DIVERSITY-AFFIRMING CARE
Diversity-Affirming Care is a supporting form of mental and behavioral healthcare that is practiced at Emerge Psychology Group. We recognize there is prejudice, discrimination, intolerance, oppression, judgment, and cruelty in our world and want to provide you with a safe therapeutic space where we support every facet of your identity.
Diversity
What makes each of us unique includes our backgrounds, personality, life experiences and beliefs, all of the things that make us who we are. The state of being diverse and the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders and sexual orientations.
Affirming
To show or express a strong belief in or dedication to, to validate, to confirm.
Care
Encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral interventions designed to support an individual’s diversity and unique identity.
“We all know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry ... all of the threads
equal in value no matter what color" — Maya Angelou
Learn.Grow.Heal … Emerge Well
Emerge Addresses
Microaggressions (invalidation/assault/insult)
Racism
Ageism
Body shaming
Coming out
Social challenges
Bisexual erasure
Exploring sexual or gender identity
Exploring ethical non-monogamy/polyamory
Trauma and Shame
Dating
Kink and Fetishes
Navigating homophobia, heteronormativity
Discrimination
Family of origin challenges
Body dysmorphia