About Us

We recognize that by the very nature of the populations we are working with, a felt sense of safety cannot be assumed or taken for granted. We work closely and patiently with each client to create the interpersonal and environmental conditions that allow them to connect to a felt sense of safety within themselves, with others, and in the larger container.

We feel a deep resonant desire to meet each client where they are, to welcome all of what is arising for them into our work together with love and support, trusting that what needs to arise in that moment is what is here. We approach their suffering and difficulties with a deeply attuned sensitivity and care.

We recognize that many of the clients we work with have experienced insecure attachment, and some may still struggle with attachment disorders. We are aware that our level of attunement to them has a profound impact and can be a part of the conditions for their healing, or can be retraumatizing. We take care of attending to our own inner-work on attachment related issues, as well as pursue formal training in working with others with attachment disorders, so that we can best support the client.

We strive to be responsive to the needs of our clients as individuals, and responsive to the needs of the populations we serve as a whole. We know that our ability to respond rests in the present moment when we are neither reactive nor rigid, and when we are present with reality as it is. To support our value of responsiveness, we cultivate practices that increase our ability to be present, awake, aware, and alive.

The work we engage in is delicate and deeply personal. We are mindful not to coerce or impose our agenda on those we serve. We invite our clients into a community, space, and relationship of coaching and practice, and we allow them to freely navigate what we offer while trusting their own boundaries at all times.

Our organization was founded for the purpose of supporting vulnerable populations in healing from trauma, and we strive to hold that near and dear to our hearts as we engage in our work. The population we serve is not here to support the organization’s agenda, nor the coach’s ego. We strive to keep the client at the center of the work we do on a macro and micro level.

We are committed to working with clients in a way that opens possibilities where there was once stuckness, develops lasting competencies, and meets each client where they are. We utilize models of assessment and development to ground our work, while always holding the method lightly enough to leave room to include the whole person as an individual. We work with clients by bringing what is under the surface of the presenting issue gently and skillfully into the light of awareness.

We do not seek to duplicate services that already support the communities we serve, we seek to complement and amplify the impact of our community partner organizations. We live this value by learning to work well with the existing organizations we partner with to enhance services offered while working closely and transparently with case management and resource referrals to offer clients a smoothly integrated network of support.