The modern mental health field was built on Western colonial frameworks that prioritized control, conformity, and “normalcy” defined through white, Eurocentric, able-bodied, cisgender, and patriarchal lenses. De-colonizing therapy means challenging these frameworks and inviting cultural awareness, alternatives and curiosity to the therapeutic practice.

Non-exploitation means rejecting the systems that take advantage of new or vulnerable clinicians.

Many private practices profit by underpaying, overworking, or controlling early-career therapists… keeping large portions of their session fees, over-scheduling, limiting autonomy, and marketing it as “mentorship” or “support.” This is a normalized unethical practice that I am passionate about challenging.

This means recognizes that minds and nervous systems work in many different ways.

It’s about creating space for each person’s natural rhythms, sensory needs, communication style, and processing pace.

In supervision, this means slowing down, unlearning clinical bias, and valuing creativity, stimming, rest, and nonlinear thinking as part of professional growth.

The goal is to support clinicians in practicing and existing in a sustainable and authentic way.