WHAT WE BELIEVE

Truly Gestalt psychotherapeutic training requires deep understanding of how oppression and privilege impact clients, shape our perspectives as practitioners and inform the field in which we work and live. Creating authentic therapeutic rapport requires acknowledging all the dynamics in the room, here and now, and that must include the forces of systemic oppression in the environment at large. We understand that without conscious awareness of the systemic oppression outside our community, we are destined to recreate it within our community.

OUR INTENTION

Therefore, it is our intention to support each member of our community in taking responsibility for undoing the fixed gestalts of privilege and oppression. We are committed to ensuring our community has the knowledge, skills, and structures to support liberation from oppression and to build systems of justice. This includes, but is not limited to, fixed gestalts surrounding race, sexual identity, size, socioeconomic background, gender identity and expression, age, religion, ability, citizenship status, and looks, as well as forms outside our current awareness.  We seek to create conditions that promote a culturally responsive and inclusive training environment, therapy practice, and community.