Mission Statement
Our mission statement is simple:
We don’t want to see anyone go through what we went through and will do all we can to enact change. We know first hand what it is like to stumble through our teens, twenties and early thirties wondering: HOW?!
How do other people do it?!
How do you get invited to every social gathering?
How are you so confident?
How do you have the energy?
Why am I not like that? God, I’m so useless………
If these examples are typical thoughts in your own mind, we can show you exactly why you think them and how to change them. YOU have control, you maybe just don’t know it yet.
Ultimately, our personal struggles exist because the generations before us also experienced some terrible things and passed them on through their behaviours, emotions, addictions, and traumas that were either ignored through pride, stubbornness or lack of awareness. People are not born with depression or anger, you learn them.
"It's not your fault if you're fucked up. It's your fault if you STAY fucked up!"
Jen Sincero
The problem with current Mental Health Services
Traditional global mental health systems are failing us and don’t properly understand who we are or why we struggle. We don’t know about you but sometimes you just feel like a statistic. Maybe you’ve seen multiple councilors who listen to you talk but don’t understand how brutal your parents were to you. Perhaps they just threw medication or pills at you saying ‘these will make you feel better’ but after 4 weeks, you still feel as sad as you did before…. Insurance companies in many countries won’t even sponsor treatment without a diagnosis yet:
1. nobody has 100% of symptoms in a condition. and;
2. many symptoms overlap into multiple conditions.
Therefore, countless combinations of mental processes can exist together. Why? Because your INDIVIDUAL Mind and Body has learned to behave that way by your INDIVIDUAL experiences. Many mental health services cannot be the answer because they want to shove you in a category and feed you your pills that the box says you need. But you are an INDIVIDUAL and we will hear you. You are an individual and we will treat you like one. This is how we work.
Our approach and why we're different
Because all of us share symptoms despite our different lives, it is possible to pinpoint incidents and interactions that are shared or similar and therefore, we can show you why you think or act a certain way. It is an INDIVIDUAL puzzle that CAN be solved using our experience, both professional and personal. Believing in a diagnosis can lead us to believing that we’re stuck with it when in reality, we can use it as a base to understand our ‘symptoms’ and look back in time to see why they emerged.
Understanding your past is key to shaping your future and its why we stand out in the field: we understand both! And because we understand both, we advise and help our friends on both. We don’t use the words client or customer here, we consider you a friend who needs someone that cares for them and wants to see them succeed. Remember our mission statement? We really mean it.
Many of us carry a lot of shame and guilt for reasons we don’t understand and for things that weren’t even our fault. But whatever happened, happened. We wish we could but we can’t change them. The only way to move forward is to discuss them, process them, understand them and identify why they affect you now. Then we can advise and give you the tools you need to overcome them.
You’ve got this. And we’ve got you ️