Black Lives Matter, Black, Indigenous, People of Color’s (BIPOC) Voices Matter

• I tell the truth about systemic racism in our history and our present, especially the exploitation of Black bodies, the genocide of Indigenous bodies, and the brutality of the police.

• I believe BIPOC’s experiences of racial aggression, large and small.

• I interrogate my whiteness and the collective whiteness.

• I explore racialized dynamics in our work together.

• I apologize and offer repair when I cause harm.

• I encourage communal and ancestral healing, beyond the therapy room.

All Bodies are Good Bodies

• I work from a Health at Every Size (HAES) model.

• I never promote intentional weight loss.

• I recognize that the desirability of bodies is wound up in capitalism, ableism, and white supremacy.

All workers have value.

• I respect sex work and sex workers.

We are partners in your care

• We collaborate on diagnosis and treatment plans.

• You have the right to know what I’m doing in session, and why I’m doing it.

• If something isn’t working, we imagine solutions together.

Sex Positivity

• I support developmentally appropriate, consent-based sexual expression in every stage of life.

• I believe in the power of pleasure.

• I embrace kink and non-monogamy as part of the human experience.

• I honor asexuality.

Gender

• I affirm all understandings of gender.

• I do not require dysphoria to validate someone’s identity.

• I support trans kids.

• I do not turn away from the violence the medical industrial complex has done to trans folk.

• I engage with that industry to increase access for my clients.

Question Everything

• Nothing is exempt from examination, because everything is touched by systems of oppression.

• We have a right and a responsibility to question all aspects of our world with the goal of pursuing liberation.

• The therapy field has been used as a tool of oppression and can easily slip into those dynamics again.

• I invite and initiate deep examination and truth telling about our work.

• We will intentionally create something new together.