.