Guiding Principles
At Whole Being Therapy, we use a variety of techniques and modalities tailored to your needs. We are committed to using a feminist, intersectional, anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework that explores how environments, relationships, and circumstances shape your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Transformation
Our practice seeks to transform the physical, social, and political environment in which we do therapy so that we center people with marginalized identities from the beginning. We strive to create a safer and more affirming space for folks of all genders and sexual identities, races, ethnicities, and immigration statuses. We also identify as a sex-positive practice, creating a supportive environment for those in non-traditional relationships, such as kink, poly, and other identities.
Relationship
Therapy is about relationship. We are committed to making authentic connections with clients, and allowing the interactions in therapy to provide emotionally nourishing experiences. It is our explicit goal to create opportunities for people in LGBTQQIA+ communities to forge deeper relationships with each other.
Expertise
We are a generalist practice, skilled in working with a wide range of presenting concerns. We also offer several areas of specialization, including trauma, depressive disorders, anxiety, body image, sexuality, coming out, gender identity, and addiction. We work with clients of ages ranging from young adolescence through older adulthood.
While all of our clinicians specialize in working with the the LGBTQQIA+ population, we see a wide variety of clients who identify within and outside of the LGBTQQIA+ spectrum. All are welcome.
Our Philosophy
We are committed to providing an affirming therapeutic environment for all people with marginalized identities, and particularly LGBTQQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual) communities. Our practice is intended to support the development of a trusting relationship between clients and their therapists. The safety and strength clients draw from the therapeutic relationship can allow them to feel more freedom to examine, embrace, and express who they really are.
Our philosophy is based on the conviction that societal norms and systems of power are limiting and oppressive. These external forces exact harm on those they marginalize, and if unaddressed, these forces can also lead to internal conflicts that compromise authentic self-expression, fulfillment, and the quality of interpersonal relationships.
Through individual, couples, and group counseling, as well as other supportive services, we assist clients in making better distinctions between their own authentic voices and the voices or parts of themselves they’ve internalized from their relationships and from larger social pressures. Our counseling services facilitate relief from anxiety, depression, harm, and oppression, encouraging acceptance of personal power and joy and helping our clients form healthier relationships with themselves and with others.
As a practice, we seek to generate liberatory social change in multiple ways. We work with clients who have marginalized identities, whose existence and resiliency are acts of resistance. We build our space with marginalized people at the forefront and we hope our practice can model the kind of transformation we hope to see in the broader world. We view transformation not as an end point, but as a process that requires ongoing commitment, learning, and investment. We commit to participating in ongoing activism lead by marginalized communities so we are working to create transformational spaces both within and beyond the walls of our office.