Empowered Mind Therapy Center
Mission, Vision
& Values
Empowered Mind Therapy Center
Our Mission
Mental health care that sees the whole person.
We support people whose experiences are often misunderstood or reduced by traditional mental health care. Our work makes room for the mind, body, relationships, culture, identity, and the conditions surrounding someone’s life.
We do not believe healing means learning to function better inside systems that are harming you.
Whole-Person Care
Mind, body, culture, relationships, and lived experience belong in the room.
Identity in Context
Your responses make more sense when we understand what has shaped them.
Care Without Shame
Your identity is never treated as the problem that needs to be fixed.
Agency & Choice
Therapy supports you in deciding what you want to carry forward.
Our perspective How we understand mental health
We make room to explore how racism, colonialism, transphobia, cisnormativity, migration, family expectations, ableism, capitalism, and intergenerational trauma can shape our bodies, relationships, identities, and experiences of safety.
Instead of separating distress from its context, we ask what happened, what conditions surrounded it, and what your responses may have helped you survive.
Queer and trans care Your identity is not the problem
Our work can hold dysphoria, embodiment, transition, family and cultural expectations, relationships, discrimination, grief, joy, gender exploration, and belonging.
You should not have to reduce your experience to a diagnosis or make yourself more understandable to the dominant culture before receiving meaningful care.
Our approach What therapy may include
Depending on what you need, therapy may draw from EMDR, Brainspotting, somatic and body-based practices, narrative and relational therapy, parts work, mindfulness, creative practices, and collaboration with other health and wellness providers.
We thoughtfully combine approaches rather than expecting one method to fit every person.
The goal is not to tell you who to become.
We help you understand what shaped you, reconnect with your own knowledge and agency, and decide what you want to carry forward.
Empowered Mind Therapy Center
Our Vision
We envision a mental health system where culturally responsive, relational, body-aware, queer and trans-centered, and liberatory care is not considered an alternative. It is part of the standard.
A system where BIPOC women, trans people, nonbinary and gender-expansive people, and QTBIPOC communities do not have to separate mental health from culture, gender, sexuality, race, disability, family, community, history, or the material conditions of their lives.
We want a model of care that moves beyond asking only:
“What is wrong with you?”
And makes room for different questions:
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What happened to you?
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What happened around you?
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What were you taught you had to become in order to survive?
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What did your family and communities have to survive?
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What has helped you endure, resist, create, and care for one another?
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And who might you become when healing does not require abandoning parts of yourself?
Healing moves outward
Our vision is for healing to ripple outward through individuals, chosen and biological families, relationships, communities, and generations.
Our Values
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We view each client not just as an individual, but at the heart of the collective. We support our clients in integrating their healing across all their roles—partner, parent, and leader—recognizing that healthy families build healthy communities.
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We are committed to a new standard of care that demystifies the brain. We combine innovative, brain-based modalities with deep education, empowering clients to understand their own capacity to heal.
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We provide culturally responsive care that affirms the dignity and unique context of every client. We advocate for equity in healthcare, acknowledging that systemic barriers impact mental health and that true healing requires being fully seen.
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High-quality care requires a grounded provider. We model the boundaries and wellness we teach, ensuring our team is sustained, supported, and ready to provide their best work.
FROM OUR FOUNDER
Vanessa Solis, LCSW
Founder & CEO
Empowered Mind Therapy Center
I founded this practice with a clear vision: to establish a new standard of mental healthcare that honors the lived experience of BIPOC women and QTBIPOC folks—breaking down systemic barriers so our families can build generational cycles of health and resilience.
When BIPOC women & QTBIPOC are at the top of their game, everybody benefits. Our impact is exponential, so our mental health is top priority.
We look forward to see you grow and make an impact you were meant for.
In Community,
Vanessa
How We Can Help
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Gain a better understanding of yourself, your goals and values. Change old behavior patterns and develop new ways to deal with the tough stuff.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) is a special type of therapy that is focused on breaking down negative thoughts and beliefs about yourself, that stem from traumatic or disturbing events.
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Brainspotting is a special type of therapy that is focused on bypassing the "thinking" part of our brain, to access the deeper emotional and body-based parts of the brain.
Ready to Get Started?
Our Client Care Coordinator is ready to connect you with a therapist who is the best fit for you, your unique experience, needs and goals.
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