Every aspect of Align Wellness is built on these deeply held core beliefs:

Businesses are most successful when they treat their workers well, because healthy and abundant therapists provide the best care to their clients. Quality of care to clients should always be the "bottom line," and all relationships should be reciprocal.

Most of our mental health symptoms and societal problems are due to the traumas and neglect we have experienced that have come about due to the oppressive culture and systems we live under: capitalism, racism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc., which lead to major stressors like poverty, lack of access to adequate housing, healthcare, education, lack of hope for the future, and a debilitating need to mask our truest selves in order to survive.

The keys to human healing are found by connecting more deeply to ourselves, to whatever we believe in that's bigger, and to each other. Therapists can help with this in a lot of ways, but we do it best by witnessing, reflecting, and holding the person in front of us in compassionate awareness.

Many of our best therapeutic techniques come from indigenous and earth-honoring spiritual practices. There is nothing real gained, and something real lost, by insisting that they be codified so they can be measured and studied.The whole apple is better than the vitamins we extract from it.

The messages we receive through physical sensation are some of our best tools for healing - both for ourselves and for facilitating the healing of others.

In these times,the two most crucial aspects of any treatment plan, and of our own self-care, are connection to community and an ability to access spiritual nourishment.

Everyone deserves high quality care, and therapists deserve to make a comfortable living. It is my job as a practice owner and leader in the social work field to continue to expand the extent to which we can meet both of these goals.