H – Healing-Centered

Drawn from Ginwright’s Healing-Centered Engagement, this principle emphasizes collective healing, cultural wisdom, and agency. It reframes survivors not as victims but as active agents in creating their own well-being.

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E – Educational Neuroscience + Mindfulness

Informed by Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model in Education and polyvagal theory, this principle highlights “bottom-up” brain regulation (especially Perry’s regulate, relate, reason sequence of engagement)—as well as mindfulness practices that foster safety, presence, and integration. 

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A – Art Therapy

Guided by Person-Centered Expressive Arts traditions, art-making provides both embodied regulation and meaning-making. Clay, murals, and mosaic work invite safe expression, co-regulation, and a collective narrative of resilience. Our team includes 3 licensed art therapists and licensed professional counselors trained in art therapy practices. 

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R – Rooted in Culture

Healing is most powerful when it honors cultural traditions, languages, and values, grounding care in local wisdom and community identity.

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T – Trauma-Informed

We create environments of safety, trust, and compassion that recognize the profound impacts of trauma and offer pathways toward recovery. The therapy team is led by Trust Based Relational Intervention Practitioners. 
 

S – Strengths-Based

Instead of asking “What’s wrong with you?” we ask “What’s strong with you?”. We encourage participants to use their strengths in service of each other and the wider community, fostering inclusive connections where everyone’s gifts matter. We dream big about the future we can create together.