Equity work

Is an essential part of my decolonial practice in my work and my life. This includes doing my own ongoing identity development and integration work; examining internalized white supremacy, patriarchal capitalism, and colonizer frameworks, and how this is deeply embedded in my engagement with relationships and systems. This includes a commitment toward reparations and wealth redistribution as a white-bodied private practitioner. I take a percentage of my monthly practice earnings and support Healing Justice. Feel free to explore Healing Justice: https://nqttcn.com/healing-justice/ (Formerly, National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network).

“What is Healing Justice? Healing Justice is a political-spiritual framework that aims to interrupt and transform historical cycles of violence and trauma within our communities. HJ aims to create collective models of care and safety in order to build power to resist the medical industrial complex and the criminalization of our ancestral traditions. Healing Justice is rooted in disability justice, environmental justice, reproductive justice, transformative justice, and harm reduction, as well as traditions of resistance and resilience of Black, Indigenous and People of Color, poor people, disabled people, women, femmes, and queer, trans and intersex people. Healing Justice is our collective birthright that the ancestors fought and died for; it must be re-imagined in order to free our hearts, minds, and movements. (Quoted from their website above).”

It is for this reason that I do not offer a sliding scale fee structure within my private practice.

Accessibililty

I intend to maintain a portion of my practice for interstate clients who do not have access in their home state for therapy that holds an intersectional and affirming stance around liberation practices and striving to dismantle the empire within. I’m eagerly awaiting the Interstate Counseling Compact in Delaware to go live which will allow professional counselors licensed and residing in a compact member state to practice in other compact member states without the need for multiple licenses.

The Counseling Compact is live for licensees in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Ohio. Here is a link to the Map: https://counselingcompact.gov/map/

Here is a link to CompactConnect, https://compactconnect.org/, an open-source data system for occupational licensure compacts. “Compact data systems enable practitioners to apply for multi-state practice and for states to share necessary information about licensees. To realize efficiencies, a shared use system was developed through the partnership of The Council of State Governments (CSG) and the three occupational licensure compact commissions of the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Counseling, and Occupational Therapy Compacts. The data system is now live, and more compact member states continue to join.”