At Echo Community Practice, every therapeutic offering is anchored in our belief that healing is political, embodied, and relational. We invite clients into spaces where they don’t have to choose between their mental health and their liberation. Whether working one-on-one, in a dyad, or in community, our aim is always the same: to foster connection, reclaim voice, and cultivate collective healing.

Echo Community Practice: Therapeutic Offerings Overview

At Echo Community Practice, we approach therapy as a relational and political act. Our offerings are rooted in a liberatory framework that honors the wisdom of lived experience, centers community care, and challenges systems of harm. We integrate narrative therapy, relational therapy, feminist theory, queer theory, abolitionist values, and anti-racist practice across all therapeutic services. Whether in individual, group, couples, sex, or family therapy, we co-create healing spaces that resist pathologizing and instead embrace curiosity, presence, and transformative connection.

As a trauma-responsive group practice our clinicians integrate Narrative Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Relational Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). While each modality has its own strengths, we use them together, tailored to your goals, culture and community contexts, lived experience, and the pace that feels right for you.

We work from a foundation of cultural responsiveness, compassion, and anti-oppressive practice. That means we remain in attunement and acknowledgement to power, identity, systemic stressors, and access, to ensure therapy strengthens your power, your relationships, and your sense of safety.

Our Therapeutic Approach

Warm, structured intake. We begin with a comprehensive assessment of strengths, stressors, and goals, including history of care, risk and safety needs, and preferences for the way we work together.

Collaborative plan. We co-create a plan that names outcomes that matter to you (e.g., sleep, mood, relationships, boundaries at work/home). We identify modalities that fit, always with informed consent.

Right pace, right size. Sessions typically run 50–60 minutes weekly or biweekly; group sessions are 75–90 minutes. We build skills for stabilization and regulation before moving into deeper processing.

Measuring what matters. We check in on what’s changing narratively, emotionally, cognitively, symptoms, functioning, relationships, and alignment with your values, so we can adjust as needed.

What to Expect

How We Use Each Modality

  • Narrative Therapy

    Narrative Therapy starts from the idea that you are not the problem; the problem is the problem. We work together to:

    1. Externalize concerns (e.g., “the panic,” “the pressure to perform”) so blame and shame loosen.

    2. Map influence: how the problem operates across body, thoughts, relationships, work/school, and community—and where you already push back.

    3. Thicken preferred stories by identifying skills, values, and commitments that have been present all along, even during hardship.

    4. Document change through therapeutic letters, certificates of achievement, or shared language your support system can use.
      Narrative practices are especially helpful when experiences have been minimized or pathologized, offering respectful, empowering language and concrete next steps.

  • We follow a process-based, evidence-informed model:

    1. Stabilization & safety: grounding, nervous-system regulation, sleep and routine support, crisis planning, and identifying protective relationships and resources.

    2. Processing: choosing the right method (e.g., narrative exposure, parts-informed work, somatic processing) to metabolize traumatic memories and body-held responses without flooding.

    3. Integration: consolidating learning, reconnecting with meaning and values, and strengthening day-to-day skills.
      We attend closely to pacing, consent, dissociation, and cultural/family contexts of trauma, including systemic and intergenerational harms.

  • Relational Therapy

    Relational Therapy focuses on healing in relationship. We examine patterns of connection and disconnection, boundaries, mutuality, and repair. In individual work, we use the therapeutic relationship as a live, safe place to practice new ways of being. In couples and family therapy, we:

    1. Map interaction cycles (pursue/withdraw, parent–child escalation).

    2. Build skills for attunement, accountability, and repair.

    3. Address power imbalances and the impacts of identity, culture, and stressors on the relationship.
      Relational work increases emotional safety, flexibility, and resilience across your most important connections.

  • Psychodynamic Therapy helps you understand how past experiences shape present patterns—often outside conscious awareness. Together we:

    1. Notice recurring themes in relationships, work, and self-talk.

    2. Explore defenses that once protected you and choose updated strategies.

    3. Work with transference/countertransference to illuminate needs and longings safely in the room.
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  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses bilateral stimulation (eye movements, tones, or taps) within a structured, eight-phase protocol to help the brain reprocess unintegrated memories. We begin with:

    1. Preparation & resourcing: building regulation and stabilization skills.

    2. Targeting memories, triggers, and body sensations tied to current distress.

    3. Desensitization & reprocessing: reducing charge and installing adaptive beliefs.
      EMDR can be adapted for single-incident or complex trauma and is always delivered with attention to readiness, consent, and cultural/contextual fit.

  • Somatic (body-based) therapy supports change from the “bottom up.” We cultivate interoceptive awareness and practice:

    1. Gentle tracking of sensations, breath, and impulse.

    2. Titration & pendulation—touching distress in small, manageable doses and returning to steadier ground.

    3. Grounding, orienting, and movement practices that widen your window of tolerance.
      Touch is never used unless explicitly discussed and consented to; many somatic practices are entirely non-touch and can be done in person or via telehealth.

  • Rooted in unconditional positive regard, authenticity, and deep empathy, Humanistic Therapy centers your inherent worth and capacity for growth. We emphasize:

    1. Choice and agency in all aspects of care.

    2. Strengths, purpose, and meaning alongside symptoms.

    3. Congruence—aligning how you feel inside with how you live and relate outside.

  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    ACT helps you build a life guided by values, even when difficult thoughts and feelings show up. We practice:

    1. Values clarification to identify what matters most.

    2. Mindfulness & acceptance to make space for internal experiences without getting hooked by them.

    3. Cognitive defusion to relate differently to sticky thoughts.

    4. Committed action—small, values-aligned steps that compound into change.
      ACT integrates well with trauma-responsive work and is highly practical between sessions.

Reclaiming Voice & Rewriting Story

A blend of stabilization skills (somatic, ACT), meaning-making (narrative/psychodynamic), and targeted processing (EMDR/trauma-focused approaches). You’ll leave sessions with language, practices, and experiments to try between meetings.

In individual therapy, we walk alongside clients as they explore the echoes of lived experience—those that nourish and those that wound. We understand personal suffering as entangled with systemic and relational harms, including racism, capitalism, ableism, and cisheteropatriarchy. Our therapists honor each person’s internal narrative and support clients in naming, revising, and reclaiming their stories.

We don’t view healing as a return to “normal,” but rather as a journey toward alignment, self-trust, and wholeness. Using Narrative Therapy, Trauma Therapy, Relational Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, EMDR Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), and relational attunement, we help clients re-author identity, challenge internalized oppression, and cultivate liberatory practices in daily life. Individual therapy is a space for witnessing—not fixing—where the therapist accompanies, affirms, and holds space for complexity, resistance, and transformation.

Individual Therapy

Reimagining Intimacy, Repair & Power

We combine relational mapping with skills for emotion coaching, boundary-setting, collaborative problem-solving, and repair after conflict. Where trauma is present, we coordinate with individual therapists to ensure safety and alignment.

Our couples therapy centers the relational dance of connection, rupture, and repair. Whether you are in a romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, polyamorous, or co-parenting relationship, we work with partnerships in all their forms. We support couples in moving beyond conflict cycles and toward intentional relationship design rooted in mutual care, consent, and equity.

Through the lens of Relational Therapy, Attachment Theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Gottman Method, we help partners explore how personal and cultural histories shape their relational patterns. We address dynamics of power, trauma, and identity with deep sensitivity to the ways structural oppression enters our most intimate spaces. Informed by liberatory principles, we create space to explore rupture without blame and to nurture accountability without punishment.

We believe love is not a destination but a practice—and that emotional safety, erotic vitality, and relational transformation are all possible with care, commitment, and reflection.

Couples Therapy

Sex Therapy

Liberation, Embodiment & Healing

Sex therapy at Echo Community Practice is an invitation to reclaim pleasure, voice, and embodiment. We recognize that sexuality is not just a private experience—it is shaped by intergenerational messaging, body-based trauma, religious shame, colonial frameworks, and gendered violence.

Our sex therapy is body-positive, kink-affirming, queer-celebratory, trans-inclusive, and trauma-informed. We support individuals and couples in navigating sexual desire, arousal, consent, gender embodiment, and relationship structures—always in ways that honor their values and identities. Rooted in liberation psychology and somatic healing, we view sexual wellness as a right, not a reward.

We don’t approach sex therapy with goals of performance or compliance. Instead, we center curiosity, agency, and relational ethics to support clients in defining sexuality on their own terms.

Collective Healing & Shared Resonance

Healing does not happen in isolation. Our group therapy offerings are rooted in community building, mutual witnessing, and radical acceptance. Each group holds space for layered identities, intergenerational trauma, and systemic oppression, and is structured around shared themes such as grief, resilience, sexuality, ancestral disconnection, gendered experience, and relational ruptures.

We use circle practices, somatic grounding, and collective storytelling to deepen trust and safety. In this setting, participants experience the power of “me too” moments—not just as catharsis, but as a radical act of refusal to remain alone in suffering. Our groups operate through an abolitionist lens, emphasizing horizontality, shared power, and the dismantling of shame. These groups are not “interventions,” but incubators for collective wisdom, belonging, and resistance.

Groups offer connection and corrective experiences. We set clear agreements for confidentiality, cultural humility, and consent. Groups often include:

  1. Brief regulation practice to open and close.

  2. Narrative or values-based exercises.

  3. Interpersonal feedback with coaching for giving/receiving impact.

  4. Optional between-session practices to carry gains into daily life.

Group Therapy

Family Therapy

Healing Lineage, Boundaries & Belonging

Our family therapy is a space for healing across generations. We understand families as ecosystems shaped by trauma, migration, capitalism, and cultural inheritance. Whether navigating conflict, caregiving dynamics, estrangement, or parenting across difference, we support families in shifting from cycles of rupture to rituals of repair.

We bring a narrative and relational lens to family work, exploring the roles, beliefs, and unsaid truths that shape familial life. We also honor chosen family structures, intergenerational households, and families navigating cultural displacement and identity negotiation. Our approach emphasizes building emotional literacy, fostering relational accountability, and creating shared agreements that reflect each member’s dignity.

Family therapy becomes a site of intergenerational repair and resistance—where silence is broken, pain is named, and new relational possibilities emerge.

Our Commitment to Care

Informed consent & choice at every step (including the right to pause or change approaches).

  1. Cultural humility & anti-oppressive practice, naming systemic impacts and tailoring care accordingly.

  2. Safety via collaborative crisis/safety planning when needed, and careful attention to pacing.

  3. Coordination of care with prescribers, schools, and community partners when you request it.

  4. Measurable progress using patient-reported outcomes and periodic plan reviews.

“Healing in the echoes of what was never spoken.