Main Pillars that inform our AiC Approach
Engaging experiences invites body, mind, and spirit, making therapy active as well as reflective. Insight grows through embodied practice.
Healing isn’t just talking—it's doing
art-making . movement . role play . improv . building. mindfulness . poetry writing . narrative creation
Creativity is an innate capacity used to adapt, transform, and be resilient.
But it can become muted under stress, adversity, and mental health challenges.
And so, the heartbeat of our work is restoring creativity.
We restore creativity muted by stress to move from surviving to thriving.
Because of its health benefits, we focus on the creative process.
Research shows for individuals:
reduced stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms . nervous system stabilization . enhanced cognitive flexibility . increased self-efficacy and self-esteem . trauma recovery.
Relationally:
creativity strengthens connection, communication, meaning-making, and resilience
Talk therapy alone can be less effective for some.
Traditional talk therapy alone can unintentionally privilege verbal fluency, cognitive insight, and linear narratives.
Arts-based interventions offer multiple pathways for communication when words are unavailable, unsafe, or insufficient.
We believe mental health care should be a place where marginalized identities are respected, protected, and celebrated.
We are an LGBTQIA-affirming, anti-racist therapy practice committed to dignity, safety, and equity in mental health care.
Our clinicians are trained in culturally responsive, identity-affirming and trauma-informed care for people of all backgrounds.
We provide care to individuals, couples, polyamorous relationships, and families across the full spectrum of identities, beliefs, and lived experiences.
We prioritize participation over perfection, collective wellbeing over individual achievement, agency and choice over compliance, and imagination as a catalyst for social repair.
Values Important
to Us at AiC
