We are a trauma-informed practice.  We believe trauma is a human experience and understand everyone experiences trauma in their lifetime. Trauma-informed care requires our awareness and understanding of the impact trauma has on individuals, relationships, communities, and the therapeutic process.  We recognize the influence of culture, identity, and context on the ways people experience and process traumatic events, and know that trauma can be generational, systemic, collective, and inherited.  We recognize the way trauma is normalized and overlooked when experienced by black and brown bodies, and the ways marginalized communities are often blamed, victimized, and retraumatized in response to their own traumatic experiences.  We are careful to avoid retraumatizing folks in our office by emphasizing shared power and accountability within the therapeutic relationship, and supporting therapist recognition of systems and discourse that perpetuate trauma. Body-centered and mindfulness practices are used to help develop resilience and strengthen skills to establish inner-peace.