Anti-Oppression Framework

As a practitioner committed to helping my clients heal and grow through their lived experiences, I affirm that power inequity is real and that marginalized identities experience cultural violence and oppression at the collective, relational, and personal levels. I work within an anti-racist, anti-oppression framework. To that end:

I affirm that healing for marginalized people includes coming into dignity, power, and self-respect, while healing for privileged people includes transforming toxic and oppressive behaviors.

I affirm that power inequity and systemic oppression are real forms of trauma and that marginalized identities face oppression at the collective, relational, and personal levels. I strive to support those with marginalized identities in their work of healing and recognize that this work is necessary on not only an individual, but collective, level.

I affirm our innate right to determine our sexual, romantic, and gender identities; to choose the relationships that affirm us; and to explore our sexuality, romantic love, and friendship needs through consensual, loving, conscious, and mature connections. My approach is poly/kink affirming, sex-worker affirming, and gender identity affirming.

I affirm that it is my responsibility as a practitioner to understand how my whiteness and other privileged identities impact my perspective; to unlearn my implicit and explicit biases; to receive feedback with humility and empathy; and to actively participate in social justice initiatives that combat white supremacy, sexism, classism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, ageism, and xenophobia.