Mission & Values

Our Mission

Increasing access to quality therapy: We are committed to creating well-paid opportunities for those seeking licensure so that more skilled therapists will be available to meet the enormous demand for quality healing and therapeutic support services.

We will strongly encourage our clinical supervisors and licensed therapists to be certified to take MediCal (Carelon) insurance, in order to make therapy accessible to more community members. We will also offer psychotherapy on a private pay basis, and as soon as feasible, will provide some low-fee slots to clients who cannot otherwise afford therapy.

Training and supervision: We aim to provide high-quality training and experience under supervision towards licensure for pre-licensed mental health practitioners. We want to help our clinicians access training in EMDR, IFS, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic work, and other desired skills and frameworks. Skilled therapists with good support will be able to sustain their work over time.

Clinicians will be nurtured as people and professionals, with investments made in the long-term well-being of staff and clinicians.

A Collaborative Web of Advisors & Practitioners: We seek to cultivate a collaborative web of advisors and practitioners who can help support the needs of clients and community members.

In addition to fair compensation and good benefits, sincere attention will be given to cultivating community, social cohesion, and belonging as an important element of the robust professional benefits to remaining with the practice.

Professional Development & Community Education: We will create, through the activities of the center, educational opportunities for health and well-being, for both practitioners and community members. We will offer presentations on various healing modalities, and workshops using expressive arts, movement, mindfulness, nature, and other resources for somatic and psychological integration and social connection.

Research and Innovation: Eventually, the center may be able to engage in research to investigate and document the healing value of integrative practices.

Our Values & Perspectives

Embracing Ancient & Emerging Paradigms for Healing: We recognize the myriad of cultural perspectives and strengths in our local communities, including the beauty of the natural world, indigenous cultural traditions, the expressive and healing arts, spiritual practices, and the emerging paradigms, techniques, and modalities available for the treatment of trauma, developmental wounds, and injuries from systems of oppression.

Our values include:

  • Kindness
  • Compassion
  • Integrity
  • Honesty
  • Mindfulness
  • Congruence
  • Collaboration
  • Connection
  • Belonging
  • Equity
  • Curiosity
  • Growth mindset
  • Self-determination
  • Transparency
  • Mind-mindedness
  • Wholeness
  • Sustainability
  • Care for the Earth, our home
  • Non-violence: emotional, psychological, physical, spiritual – whether subtle or overt
  • We aim to embody and contribute to the felt sense of safety for all who encounter us
  • For each one who seeks care, we respect the defenses of the psyche, and honor the presence of inner parts, and seek to work with them instead of attempting to overpower or eliminate them
  • Doing our best while recognizing that nobody can be perfect, and that everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, which is why it’s great to be part of a team
  • Fostering a learning environment where uncertainty is normal and questions are welcome
  • Openness to learning from each client and colleague, to enlarging our assumptive worlds, and to exploring viewpoints and value-systems that may be new.

Organizational principles

Our organizational structure will tend toward an ecological, web-like, networked system of relationships and roles (rather than a possibly unconscious default of hierarchy and external authority that can weaken self-sovereignty, internal responsibility, and collaborative governance).

We make room for differential levels and types of skills, talents, knowledge sets, life experiences, assumptive worlds, challenges, neurodivergence, abilities and disabilities, and intersections of cultures and identity.

We turn toward each other, assuming good intentions, and intending welcome, inclusion, scaffolding, and support.

At the same time that we develop collegiality and personal connection, we work to cultivate healthy and appropriate boundaries that support our skillful and mindful professional work at the center. We can talk about this and make this process explicit.

Ruptures occur in relationships, and as professionals working within a therapy center, we will use our skills and wisdom to work toward repair as soon as we gain awareness of conflicts, unmet needs, and hurts that arise.

When needed, we will turn to colleagues or professionals who can help with guidance, counsel, consultation, or supervision.

We welcome and remind one another of the healing powers inherent in nature, art, music, movement, community, spirituality, higher powers, and love.

Your donation to Web of Life Center will help us make therapy more available to our community and to better support our clinicians.

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