Stance on Diversity

Our Statement on Belonging

We were drawn to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) because it validated our experience as human beings.

We believe our humanity suffers when we deny the experience of any other human being.

We believe our humanity is only complete when there is room for everyone’s experience.

We believe everyone has the right to acceptance and belonging.

We believe EFT has the power, when coupled with curiosity and receptivity, to create openings for everyone to learn to embrace and befriend their inner world and show up as more fully themselves in the world and in their most important relationships.

We believe we should treat our community of therapists with the same care and consideration with which we treat our clients.

We make this statement now because we would never expect our clients to show up authentically and risk unless we had made it explicitly safe for them to do so.

We are committed to ongoing dialogue with our community of therapists to hear, listen and respond to hurts, wounds, and other mis-attunements

We invite all voices and are committed to receiving feedback as a gift, seeing it as an opportunity to more fully connect.

We are committed to acknowledging, addressing, repairing and removing obstacles to anyone in this community feeling unsafe or unheard.

You are welcome here.

Actions We Are Taking

Here are a few resources to help us Listen and Learn.
We will be adding more resources.

Resources on Anti-racism

Podcasts

Videos

Talking about Race with Dr. Bukky Kolawole

TedTalk by Ibram X Kendi: Being Not Racist vs. Being Antiracist

Books

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Me and White Supremacy
by Layla F. Saad

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

White Fragility
by Robin DiAngelo

The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money
by Mehrsa Baradaran

Overcoming Our Racism by Derald Wing Sue

Overcoming Our Racism
by Derald Wing Sue

Resources on the Black Experience

Non-fiction

The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Beautiful Struggle
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates

Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Fiction and Poetry

Roots by Alex Haley

Roots
by Alex Haley

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beloved
by Toni Morrison

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

Citizen
by Claudia Rankine

Olio by Tyehimba Jess

Olio
by Tyehimba Jess

Resources for Therapy

Gurman, A.S., & Jacobson, N.S. (2002). Clinical handbook of couple therapy, Third Edition. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.  Chapter 22: Couple Therapy Using a Multicultural Perspective. Particularly pages 586-588.

Neuro-Diversity: ADHD Resources

Books

The ADHD Effect on Marriage by Orlov

The ADHD Effect on Marriage
by Melissa Orlov

The Couple's Guide to Thriving with ADHD

The Couple’s Guide to Thriving with ADHD
by Melissa Orlov, Nancie Kohlenberger

Online Resources